With just one day to go, the novelty Halloween pumpkins have been slowly building up: but I say none of them, none, have the scariness factor of this. It’s a geek head pumpkin, geekily precision-carved using a geekily cool open-source DIY CNC machine into a genuine geek pumpkin. OK, so the last part is a [...]
What could be more useful than this concept of a food pyramid designed to keep your portions in check and to make you eat the right amount of veggies? If there is anything that I consistently do all day long besides working for Gizmodo, it’s probably putting anything edible within reach into my mouth. Whether [...]
I’m not surprised that in the middle of a deep recession, while people have basically stopped buying appliances, standalone freezers have an exceptional growth of 13 percent. One of my grandmas, who lives alone, has the most massive freezer I have ever seen in a home. It is bursting with food that will likely never [...]
Well, this is asinine. Since the Android Market won’t support paid apps until next year, asshat developers are disguising links to paid apps as free ones. When you click on the “free” applications, it takes you to the devs’ site, where you get to pay a lovely fee for it. Mobihand’s Fast Food Calorie Calculator [...]
Diets are tough, what with the eating and drinking of beer, and that being really, really, enjoyable and all. The IC3 Intelligent Cutlery System wants to help. How? Well, designer Alex Schulz says that as you chomp away at dinner, the IC3 does the traditional job as a fork, knife or spoon, and then goes [...]
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If Yujin Robot has its way, cafes the world over will someday replace their waitstaff with robots like CAFERO (shown above at Robot World 2008 in Seoul). Details are scarce, but apparently the automaton takes orders on a touch screen and fills them with the help of a human operator (though it’s only [...]
Rejoice, culinary neophytes everywhere! George Foreman, that lovable former boxer turned kitchen gadget man has put out a deep fat fryer. You heard me right—look forward to the smell of burning oil and deep fried everything coming soon from your nearest dormitory. Foreman’s Lean Mean Fryer uses a “Smart Spin” technology after your food’s [...]
Rejoice, culinary neophytes everywhere! George Foreman, that lovable former boxer turned kitchen gadget man has put out a deep fat fryer. You heard me right—look forward to the smell of burning oil and deep fried everything coming soon from your nearest dormitory. Foreman’s Lean Mean Fryer uses a “Smart Spin” technology after your food’s [...]
Here’s the video of the fiery re-entry of the Jules Verne Autonomous Transport Vehicle, the huge European Space Agency spacecraft that carried almost five tonnes of food, air, water and fuel on board the International Space Station. It was taken in high definition from a NASA’s DC-8 at 37,000 feet, 90 miles north of the [...]
Here’s the video of the fiery re-entry of the Jules Verne Autonomous Transport Vehicle, the huge European Space Agency spacecraft that carried almost five tonnes of food, air, water and fuel on board the International Space Station. It was taken in high definition from a NASA’s DC-8 at 37,000 feet, 90 miles north of the [...]