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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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NewsFlying Drones Replace Waiters at a London Sushi Restaurant
The sushi plane replaces the sushi train.
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NewsThe Eight Best Glamping Experiences Near Auckland
Sometimes you just need a hot bath beneath a star-drenched sky.
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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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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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RestaurantOdette's Eatery
Shed 5, City Works Depot, 90 Wellesley Street
Between the lively chat, the excellent dishes and plotting how to run away with all the tableware, we had a wonderful time.
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BarEverybody’s
7 Fort Lane, Auckland
This pun will write itself. Everybody's has something for everybody. But mostly, it's got a jaw-dropping array of modern European fusion and cocktails made to measure.
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RestaurantThe Botanist
90 Wellesley Street, Auckland
City Works Depot's cafe/bar/plant nursery fusion cafe.
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RestaurantBurger Burger
136-138 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
It seems the world of the burger has seen the line between professional eatery and burger takeaway joint become blurred.
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RestaurantHallertau
1171 Coatesville Riverhead Highway, Riverhead
A country restaurant in the best sense of the word.
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RestaurantMexico Ponsonby
164 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
If you put ‘Mexico’ into Google maps you might be told that you’re approximately 11,000km away. The great news is Google maps are wrong.
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RestaurantMasu
90 Federal Street, Auckland
Contemporary Japanese restaurant Masu proves a culinary force to be reckoned with.
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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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EventA Quiet Place: Day One
Thursday, June 27 - Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland
The always-excellent Lupita Nyong'o and 'Pig' writer/director Michael Sarnoski take this hit horror franchise back to the alien invasion's beginning in a thoughtful Big Apple-set spinoff.
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EventInside Out 2
Thursday, June 27 - Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland
Amy Poehler still brings joy in this nine-years-later sequel to one of Pixar's best films, which proves as emotionally intelligent as its predecessor.
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EventThe Taste of Things
Thursday, June 27 - Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland
This Oscar-shortlisted, Cannes Best Director-winning French delight simmers up a 19th-century romance between a cook and a gourmand.
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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.
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