This plane travelled faster than a rifle bullet, 1.7 kilometres every second, and flew so high you could see the curvature of the earth. It could get you from London to New York over an hour before you left. More »
Christmas shopping is like a form of festive mass psychosis. We all know that in the January sales the must-haves of the Christmas period will be cheaper and more readily available. Are manufacturers just too conservative with their production tallies or is there something more sinister involved? More »
Gadget celebrity extraordinaire Stephen Fry was one of the guests of honour at this year’s T3 Awards in the UK, and his speech is littered with little nuggets of quotable gold. Like his thoughts on Windows: More »
Visiting the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on the morning of May 20 this year you’d have found the Palais du Tokyo shut fast and adorned with notices announcing the museum was closed “for technical reasons”. The reason? Mere hours earlier, the gallery had been hit by one of the most audacious fine art thefts in history. More »
It was late on a Friday afternoon in Las Vegas when the news filtered through. The HD-DVD Promotion Group was preparing for its 2008 CES press conference, confident of wowing the world with its rival to Blu-ray. But a few hundred miles west in Hollywood, one of its key partners had other ideas. More »
You’re standing on the beach at Penzance, staring out across the new cross-atlantic bridge: it’s the latest and greatest feat of engineering, wrought from cutting-edge, lab-grown super-carbon steel “woven” by a tireless workforce of self-repairing nanobots… More »
The GF2 wasn’t the only shock absentee from the latest T3 annual Hot 100 list. Sennheiser’s wireless cans didn’t make the cut either, nor did an Alienware laptop or a Sony Bravia TV. And we don’t apologise for this. While they are all great products, there are a HELL of a lot of great products around the world and not all of them can make the Hot 100 list. The absence of some of the expected brands and products has allowed some up and comers in that well and truly deserve their place. Like who, you aks? Or I hope you do anyway… More »
What happened to the utopian dream of a life of leisure for us humans, paid for with the toil of uncomplaining automatons? It could be that it’s just been delayed… In this month’s issue, T3 magazine looks at the present and future of robotics, hails the dawn of post-human intelligence and looks forward to the era when robots will fight our wars, heal our sick, take our jobs, steal our girlfriends and shoot us dead. Hang on a minute, suddenly this doesn’t sound so good… More »
Fancy yourself as a Red Bull Air Race pilot? In this issue of T3 we caught up with Australia’s Air Race ace and ex-fighter pilot, Matt Hall. The eight page special feature includes a rundown of the Air Race events and a detailed interview with Hall on racing, plane technology and how to get involved. You can see him in action this month in the Perth round of the Air Race. More »
I was reading through the latest issue of my old flame T3 magazine last night – it ‘s their Hot 100 Issue – and found that I profoundly disagreed with some of the products they had in their top 10. So rather than bottle it up, I thought I’d vent here on Giz, and try and see whether you agreed with me or not. More »
