The Australian Sex Party’s crowd-funding for its 2014 Federal Budget response video raised $16,500, with over 150 donors. It takes aim at retirement pension age raises, the $7 Medicare copayment, handouts for school chaplains and the rising price of university places, but its most concise and most cutting target is the Liberal Party’s scaled-back NBN. More »
This short film — set 300 years in the future — tells the story of a soldier embarking on his first drop pod mission. Most of the film is cleverly shot in a claustrophobic eight-minute close-up where the only thing we see is the private’s face and the reflection on his helmet of what is going on outside. More » ...
Only a few hours ago, LG Electronics unveiled it’s latest flagship device, the LG G3. LG hasn’t held back any punches, letting loose a flurry of improvements that will place the LG G3 amongst the top Android contenders of 2014 (Samsung Galaxy S5, HTC One M8, Sony Xperia Z2 being the others). Some features that […] Related Posts: Samsung Galaxy S 3 – Bigger, faster and more intuitive...
The architectural marvels set to be unveiled at Expo Milan 2015 have already wowed our socks off. But the latest design from Nemesi & Partners takes things to the next level with a sprawling smog-filtering facade. It sort of looks like Spiderman’s secret cocoon. More » ...
The life and death of the American shopping centre is a familiar story by now . A few decades ago, these shrines to consumerism dotted suburbia, only to be denied relevance by a push back towards city centres. But few images express the scale of this trend as much as those in Black Friday: The Collapse of the American Mall . More » ...
Depending on how you look at this image, it’s either a striking view of Western Sahara or a cartoon mountain backed by blue sky and shrouded in cloud. More » ...
The show hasn’t ended yet, and it has already become a TV classic. But if there is something that transports us directly to the world of the Mad Men it is the award winning set design . More » ...
If you think small is beautiful, this is the perfect London home for you: thought to be the narrowest house in the entire capital, the Denmark Hill residence is on sale for a cool $820,000. More » ...
For 60 years, the Piscine Molitor — tucked away in the leafy outskirts of Paris — was the height of French sophistication: an Art Deco destination for chic sunbathers and sophisticated celebrities to swim. Twenty-five years ago it was closed and left to ruin — but now it’s been faithfully restored to its former glory. More » ...
In addition to a new iPhone possibly making an appearance at Apple’s June 2 Worldwide Developer Conference launch event, the Financial Times is reporting that the company plans to introduce new smart home software and functionality that puts your iOS devices in control of everything in your home — from lighting to your security system. Because your life different already revolve around your iPhone...
Remember that time Japan had the crazy idea to build a giant ice wall to contain the plant’s radioactive water leaks ? Well, it got funded and now it’s about to be built . Really. More » ...
Instead of doing work on Monday, how about idly playing around with your smartphone instead? Make the most of it with these new apps. More » ...
Don’t feel like paying the Australia Tax for Watch Dogs ? That’s the excuse people will be using to illegally download the new Ubisoft epic later this week, but pirates beware: you never really know what you’re getting in an illegal download. You might just be installing a Bitcoin miner on your computer. More » ...
Motorola is back. Again. The flagship Moto X is finally on Australian shelves after almost six months waiting for it. Has the delay killed its chances Down Under? Should you buy it? More » ...
A Japanese company has pioneered a low-cost, recyclable, high-performance battery technology that could see electric vehicles charging just as fast as a petrol car filling its fuel tank. Power Japan Plus’ Ryden dual-carbon cells are starting production in a few months, and could appear in electric cars within a couple of years. More » ...
Today’s best deals include vtDisplay on iOS, Couple Tracker on Android, and Final Fantasy on Windows Phone. Deals end without warning, so be quick! More » ...
The CEO of Australian animation production company Animal Logic wants to teach children that illegal movie downloading is no different to shoplifting, saying that by the time they’re in high school it’s too late to change their attitudes towards copyright infringement. More » ...
Apple’s $3.2 billion acquisition of headphone and music heavyweight Beats Electronics was announced with much fanfare, but since that initial flurry of activity, everything has been a little quiet. Billboard suggests that might be because there are some problems with the deal — and they’re to do with the big differences in culture between the two brands. More » ...
A senior administration official recently listed several ways that the United States is taking aim at the Chinese hacker community on the whole. That list includes everything from economic sanctions to a blanket ban on Chinese hackers attending conferences in the US. It’s actually already happening. More » ...
It feels like we’re going deaf under the din of the Australian Labor Party’s “broken promises” rhetoric against the Coalition government. Every day there’s a new soundbite for the evening news, but doesn’t it feel like a while since we’ve seen the new Shadow Communications Minister, Jason Clare, pipe up to defend the NBN? The wait is over, as Jason Clare MP brings the NBN rage hard to the political...