If you want to make delicious bread out of rice, you normally have to get rice flour and work from there. But with the Sanyo Gopan rice bread machine, all you have to do is pour in handfuls of rice. More »
The DNA inspired double helical design would look especially great in any mad scientist's lair, or geneticist's dining room. Tough to believe this popped out of a 3D printer. More »
While older cell towers were topped with those those unsightly satellite-looking antenna fixtures, newer ones can be contained entirely in sleek, featureless polls and thus disguised as trees. Nice for us, not so much for woodpeckers. [YouTube Thanks Manny] More »
Experimental design team Aircord Labs has released a proof of concept video demonstrating an iPad with 3D capabilities visible to the naked eye. The effect is achieved with a specially designed projector that beams images into a pyramid shaped screen. More »
There's a lot written about the Apple App Store and Android Market, but they're hardly the only games in town. Here's your comprehensive look at the entire app ecosystem. Spoiler: it's huge. More »
What sorts of airplanes will we be flying in 2030? According to Airbus, this "fantasy plane" concept is a reasonable guess, a lightweight model with curled wings and a U-shaped tail. Oh, and invisible floors. More »
Stephen Spence's innovative design will soon be turned into the UK's tallest bridge, rivaling some of today's skyscrapers. View it from multiple angles in this video clip. More »
The WSJ is writing that according to "people familiar with the situation" mobile phone maker Nokia is looking for a new CEO to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Quite frankly, this isn't exactly surprising considering that Nokia's stock has fallen over 40% in the last three months after the company's profit outlook was lowered repeatedly: More »
Leaving your air conditioner on full blast all day might soon come with a little less guilt, thanks to an alloy developed by the University of Maryland. The "thermally elastic" material could allow air conditioners to run 175% more efficiently. More »
Redbox, the Coinstar-owned company who puts those nifty DVD rental kiosks everywhere, is apparently plotting how to take down Netflix. Step one: Offer more than 200 or so movies. More »
What weighs 4.5 tons, measures 8 feet in diameter, it's made of pure steel, and can destroy 50 acres of woods per hour? The bowling ball lumbering machine, that's what. More »
A couple of patent applications published recently show that Sony's looking at stereoscopic video for more than just 3D gaming; it could take the place of split-screen local multiplayer. More »
On the right: the spot on the globe most isolated from land, separated by over a thousand miles from the nearest landmass in every direction. On the left: an iPhone 4 FaceTime call from that exact location. Whoa. More »
Let the subtle glow from one of these colorful bedside tables set the mood in your room, or, pull up a tiny chair, pretend you're in elementary school, and use it as a super rad (albeit small) desk. More »
This thing is called kinetic wall. Made with 250,000 aluminium panels that are sensitive to wind currents, its 53,819-square-feet surface (5,000 square meters) looks like a vertical lake. Watching it in motion is a surreal experience: More »
The iBooks app's been updated to not only include support for audio and video content, but to also offer "substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs." The free update appears to be gradually showing up in iTunes. [iTunes via Mac Stories] More »
Looks like iTunes 9.2.1 is available for download now. Nothing terribly exciting to be found in the update though, just a lot of bug fixes: More »
"Over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books." Peace. Out. Trees. More »
They copy computers, cellphones, cameras, video players, watches, bags, and everything man-made—but did you know that the Chinese also copy entire combat airplanes? It's simple: They buy one and measure every part and system to clone it. More »
