Mario Kart just might be the funnest video game in the entire world. Only the soulless can’t find enjoyment in go kart racing with super fast Mushroom speed, red shells and Nintendo characters. So you can imagine the even more ridiculous levels of fun you can have if you turned Mario Kart into a real life race against your friends. That’s basically what this is.
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The Australian ABC News service has posted this video captured by a sea eagle. The bird stole a wildlife camera in a crocodile meat trap in the Margaret River, Western Australia, taking it on a 68-mile trip. The camera was found by aboriginal rangers weeks later, at a different river.
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Sony has been rather successful in selling the PlayStation 4, to the point where the PlayStation Network has strained under the load. To avoid making things worse, the company will be delaying some PSN features in Australia, Europe and New Zealand. For the first few days after the PS4 launch in these areas, friend activity will be disabled in both the What’s New and content info sections. Activity will come back once the initial frenzy is over, Sony says. The decision won’t make a big impact on gameplay when multiplayer and other core features will be available on day one, but it may catch a few players off-guard.
Source: PlayStation Blog Europe
No cowboy hat. No chaps. Not even a six gun. The latest helper to round up livestock is a robot. What has the world come to? Earlier this month in Sydney, Australia, a team from the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics tested the four-wheeled remote-controlled robot called Rover.
“The cows readily accepted the robotic herder and were easily controlled by it,” Dan Kara, a research officer for analyst firm ARISPlex, wrote in a report. “Groups of 20 to 150 cows were calmly and efficiently herded.” That’s because cows are stupid. They don’t fear robots they way they should. This robot is working so well that future Rovers will be used to gather data at night to monitor pregnant cows, as well as to detect holes in fences and problems in the soil.
The robot is $1 million right now but it is still basically a prototype. There’s another job taken by robots. Sorry cowboys.
Next they will be herding humans. It won’t be long now.
The advent of email more or less spelled the end of traditional snail mail (and postmen who hate being chased down by dogs would be happy with that news, although it would also mean a threat to their jobs), but for postal services and couriers, sending packages from one place to another would still form a huge part of their revenue. When it comes to the holiday season such as Christmas, it would also translate to big business as parcels are being sent in the mail, with Australia Post offering gift-givers the ability to attach a video message to their parcels for that added touch.
Whenever you pack a gift for friends and family, as the sender, you can stick the Video Stamp that comes in the form of a QR code. When attached to the parcel, the recipient who scans the QR code with a special smartphone app will then be able to check out your pre-recorded personalized video message of up to 15 seconds in length. The video message will be there available for up to 90 days after the time of recording, and should the recipient not be that future forward, they can always log into a web page to check it out. This particular video message can also be shared via Facebook, Twitter and Google+, or even to send it out in an email.
Australia Post Stamps Feature A Video Message original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Katy Perry’s new album Prism is very bad. We’re not just talking about the music, though. ("Roar" is rather catchy!) It’s bad for the environment. At least, that’s what officials say in Australia where the record’s been deemed a "biosecurity concern."
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For the past few millennia, the dewy rainforests of Australia’s Cape Melville have remained totally isolated from human interference. That is, until a team of scientists from James Cook University took humanity’s first steps into a land untouched by time. What they found there was almost beyond belief.
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Every parent’s favorite line about how money doesn’t grow on trees just became a little more irrelevant, thanks to a fascinating find down under. Researchers in Australia recently found gold—yes, real gold—in eucalyptus trees growing in the outback.
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Do you ever joke around with your coworkers about how cool it would be to build desks out of old cars or have meetings on a houseboat? Maybe not, but if you work at Google, you might want to start—because they might actually make your weird office dreams
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Australia has wholeheartedly embraced solar power over the last few years, with usage exploding 10-fold between 2009 and 2011 and the price per watt falling to less than half that of grid power. Now, the southern Australian city of Adelaide is taking the unprecedented step of powering its public transit system solely through solar as well.
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