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3D NAND Chips Are Going to Make High-Capacity SSDs a Reality
SSDs are wonderful things that massively speed up your computer and they’re getting cheaper too. But currently they don’t offer the capacity that some users demand. Fortunately, that could all be about...
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The MakerBot Replicator 2 Prints a Bigger, More Detailed Chunk of Your...
When the MakerBot appeared in 2009, the idea of 3D printing was a bit foreign to all but the most advanced fabricators. Company founder and CEO Bre Pettis says he used to get asked: “So what, do you...
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No Wonder Passbook Uses Crummy QR Codes, Apple Uses Them in Manufacturing too
Apple loves QR codes — you’ve only got to look on the intimate parts of its products to know that. Thanks to a supposedly leaked test report image, left on a iPhone 5 shipped directly from China, this...
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Why a Brand New, Multi-Million Pound Battleship Still Needs Old-Timey Wooden...
So there you are, walking around on the world’s most advanced aircraft carrier. Everything around you is a multi-million pound machine packed with advanced technology. Then something propped in the...
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Why Not Build This Year’s Gingerbread House Using CAD and Lasers?
We’ve all seen our fair share of crooked gingerbread houses, daubed with frosting to the point where they look less like a building and more like a bomb site. Johan von Konow has a solution to that...
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Samsung Apologises for Fatal Acid Leak in Factory
Samsung has officially apologised for a leak of hydrofluoric acid in a Korean plant in January. The leak killed one worker, and injured four others. Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun told...
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This Is Where Dysons Are Born
Dyson makes some of the prettiest vacuums, hand-driers, and air blower/suckers out there, so it should come as no surprise that the factory where they are born is as mesmerising as its products. A new...
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Samsung Probably Sticking With Reliable, Durable Old Plastic for Galaxy S IV
Samsung’s unlikely to be switching to space-metal and/or glass for this year’s Galaxy S IV flagship smartphone, with the company’s executive VP claiming bendy plastic’s tougher, easier to make and what...
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Has Apple Already Dumped Samsung?
Last week we heard rumours that Apple’s courting Intel to produce its custom silicon for it, in an effort to ditch its dependence on Samsung’s chip manufacturing. Now a new smaller chip in the updated...
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How Records Are Made
While 8-tracks and cassettes are as relevent to the digital world as wax cylinders, the vinyl LP is still being steadily produced and collected despite, or perhaps thanks to, their imprecise warm...
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Watching Crisps Being Made Is as Addictive as Eating Them
NPR has a nice little video feature about Hers crisps (or potato chips, as our American cousins like to call them) being made, and it’s worth taking a few minutes to watch. But the real stars are the...
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Ford’s New Prototyping Machine Turns Sheet Metal Into Custom Parts
A modern assembly line can churn out a new vehicle every few minutes, but when carmakers want to build and test a prototype, it takes weeks to produce the dies and moulds needed to stamp out a custom...
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IKEA Uses a Staggering One Per Cent of the World’s Wood
The easiest joke to make about IKEA is that few of its products—from shelves to meatballs—are made from what they seem. But even particleboard still requires wood—and a lot of it, when you’re selling...
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How Extreme Ultraviolet Light Is Set to Make Your Processor Faster
You may already know that silicon chips are etched using deep ultraviolet lithography, but you might not realise that we’ve reached the limit of what can be done using normal UV rays. Fortunately a new...
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The Brilliant Simplicity Behind the iPhone 5C’s Design
On Tuesday, we saw Apple introduce a new plastic iPhone. Why plastic? Because it’s cheaper, sure. But it’s also one of the smartest industrial design decisions Apple has ever made. Manufacturing the...
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This 3D Printer Can Produce Hard and Soft Parts Simultaneously
3D printers are a dime-a-dozen these days, but every so often something special comes along. Like this thing: an industrial printer made by Arburg that can create products containing both hard and soft...
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Rolls-Royce Is Going to 3D Print Its Airplane Engine Parts
Everyone loves talking about 3D printing, but now it’s really hitting the big time: Rolls-Royce has decided that it’s going to use the technology to help make its airplane engines. While the company...
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A Photographic Journey Down the Old Industrial Banks of the Thames
After the Thames weaves eastward through London, it widens into an industrial landscape of factories sretching out into the English Channel. London-based photographer Alice Gur-Arie has documented this...
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This is Why 4D Printing is Cool
The U.S. Army Research Office has just thrown some money the way of 4D printing—but what, exactly, is all the fuss about? This beautiful video goes a long way to showing us why the technology is so...
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Surreal Exhibition Explores Half-Finished and Incomplete Products
Ever wonder what a French Horn looks like before it gets completely twisted? Or a drink can before it gets a top and a tab? In the Making, an upcoming exhibition at London’s Design Museum curated by...
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