The world consumes more than 2 million metric tons of salmon annually — both farmed and wild. That’s a lot of lox. And to get that much fish to market in a timely manner, one can’t gut them by hand. That’s why there’s the Gutmaster8000. More »
Wild fish stocks around the world are crashing, in part due to overfishing. Now, I’m not saying the Lafayette fish processing ship is the sole cause of the problem, but the 1360 tonnes of fish it freezes and ships a day probably isn’t helping the situation. More »
A fisherman who had been swept out of his boat off the coast of Japan’s Niigata prefecture managed to stay alive for 24 hours, while he clung to his plastic esky that acted as a life-aid. More »
There will be 16 games available on the Nintendo 3DS when it goes on sale on March 27, but its best games may be the ones built right into the machine. And video doesn’t show the half of it. More »
A homeless man’s shopping cart for the beach? A laundry machine for the ocean? Maybe an all-in-one barbecue kit? Nope, it’s actually a centuries old machine that requires extreme skill. More »
The biggest question surrounding the introduction of Samsung’s own smartphone operating system Bada is also the most obvious: “Why?” And while Samsung have a pretty predictable response to that question, the real potential for the platform is not in smartphones alone – it’s in the potential to interact with other IT devices like televisions. I tried out an early demo of this exact application yesterday at the Bada developer day in Sydney. More »
