Toys & Tech

Two OUTinPerth journalists sat down one day to explore the world (from the comfort of OiP’s headquarters). And while Scott-Patrick Mitchell went gaa-gaa for Google Earth, Megan Smith found it Google-too-down-to-Earth. What do you think? Read on and then have your say in our forum at the end of the page!

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No sooner do you blink now days and Audi have another new model appearing in their showrooms. Whether it be a sexy V8 S5 coupe, the volume selling A4 range, a frugal diesel in the A3 range or just a car to enjoy driving with the top down like the soon to be released A3 cabrio – Audi are sure to have something for everybody. (more…)

Celebrity gossip left you feeling vapid and shallow? Well, open your web browser this month as OUTinPerth sets its sites to enrich your mind and your cocktail chatter without putting you to sleep. Here we look at news and current event sites more colourful than that drab black and white newsprint.

TED.com (www.ted.com) – Hi, it’s me TED. A wildly elitist, but nevertheless informative and inspiring website that goes beyond headlines to the people and ideas that make them. Started in 1984 as a conference (which today is invite-only and $6000 to attend) for great thinkers and powerful people, I rode the whole tech revolution wave and turned the conference into a site of speeches and other interesting tidbits from powerful people, like the Google duo and Al Gore, as web videos based in three categories – Technology, Entertainment and Design (for those of you who aren’t good with letters that’s TED). (more…)

Saying the iPhone ‘is just a mobile phone’ is like saying ‘Wham were just a band’, and just like George and Andrew, Apple’s newest hardware release is making fingerless gloves cool again thanks to it’s touch screen features and cooler than green fluro styling. It makes me want to Jitterbug like it’s 1984 again, and I think that’s a good thing. (more…)

This month OUTinPerth sets its sites – websites, that is – on the best of celebrity gossip between the www and the dot.com.

Ah, what a tangled worldwideweb we weave. And how much more tangled it becomes when the Internet meets something (or should we say someone?) equally fabulous. Internet meet celebrity. Celebrity meet Internet. And may the gossip that ensues reveal fame in all its debaucherous glory and provide a monumentally perfect timewaster for the public. (more…)

Peugeot has now commenced the ‘8’ generation of cars with the launch of the new Peugeot 308 five door hatch. A touring (station wagon) and coupe/cabriolet versions are just around the corner, with shipments due in Oz over the next couple of months.

I say the ‘new’ Peugeot 308 but in fact many of the components of the car are tried and tested - floor pan, engines, transmissions, so perhaps the 308 is more of an ‘evolution’ from the 307. (more…)

THE CASE FOR FACEBOOK

MySpace and Facebook share many of the same working parts – user profiles, events, groups, photo uploads, public comment spaces, instant messenging systems, classifieds… and the list goes on. Yet once the two sites get all dressed up, the difference is clear. Facebook is runway ready, while MySpace is, well, a fashion disaster. In fact, I’ve heard it said that MySpace is really just Facebook for bogans (okay, so maybe it was me that I heard saying it, but the point remains). (more…)

The first time most of us remember seeing a smart fortwo, was when Patsy and Eddy from Ab Fab tore around the streets of London in one. More recently there was the Da Vinci code, which further highlighted the versatility of the car around the urban environment. The next generation of that car has now hit our shores, and OUTinPerth’s Andrew Koch did more than take it for a spin around the city. (more…)

Earlier this year, Apple’s Steve Jobs had the audience of the MacWorld Expo gasping with astonishment over the announcement and subsequent unveiling of the MacBook Air. Steve pulled the ultra light notebook from a yellow document envelope, proudly exclaiming that his engineers had created the world’s thinnest ultra portable notebook making the crowd giddy with excitement. Steve then explained that the high end MacBook Air would utilise a solid state hard drive giving faster disc access than a regular notebook hard drive and everyone cheered again – veryone except other notebook manufacturers who realised that they had some catching up to do. (more…)

The compact SUV segment is booming, with sales up 19.4 per cent from last year. It’s a lucrative market, and Subaru wants a bigger slice of it for their Forester – the vehicle that pioneered the segment as a crossover 10 years ago.

Over the years Subaru has promoted itself heavy to the lesbian and gay audience, predominately in the US. When given the opportunity to rate their favorite car, Subaru is often in the top ten, especially when it comes to the driving tastes of lesbians, and generally, the Outback and Forester are the models most commonly mentioned. I did my own research, chatting to a number of girls about why lesbians love a Subaru Forester. (more…)