Kuepper was awarded two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, the country's top science award, for iJET. Unfortunately, it seems like the only page that would explain how iJET works is down right now, but Kuepper said it would probably take five years to commercialize the technology and it'll help people in less developed nations to “read at night, keep informed about the world through radio and television and refrigerate life-saving vaccines” without all those nasty CO2 emissions. [The Australian via Treehugger]

The team says its new cathode, made of a conductive plastic called PEDOT, could be manufactured for just several hundred dollars. Even better, PEDOT is much more stable than platinum and doesn't have platinum's pesky clumping problems or aversion to carbon monoxide.

The researchers are now planning on building fuel cells with the cathode in 3D, to maximize the surface area available to generate a current. With this new breakthrough and the solar-charged process engineered by MIT scientists a few days ago, it's been kind of an awesome week for fuel cell science. [ABC via Treehugger]

The Shadow Caddy can function in all weather conditions and moves at a speedy enough clip to keep up with a fast walk. Right now, it's only available as a rental model rather than a full retail product. Trials are being conducted at four golf courses in Melbourne, Australia.

Not only is the cart cheaper than renting a real person to carry your clubs for you, it'll never make snide remarks under its breath about how any idiot would've known to use a nine iron for that shot. [Gizmag]

The deceased will be buried in biodegradable coffins between gum trees in a protected koala sanctuary...Relatives and friends will require a satellite navigation device to find graves of loved ones.

The graves, located at Lismore Memorial Park Cemetery in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia, will be unmarked but recorded in coordinates, and spaced at 5 meters to ensure you're kneeling at the decomposing remains of the right person. In case you think it's a ploy by Garmin and Magellan to sell more handheld GPS products, mourners will be able to borrow one (possibly for free) for the visit.

This so-called "eco-burial" practice is not without merit. I've always complained that cemeteries and golf courses were great wastes of space—using this concept, you can combine the two. (Just look out for the mourners on the 9th green.) It's not just the land use, either. Cremation emits foul greenhouse gases; embalming fluid and coffin varnishes and glues can harm the groundwater; said coffins deplete non-sustainable forestry; and granite headstones require CO2-emission-heavy shipments from China (at least for Australians). It's a nasty business all around, in need of some green thinking.

I do anticipate a few issues, though, and anyone who's ever tried geocaching can back me up: It's not super easy, and requires a lot of meandering. Spry youthful survivors of the deceased may have an easy time of it, but 85-year-old widows will certainly not, even if they do know how to read and follow the display on a Magellan Triton or Garmin eTrex.

Jack, our new weekend writer, raises another possibly legitimate concern: "After a heavy rain, I might wake up next to someone's dead uncle." [SMH]

The subtitles should have read "blood on his hands today," and "hats," rather than heads. And that wasn't all. "Did you vote?" became "Dead in a boat." (Editor's note: I thought it was a car, akshuley), and Buckingham Palace was transformed into "Burking in Paris"—alas, there are times when only a rogue F will do.

Today in Ryde there was the delicious sound of the buck being passed. The firm behind the screening, Outdoor Movies Australia, claimed responsibility for screen, projection and sound only. Please, you talk to Ryde Council, it hedged. When questioned about the provenance of the DVD, a bloke from the council's City Promotions dept said that the original DVD provided by the distributor had "captioning problems." So, he continued, they had to source another DVD "to ensure that the target group was not disappointed."

I think we can safely say, bloke from the City Promotions dept, that they weren't. Come on, mate, spill the beans about where you got the disc from. Someone you met down the pub? A mate of a mate? The guy you see at the subway station who always has the latest DVDs for a couple of bucks, on which the extra features consist of rows of silhouetted heads, the crunch of popcorn, the cough of the sick and the slurp of fizzy drinks?

No. Comment, continued the council. The only thing that City Promotions Bloke would admit to was that "the copy shown did have some spelling mistakes and interpretations of the script which affected the experience for the deaf community present," he said. Affected the experience? Turned a movie from a drama into a comedy in a one-kneed emu. Sorry, I meant to write one easy move. [The Sydney Morning Herald]

They pore over the 300 photos and videos in the memory card—which probably wasn't exactly legal—landing upon a shot of a bunch of people drunk in a bar, wearing nametags. Though the names themselves seemed to lead nowhere, a couple clicks up and to the right, a little zoom and voila! Our heroes could see the bar's name, written on an awning.

