How to Steal a Four-Star Chef’s Secret Cooking Technology—By Building It Yourself
Sous vide is the four-star chef’s secret to perfectly cooking almost anything. That kind of precision requires expensive gear—unless you build it yourself. Cooking for Geeks shows us how to engineer this miracle cooking technology ourselves. https://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-inside-the-sous-vide-kings-kitchen-5645420 There’s never been a better time to be in the kitchen as a hacker. In the past few…
From Walkman to Facebook: How Tuning Out Led to Tuning In
The Walkman is dead. Long live the Walkman. More than thirty years after triggering a music and lifestyle revolution, Sony has officially retired the Walkman in Japan (there is still a lone model for sale in the U.S.). A Sony engineer named Nobutoshi Kihara designed the original model for Sony co-chairman Akio Morita, who was…
3D Holograms Invade the Fourth Dimension
Click to viewHolography has just gained a fourth dimension, bringing the prospect of Star Wars-style holographic telepresence into the real world. Ever since Emmett Leith and Juris Upatnieks made the first laser holograms in 1963, holography has been the future of three-dimensional imaging. Once created, a hologram can be illuminated to create a pattern of…
