Gadgets

We Have So Many Questions About This Self-Cooking Egg Grenade

Russian design agency Kian has come up with a curious new design concept that’s part egg carton, part cooking innovation. The “Gogol Mogol” — named after a Russian egg dish with many variations, the most common being egg yolks whipped stiff with sugar — is a self-cooking individual egg carton made from recycled paperboard, featuring multiple layers of conducive material.


May 3, 2012
Science

I’m The Guy Who Made Snack Bags So Impossible To Open

I’m that guy. The guy that everyone hates. The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips. And this is the story of how, when and why I did it.


April 11, 2012
Geek Out

Now This Is How You Redesign The Pringles Can For The 21st Century

Pringles might be delicious, but its unique can-shaped packaging makes it difficult to enjoy an entire stack when your hands can’t squeeze down the tube. Not exactly an Earth-shattering problem, but we’re still glad there are young designers willing to tackle the issue.


January 26, 2012
Geek Out

Apple Has A Dedicated Box Packaging Engineer

Anyone who’s purchased anything from Apple in the last decade knows how beautiful an experience unboxing their products is. In fact, there’s a small team at Apple who take the subject very, very seriously.


July 22, 2011
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I Hope Colgate Sees This Clever Toothpaste Tetra Packaging

Smart packaging is always appreciated, particularly when it’s for a product that we all use several times a day. Well, I hope you do anyway. Moving the paste-opening to the corner reduces packaging and increases paste usage. Very smart, Sang Min Yu and Wong Sang Lee. [Yanko via Technabob]


June 23, 2011
News

All The Pictures The FDA Is Going To Put On Cigarette Boxes

In an effort to curb smoking, cigarette boxes in the US will now come with these graphic images of holes in throats, lumpy tumourish lungs and more. They’re supposed to act as a warning label on the dangers of smoking. Some work better than others.


March 29, 2011
Science

New Nanostructured Snack Packaging Is Most Airtight Ever

A new coating material for food packaging could keep sodas fizzy, chips crispy and military rations more edible, scientists say. It’s made of a thin film of nanoscale bits of clay, the same kind used to make bricks, mixed with polymers. When viewed under an electron microscope, the film looks like bricks and mortar, according to its creator.


March 17, 2011
Science

Behold Pepsi’s 100% Plant-Based Plastic Bottle

Soft drinks are bad for you, but plastics – especially the petroleum-based PET plastics used widely for bottles – are bad for everyone. Thankfully, after millions of dollars and years of research, Pepsi thinks it’s cracked the code on a 100 per cent plant-based PET bottle.


March 2, 2011
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Del Monte Gives Nature The Finger With Plastic-Bagged Bananas

If… if only there were some sort of container for a banana. Something that would protect the fruit inside, be easy to open and a cinch to throw away. Oh wait, right.


February 28, 2011
Gadgets

SunChip Bag Returns With Quieter, Friendlier Packaging

Do you remember the hilariously loud biodegradable SunChips bag? I said, DO YOU REMEMBER—ahem, sorry. The bag, you see, it was rather loud, so Frito-Lay discontinued it. But now it’s back and quieter than ever!