Popping over there, they shook down the bartender for information. The barman remembered a party and a particular "big tipper" who, fortunately for the couple, worked at another bar. They met up with her, and it turned out that her sister was amigos with the Australian who lost the camera. (What kind of amigo, I guess we'll never know.) After a few e-mails, the camera is making its way back to the bloke in Australia, who is happy to "know there are some honest people left in the world." [SMH]

Sure, it's a cute story, but the question is this:

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The ad was created by advertising agency DDB in Sydney, all after the State Traffic Commander, Chief Superintendent John Hartley said:

"The NSW police would look at the New York senator's proposal and the impact it may have in twelve months' time," as reported in an article entitled "Alert Sounded on iPod Use" by Asher Moses on February 7, 2007 in The Sydney Morning Herald. Superintendent Hartley went on in that same article to say; "You can't legislate stupidity - if people are stupid enough to do something that's so distracting they can't see cars coming, that's a problem they need to deal with."

Sounds reasonable enough, but apparently the problem started to get really serious (yes, a lot of stupid people in the world, it seems) and the authorities decided to warn all those crazy crazy personal media player junkies. To probably be ignored shortly thereafter. [iPhone Savior]

Tim O'Keefe, Australia's Digital Suppliers Industry Forum coordinator, believes that due to the country's/continent's small purchasing power, the energy requirements imposed will not be met by TV manufacturers. Well, here's to hoping that the manufacturers hear the energy-conscious cry of Australia, and produce some more energy-efficient TVs.[ABC via The Raw Feed]

Not only did our hormone raging hacker get round the filter, he managed to preserve the status bar, indicating a functional security system. Not only is it possible for him to look at porn, he is able to deceive his parents into thinking he only ever uses the Internet to check New Scientist—the sneaky devil!

The Australian government, understandably embarrassed by the situation, attempted a remedy. A new filter called Intergrad was uploaded to central servers for domestic distribution. A whopping 40 minutes later, Tom rescued puberty-infested individuals across Australia once again.

Senator Coonan, a government official did the best she could to salvage the sorry situation with, "Unfortunately, no single measure can protect children from online harm and ... traditional parenting skills have never been more important." Basically what I interpret that to mean is; "Tom is really getting on our tits; if you don't want your kids looking at porn don't have them in the first place."

The flawed Internet filter is available as a free download here. As for Tom, he is no doubt quickly being escalated to national treasure status. Add him as a friend to your Facebook account, tell him he rocks and ladies, get him laid; if his cyber security cracking skills do not impress you, what ever will? [Herald Sun].

Since this went down in Sydney, Australia, you can rule out lousy AT&T reception on an iPhone as the cause, ditto for being "fired" by Sprint. Still, we certainly how how this poor bastard feels. Whatever particular moment of customer-service frustration triggered it, the damage was pretty massive, according to cops:

"He continued to destroy mobile tower communications sheds by crashing through the perimeter fence and colliding with structures, causing significant damage."

It's just like those people on match.com that put up a photo of themselves taken five years ago when they were skinny. Sure, Leslie had a nice personality, but we would have liked to not been lied to before spending 2 years of our lives with her. It was indicative of the entire relationship. – Jason Chen

Flickr [via Xbox 360 Fanboy]

Apple fanboy or not, the center has some cool architecture. And ironically, the minimal Apple shop is more imposing, monolithic structure despite its shorter stature.

More pictures...

– Mark Wilson

Wonka-style Flagship [appleinsider]

Click on for more pics of the house you'll never live in. – Louis Ramirez

Rotating House [via GizMag]

WTF? Do they mean burn, shred, fold, spindle and mutilate it? Were doubting there's one single person in that country who follows this goofy law. And you thought the U.S. system was bad.

Australians Can Legally Watch Tapes Only Once [The Consumerist]

Oops. Looks like Australia and New Zealand are going to have to wait a little longer for their Xbox 360s. The launch date in those countries has officially been delayed and is now March 23 of this year. Microsoft is claiming that this is due to their problems with manufacturing, but could it be that maybe Bill is screwing them to get us more boxes here in the US? Could be, I fear. I know what you're thinking though: Damn right.

Australian Xbox 360 Launch Delayed [ausgamers]

Well, if you can't get a Frank Lloyd Wright, Gaudi or Ieoh Ming Pei, you may as well get that local Aussi architect to build you a highrise that looks like a telephone. And plunk it in the middle of Melbourne too. Why not? Obviously, Milliionaire "Crazy" John Ilhan, an Australian communications magnate has no problem with this plan and has unveiled a design for a $40 million tower in, yes, the shape of a cellphone. Comparing his building to the Sydney Opera House, Ilhan says, "I just want Melbourne to stand out — that's the idea behind it." Yup, we got it Mr. Crazy. As of now, there is permission granted to build a standard-shaped tower on City Road, Southbank, but no word on whether the city will allow a 120m phone to hulk over the city. Finalised plans for the tower will be submitted for approval late next year. Can't wait to see how that goes.

Imposing: An artist's image of the $40 million tower in the shape of a phone">Crazy idea! The high-rise mobile
[Herald Sun]