Tag Archives : Australia

No matter what anyone says the satisfaction we get from listening to our surround-sound stereo system in the comfort of our homes can never match up to the music our earphones produce from our iPods. Thing is, that’s about to change with the development of the Trembo Trunks by two Aussie designers. The device amplifies the sounds from regular [...]

A prototype car powered with the help of the wind force has completed, on Wednesday, a trip of almost 4000 km between the cities of Sydney and Perth, Australia, at a cost of $ 15. Called the Wind Explorer, the vehicle uses a ‘kite’, and lithium batteries, which can be recharged overnight from a wind turbine that is flown in the car for [...]

Designed and built in carbon fiber by students from the University of New South Wales, in Australia, the Ivy Sunswift reached the mark of 88km/h consumes 1200 watts. Thus, on January 7 in the presence of an auditor of the Book of Records, it surpassed the previous mark of 79km/h achieved with 1500 Watts by General Motors in 1988. This means that about [...]

Completing the digital family of music instruments, Kitara, has now announced the launch of an all new digital guitar, that has been designed to provide aspiring and established musicians a whole new world of possibilities in digital music creation. As against conventional guitar, that have their own set of limitations, the all new Misa Digital Guitar [...]

One of the most pivotal personalities in the lap of Google Inc., Lars Rasmussen has now left the comforts of perhaps the most beloved employer in the world and has finally decided to move on to the most active and popular social networking service on the web, Facebook Inc. Mr. Rasmussen, who is best known as the co-founder of Google Maps, had been working [...]

Ideally your home should reflect your interests and passion. It is not always possible for the architects to do it in the limited space and budgets they have to express themselves. But it was not a constraint for the new home designed for diver Matt Mitcham of Australia. Matt had won gold medals at the Beijing Olympics 2008 in the Diving events. The [...]

Researchers Ken Aplin, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, and Kris Helgen, the Smithsonian Institution, U.S., found at an archaeological site in East Timor bones of a mouse that would have weighed 6 pounds, which would be largest animal of this species that we know today. Analysis done by the scientists indicated [...]

Pre-candidate to host the World Cup in 2022, Japan proposed the display matches the World in 3D on 400 stadiums around the world. According to the Japanese project, called “Universal Fan Festival” would be invested six billion dollars to enable 360 million viewers in 208 countries-members of FIFA to monitor the games via video screens installed [...]

An Australian scientist who invented the recording equipment flight data known as “black box” has died at age 85, defense officials said on Wednesday. David Warren, whose father was killed in a plane crash in 1934 in Australia, was a scientist of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne. He had the idea of machine capable of [...]

iPhone is the buzzword these days. But unfortunately the iPhone4 had not been available in many countries till now. Apple had set a tentative time period of end of July as the time when the Apple iPhone 4 would be introduced in several counties. Now the company has come out with exact dates. The D-Day for countries like Canada, many of the European [...]