Entertainment

Predators. Flying Cars. Aliens. Oh My.

Gizmodo AU

I’m not sure whether to applaud or be appalled at this movie trailer. But I do know that any one movie featuring Aliens, Predators, exploding heads and flying cars is a movie that can’t be ignored.


September 26, 2011
Computing

Aussie ‘E-Waste Hell’ In Ghana

Gizmodo AU

This is not a happy story to start your Monday with. That TV or computer you put out for recycling, feeling all eco-friendly? It’s killing children in Ghana.


June 1, 2011
News

All Hell Breaks Loose After Slap Fight On A United Flight

It all started when a passenger on a Ghana-bound United flight out of D.C.’s Dulles Airport decided to recline his seat. That pissed off the passenger behind him, leading to an exchange of heated words between the men, and the recliner being “smacked in the head.”


December 10, 2010

The Awesome Animal-Shaped Coffins Of Ghana’s Paa Joe

The Ghanaian carpenter Paa Joe is a master coffin carver. Which sounds sort of boring, until you see his coffins, which are shaped and painted like awesome stuff: cars, jets, fish, eagles. Cocoa pods. No, really! Check them out.


August 14, 2010
Computing

Where Computers Lose Their Souls

We desperately hope that the computers which we ship to developing countries will be genuinely beneficial to locals, but unfortunately that isn’t always the case – more often than not, they’re simply abandoned until they’re searched for precious metals.