The Downside Of Living In A Digital World 
Australia, NZ And South Africa To Share Square Kilometre Array 
Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action 
When Should You Buy Your Next Gadget? 
How To Destroy The Internet (But Please Don't) 
Aussie IT Pricing Inquiry Now Taking Submissions This techno viking helmet created by Garrett Mace is just so cool you’ll want to make one for your next party.
Michele Bachmann. Sarah Palin. Justin Bieber. Donald Trump. Twilight. Two and a Half Men. What do all these things have in common? They annoy the soul out of me, yet they’re always on TV. Thankfully, we can shut them up.
Japan musicians Androp built a backdrop of 250 Canon cameras and programmed all their flashes to fire off in a sort of digital stop-motion screen. Watch it, though I can’t guarantee the video won’t blind you and give you a seizure.
I don’t know what it is – the crackles you hear when the space blankets inflate and deflate, the pulsating lights that shine down, the feeling that this is all some sort of robotic farm. It’s all just so fascinatingly futuristic.
After watching this, I tend to think artist Sanela Jahic must have gone, “How can I create a masterpiece and look like an X-Man?” Fire Painting, the resulting project, makes art out of cybernetics, an Arduino, and lots of kerosene.
Instead of dropping some spare change in a jar, why not wire a little bit of money to a secondary account via ATM card?
Arduino! It’s a wonderful thing, this open source hardware, and it pops up around here quite often. You can’t get much better of an arduino primer – both what it is and where it came from – than this brilliant documentary.
