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My 20+ years old burglar alarm went off while I was away for the weekend and the neighbors, thinking I was in trouble, called an ambulanc...

With the hot weather and smoke in South Eastern Australia, I needed a little personal cooling in the Smart Apartment , so I put a small low ...

CSIRO are promoting the New Zealand made Oxijet ‘low flow’ shower adapter from company Felton. This screws in between the water pipe and th...

This is to suggest smaller fridges be built in larger cabinets, resulting in a 25% reduction in electricity use and a lower cost appliance. ...

Jaycar Electronics sell a Sensor LED Light Strip Kit . This consists of a 300 mm flexible self adhesive strip with 12 LEDs in it, a PIR dete...

It being the holiday season there was a need to make fruit drinks and cold ( Gazpacho ) soup. What I found hand at a friend's house was ...

After my success of using the web to help fix a toilet flush , I am attempting to diagnose a problem with the washing machine. A search on ...

The ACT Government has invited the community to help plant native plants at the Banksia St O'Connor Wetland in Canberra, 9am - 12 noon...

After flooding in the basement of the Smart Apartmen t I have suggested a battery backup pump be installed. This consists of a 12 volt e...

While we have had only a drizzle of rain in my part of Canberra, the electric pumps in the basement of the " smart apartment " hav...

The NSW Government is offering a family a free smart home in Sydney for a year. The family will receive free accommodation in return for wri...

A cliché of 1960s Hollywood comedies is an exotic neighbour climbing through the the window of your apartment ( Barefoot in the Park, 1967...

The Chinese government is running an International green building & Sustainable Cities Exposition ("China Eco Expo"), June 18...

In " Compact and bijou - the slums of tomorrow? " (by Ray Furlong, BBC News, 12 September 2008) the question is asked if small ap...

The NZ government has issued a request for proposals for research on investment in housing: " Research on institutional investment in ...

The Australian slang for a portable building used on a mine site is a Donga. These are also used for prefabricated private housing in remote...

HP released their TouchSmart IQ770 PC in 2007. This has a a 19 inch wide LCD touch screen and built in digital TV tuner (for the North Ame...

After several years of having to manually advance the dishwasher through the cycle, I thought it was time to fix it. The web turned out to b...

I am not sure how serious this is as a product, but for the 52nd International Art Exhibition in Venice architect Adam Kalkin designed a fo...

3M sell a range of " Command Systems " stick on hooks. These are useful as you can remove them (usually) without damaging the wall...