Gadgets

Starship Enterprize Pizza Cutter: The Movie

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The Enterprise is here. Set phasers to delicious.


Geek Out

Rainbow Shots Turn Even More Rainbow In Your Stomach

There’s not much you can say about this video of a bartender pouring out a series of rainbow-hued shots than “WOW”. I wonder if they all tasted different?


Science

10 Teched-Out Techniques For Saving Food

Hey America: You waste almost 40 per cent of the food you produce. WTF? Sure, you can address that by making behavioural changes, but, um… boring! Fortunately, we can fix this. With gear.


Science

How Did One Man Contaminate Half A Billion Eggs?

A single man – poultry tycoon Austin J. DeCoster – was responsible for this year’s salmonella outbreak that sickened almost 2000 people across 22 US states and forced a recall of half a billion eggs. How did it get to this point?


September 24, 2010

Portable ‘Snail’ Clamps Onto Pots Or Mugs To Heat Them

Every year, Electrolux’s Design Lab competition throws up some amazing inventions, but sadly, most never make it further than the designer’s CAD program. This year’s winner is a nifty portable magnetic induction heater for heating up pots, pans and mugs.


Science

This Is How Food Rots: Really, Really Grossly

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Food, glorious food! For a while, anyway. Or if properly refrigerated. But when food goes bad, it goes bad – as demonstrated in this time-lapse video of the rotting flesh of dead animals and fruits we call dinner.


Pizza Topped With Smaller Pizzas Requires Advanced Degree To Eat

John Riepenhoff is an artist, not a chef. Which is why he describes his pizza-topped pizza as “meant to address the ontology of the social as material in art.” I love art theory, but I just want a slice.


Do You Drink Coffee Or Tea?

We’ve schooled you on coffee. We’ve schooled you on tea. Both drinks have fiercely loyal followings. Which side are you on?


A History Of The Lunch Box

Equally important to the food you eat is how it’s presented. Especially if that food is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and baby carrots, and you’re carrying it to school day after day. That’s the importance of the all-mighty lunchbox.


Online

Is Foursquare Ruining Eating Out?

What is your iPhone doing to dinner? When we obsessively track down a niche eatery on Yelp, are we excited because of the perfectly limed fish tacos or because broadcasting our discovery on Fourquare will just make us look cool?