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It’s easy to be upsold into buying a huge knife set, while in reality, a properly handled chef’s knife can tackle 99.9% of the cutting you have to do. But one knife alone in a block can look so lonely. So J.A. Henckels commissioned designer Aaron Root to come up with a solution for those…
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a Mi-24 helicopter firing off dozens of rockets at once. This one is Macedonian, and is from a “training exercise.” All bow before the might of the Macedonian army! [Big Picture]
The Modi sofa is one of the more interesting stabs at modular furniture design I’ve seen in recent years. By altering the cushion configuration, you can basically create any type of seating you desire. Plus, you have even more options when you add on additional units. The possibilities are nearly endless. The only snag is…
Monster? Red Bull? Pfft. Duracell has been powering the world before you were but a gleam in Xtreme sports’ eye. Yes, Duracell has an energy drink—with a masterful coppertop can design—that’s actually been out in the Czech market since 2008. Sadly, the drink doesn’t zap its consumers with a jolt of electricity after plugging into…
Our Taste Test week has got me thinking about eating habits. The stereotype is that we sustain ourselves primarily on microwaveable meals and soft drinks—but is that really the case? What do you cook most of your meals with? What Do You Cook Most Of Your Meals With?(polls) Do You Eat Healthy?(answers) [Bacon Genie]
Top Gear’s James May is working on building an entire house out of Lego bricks for another show, and it’s really coming together. Hell, even the toilet is made of Lego in this place. It’s not 100% Lego, but it’s close. There’s a timber “safety frame” inside the walls to provide an extra level of…
At first glance this MacBook knockoff doesn’t look all that bad, but by picture three it looks like week old garbage. According to the not very official picture caption, the “Macbook Mini” has the specs of a netbook. It is powered by a good old 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard…
The folks at Will It Blend were kind enough to contribute some of their favorite food-related videos for our Taste Test this week. However, these are the kind of recipes you will probably taste going down and coming up. Spam and Eggs: Carny Cuisine: The Superbowl Smoothie: Pickled Pigs Feet: The Workout Smoothie: Christmas Dinner:…
So what is the build number of the final version of Snow Leopard shipping in boxes next week? Is it 10A432, as had been widely speculated? Or is it this new-fangled 10A435 some people have been talking about? https://gizmodo.com/snow-leopard-shipping-august-28th-5344120 Looking at the history of OS X releases, final builds, and rumors about final builds, ZDNet…
In his Taste Test guest editor intro, Nick Kokonas recounts meeting chef Grant Achatz and founding Alinea, a restaurant that cooks food by freezing it, distills ingredients’ essences to vapor and questions the very eating utensils you use everyday. Let’s bend history a bit and pretend it is 1948 and a 22-year-old Miles Davis is…
We have some great notebook and monitor deals for folks heading back to school. Be sure to take a look at the Thinkpad x200 if you’re looking for an ultra-portable to carry around campus. Computing and Peripherals: • 16″ HP G60 for $449.98 plus free shipping (normally $560). • 12.1″ Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Notebook for…
The HTC Think+—which is integrated in the new Luxgen 7 MPV car—may look simple in its interface, but it has so many features built-in that it will make you feel like you are driving the Batmobile. The 10.2-inch device has absolutely everything—from integrated 3.5G connectivity and SMS read-back to the obligatory GPS and USB media…
If there isn’t an app you deem decent, make an unattractive, bulky hardware solution. At least that was this guys idea. Apparently making a switch box was the only way to inconspicuously record iPhone calls. Dissatisfied with apps It is actually impressive to see how much planning went into this iPhone call recorder. Since time…
Remember the Game Informer survey that found that the Xbox 360 has a 54.2% failure rate? Well, Microsoft has responded, and it didn’t even try to dispute that fact. https://gizmodo.com/survey-xbox-360-failure-rate-is-over-50-people-dont-5339915 Here’s the response: Microsoft stands behind the Xbox 360 as a superior entertainment console with one of the best warranties in the industry. We are…
Heroically snatched from near-death by a mysterious, benevolent gaming company, the Pirate Bay had a rosy future laid out ahead of it. But hey, that company? They’re turning out to be kind of rotten, and possibly fraudulent. https://gizmodo.com/pirate-bay-bought-out-suddenly-respects-copyrights-5304354 A few days ago, amidst talk of how a new, improved, crowd-powered Pirate Bay would work should…
Though it’s a budget model, the latest Xacti still has a 10-megapixel CMOS sensor that records 720p video (H.264 encoded MPEG-4). But the best part: it looks to have built-in Eye-Fi for super-easy wireless video/photos transfers to your computer. I say “looks”, because it’s hard to 100% confirm from the Google-translated Japanese. The spec listing…
Mac OS X Snow Leopard leaked box is real. And painful to watch. What happened to 8 years of great packaging design? Are ideas running so low in Cupertino that they have grabbed a cat from a clip art package? https://gizmodo.com/oh-mac-os-x-leopard-box-315236 Check the commentary for every design in this gallery I understand cost-cutting measures. Production-wise,…
That would be the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York City. Newmark Knight Frank Retail estimates it pulls in over $350 million in revenue a year, or about $35,000 per square foot for the 10,000 square foot space. To put that in perspective, Tiffany & Co., who says diamonds has sales of about…
If you’ve got a spare PC and 17-inch monitor, why not fashion your own NES bartop cabinet? Step-by-step instructions are available over at Instructables, but the end product is a tabletop Nintendo emulator with both USB ports and authentic NES plugs. Plus, since it’s PC-based as opposed to NES-based, the whole thing can function as…
If it weren’t for, you know, concrete and steel—more of us would live in buildings like this planned Norwegian tower. At 16 to 17-stories high, it’ll also out-do this crazy Russian do-it-yourselfer who built a 13-story wooden castle: (That’s Nikolai Sutyagin from Arkhangelsk in Russia’s north-east). But I digress. The Norwegian Barents Secretariat office and…
