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Inside the factory. Another view of a factory street. This means: I F*ck Your Mother. A fight between workers. One of the 400,000-people factory buildings. A dormitory. Workers entering the factory. People taking a exam to become employees. Inside the factory. A beach by the factory. Employees buying lottery tickets. People waiting outside to get…
Costing $8 million, the Bullet 580 is the world’s largest blimp, measuring 71m long, and 19m in diameter. Able to be flown remotely or with a crew, you could rent it—for over $300,000 a month. If you do decide to rent it out for a month, you’ve got a long time of inflating ahead of…
ASUS’ PG276 has the glory of being the largest 3D monitor so far to have been announced—measuring 27-inches, it’s also joined by a 23-inch version, the VG236H. Both require NVIDIA’s active glasses, due to the 3D being stereoscopic. Both have 2ms response time, and double-speed 120Hz refresh rate. Meanwhile, ASUS also announced the ML Series…
It’s one of those things that I’m surprised took this long to come to fruition. The Pantone Hotel, each room decorated in one of seven color palettes, even offers color consultants for color psychology and trends. Gulp. Located on the Place Loix in Brussels, the themes available for the 59 rooms are “earthy, rich,” “daring,…
Inspired by India’s “buy one get one free” mentality, designer Ramesh Gound has created a concept where two motorbike owners can join them together, creating a fancy sports car for longer drives. Gound’s idea has sprung from his diploma project at the National Institute of Design, and was actually sponsored by Renault Design. While the…
Those willing to jump across the pond for an early iPad were rewarded today, as Apple hit go on the App Store across Europe. Go and download apps aplenty—but check out our list of the best here, first. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodos-essential-ipad-apps-5507569
I think each of the 4,000 Brits who participated in a survey of the 10 greatest inventions ever should have their toilets taken off them for life. See if there’s an app for that! Supermarket carrier Tesco Mobile polled 4,000 people, and found that while the wheel, aeroplane, light bulb, internet, PCs, telephone and penicillin…
Spare a thought for the cows when you’re surfing the net in the coming years, won’t you? Their manure will be shoveled and turned into fuel, so companies such as HP can power their data centers and save the world. Tech companies are having to look further afield to set up their data farms, and…
Since the launch of RIM’s own-developed app, I’ve flitted between it and UberTwitter, due to a couple of minor issues. Those problems will be null and void soon, as RIM’s update fixes everything I could’ve wanted done—and more. https://gizmodo.com/blackberrys-very-own-twitter-app-sounds-worth-jumping-o-5470274 If your BlackBerry hasn’t received the update yet, you should get it later today. Enclosed in…
After taking his iPod, wallet, and phone, three thugs decided to beat and kick their victim. They quickly regretted this decision though, because a group of ninjas rushed to rescue the poor man. The thugs were probably too busy running away to realize that a ninja attack shouldn’t have come as a surprise when they…
Oh, Thrustmaster. What heavenly delights have you brought us this time? Oh, the world’s heaviest DS stylus? You shouldn’t have. No, really. What’s that? It’s a projector as well? It seems the business-end of the stylus projects a picture of Buzz Lightyear, to publicize Toy Story 3, as well as acting as a touch-input mechanism.…
Until now, you could not purchase an iPad with cash. Instead you had to swipe a credit card and make it easier for Apple to make sure that you’re obeying the two-iPads-per-person limit. Things changed though, because of one woman. Diane Campbell. Campbell saved up the money to purchase one of Apple’s latest offerings but…
I tell my alarm clock to shut up constantly, but—unlike the Moshi alarm clock radio—it never listens and I have to fondle it in order to get a few moments of blissful silence. Well, no more of that. The Moshi alarm clock radio is a basic voice-controlled gadget. You start off commands with “Hello Moshi!”…
It’s easy for things to get hot and sweaty under the covers—especially in the summer months. But rather than flipping on the air conditioning, why not keep your electricity bill low by letting your bed keep you chilled? The Evening Breeze line of beds has special bed posts and canopies with built-in ventilation systems to…
I don’t know what prompted Aram Bartholl to stick CAPTCHA code art in public places, but I like to imagine him announcing that you may not continue walking down a sidewalk before reading an alphanumeric sequence out loud. Just don’t forget that it might be case-sensitive. [F.A.T. via Make via Unplggd]
Ginormous. That’s the EVO 4G in a word. The 4.3-inch screen. The 8-megapixel-photo, 720p-video-recording camera. It’s the first ever phone with superfast WiMax wireless. It has a kickstand. Like I said, huge. https://gizmodo.com/sprints-htc-evo-the-first-ever-4g-phone-meet-the-new-5500343 And size, it matters. It’s actually staggering how different the experience is of using a phone that has over 4 inches of…
Take a few of my favorite subjects: quantum dots, satellites, and gold. Mix them together, and what do you get? A breakthrough from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that could revolutionize infrared detection. Somewhere, the Predator is jealous. What the RPI researchers have managed to do—increase detectivity in quantum dot-based IR detectors 20 times over—is particularly remarkable…
In 1851, Leon Foucault demonstrated the Earth’s rotation to the world with a magnificent pendulum in the Paris Pantheon. In 2010, that pendulum crashed to the Musée des Arts et Métiers’ marble floor. The damage, as they say, is irreparable. Of course, a horribly dented brass bob—despite being busted up in three places—will still swing.…
The Russian art collective Electroboutique erected this curving iPhone tower to provoke dialogue on the relationship between art and industrial design. I totally got that, right after I thought how much it looked like a giant iPhone slap bracelet. Inspired by Tatlin’s Tower, a Constructivist monument to modernity that was never completed, Electroboutique’s iPhone is…
One of the fathers of modern acoustics and founder of speaker/microphone manufacturer Sennheiser, Prof. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser died on Monday. He was 98 years old. Prof. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser dies Prof. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser (9 May 1912 – 17 May 2010) in front of the building in which he founded the company in summer 1945.…
