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NewsStore Your Keys in the Cloud with ‘KeyMe’
This technology will be a saving grace for the almost 90 million forgetful folks who get locked out of their homes each year.
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NewsUncarriable Carrier Bags Shaming Us Into Environment Protection
The plastic bag fashion statement that may just save the environment.
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NewsRevisit a Time When Street Photography Meant More Than Fashion
See how the legends cross social boundaries to capture iconic images of their milieu.
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NewsHouston’s Beer Can House Becomes an Official Landmark
One of architecture's most impressive recycling achievements is drawing more visitors than ever before.
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NewsTen Reasons to Visit the Auckland Art Fair 2013
From monkeys painting to glamorous opening parties, Concrete Playground chats with Jana Beer, publications editor for Auckland Art Fair 2013, for the ten best reasons to visit the 2013 Auckland Art Fair.
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NewsKite Patch Makes People Invisible to Mosquitoes
A major development in the fight against malaria.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching the delicious return of 'The Bear', Glen Powell playing a fake hitman and Lily Gladstone's latest excellent performance.
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NewsTen Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in May
Spend your couch time watching a documentary about Jim Henson and an Elisabeth Moss-led spy thriller.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in April
Spend your couch time watching Andrew Scott step into Tom Ripley's shoes, a shattering docuseries about Nickelodeon's kids TV hits and Colin Farrell as a PI.
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NewsEleven Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream in March
Spend your couch time watching Adam Sandler in space, a stunning Oscar-winning documentary, girl group-fuelled sitcom hilarity and Noel Fielding's latest show.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsNine 2024 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
'Oppenheimer', an astonishing Ukraine-set documentary, a Wes Anderson short, Emma Stone's most-spectacular performance yet: they each won 2024 Oscars, and you can check them them all now.
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NewsSay Cheers to Hollywood's Night of Nights: Concrete Playground's Oscars 2024 Drinking Game
Whether you're hoping that 'Oppenheimer', 'Barbie', 'Poor Things', 'Past Lives' or something else picks up Academy Awards, here's how to sip along.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2024 Academy Awards
Will 'Oppenheimer' sweep the Oscars? What else will win? What should but won't? Here are our predictions.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 32 of 2024's Oscar-Nominated Movies in New Zealand Right Now
From 'Barbenheimer' and twists on 'Frankenstein' to animated 'Spider-Man' antics and devastating documentaries, here's where to watch 2024's Oscar contenders.
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NewsFlying Drones Replace Waiters at a London Sushi Restaurant
The sushi plane replaces the sushi train.
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NewsQuickboat Ushers in a New Era of Ultra-Convenient Boating
From your car to the water in one minute.
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NewsConcrete-Devouring Robots Recycle Entire Demolished Buildings
Is this the key to continued urban redevelopment?
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NewsUrban Home Gardening Utilising the Cloud
Too busy for gardening but tired of tasteless supermarket produce?
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NewsRemovable Electric Drive Can Motorise Any Bicycle With Ease
Electrify your favourite bicycle within seconds.
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BarScarlett Slimms & Lucky
476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland
Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.
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BarCassette Nine
Vulcan Lane, Auckland
Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.
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RestaurantMiss Clawdy
12 Jellicoe Street, Auckland
There is a sassy new lady in town ready to serve you some good ol' fashioned soul food. Introducing Miss Clawdy, the newest feather in Wynyard Quarter's culinary cap.
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NewsYawn-Activated Machine Gives Away Free Coffee
Too tired to even ask for your caffeine fix? All you've got to do is yawn.
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NewsWorld’s First Laptop That Doubles as an Air Purifier
Breathe cleaner air with the Fujitsu Lifebook AH78.
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News3D Artists Create Works of Unprecedented Realism
Deeper into the blurred lines separating art from photography.
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NewsMirror City Timelapse Video Creates a Kaleidoscopic Effect
Five major US cities appear in a dynamic new light.
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NewsOnline Video Shows Identity Theft As Frighteningly Easy
Cyberspace might be even less safe than we thought.
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EventChristmas Lights at MOTAT 2024
Tue, 10 Dec - Mon, 23 Dec 2024
MOTAT, Western Springs
MOTAT is bringing nights of festive fun and dazzling lights back for another year.
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EventFat Daddy's Bottomless
Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
The Elephant Wrestler, Takapuna
How many burgers and beers can you down in 90 minutes? Find out at The Elephant Wrestler.
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EventCasa Bacardi in Auckland Viaduct
Thu, 5 Dec, 2024
Viaduct Harbour, Auckland
Casa Bacardi has popped up on Auckland's Viaduct, but a warning to rum-lovers: its here for a good time, not a long time.
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EventBritomart Saturday Farmer's Market
Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
Takutai Square, Britomart., Auckland
This weekly inner-city farmer's market sells everything from fresh produce and flowers to coffee, vegan foods, pastries, sweet buns, crepes, juices and savoury snacks.
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EventPasta and Peroni Nights at The Grounds
Sun, 8 Dec, 2024
The Grounds at Whoa! Studios, Auckland
See out the last sunny evenings of autumn with fresh pasta handmade by an ex-Baduzzi chef and ice-cold beers on tap.
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EventYoga in the Sky
Multiple single dates
SkyCity Auckland, Auckland
Take your yoga practice to a whole new level — level 51, that is.
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EventSmales Farmers Market
Mon, 9 Dec, 2024
Smales Farm, North Shore
Auckland's newest farmers market arrives across the harbour.
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NewsClap-Off Bra Undoes With a Round Of Applause
Could this be the ultimate in rock and roll lingerie?
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NewsTactile Watch Enables Time Telling in the Dark
The team behind "The Bradley" timepiece hopes to bring assistance to the vision impaired.
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NewsThrowable Panoramic Camera Ball Records Video Mid-Flight
360 degrees' worth of new perspectives in the video world.
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NewsWorld’s First Shark Deterrent Wetsuit Developed in Australia
Who's volunteering to test it out?
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NewsWorld’s First Human Powered Helicopter Takes Flight
500 years after its conception, Leonardo da Vinci's invention has become a reality.
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NewsElectric One-Seater Built for Urban Delivery
Is your package too big for a bicycle, but too small for a truck?
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NewsNew Hybrid Backpack Transforms into a One-Person Tent
Making life easier for both keen hikers and the homeless.
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NewsIntroducing e-David: The Latest in Robotic Artists
What would Michelangelo have to say about this?
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NewsBehold, an Electric Scooter Made from Plants
Who knew compressed plants could be such a great way to get around?
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News‘Power Pocket’ Charges Mobiles With Body Heat
Vodafone's latest technology aims to keep Festival-goers powered up.
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NewsIBM Billboards Double as Street Furniture
Billboards create 'Smarter Cities' by functioning as benches, rain shelters and ramps.
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NewsMiniature Human Livers Grown from Stem Cells
Science is one step closer to coping with organ shortages.
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NewsUnusual Objects found in the International Space Station
How do astronauts amuse themselves in outer space?
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NewsUS Transport Security Administration Displays Confiscated Goods on Instagram
A stun gun pretending to be a pack of cigarettes, a knife disguised as a credit card and a selection of hand grenades are just some of the items recently confiscated by the TSA.
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NewsJewellery So Green It Grows
Mr Lentz creates growing jewellery from sustainably-sourced wood, grass and moss.
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NewsTravel Through Time in Paris with a New App
Uncover the layers of history that have given the French capital its romantic reputation.
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NewsWaiheke Island Yacht Club in San Francisco
Anyone who thinks that the America’s Cup and Louis Vuitton Challenger Series is just yacht racing should think again.
