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Aussie Waterfalls Flow Upwards!

Waterfall Flowing Upwards

This is just insane. The waterfalls along the coast of Southern Australia are actually flowing upwards due to extremely high wind speeds. The large waterfalls as you will see in the video below are still flowing down. They are simply producing a lot of mist.…

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July 23rd, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

Stormtrooper Plans to Walk All Across Australia for Charity

Australian Stormtrooper Walks For Charity

Sometimes, people do pretty weird and crazy things for no good reason. However, Paul French from the land down under has a good reason for donning his Stormtrooper suit every day because he’s doing it for charity.…

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July 19th, 2011 by: Hazel Chua

Real Hoverbike in the Works: Just Don’t Fall Off

hoverbike chris malloy australia motorcycle ultralight

When I think of the concept of a hoverbike, what comes to mind is those speeder bikes from the Star Wars saga. You know the ones that the Scout troopers use on Endor in Return of the Jedi…. Well, a hoverbike is exactly what Chris Malloy from Australia decided

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June 10th, 2011 by: Range

History of Super Mario Bros Tour: 25 Years Packed Into a Caravan

history of super mario bros

Yet more proof that awesome things never happen where I live. Vooks community member Excite posted these photos of the “History of Super Mario Bros.”… caravan, which stopped at Parramatta in New South Wales, Australia. Even though the caravan was modest, to say the least, especially considering that this is

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September 23rd, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Life-Size Plywood Hubble Telescope Won’T Ever Go Into Orbit

peter hennessey hubble plywood space ship

These amazing sculptures were created by the Australian artist Peter Hennessey.  And no, they can’t fly. They’d probably burn up on lift-off if you even tried to launch one into space.

My Hubble …will premiere at the Biennale of Sydney 2010. It’s a life-size recreation of the Hubble telescope constructed

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June 8th, 2010 by: Range

Solar Equation: It’S Always Sunny in Melbourne, Australia

solar equation

The city of Melbourne, Australia currently has two suns. There’s the normal one that it shares with the rest of the world and goes away during the night, and there’s the one in Melbourne’s Federation Square, rising at night, about 100 million times smaller than the real Sun.  This little…

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June 7th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Weta Halo Xbox 360 Casemod Explodes Onto Ebay

halo_weta_master_chief_casemod

What you’re looking at is the millionth Xbox 360 to be sold in Australia and New Zealand, and it’s going to be auctioned off for charity.

The customized Xbox 360 was created by Richard Taylor and the Weta Workshop. It features a miniature Master Chief blowing a hole through the…

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April 21st, 2010 by: Range

Giant Origami Tigers Land in Sydney

origami tiger display art led

These gigantic origami tigers signal the beginning of another Year of the Tiger…, which will be shortly coming up after Chinese New Year on February 14th.

These origami tigers were designed by the Australian firm LAVA and they were made to raise the awareness of tigers as an endangered

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January 22nd, 2010 by: Range

X-Cool Calculator Looks Like a Game Controller, Plays No Games

x-cool_calculator

For our latest edition of “why? why not?” comes this basic calculator that does nothing special other than the fact that it looks like a game controller.

The X-Cool Calculator looks like something you might play some old Genesis or SNES games with, but it really just does basic math.…

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December 18th, 2009 by: Technabob

Dog Swallows 1,000 Magnets – Erases Every Floppy and Vhs Tape in the House

loldog

The United Press International continues to build on their 100 years of journalistic excellence with their coverage of an Australian woman and her cattle dog. Polly – the dog – recently underwent emergency surgery to remove 1,000 magnets from her tummy. Owner Cathy James said that Polly swallowed the magnets…

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September 2nd, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

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