Packaging

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Apple Has A Dedicated Box Packaging Engineer

6:00AM January 26, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

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. More »

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I Hope Colgate Sees This Clever Toothpaste Tetra Packaging

6:30PM July 22, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

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]

News

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

1:00AM June 23, 2011 | Casey Chan

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. More »

Science

New Nanostructured Snack Packaging Is Most Airtight Ever

9:40AM March 29, 2011 | Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

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. More »

Science

Behold Pepsi’s 100% Plant-Based Plastic Bottle

6:20AM March 17, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

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. More »

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Del Monte Gives Nature The Finger With Plastic-Bagged Bananas

3:20AM March 2, 2011 | Sam Biddle

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. More »

Gadgets

SunChip Bag Returns With Quieter, Friendlier Packaging

12:00PM February 28, 2011 | Jack Loftus

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! More »

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The Stupidity Of Wasteful Packaging Keeps Reaching New Depths

4:20AM February 4, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This is how Dell just sent 65 screws to Martin Ørding-Thomsen: Each of them inside a huge padded envelope. Does this seem like the work of an imbecile to you? Well, believe it or not, it’s kind of an improvement: More »

Gadgets

I Don’t Care What’s Inside This Hydraulic-Powered Watch Box

9:20PM January 7, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Those Swiss know all about keeping valuables safe, so it figures Och Design has come up with this secure watch-packaging box. With a hydraulic-opening mechanism inspired by SS Delphine, let’s hope it suffers a better fate than the steamboat. [Yanko]

Software

I’m Not Buying Any More CDs That Don’t Look Like Lunch Meat

10:00AM December 29, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Sorry Kanye, sorry Diddy, sorry Taylor, sorry Coldplay. Unless your next album looks like a perfectly packaged piece of delicious cured meat, like Shidlas’s Saliami Postmodern, I’m not biting. More »