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A Tactical Apron For Chefs Who Take BBQs Very Seriously

For some, barbecuing is simply a means to heat food that involves the opportunity to play with fire. For others, it’s as serious an operation as open heart surgery. And if the act of grilling a steak is far more important to you than actually eating one, you won’t ever want to go near a BBQ again without this tactical apron backing you up.

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Architecturally Inspired Forms Have A Place On Your Dessert Plate

The shapes you see in architecture can be reflected in the things you eat with these silicon food moulds from Alessi. They come in six different designs that are inspired by the features you might see on a building, or even the whole building itself.

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Lighting The Sails: Behind The Scenes On Vivid Sydney’s Most Ambitious Project

Every year, Sydney’s best landmarks are converted from gorgeous colonial structures into canvases for incredible light displays as part of Vivid Sydney, with the centrepiece always built around the Sydney Opera House. This year’s Vivid is bigger than ever, but it’s also the most important, because it’s the first time that the lighting of the Sails has ever been done by an all-Aussie crew.

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World’s Smallest RC Helicopter Can Be Destroyed By A Fly Swatter

It was impressive enough when toymakers found a way to make remote control helicopters small and safe enough to fly around indoors. But their miniaturisation efforts continue on as toymaker Silverlit introduces the Nano-Falcon, an RC chopper so tiny that Guinness has officially granted it the world record for smallest IR-controlled helicopter.

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Kindle Fire HD Is Now Available For Australians

When we reviewed the Kindle Fire HD last year, we were bitterly disappointed. Mainly because it was a good little device that just didn’t have any of the great Amazon features available for Australians. That’s about to change, however, with the news overnight that Amazon will make the Kindle Fire HD available for shipping to Australia. Hurrah!

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How To Make Your Own Etch A Sketch

It’s human nature to immediately pick up and play with an Etch A Sketch whenever you see one. It’s in the Hall of Fame of toys (does that exist?), and almost everyone has struggled making anything more than squiggly lines with its knobs. But did you know that you can actually make an Etch A Sketch toy at home? Yeah.

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Steeping Scooping Tea Strainer Cuts Down On Dirty Dishes

If your kitchen lacks a dishwasher, you’ll do everything you can to reduce the amount of dishes you dirty. From eating directly off the counter, to drinking everything from the container, to making tea with this ingenious $21 Loop strainer that doubles as a scoop so you don’t need to dirty a spoon.

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Good, Bad And Evil Things: Cataloguing Crimes Against Taste

The nebulous territory of “good” and “bad” taste have always confused me. Who are you to tell me what completely unaffordable couch I should or shouldn’t buy, well-meaning Architectural Digest editor? Well, back in 1909, a German art historian named Gustav E. Pazaurek devised a system to help us all out. Let’s call it a bad-design-o-meter.

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A Peek At The Secret Lab Where Google Tries To Invent The Future

Google has its hands in a lot of jars. It’s juggling Android, ChromeOS, maps, Gmail, Glass and self-driving cars. But the real secret goods are (presumably) hidden deep inside the secret “Google [x]” lab, and Bloomberg got an awful close — but not quite uncensored — peek.

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How To Sound Just The Right Kind Of Concerned About Google Glass

Kicking and screaming will the late adopters be dragged into the future. But if you want to stoke their deepest fears just the right amount, let xkcd be your troll-guide.

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