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Microsoft has something big planned for tomorrow, but it won’t say what. All signs point to a Microsoft-branded Windows 8 tablet. Now, TechCrunch claims it will be co-branded as a Nook device will feature some of the Xbox’s streaming features. What this entails exactly is uncertain, but presumably, the rumored tablet would be able to…
RED makes some of the most advanced and powerful video cameras in existence, which also means it needs a damn powerful computer to handle the massive video files. So it teamed up with HP to build the RED Z820 workstation, complete with 16 liquid-cooled CPU cores, custom RED Mag card readers and RED Rocket acceleration…
Technology today is all Windows 8 and OS X Mountain Lion and Tablets and Retina Displays. So it’s always fun to see someone paying tribute to the technology of old, just because. In this case, it’s a brave soul who installed a 16-year-old verson of Mac OS 7 on a Nook Simple Touch, answering the…
For some, the task of finding a pair of glasses or sunglasses is an epic task. Not only do you have to find a pair that compliments the shape of your face, but they also have to fit your face. With that in mind, designer Ron Arad designed the A-Frame line of glasses that can…
Why is Linus Torvalds, father of the open source Linux operating system, so angry? It’s the years of neglect that his baby has suffered at the hands of NVIDIA, apparently. Speaking at Aalto University in Finland, Torvalds called NVIDIA “the single worst company [the Linux Foundation] ever dealt with (watch his response here). As Ubergizmo…
Normally, refrigerator magnets are the exclusive territory of kitschy mementos of past vacation destinations, pictures of kids that may or may not be yours, and the jumble of random words you use to assemble hilarious sentences. But the supremely tasteful snug.magnets, may usher in a new era of refigerator art. With the stack of rhombuses,…
If you’ve ever felt guilty about your goldfish having to swim around in a cramped bowl, Takuro Yamamoto Architects designed this stunning coffee table aquarium that lets them traverse the entire world. Albeit, a very, very small version of the world. The firm’s World Trip aquarium was created as a submission for designboom’s TIFF awards,…
We’re usually the ones to endorse any kind of device that promises to keep you cool during the hot summer months. But maybe heat stroke is the lesser of two evils compared to strapping this cooling contraption to your ankle. At its core, the ‘Muremure Nonnon’ shoe cooler is basically just a USB-powered pump that…
You probably take it for granted while dining on sushi or dumplings, but that iconic Kikkoman soy sauce dispenser has been in production since 1961. And as the New York Times’ Leslie Camhi discovered, it was actually developed by Kenji Ekuan, a Japanese Navy sailor former naval academy student who dedicated his life to design…
Got a big presentation to give to the board but haven’t prepared one bit? They won’t even notice your complete lack of research if you show up carrying a briefcase that unfolds into a compact grill. The $52 Darwin Triangular BBQ doesn’t quite have the same capacity as your backyard griller at home, but you…
The makers of these Tidbit memo pads found a way to improve on something that, quite frankly, was already pretty perfect to begin with. But by turning the grid lines on a piece of graph paper into perforations, they’ve managed to create a product that’s even more useful. Whether you need to tear out half…
It can’t recommend the ideal cut of beef for your next backyard BBQ, but thanks to a laser scanner that’s able to generate a 3D model, Nantsune’s Libra 165C robo-butcher will quickly cut up a piece of meat into perfect fixed-weight slices. Previous automated methods involved weighing every single slice as they came off the…
Both Nokia and Microsoft have scheduled big announcements for Monday, and since the two companies are all buddy-buddy when it comes to smartphones, many are speculating the announcements are actually connected. But as AllThingsD points out, they’re probably not. Over the past couple of days Nokia has been posting teaser images on its US Facebook…
Let’s be real here: the week’s news was dominated by Apple’s announcements: the new MacBook Pro, iOS 6, and Mountain Lion. And while almost everything else was irrelevant this week, there were a couple of fun posts that still made waves. Here are our top stories. Photos of Mysterious UFO-Shaped Object Sunk In Baltic Sea…
If Futurama has taught me anything, it’s that one day factory robots will wander the streets drinking, swearing, and occasionally bending pieces of metal for a living. But that’s still a long ways off, as this video of a comparatively primitive pipe-bending bot illustrates. That’s not to say that Opton’s T-WIN20 KDM, which is arguably…
The same company that made it impossible to forget things thanks to a small sticky note, could one day revolutionize interior lighting with a highly-engineered reflector that’s capable of spreading the light from a single LED bulb over an incredibly large area. 3M actually worked with designer Todd Bracher to develop what it’s calling its…
E3 has come and gone without any sign of the Xbox’s successor. But a leaked Microsoft presentation, dating back to August of 2010, seems to indicate that the oft-rumored Xbox 720 is definitely on the way, and is on track for a holidays 2013 release complete with Kinect 2, more set-top box functionality, and a…
If the new iPhone 2012 looks beautiful in black—in all its 80s Sony-ish glory—the renderings of the white model are even prettier. The aluminum and chrome unibody with the white accents looks just gorgeous. Gizmodo reader Martin Hajek sent us these images of the white model, which he rendered using allegedly leaked photos of parts…
That little nubby celery stump that you normally throw away is valuable. It can live its own 99 lives. Here’s how to use it to punch your ticket to vegetative financial freedom. You Should Do This If: You enjoy eating celery and don’t want to pay for it anymore. Moment of Satisfaction: Did I not…
Your brain can melt trying to keep up with the endless torrent of video content on the web each day. That’s why we are here to ease your fatigue with the best videos of the week. Enjoy! Ten Bets You’re Guaranteed to Always Win Richard Wiseman is back with another collection of clever tricks and…
