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Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon: The Ultralight, Semi-Rugged Carbon Fibre Ultrabook Yummy Ivy Bridge goodness.

This Animation Explains How Your Gmail Is Sent Google wants you to know how eco-friendly they are.

Looks Like That IKEA TV Could Be Pretty Great — And Cheap Hopefully it’s not too much of a rip-off for Aussies.

How Digital Cameras Actually Work — And Why They’re So Cheap They can never be cheap enough!

Mountain Biking Down 1000 Steps Is As Terrifying As It Sounds How do you even practise for something like that?


May 15, 2012
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Report: New MacBook Pros Will Be Retina Display, USB 3.0 Monster Machines It sounds like the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air will merge at some point.

How One Infinity Can Be Bigger Than Another Fancy starting your day with a bit of brain-busting maths?

This Is The World’s Most Expensive Camera It’s a Leica, no less.

Anonymous: We Have Access To Every Secret Government Database I think we’ll have to see this one to believe it.

Here’s The New Fastest Wireless Router You Can Buy For Your House But there’s no point getting it right now.


May 14, 2012
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Australia Home To Science’s Longest Experiment Eight little drops over 85 years.

Why You Spill Coffee While Walking And How You Can Stop It From Happening Get a bigger mug?

How To Use Android New to Android or thinking about switching? Make sure you bookmark this.

The Most Terrifying Drug In The World But it’s not addictive. In fact, it’s used to treat addiction!

Comedy At Its Stealthiest: Louie CK Sells New Show Online Only And it’s turning out to be incredibly successful.


May 12, 2012
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Quantum Object Teleported 100 Kilometres Lasers doing what they do best (super awesome science stuff).

You Won’t Believe This Colourful Glass Gem Corn Is Freaking Real Corn Rainbow corn. I imagine this is what unicorns eat.

Real-Life Spiderman Climbs France’s Tallest Building Without A Harness I’m more than comfortable here on the ground, thank you very much. I mean, What happens if you get a cramp?

A Large Hadron Collider Would Be Easy To Build If IKEA Made It Would probably fall apart after a couple of years as well, though.

Apple TV Set Confirmed By Foxconn Boss Apple’s set its own pace with phones and tablets… can it do it with TVs too?


May 11, 2012
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Nokia Lumia 900, Lumia 610 Australia Bound Pleeeeease be 4G.

This Is The Definitive Photography Of Earth That’s a lot less blue than we’re used to.

Troll High-Fives Tourists Pretending To Hold Up The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Some of them had a sense of humour, some of them didn’t.

Is Microsoft Planning To Limit Your Browser Choice On Windows 8 Tablets? Mozilla is having a cry.

New Unskippable Piracy Warnings For DVDs It’ll take 10 seconds of your life each time.


May 10, 2012
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HP’s New Ultrabooks And Elitebooks: Sleek And Light And Crapware-Free Ultrabooks, Elitebooks, Sleekbooks… galore.

Why Building The Death Star Is A Bad Investment Well, the word ‘death’ doesn’t inspire much confidence.

Download Flipboard For Android Right Now It’s not quite official though.

London Hacked Its Own Traffic Lights To Make Sure It Got The Olympics I’m sure you weren’t actually fooling the IOC officials, London.

You Can Get Your Face Frozen In Carbonite Now If you’re going to Disney World anytime soon, you must do this.


May 9, 2012
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The Best Display Under Bright Light: It’s Not Your iPhone And tablet screens have a lot of catching up to do.

A Wonderfully Simple Explanation Of Oil Price And The Economy The car was designed for petrol, not the other way around.

How Amazon Aims To Fill Your Wardrobe And send me broke at the same time, I bet.

Olympus TG-1: Tough Cams Want to Snap Beautiful Photos Too Great, now they just need to make it pretty.

Important Tips For Surviving The Inevitable Robot Uprising You can thank us later when we’re both the only humans left on Earth.


May 8, 2012
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The Real Reason Why This Year’s iPad Is Bigger And Fatter The next iPad will lose weight, or so they reckon.

iOS 5.1.1 Is Out Now But wait if you’re jailbroken.

The Inspirational Note Apple Gives To New Employees On Their First Day Welcome to Apple, where you’ll work your butt off to stand out from the crowd.

Unbelievable Assassin Bug Wears Its Victims’ Corpses As Armour The Buffalo Bill of the animal kingdom.

Clever Shopping Bag Only Puts A Smile On Kids’ Faces When It’s Full I dunno… I just wouldn’t take my kid there. They’re manipulative enough as it is.


May 7, 2012
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US And Australia Looking To Streamline Customs Between Countries… Just Not For You One tiny step forward in the global fight against shitty airports.

You Can Burn This Working Wooden Blanket For Extra Warmth What would that feel like against my skin?

The Best AirPlay Speakers But they’ll take a chunk out of your wallet.

Internode Brings Back Popular 150GB Plan For Naked Users Conditions apply, naturally.

Sexy Driving Simulator Delivers Seven Million Curved Pixels Of Reality, All Yours For $18K I suppose you can’t really get a real luxury car that drives on the road for $18,000.


May 5, 2012
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These Guys Made A Real Lightsabre! Sadly, it’s not an actual laser beam. But I guess a metal rod will do the trick in a fight.

Best Way To Demolish A House: Drive A Tank Straight Through It Yes, well, that’s certainly one way to do it.

The Upgraded iPad 2 Has Significantly Longer Battery Life Than The Latest iPad Battery life is great but… that screen. It’s hard to go back.

James Cameron Recounts Epic Journey To The Deepest Place On Earth Kudos to Cameron — I too terrified of nitrogen narcosis to go any deeper than my ankles.

NSFW: The Nine Weirdest Places In Reddit “Weird” is an understatement. For the brave of heart and strong of stomach only. You have been warned.