Breakfast Wrap

Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Thursday Night

This Is HP’s Take On The Retina Display MacBook Pro Just because it looks like a MacBook Pro and smells like a MacBook Pro doesn’t make it a MacBook Pro.

Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication He apparently has a patent to prove it.

Google Thinks Gayest And Worst Mean The Same Thing Google, stop being so presumptuous.

How A 3D Printer Helped A Child Breathe Again It makes guns, it saves lives.

5 Grisly Decades Of Workplace Safety Posters No, he didn’t just doze off while working on his car.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night

Amazon Plans To Build Massive Biodome HQ, So No One Has To Leave It looks like fused testicles from one angle.

Twitter Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication And it’s available right now. We’ll show you how to set it up.

Wow, A Guy Plummeted 60km/h Off A 300m Cliff And Survived It probably won’t stop him from doing it again though.

The Tiny, Cool Details Of The New Xbox One Controller Smaller, clickier, new buttons and so much v-v-v-v-ibration.

Yes, An Old Mac G5 Does Make A Great BBQ Upcycling at its best.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Tuesday Night

Xbox One: Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft’s New Console Less gaming console, more “all-in-one entertainment” device.

Microsoft’s New Kinect: Much More Than Mere Motion Control Why not build it into the Xbox and save on the plastic?

This Guy Built The Most Incredible Spider-Man Suit Ever But can he see or breathe?

First Footage Of An F-35B Taking Off Straight Into The Air Vertical take-off! Vertical take-off!

Steven Spielberg Is Directing A Live-Action Halo Series I’ll believe it when I see it. Look what happened to the Halo movie!


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Monday Night

Here’s Your First Blurry Look At The PS4 High-pitched string instruments, slow pan towards an obscured object while images flash across the screen… it’s like the climax in a horror movie.

It’s Official: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr, Promises ‘Not To Mess It Up’ So more ads and no porn? Not quite.

Why Brushing Your Teeth Makes Orange Juice Taste Like Death What about when it freezes the inside of your mouth when you drink cold water?!

The First Jolla Smartphone: Quirky And Android-Friendly But it’s not an Android phone.

Maths Jokes, Explained Is that headline a joke? It was a joke, wasn’t it.


Breakfast Wrap: Friday Night’s Finest

Explore The Dark Side Of Your Desk With This Wooden Curiosity Model Cute, geeky and full of robot. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

How Big Is The New Enterprise Compared To The Old One? The Death Star was quite large, wasn’t it? Shame it enjoyed exploding all the time.

This Great Chris Hadfield At Home Parody Reminds Us Why We Love Space And why we love Chris Hadfield, the world’s most entertaining astronaut.

Friday Drinks! The Most Awesome Ways To Open A Beer Beats smashing it on the ground and trying to lick up the malty goodness amongst the glass shards and pavement gunk.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Google I/O 2013

Google I/O 2013 Live Blog: Follow The News As It Happened All the action, all the photos, all the Google, in one post.

New Google Maps Features Leak Ahead Of I/O Turns out these were spot on.

Google+ Does Some Amazing Things With Your Pictures Now Even if you just use Google+ as a photo storage service now, it’s worth it.

Did Google Just Try To Totally Change How Search Works? Conversational search, yo!

New Google Hangouts App: Unified Chat, Unlimited Reach Looking forward to seeing how this all works.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Tuesday Night

Why Is Science Behind A Paywall? A fantastic look at the need for open source scientific journals. Bookmark this one for lunchtime reading.

Inside The Rain Room: Walking Through A Downpour Without Getting Wet What a beautiful idea. I want a go!

Senator Scott Ludlam Is Doing A Reddit AMA Tonight Get your questions ready, this guy knows a bunch of stuff.

This Is Nokia’s New Lumia 925 Flagship So it’s a Lumia 920 with some metal on?

Meet BlackBerry’s New Low-Cost Smartphone Meet the BlackBerry Q5.



Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Friday Night

Quantum Computer Kicks PC Arse In First Ever Head-To-Head Test The second quantum tease of the week! We must be close, right?

Facebook Home Is Now Available For The HTC One And Galaxy S4 Whether you want it or not.

Disney World Will Slap Your Head On A Stormtrooper Now What an awesome gift idea for a Star Wars nerd.

How Great Data Graphics Tap Into Your Caveman Brain Oooh… pretty colours… oh, sorry, you were saying something?

Watch In Awe As This Euro Dude Tries To Explain Modular Synthesisers Looks like a dream job if you’re obsessed with knobs and dials.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Thursday Night

How NASA Imagined Humans On Mars, Back In 1990 But that’s how I still imagine humans on Mars.

This Portable Sound Camera Shows You Where It’s Loud Seeing sound? GTFO.

Goddammit, We Still Can’t Cure Alzheimer’s Disease So prevention it has to be for now.

Pulling Your Parachute While You’re Still On The Plane Is Not Fun Sure it does! Look at him go! Wheeeeeeee!

How Photographers Retouched Pictures Before Photoshop You’ll probably save time ditching the camera and just painting the pictures.


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