Saturday, May 2, 2015

Gizmodo Australia


GADGETS 

Tesla Powerwall: A Battery For Your Home 

Tesla has just made a very exciting announcement. It’s now using its clean energy nous not only to make some of the world’s best electric cars, but also to power your home.
Tesla Energy wants the world to be cleaner, and it’s doing so by letting homes, businesses and power companies store their electricity better and reduce peak load on the grid. Here’s the best part — we’ll get the battery in Australia too, at an incredibly cheap price. It’s called Powerwall.
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Last Week, I Was Paragliding; Now I'm Delivering Aid In Nepal 

I am OK, but Nepal is not. The part of the country that got hit the hardest is the remote Gorkha district. Many small towns and villages are still not included in any government search and rescue effort. This is one of many stories from the area: One day, six volunteers and two villages. 
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The Best Way To Ruin The New Force Awakens Trailer? Jar Jar Binks. 

Video: You know what made the new Star Wars: The Force Awakenstrailer especially great? A distinct lack of Jar Jar Binks. But some people, it seems, just want to watch the world burn. It’s amazing what a little video editing can do. The new Force Awakens trailer, for instance, was an instantly loveable global sensation. But add everyone’s least favourite bumbling goon to the mix and lop off the Harrison Ford / Chewbacca cameo, and suddenly, it’s a nightmare. 
SCIENCE 

Astronomers Found A Gas Giant Orbiting Surprisingly Close To A Tiny Star 

Astronomers watching a small red dwarf star 500 light years away were surprised to notice a brief dip in its already dim light. But they quickly identified the source of the change: the darker mass of a planet passing between the distant star and our vantage point on Earth. 
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This Crazy Bridge In Japan Looks More Like A Terrifying Roller Coaster 

If you look straight onto the Eshima Ohashi bridge in Japan, the ridiculously steep incline makes it look more like a roller coaster than a road for cars to drive on. I mean, come on, would you want to drive on that road? It’s basically a highway to outer space, a shortcut to vomiting from nausea. 
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An Ageing Cold War Policy May Make It Easier To Hack Nuclear Warheads  

Floppy disks. Cheating schemes. Drunken bar antics. The security of America’s nuclear arms is… less than perfect. And now, more critics are questioning the outdated policies that regulate them. 
SCIENCE 

Space Radiation On The Long Trip To Mars Could Make Astronauts Dumber  

Deep-space radiation is a serious but largely unquantified threat to astronauts making a long trip to Mars. A new study in mice is discouraging: Space-like levels of radiation exposure damaged their neurons, giving the mice cognitive problems.
SCIENCE 

Scientists Are Brewing Medieval Potions To Fight Hospital Superbugs 

Last month, a microbiology lab in Nottingham, England made international headlines when it unearthed a substance that kills methicillin-resistant staph, one of the deadliest superbugs of modern times. The most astounding part about the find? It was a 1000-year-old Viking potion.
SCIENCE 

Video: Inside The Fiery Inferno Of A Rocket Launch 

Here’s an awesome view of the fiery power that is a rocket. A GoPro camera is strapped inside this rocket test so that rocket scientists can get a view of what’s going on inside. It’s pretty amazing, the fire burns so hot that you can almost feel it through the screen.
SCIENCE 

How This Beetle Shoots Jets Of Superheated Liquid Out Of Its Butt 

You do not want to piss off the bombardier beetle. When disturbed, it sprays noxious, near-boiling liquid out of its abdomen — an effective though confounding ability. After all, how does the beetle pull off such a violent chemical reaction without, well, damaging its insides?
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There's No Reason To Ever Get Out Of A Millennium Falcon Bed 

Finding the motivation to crawl out of bed to face work, school, or even sunlight is hard enough. But imagine the herculean task of getting up in the morning when your bed is a near-perfect replica of the Millennium Falcon’s cockpit.
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