Foxconn, the electronics manufacturer best known for making Apple's iPhones and iPads (but who also manufactures electronics for Acer, Amazon, Asus, Intel, Cisco, HP, Dell, Nintendo, Nokia, Microsoft and Sony), plans to "hire" over a million robots in the next three years to re... / Continue →

That's right folks, Kimberly-Clark (the makers of Scott brand) are about to drop a bomb #2 on the toilet paper world next week with the introduction of cardboard tube-free rolls. Manufacturing magic! Sadly, no word on how this will effect a roll's ability to be thrown over t... / Continue →

The Sony Walkman, best known for playing some of the sweetest mix-tapes ever recorded entirely off the radio, will no longer be manufactured as of this year. Weird, I could have sworn this happened before Y2K. The final batch was shipped to Japanese retailers in April, accor... / Continue →

Note: Full resolution version available HERE for those of you without HD laser vision. Suckers! This is a diagram showing the incestuous relationships between the various car manufacturers. I found it pretty eye-opening. For example, did you know Honda is actually a wholly ... / Continue →

Conceptualized by Dzmitry Samal, these new Coca-Cola cans would be manufactured using impact extrusion and not roll off the counter should one fall over. But I've got news for you: if you knock a Coke can over you've got bigger problems than whether it's rolling. Namely, you'... / Continue →