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Australian Crashes RC Plane, Results In The Best Underwater Animal Shots
Video: GoPros are pretty good at filming underwater. They are also excellent at capturing the sad demise of remote-controlled aircraft. So it makes sense that if you crash a RC plane into the sea, you’re going to end up with some awesome footage.
The Worst Bugs In Android 5.0 Lollipop And How To Fix Them
Android 5.0 Lollipop is now upon us, and while you might be rejoicing at all the new features you can take advantage of, you might also be cursing at the state that the new OS has left your device in. We’ve rounded up the most common Lollipop issues so far, together with the fixes you can try to get your gadgets working smoothly again.
Magic Leap's Patents Are A Crazy Vision Of The Augmented Reality Future
Magic Leap is one of the most intriguing secrets in augmented reality tech right now. You can piece it together from the rumours and hearsay, but questions still remain. If these recently-published patents are any indication, the Magic Leap future involves a lot of insane wearables.
Our Favourite Android, iOS, And Windows Phone Apps Of The Week
With the holiday season well over, new apps and updates are flooding all mobile platforms. Windows Phone is going to have a huge week with Microsoft (finally) detailing the future of the mobile OS with its Wednesday Windows 10 event. But until then, hold over your mobile phone obsessions by taking a look at new, great apps from this week.
The Trouble With Star Trek Transporters
Being a Trekkie for many years, I’m used to the cyclical fictional debates of whether a Klingon Bird-of-Prey would handedly defeat a Romulan Warbird. Don’t even get me started on Kirk versus Picard. But The Nerdist’s “Because Science” YouTube segment asks an interesting question: if you teleport somewhere, are you technically the same person on the other side?
Parrot Zik 2.0 Headphones: Australian Review
How do you make a pair of headphones smart? Well, you give them their own app and Bluetooth, with the ability to adjust the intensity of noise cancelling, alter an onboard equaliser to tailor bass and treble to any song you might desire, or to download an artist setting to best suit their discography. Oh, and you make them sound excellent.
And that’s exactly what has happened here. Parrot has tweaked, redesigned and redefined the already good original Zik into a verygood pair of headphones.
9 Gadgets And Tech To Be Excited About In 2015
2015 is the year of the Future, thanks to that one rambunctious, time-travelling teen with a hoverboard. As we’re still in the opening moments of 2015, we’re allowed to be hopeful. Last year we saw a lot of awesome but also a lot of “just wait until next year!” Almost every major company talked of things just on the horizon. That’s why I asked last week what rumoured and not-so-rumoured tech you were most excited for in the year ahead.
Road Trip: 3000km Around Australia In A Tesla Model S
It has been 5 weeks since we received our Tesla Model S and we’ve been fortunate to spend around three weeks with the car (we lost two weeks due to an overseas holiday). During that time we’ve completed one major road trip to Canberra and a few shorter trips of a couple of hundred kilometres. Here’s what it’s like behind the wheel.
Have You Seen Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's Earring?
Briefly: Twitter is a powerful tool, used by powerful people. News breaks on Twitter and it has been used to help topple governments in the last few years. So surely one of the world’s most powerful social networks can help find Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s missing earring, right?
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