• News

    The Future of Bike Innovation

    Forget your fixie, these innovative bikes are the real deal.

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    Ikea App Uses Facebook to Personalise Your Bedroom

    Ikea attempt to sell you their durable and inexpensive Swedish wares by aligning them precisely with your personality, lifestyle and tastes.

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    U-Boat Worx Offers Submarine Charters for Tourists

    These 'personal submarines for yacht and tourism' are for those people who are desirous of exploring the depths of the ocean but who suffer the misfortune of not being Richard Branson.

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    A Portable Hanging Herb Garden for Inner-City Dwellers

    The dream of any inner-city or spatially-challenged dweller with a green thumb, finely tuned tastebuds and no backyard.

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    Adidas Unveils Super Intelligent Football Boot

    Sporting giant Adidas has outdone itself with the adiZero f50 miCoach, a new soccer boot that boasts state-of-the-art technology.

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    Hipstamatic’s Digital Disposable Camera for your iPhone

    In a bid to regain their popularity and get one up on Instagram, Hipstamatic is offering a new dimension to their faux-analogue photography experience.

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    Google Ventures Into the Physical Realm

    Once upon a time, Google was content to rule cyber space. But like most super powers in history, the superpower is getting restless.

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    Steve Jobs: The Movie

    They say sex sells, but according to Sony Pictures, death is where the real money’s at.

  • News

    Occupy Wall Street Protests Start to Spread Around the World

    How the American Dream has turned into a nightmare for a large proportion of U.S. citizens.

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    iPhone 4S Fails to Impress

    The new iPhone's updates are on the inside only.

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    Untappd App Combines Social Networking and Beer

    The perfect excuse to drink more beer and check your iPhone.

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    Message in a Bottle: The Unusual Social Network

    Harold Hackett has been sending messages all over the world, but unlike most of us he hasn’t been using a phone or a computer.

Latest Places
  • Cafe

    This That

    57 Lorne St , Auckland City

    A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.

  • Bar

    Scarlett Slimms & Lucky

    476 Mt Eden Rd, Auckland

    Scarlett Slimms and Lucky is a haunt for the modern day Raymond Chandler.

  • Bar

    Cassette Nine

    Vulcan Lane, Auckland

    Any place that can pull off jeans as wallpaper has two thumbs up in my book.

  • Restaurant

    Miss 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.

  • News

    A First Look at Amazon’s New Kindle Fire

    With the release of Amazon's Kindle Fire, there may just be another serious player in the growing tablet market.

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    IPhone Bike Speaker Lets You Listen While You Ride

    Play sweet music and use your iPhone as a GPS while riding through the town on your bike.

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    Slavery Footprint: Calculating How Many Forced Labourers Work For You

    Cue the bright-eyed, pigtailed offspring of ethical consumerism and social media, Slavery Footprint.

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    Micro-Hotel Sleepbox Makes Being In Transit Appealing

    The pod with bed and drop-down desk may mean the days of sleeping in airport food courts are well behind us.

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    First-Ever Space Hotel Set to Open in 2016

    Space tourism set to become a reality in the next few years.

  • News

    Urban Farming Continues to Grow Around the World

    Urban farms offer city dwellers a chance to green up their cities and get their hands dirty in the process.

Latest Events
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    Paypal Founder’s Futuristic Floating Island City

    The Silicon Valley billionaire is making plans for the project to be launched off the coast of San Francisco next year.

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    Apple Unveils Eco-Friendly Campus HQ Plans

    Apple's new eco-friendly HQ plans are larger-than-life.

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    Japan’s Intelligent Vending Machines Know Your Type

    Thinking machines are already among us, watching us, and telling us what to drink.

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    Aleksander Krasinki’s Futuristic Floating Island City

    Architect Aleksander Krasinski has developed and designed a futuristic island concept.

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    Modular Bike Tracks Take Cycling into the Future

    This design by Ines Le Bihan is proving a viable alternative to our current bike paths.

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    Interview /// Voyurl Looks Closer at the Murky World of Web Analytics

    Voyurl breaks down your browsing behaviour in attractive graphs.

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    Facebook Launches a Free SMS App

    Deactivating your Facebook account might become harder with the launch of Facebook Messenger, a free standalone SMS app.

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    Apple Has More Money in the Bank than the US Government

    Recent figures show that Steve Jobs is richer than the US Government.

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    Tequila Could Fuel Cars as Well as Parties

    Don't drink and drive. Pour it in the tank instead.

  • News

    Three Ideas Shaping the Future of Music

    Technology is changing the way music is made and consumed.

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    The Most Unforgettable Space Shuttle Pictures

    National Geographic has compiled a photographic retrospective of the shuttle's colourful history.

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    Up Bracelet Records Your Everything

    Jawbone's new piece of wearable tech will keep tabs on your health.

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    60 Internet Seconds Around the World

    How much do you get done in a minute?

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    Weird And Wonderful Phone Chargers

    Need to keep your phone charged at a festival?

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    Google Insights Helps Predict The Economy

    What does the average person do when confronted by something new in their life? Google it, of course.

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    Iceland’s Crowdsourced Constitution. Like.

    Iceland use social media to get the people's input for their new constitution.

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    Students Create Futuristic Two-Wheeled Vehicle

    Adelaide University students have created an inventive two wheeled contraption that could solve inner city transport issues.

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    Luna Ring Could Power the World

    Solar power from the moon could power the world.

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    Kaiser Chiefs Want You to Make Their Album

    Design and sell the new Kaiser Chief's album and earn a quid.

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    Going Gaga for Google Chrome

    The internet goes Gaga for Google Chrome.

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    Control Mood Lighting and More with WiFi Connected Lightbulbs

    Control mood lighting, your electricity bill and much more with these WiFi connected light bulbs.

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    Discover the Beautiful World of Fonts with New Typography Application

    Eye. Aperture. Descender. Spine. A weird collection of words, but for a typographer, a publication nerd like me or the owner of this new app they make perfect sense together.

  • News

    Highly Efficient Aero-Train Prototype that Actually Flies

    A new prototype that would eliminate the problem of friction between a train and its tracks by flying extremely close to the ground.

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    Open Source Classrooms Provide Ivy League Education for Free

    Fancy a free Ivy League education? Open Culture will teach you everything you need to know.

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