This plane travelled faster than a rifle bullet, 1.7 kilometres every second, and flew so high you could see the curvature of the earth. It could get you from London to New York over an hour before you left. More »
Christmas shopping is like a form of festive mass psychosis. We all know that in the January sales the must-haves of the Christmas period will be cheaper and more readily available. Are manufacturers just too conservative with their production tallies or is there something more sinister involved? More »
Visiting the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on the morning of May 20 this year you’d have found the Palais du Tokyo shut fast and adorned with notices announcing the museum was closed “for technical reasons”. The reason? Mere hours earlier, the gallery had been hit by one of the most audacious fine art thefts in history. More »
It was late on a Friday afternoon in Las Vegas when the news filtered through. The HD-DVD Promotion Group was preparing for its 2008 CES press conference, confident of wowing the world with its rival to Blu-ray. But a few hundred miles west in Hollywood, one of its key partners had other ideas. More »
You’re standing on the beach at Penzance, staring out across the new cross-atlantic bridge: it’s the latest and greatest feat of engineering, wrought from cutting-edge, lab-grown super-carbon steel “woven” by a tireless workforce of self-repairing nanobots… More »
The GF2 wasn’t the only shock absentee from the latest T3 annual Hot 100 list. Sennheiser’s wireless cans didn’t make the cut either, nor did an Alienware laptop or a Sony Bravia TV. And we don’t apologise for this. While they are all great products, there are a HELL of a lot of great products around the world and not all of them can make the Hot 100 list. The absence of some of the expected brands and products has allowed some up and comers in that well and truly deserve their place. Like who, you aks? Or I hope you do anyway… More »
Fancy yourself as a Red Bull Air Race pilot? In this issue of T3 we caught up with Australia’s Air Race ace and ex-fighter pilot, Matt Hall. The eight page special feature includes a rundown of the Air Race events and a detailed interview with Hall on racing, plane technology and how to get involved. You can see him in action this month in the Perth round of the Air Race. More »
Without meaning any disrespect to the workers at the Tsutsumi Manufacturing plant in Toyota City, watching them work as like watching the perfect ant farm. It’s rare to see such organisation in human activity. Although being that this is Japan (the Switzerland of the east perhaps) it wasn’t overly surprising. More »
The Tokyo Motor Show is still kicking on. It will be open to the public until November 4, but the media is well and truly done with it. Now that all the manufacturers have played their hands, and the shit (in some cases) has had time to settle after hitting the fan, it seemed like a good time to sit back and take stock on what eventuated from the 41st Tokyo Motor Show. More »
I’m sitting at AMLUX in Tokyo watching Toyota demonstrate the i-REAL personal mobility vehicle. Currently there is a Japanese women tearing around the room in one of these things. That’s right, she’s tearing it up. For those that used to compare the i-REAL to the Segway, consider the comparison dead. The i-REAL looks cooler and goes faster. And you sit in it rather than stand. More »
