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This Rocket Blast-Off Is The Farewell Your Christmas Tree Deserves

Christmas is over. Chances are you still have your tree up, but sooner or later you’re going to have to get rid of it. Sure you could unceremoniously toss its naked corpse into the street, but you could also turn it into a crazy rocket. Then again, you probably shouldn’t, but if you did it might go something like this.

28 December 2012

Gadgets

Amazon Sets Holiday Shopping Records Despite Making Half Of What It Made Last Year

On its peak day this holiday shopping season, Amazon sold an astonishing 26.5 million items at a rate of 306 items per second. And the honour of being the “#1 best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for product” goes to Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD. The release is chock full of wins for Amazon but take a look at the below image:

Gaming

Kid Finds Homemade Porn On Nintendo 3DS He Got For Christmas

OK, so here’s a reason to rethink buying refurbished. Five-year-old Braydon Giles popped open a 3DS he just got for Christmas to find about nine photos of people, presumably the previous owners (or the previous owner’s parents?), having sex. Hoo-boy.

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Wild Australian Dolphins Giving Gifts To Humans Is A Real Thing That Happens

According to a new scientific paper, dolphins at the Tangalooma Island Resort in Queensland have been observed giving gifts to humans 23 separate times since 1998. Yep. This is adorable.

27 December 2012

Science

How To Detox After A Day Of Christmas Excess

In a move that surprised no one, you totally overdid it the last couple of days. You had to have thirds on ham. You took down a litre of spiked eggnog. You were feeling festive, but now you feel like crap. Here are five tips to get you back to normal as quickly as possible.

Software

The Apps You Should Download For Your New iPhone Or iPad

Santa brought you a new iPad. You screamed, you cried, you hugged your mother, you thanked the heavens. Now that the shock has subsided, here are the apps you should download to your new iOS device.

26 December 2012

Gadgets

5 Tools To Cope With Boxing Day Shopping Queues

So you’ve done it. You’ve successfully procrastinated gift-buying until Boxing Day. Those carefree days of laziness come at a cost, and you’re about to pay it by standing in line forever. Here’s are some things that might ease your suffering a little bit. But just remember: you asked for this.

25 December 2012

Entertainment

Big Boi Reading How The Grinch Stole Christmas Is The Best

I love the How the Grinch Stole Christmas. My mother used to read it to us every year at Christmas. But you know who’s cooler than my mum? The rapper Big Boi.

mobile

A Giant Mobile Phone Was A Merry Christmas In 1991

This is a 1991 holiday ad from Radioshack, Canada’s Value Leader. This Christmas we’re asking for iPad minis and crazy stuff no one even imagined 21 years ago. And that’s what makes the gadgets in this ad even more wonderful. Also, points for awesome frosted hair.

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Here’s Enough iPad Christmas Magic To Warm Anybody’s Cockles

The unfortunately named iSimon has gracing us with iOS-inspired magic tricks for some time now, but there’s always room in our hearts for more digital prestidigitation. Especially when it’s so topical. Here’s a healthy dose of iPad Christmas magic to get you through the holidays.

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