We’re all still pretty shaken at the passing of Eugene J. Polley, the inventor of one of the most important devices in the past 50 years: the wireless TV remote. But now is not the time for sorrow.
Yesterday, Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream sold at auction for $US119 million, confirming the fact that you’ll never ever own classic works of art. But the gear inspired by, or somehow resembling, the real thing? Hello internet!
Do you break every gadget you buy, no matter how beautiful or expensive or great, or how careful you pretend to be? Yeah, same here. But that doesn’t mean you’ve got to be relegated to a life of broken everything and empty bank accounts. Here’s some gear that’ll stand the test of your crippling irresponsibility.
The hard working industrial designers behind your favourite smartphone spend months perfecting the handset’s design so it feels great in your hand and easily squeezes into your pocket. Only to have a bevy of casemakers come along with ridiculous designs that completely negate all the effort that’s been put into the phone’s aesthetics.
We’ve already brought you a beginner’s guide to astronomy, and the heavens recently lined up for an impressive celestial peepshow. Now it’s time to take a look at the stargazing gear that will guarantee a fantastic front row seat to the heavens.
