Knives Archive

  • Meguru: Japan’s bamboo-powered electric car (videos)

    Meguru: Japan’s bamboo-powered electric car (videos)

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
    It looks much like a rickshaw, but the so-called Meguru [JP] is more of an electric car than a human-powered cart. Jointly developed by Osaka-based Yodogawa and Kinki Knives Industries, the Meguru is powered by a lithium-ion battery that, once fully charged, offers a travel distance of 25 miles. The vehicle, which is actually registered as a car, reaches a top speed of 25mph.

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  • Get ready for more of those TSA body scanners!

    Get ready for more of those TSA body scanners!

    Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh, dear. The TSA will expand the use of those body scanners we've talked about time and time again. This will no doubt freak out a certain segment of the population, but I have something even more terrifying for y'all: adjustable rate mortgages!

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  • CrunchGear interviews up-and-coming inventor ‘East Side’ Dave McDonald from ‘The Ron and Fez Show’

    CrunchGear interviews up-and-coming inventor ‘East Side’ Dave McDonald from ‘The Ron and Fez Show’

    Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
    In our continued effort to bring you the best interviews with today's top talent, I'm happy to present my recent conversion with “East Side” Dave McDonald. He's an up-and-coming inventor who can be heard on “The Ron and Fez Show” every weekday, 11am to 3pm, on Sirius XM. He also occasionally co-hosts a show, “Special Delivery,” along with “Prime Time” Sam Roberts (yes, that Sam Roberts) on Sirius XM. He's also quite funny.

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  • Make your own Ball and Cage

    Make your own Ball and Cage

    Posted on August 13, 2009 | No Comments
    Welcome to CrunchGear’s old-timey corner of fun. First, read this for a bit of charming reminiscence: When I was a kid growing up on a farm, most boys carried a knife to school and usually sharpened their own pencils. Getting a nice smooth point on a pencil was a matter of pride for most of us. [...]

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  • For whatever reason, the knives are out for HP

    For whatever reason, the knives are out for HP

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    It looks like the cool thing to do now is bash HP over its environmental record. Yesterday's Greepeace action was a huge story for several minutes, drawing attention, apparently, to the company's rubbish record with respect to various chemicals in its products. And today The Register has photos of shipping containers, used to ship things.

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  • The ‘anti-stab’ knife that works just fine in the kitchen but can’t kill a man

    The ‘anti-stab’ knife that works just fine in the kitchen but can’t kill a man

    Posted on June 15, 2009 | No Comments
    The average American probably doesn't know this, but there's a huge problem with knife-crime in the UK. (That's what happens when guns are so hard to get a hold of, knives everywhere.) Sports stars try to tell people to knocks it off; so does the prime minister but no one cares what he says anymore. Which brings us to today's news: the very first “anti-stab” knife. That is, a knife that'll do the job in the kitchen, but can't really be used to stab someone.

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  • Art Lebedev Turns Utensils into Giant Folding Knife

    Art Lebedev Turns Utensils into Giant Folding Knife

    Posted on June 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Art Lebedev does two things well. It comes up with wonderfully inventive product designs which may or may not ever see production. And it adds the letters “us” to the end of everything to make it sound like the kind of ancient Latin spoken in the Asterix books. The Swissarmius does both. Based on the Victorinox [...]

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