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Anonymous Invades Spanish Academy Awards Ceremony
Rather than just crashing web pages, Spanish anonymous members had the balls to crash the equivalent of the Oscars ceremony in Madrid today. Three members of Anonymous sneaked past extreme police and private security controls to jump onto the stage as the event was at one of its highest points, as this image shows.
Why Is Anonymous Clamouring For A Super-Lame, Corporate-Sponsored Twitter Award?
Aussie Invention Wins James Dyson Award
What’s in the water down under? This is the second year in a row an Aussie has won the James Dyson Award, with both designs also aiming to save lives — albeit in very different ways. This year’s winning product is Airdrop, a network of pipes that sucks water from the air and irrigates drought-stricken Australia with the condensation it needs to grow plants.
And The Ig Nobel Prize Goes To: Crusher Tank Parking Enforcer, Wasabi Alarm And Structured Procrastination
The Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded last night! It’s that fun time of year when we get to enjoy scientists’ geektastic senses of humour.
Aussie Smart Lid Wins OH&S Award
We reported on the Smart Lid system a couple of years ago; at that time Seamus wasn’t that impressed with it. It turns out that this Aussie invention has impressed somebody, though; it’s just won an occupational health and safety award for best new product.
James Dyson Wants You And Your Future Award-Winning Designs
The Dyson Awards are one of the highlights of the year for us – after all, what else could bring a life-aid bazooka to fruition? But James Dyson – yes, he of vacuum cleaner fame – needs your help. He needs YOU to enter the 2011 awards with your problem-solving inventions.
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