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1:08PM Nick Broughall | If you like getting up really early, know heaps of stuff about gadgets and games and happen to be studying some kind of journalism or media degree, we’ve got the perfect job to get you into the industry. More »
We’re Looking For A Night Editor
1:08PM Nick Broughall | If you like getting up really early, know heaps of stuff about gadgets and games and happen to be studying some kind of journalism or media degree, we’ve got the perfect job to get you into the industry. More » 
Entertainment
Star Wars/Macguyver Mashup Just Makes Sense
8:40AM Adam Frucci | Call me crazy, but if Star Wars was a Macgyver-style drama on network TV in the 1980’s, I think it would have been an even bigger entertainment phenomenon. I mean, this is awesome. [Thanks, Audrius] More »
Science
Guy in Chain Mail Faraday Suit Takes Star Wars Tesla Coil Music To the Next Level
12:50AM John Mahoney | If you didn’t think Star Wars Tesla Coil music even had multiple levels of greatness, I give you this: a guy conducting the Imperial March with Palpatine zaps from his fingers. More »
Games
2:03PM Nick Broughall | Something that wasn’t made terribly clear by the US post on the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game is that it’s going to be released globally on September 9 this year. That means Australia as well. If you don’t believe me, check out the press release: More »
The Beatles: Rock Band To Be A Global Launch
2:03PM Nick Broughall | Something that wasn’t made terribly clear by the US post on the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game is that it’s going to be released globally on September 9 this year. That means Australia as well. If you don’t believe me, check out the press release: More »
Gadgets
Iron Man Children’s Costume Modded to Be Deadly-Cute
4:15AM Mark Wilson | One very loving father spent two months tricking out a standard child’s Iron Man costume with real tech for his 5-year-old son—not just a CO2 air compressor to fire missiles or repulsor waves, but a complete BeagleBoard computer running a makeshift JARVUS along with an Arduino board to handle all of the advanced suit functions. Sure, it’s just a toy now, but give the father/son team a few years to see what the suit can really do. Here’s a full rundown on the tech inside: More »
Random Stuff
World’s Tallest Bridge Goes Up in China with the Help of Some Rockets
3:00AM Adam Frucci | In China, they’re currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let’s just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn’t touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead. So how do you get cables across a chasm that large to build a bridge with? Rockets, of course. More »
Cameras
It’s Official: The Canon 5D Mk II Will Turn Us All Into Professional Cinematographers
8:52PM John Herrman | Yeah, sure, it was cool to see a professional photographer spin HD video gold from the Canon 5D Mark II. But that guy is famous, had a mountain of equipment, a crew, and a freaking helicopter. Not so for the humble photographer and videographer at Akihabara News, who took the 5D, a few days and a laptop to shoot and splice together this stunningly beautiful five minute video. More »
Games
9:30AM Nick Broughall | If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a games designer like ex-Kotaku AU editor Logan, then you’re probably all over the fact that the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School are launching two grad courses in game design. Applications are due November 7, so you should probably get a move on if you want to apply for entry.
If you want some more info on the courses, our old friend Seamus has interviewed a couple of the lecturers involved with the new courses over on Kotaku. I swear, if I didn’t already feel like I had the best gig in the world, I’d be sorely tested not to apply for this. Well, that and the fact that I’m shithouse at design. Seriously – you guys have seen some of my Photoshop efforts, and they’re not pretty.
Anyway, head over to Kotaku to find out a lot more about the courses, and get your applications in by November 7 if this sounds like your thing.
[Kotaku, Kotaku and Kotaku] More »
Want To Be A Game Designer? AFTRS Offering Courses In 2009
9:30AM Nick Broughall | If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a games designer like ex-Kotaku AU editor Logan, then you’re probably all over the fact that the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School are launching two grad courses in game design. Applications are due November 7, so you should probably get a move on if you want to apply for entry.
If you want some more info on the courses, our old friend Seamus has interviewed a couple of the lecturers involved with the new courses over on Kotaku. I swear, if I didn’t already feel like I had the best gig in the world, I’d be sorely tested not to apply for this. Well, that and the fact that I’m shithouse at design. Seriously – you guys have seen some of my Photoshop efforts, and they’re not pretty.
Anyway, head over to Kotaku to find out a lot more about the courses, and get your applications in by November 7 if this sounds like your thing.
[Kotaku, Kotaku and Kotaku] More »
Science
How the Weird Mars Science Laboratory Floating Sky Crane Works
2:10PM Jesus Diaz | When I read that the UFO-looking Mars Science Laboratory’s aeroshell would use a floating crane–called Sky Crane by NASA–to softly land the rover on Mars, I couldn’t believe it. Now, watching this hyperrealistic NASA simulation showing how the mechanism actually floats, lowers the rover, and then flies away, I still can’t believe it. This is the kind of stuff that makes the kid in me wake up and pay attention with my eyes and mouth wide open. More »
