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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 in her – the owner’s…

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September 2nd, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: strange + wonderful weird science

sky tv makes upside down remote control “for australians” in a fit of nationalism

skyremotes

I don’t know about you but this is new to me: apparently the English and the Australians are bitter cricket rivals, so much so that they have a tournament, popularly known as The Ashes series, which only features the two teams. Imagine how ridiculous it would be if the EPL had an annual Manchester United…

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June 30th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: gadgets hacks + mods just plain fun video

tetris hits the streets (somewhere) in australia

Giant Tetris Sculpture Lights in Sydney Australia

I came across these magnificent falling Tetris block sculptures snooping around over on Flickr earlier today.

When I first stumbled onto these images over on Justin James’ Flickr gallery, all I could figure out was that they’re a) giant Tetris pieces and b) they were seen somewhere on the streets of Australia. Given a land mass of…

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December 9th, 2008 comments (7) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft video games

printer claims 60 pages per minute

Memjet High Speed Inkjet Printer

A company that has spent the last thirteen years researching inkjet printing technologies (yet never released a product) claims they have developed a technology which will allow desktop printers to print at ridiculously fast speeds.
Australia’s Silverbrook Research has circulated a video of the prototype device in action, churning out pages at an astounding thirty…

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March 19th, 2007 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: computing future tech

sony playstation manager thinkswii and xbox 360 are too expensive

Sony Playstation 3

A couple of weeks back, I reported on dumb quotes by Sony execs and I thought for sure that I had heard every ludicrous comment possible about their upcoming Playstation 3 release.
I guess Sony Australia’s boss, Michael Ephraim, wanted to make sure we didn’t run out of choice sound bites. According to an interview…

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October 11th, 2006 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: video games