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Music
TerraCycle Recycles Tasty Treat Wrappers Into Speakers
6:00AM Jack Loftus | These recycled speakers are interesting, TerraCycle, but I won’t be 100 per cent impressed until you find a way to turn the World’s Largest Cheeto into a speaker too. More »
Gadgets
This Is Why You Need To Know When To Say When
3:40AM Sean Fallon | Hey, I’m all for a night out drinking now and then, but not to the point where I’m crawling into industrial garbage bins to sleep one off. You might not wake up when it’s crunch time. More »
Design
Sub-Zero Garbage Can Keeps Your Trash Nice and Frosty
8:40AM Adam Frucci | Organic garbage, like banana peels and coffee grounds, stink. Sitting in your garbage can all day at room temperature guarantees that your place will smell like a dump. Not if it’s frozen, however. More »
QOTD
What is the Coolest Gadget You Have Ever Found on the Sidewalk?
9:00AM Sean Fallon | The guys at Objectified snapped this photo of an old stereo system lying on the sidewalk. This inspired the question “what is the most interesting gadget you have ever found on the sidewalk?” More »
Gadgets
Ovetto Recycling Egg: Garbage of Tomorrow
11:01PM Mark Wilson | We don’t know what travesties or revelations tomorrow will bring, but it will surely include the Ovetto Recycling Egg. A simple two-sided recycling bin allowing the separation of plastic and aluminium, you may be wondering, “why should I spend $US250 on a fancy trash can?” And we could only assure you that this is no trash can. It’s a recycling egg. And it’s clearly from the future. More »
Science
Military TGER Generator Runs on Trash
5:30AM Sean Fallon | The U.S. military has been running two prototype generators that run on leftovers, shredded documents and ammunition wrappers at their headquarters in Iraq. The Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery (TGER) works by breaking down garbage into small bits and then heating it up until it becomes a synthetic gas and then combining it with the ethanol produced from the fermenting of foods and liquids. The result is a fuel capable of running the generators. More »
Gadgets
2:36PM Nick Broughall | Residents in NSW’s Randwick Council received a lovely gift recently – fancy new bins for their rubbish and recycling. 78,000 of them, in fact.
No it wasn’t a misguided attempt to swing votes by lavishing gifts on the electorate. It was a way of introducing RFID tags onto the bins so that the council and their waste management contractor could spy monitor the amount of rubbish and recycling being done throughout the area.
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What Rubbish: Councils Monitor Your Trash With RFID
2:36PM Nick Broughall | Residents in NSW’s Randwick Council received a lovely gift recently – fancy new bins for their rubbish and recycling. 78,000 of them, in fact.
No it wasn’t a misguided attempt to swing votes by lavishing gifts on the electorate. It was a way of introducing RFID tags onto the bins so that the council and their waste management contractor could spy monitor the amount of rubbish and recycling being done throughout the area.
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Gadgets
20 Million Digital Photo Frames to be Sold to 20 Million Tacky Idiots in 2008
5:45AM Adam Frucci | It’s official: you people have no taste. How else to explain that 20 million digital photo frames are expected to be sold in 2008? Yes, 20,000,000 digital photo frames, the red-headed stepchildren of the consumer electronics world, will soon adorn the walls of McMansions in every backwater suburb in the country. More »
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