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11:15AM Jesus Diaz | The engine room of the next Enterprise? A glimpse at the heart of some new particle accelerator? The lens of a new US military laser? More »
What Is This?
11:15AM Jesus Diaz | The engine room of the next Enterprise? A glimpse at the heart of some new particle accelerator? The lens of a new US military laser? More » 
Entertainment
1:02PM Nick Broughall | The guys over at News.com.au have a great photo gallery detailing the process of a Blu-ray disc being made at the new Sony BD factory in Huntingwood, NSW. Definitely worth a gander if you’re looking to kill five minutes today…
[News.com.au; Image: Charlie Brewer]
Check Out How Blu-ray Discs Are Made
1:02PM Nick Broughall | The guys over at News.com.au have a great photo gallery detailing the process of a Blu-ray disc being made at the new Sony BD factory in Huntingwood, NSW. Definitely worth a gander if you’re looking to kill five minutes today…
[News.com.au; Image: Charlie Brewer]
Phones
Phew: Cute iPhone Factory Girl Didn’t Get Fired
1:15AM Matt Buchanan | After a Foxconn factory worker had adorable snapshots of her discovered in a brand new iPhone and posted all over the internet, many worried that she would be fired–or you know, worse. A Foxconn rep told a Chinese newspaper that “she is definitely not fired,” and that the pictures were test photos “accidentally” left on the iPhone. He didn’t comment on the number of lashings she received. I’m glad that all worked out, I wouldn’t want Adam’s conscience burdened by the fact he ruined some girl’s life while he’s vacationing on the Cape. [Macrumors] More »
Phones
New iPhone Comes Loaded with Photos of the Girl Who Made It
3:30AM Adam Frucci | We’ve seen pictures from the factory coming loaded on new iPhones before, but this is the first time we’ve seen what appear to be intentional snapshots loaded on a new iPhone. Surprise: the person who put your iPhone together is a cute girl! More »
Vehicles
A Look Inside Futuristic German Car Factories
10:00AM Sean Fallon | Today’s list from OObject features a collection of 10 videos focusing on German car factories. Why? Because they are gadgety, first and foremost–but the architecture of the factories is significant as well. In other words, German car manufacturers are realizing a vision where both the product and the factory are an integrated work of art. Examples include the VW factory in Wolfsburg that features 200 foot tall robotic silos at the end of the production line and an eco-friendly VW assembly plant in Dresden that is transparent and sits right centre of the city. German engineering at it’s finest folks. [OObject] More »
Computers
What Doesn’t Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them
6:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Deep in the northwest corner of Kobe, Japan, there’s a factory hidden away among green rice paddies, and sleepy farming villages of tiled roofs. If you were to travel here, to Takatsukadai–the middle of nowhere–you’d find Panasonic’s Toughbook plant quietly making notebooks with the world’s lowest failure rate. Well, not so quietly, actually. They employ a regimen of over 500 different tests, smashing, dropping and soaking Toughbooks, with over a thousand sacrifices each year. This is where I learned how the old computer plant manages to pull it off, miraculously, almost all under one roof. More »
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