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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Most tech-savvy Australians are pretty upset about the government’s proposal of mandatory internet filtering. But some anti-censorship groups are more upset than others. Michael Meloni, editor of Somebodythinkofthechildren.com has launched a new website called The Gift Of Censorship, and for every 1000 letters sent to Senator Conroy through the website, they’ll also deliver a bag of coal in a large red sack to the minister.
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2009 has been a pretty amazing year for the discerning gadget lover. From Microsoft finally fixing the disaster that was Vista with Windows 7, to the surge of Android handsets, DSLRs that shoot HD video and the arrival of some pretty decent video on demand services, 2009 has had plenty to keep a gadget writer busy. Here are my favourite gadget moments over the past 12 months:
I’m not sure if a dress composed of a few dozen dragon skin silicone tiles – each infused with an LED light – is the most comfortable or practical thing to wear, but it sure does create all kinds of possibilities.
My soon-to-be-wife knows the weirdest people – other than me. Like Ari Gorman, a man who can talk and sing backward. And play the guitar too, which I find weird and amazing, but also freaks me out for some reason.
Seriously, folks: Guess what I saw in this oddly catchy commercial for the Shack, because I can’t figure it out. All I know is that Biz Markie is excited about something and that there’s a squirrel DJ.
Is the 2000 version of yourself worried about missing incoming calls while online? Just connect your modem to your phone then call Sprint and go online and write a cheque to pay the bill and… you’ll have internet call-waiting!
I can’t tell if the OSIM uCrown 2 really is a head massage device, a practical joke, an attempt to reinvent 1980s electronics styling, or some twisted mixture of all three. Also, there was a uCrown 1?
If you’ve ever wanted to see the places you frequent most rendered as a heat map, Steven Lehrburger’s Where Do You Go project for NYU’s ITP Winter Show is worth a pixelated look.
