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Dress Up your Laptop and iPad in Vintage Clothing

Computerwear allows gadget lovers to protect their laptop and iPad with repurposed vintage clothing.

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Makoto Tojiki Brings the Intangible World of Holograms into Reality

Utilising thousands of LED lights and optical fibres, the Japanese artist creates futuristic celestial-like sculptures.

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Mercedes-Benz to Integrate Apple’s Siri Technology in Vehicles

Mercedes-Benz drivers will soon be able to send text messages, listen to music, change radio channels and update their status on social networks.

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Match The Perfect Alcoholic Beverage To Your Music

Drinkify makes sure you'll never drink alone again.

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Kony 2012 Campaign Goes Viral

Kony 2012 is a viral campaign spearheaded by the humanitarian group Invisible Children to raise awareness about atrocities in Uganda.

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Internet Addiction May Classed as a Mental Illness

If internet addiction is indeed classified as a mental illness, it will be interesting to see how this affects the community at large.

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The Internet War Against Piracy Continues

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Apple to Unveil iPad 3 on March 7

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What Music Looks Like as an Object

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Print Your Own Instagram Poster

Instagram-obsessed iPhoneographers can now turn their collection of photographs into wall-sized prints, thanks to a clever new website.

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Rich Neeley’s Book Chargers

In a delightfully clever combination of old and new, Rich Neeley has been taking actual vintage books and giving them new lives as iPhone chargers.

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Cufflinks That Double as USB Drives, Wi-Fi Spots

In what may be the ultimate fusion of practicality and style, Brookstone are now selling cufflinks that offer both Wi-Fi and data storage.

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3D Printer Makes Cupcake in 60 Seconds

Most of us associate printers with ink and paper, but a new 3D printer has more to do with chocolate cupcakes and other delicious desserts.

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Online Community Rallies Against the SOPA & PIPA Proposals

Here are some of our favourite online reactions to the world's most controversial bills.

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Infrared Trolleys to Hit Australian Supermarkets

Handling one of these four-wheelers means that choosing your cereal won't be a chore, it will soon become a hobby.

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The Blackbox Mobile SMS Message Printer

A nifty little mobile printer that produces your text message conversations on paper.

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Joey Andolina’s Mobile Vest Boombox

Arriving just in time for summer, this vest boombox allows you to show off your fashion prowess while blasting European hardstyle.

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Create Your Own Personalised Soft Drink

Online users change the percentages of whatever ingredients they choose to go into the drink, and can further determine the drink's colour, name and label.

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Bernardo Bajana’s Offensive Police Shield

Bad news for Occupy protesters: Bernado Bajana has created a new riot shield which does much more than just shield officers.

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Fireworks by Day

A Chinese artist takes modern art to the sky with his daytime fireworks exhibition.

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Blogger fined $2.5 Million for not Being a Journalist

An Oregon woman has been fined $2.5 million for defamatory comments made on her blog.

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Behringer Unleashes a 350kg Speaker

If you're looking to host a NYE party, you might want to enlist the help of the iNuke Boom.

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A Beer Cooler that Doubles as a ‘Photoblocker’

A product that will soon solve the first-world problems faced by many party animals.

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Vending Machine for Welcome Home Signs

Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport Bannerxpress allows people to print welcome home signs from a vending machine at the airport.

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Air Guitar T-Shirts You Can Actually Play

Old Navy have collaborated with ThinkGeek to create a shirt that not only features an image of a guitar, but also sounds like one.

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The World’s First Functional Painting Typewriter

To the delight of fetishists of redundant technology, an American artist has created a typewriter that paints.

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Facebook Updates Expanded to Over 60,000 Characters

Whilst Twitter likes to keep things short and sweet, Facebook has rocketed in the other direction.

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Aaron Hobson’s Google Street View Photography

A photographer takes breathtaking landscape photographs of remote locations scattered across the globe, all without leaving the comfort of his own computer screen.

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The Little Printer

Little Printer partners with Arup, foursquare, Google, the Guardian and Nike to produce itty bitty newspapers to slip into your back pocket and read on the go.

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British Department Store Launches Virtual Pop-Up Stores

A great example of social media and technology changing the way in which companies are communicating with consumers.

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The Spirit of Youth Awards Set to Grow in 2011/2012

With the competition's expansion into unprecedented categories, there are now more opportunities for Australia's finest creative minds to showcase their work to the world.

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Facebook Shows Us It’s a Small World After All

As our online friend counts grow, a Facebook study shows us the old assumption of 6 degrees of separation is outdated.

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Steve Jobs’ Emails Made into Book

Following the tragic death of Apple innovator Steve Jobs, a digital book containing his 'best' e-mails has been released.

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