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Planking Is Passé, Owling Is The Hottest Online Craze!
Looks like the wacky online craze for planking has ended; owling is the newest trend spreading across workplaces globally.
Owling, thought to be of Australian origin, consists of nothing more onerous than squatting on one’s haunches & gazing into the middle distance, mimicking the nocturnal birds.
People then click photos of themselves & post them on social networking sites.
Hundreds of youngsters in Australia, America and more recently Britain, are hooked onto the latest ‘owling’ craze.
This bizarre trend is a development of the ‘planking’ craze where people would take snapshots of themselves lying face down in odd locations.
However, in recent times ‘planking’ has gotten increasingly mainstream – and hence less popular for trend-conscious Internet users.
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Opena iPhone Case Bottle Opener
These days, there’s plenty you can do with an iPhone – surf the net, text, take pictures and even make phone calls.
And now, thanks to two enterprising Australians, you’ll be able to use your smartphone to open a beer bottle with the help of the Opena – a tough plastic case that fits over an iPhone & comes with a slide-out bottle opener.
The Opena was developed by Chris Peters, a Melbourne-based industrial designer and Rob Ward, an ex-toolmaker.
According to them, Australians basically are rather heavy drinkers. When hanging out at friends’ houses, people may not always carry their keys with them but they certainly have their phones on them.
So the two Australian entrepreneurs thought of the idea of attaching a bottle opener to an iPhone case.
Working from 3 basic rules, the iPhone case needed to be slim, the opener shouldn’t scratch the iPhone, and it had to work without exerting any pressure on the iphone, the duo developed a prototype.
The case & the iPhone emerged unscathed in testing.
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The Hoverbike – World’s First Flying Motorbike
A former Australian helicopter pilot has built the world’s first-ever flying motorbike in his garage & he claims it’s able to reach a height of 10,000 feet & speeds of over 100 miles per hour.
The 32-year-old Christopher Malloy invested all his life-savings into this project & it took him 2 ½ years to successfully complete his revolutionary machine, dubbed the Hoverbike.
Using a custom-made carbon-fiber airframe & a BMW engine, Malloy built the amazing flying motorcycle in his Sydney garage.
The futuristic prototype will cost over 45,000 pounds.
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Japanese Restaurant Blames Australian Beef for E. coli
Australian beef is coming under the scanner after a popular Japanese diner claimed it was to be held responsible for an E.coli outbreak in Japan.
However, the Australian meat industry maintains it might have been lettuce, beef or pork from any other country.
After eating at Gyukaka – a popular Korean-themed barbecue restaurant chain, 20 people have taken ill in Toyama prefecture; 15 of them were found to be infected with the deadly O157 strain of E.coli.
REINS International, the operators of this restaurant chain, said they believed the source of the infections to be imported Aussie beef.
The company stated it had changed its Aussie beef supplier, but public health authorities did not find any E. coli bacteria at the affected restaurant.
Nearly 40% of Australia’s beef exports are sent to Japan.
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