Pirates versus Plumbers
Internet officially makes life harder for primary school parents
The Internet is pretty much accepted as being very, very useful. Downtime clearly agrees. But while dropping kids off at school one Downtimer was horrified to see the clever tricks that parents are using to make their kids popular. Apparently if you sign into the school portal you can see who your...
Holy tweet, Pope!
Down the Hobbit hole
Downtime shall reserve full judgement on Peter Jackson's speeded up (48 frames per second!) film version of our ill-remembered tale of Bilbo Baggins and his escapades until it has been properly viewed in the picture house.
A neat trick to have conjured three films out of one rather...
Google driverless cars strategy faces competition from Kiwi dogs
Google's investments in driverless cars could be a waste of money as dogs show their potential in the space.
Dogs in New Zealand have been trained to drive cars. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Auckland decided to teach the dogs to drive to demonstrate the...
Google saves the rhino
Teasing a frog with a smartphone
Inspect-a-Gadget investigated what objects you could use to operate your smartphone back in February, and deduced that in addition to a finger,...