It can't recommend the ideal cut of beef for your next backyard BBQ, but thanks to a laser scanner that's able to generate a 3D model, Nantsune's Libra 165C robo-butcher will quickly cut up a piece of meat into perfect fixed-weight slices. More »
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Both Nokia and Microsoft have scheduled big announcements for Monday, and since the two companies are all buddy-buddy when it comes to smartphones, many are speculating the announcements are actually connected. But as AllThingsD points out, they're probably not. More »
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Both Nokia and Microsoft have scheduled big announcements for Monday, and since the two companies are all buddy-buddy when it comes to smartphones, many are speculating the announcements are actually connected. But as AllThingsD points out, they're probably not. More »
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Let's be real here: the week's news was dominated by Apple's announcements: the new MacBook Pro, iOS 6, and Mountain Lion. And while almost everything else was irrelevant this week, there were a couple of fun posts that still made waves. Here are our top stories. More »
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If Futurama has taught me anything, it's that one day factory robots will wander the streets drinking, swearing, and occasionally bending pieces of metal for a living. But that's still a long ways off, as this video of a comparatively primitive pipe-bending bot illustrates. More »
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The same company that made it impossible to forget things thanks to a small sticky note, could one day revolutionize interior lighting with a highly-engineered reflector that's capable of spreading the light from a single LED bulb over an incredibly large area. More »
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E3 has come and gone without any sign of the Xbox's successor. But a leaked Microsoft presentation, dating back to August of 2010, seems to indicate that the oft-rumored Xbox 720 is definitely on the way, and is on track for a holidays 2013 release complete with Kinect 2, more set-top box functionality, and a pair of enhanced glasses. More »
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If the new iPhone 2012 looks beautiful in black—in all its 80s Sony-ish glory—the renderings of the white model are even prettier. The aluminum and chrome unibody with the white accents looks just gorgeous. More »
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That little nubby celery stump that you normally throw away is valuable. It can live its own 99 lives. Here's how to use it to punch your ticket to vegetative financial freedom. More »
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Possibly taking a cue from Red Tomato's pizza-ordering magnet, Evian will soon be introducing a bottled water delivery service in France that allows customers to place an order from its own WiFi-connected fridge adornment. Sounds like it's time for Dennis Miller to update his Evian/naive rant. More »
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