Gadgets

Everything You Need To Remote Control Your Life

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.


May 16, 2012
Gadgets

Everything You Need To Disappoint Kids Who Wanted A Real Pool

Year after year they beg and plead, but kids don’t realise just how expensive it is to install a pool in your backyard. Not to mention all of the constant maintenance and cleaning.


May 4, 2012
Geek Out

Everything You Need To Acquire The Most Expensive Works Of Art On The Cheap

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!


May 2, 2012
Gadgets

Everything You Need To Wage Cubicle Warfare

When you fill a drab, fluorescent-lit room full of people who’d rather be doing anything other than filling out spreadsheets, tensions are bound to rise. And it doesn’t take much to spark a war. A misplaced stapler, a stolen lunch, even an inappropriate email meant only for the guys in accounting.


April 21, 2012
Cameras

Everything You Need If You’re A Total Klutz With Your Gadgets

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.


April 13, 2012
Gadgets

Everything You Need To Survive Those Autumn Showers

True story: You walk out on your lunch break, and it’s freaking gorgeous outside. The most perfect day. You feel magnificent. You’ll walk to lunch, you decide. You’ll take a nice little stroll for a few minutes. Why not? You deserve it! Then everything goes to goddamn hell. Yep, rain.


April 11, 2012
Mobile

Everything You Need To Totally Destroy Your Phone’s Beautiful Design

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.


March 28, 2012
Gadgets

Everything A Serious Stargazer Needs To Enjoy The Celestial Show

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.


March 24, 2012
Geek Out

Everything You Need For The Mad Men Premiere

Mad Men Season 5 premieres in the US tomorrow. The show’s been gone for basically two years, but its popularity hasn’t gone anywhere. Here’s everything you’ll need to nerd out on your favourite advertising renegades hard enough to make everyone else at your viewing party feel uncomfortable.


March 21, 2012
Gadgets

Everything You Need To (Reluctantly) Turn Your Sickbed Into A Home Office

Spending a day at home sick in bed sucks. But it’s nowhere near as bad as when you’re so busy you can’t afford to just sleep away what ails you.