The Humble Origins of Instant Ramen: From Ending World Hunger to Space Noodles
About 4,000 of the 5,000 terrible cliches about instant ramen begin with starving college students. As Karen Leibowitz explains in Lucky Peach, Momofuku Ando didn’t aim to stuff hungry co-eds with his creation—he wanted to end world hunger. In the last hundred years, Japan has given the world a number of remarkable inventions — the…
Back By Popular DEWmand: Last of the Low-tech Upgrades
It’s fun getting caught up in the hype of cutting-edge gadgets and the excitement of new releases, but don’t you sometimes feel like demanding that the good old days of analog and Lo-fi come back around? Sure, there is always some killjoy reminding you of what a hassle LPs and rotary phones actually were, but…
The Ultimate Tablet Display Shoot-Out
Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies has made it his mission to suss out the best smartphone, tablet, HDTV, and multimedia displays from the worst with his Display Technology Shoot-Out series. Here, he tackles the differences between the displays of the top tablets out there. Tablets are essentially large portable displays—handheld screens designed for conveniently…