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A Beginner’s Guide To Home Automation Standards: Z-Wave vs Zigbee
Two primary standards are fighting it out to control your home and make life more comfortable and enjoyable. Here’s what you need to know about lighting your Australian home of the future.
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Giz Explains: What The Ingredients On Your Shampoo Bottle Actually Mean
That shampoo you’re lathering into your hair may claim that it’s packed with “all-natural ingredients,” but the label tells a different story. DMDM hydantoin? Ammonium lauryl sulphate? What is this stuff anyhow?
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From Ice Cream To Toothpaste: Seaweed’s Hidden Uses
The humble seaweed may best be known for its ability to encase morsels of sticky rice and raw fish (not to mention spa-goers), but this plant-like organism has slowly worked its way into an impressive variety of human industries over the past 15 centuries. Now one can find seaweed, or at least one of its…
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Why Daylight Saving Time Is Pointless
Ugh. You’re up an hour early, your body hates you for it, and even a litre of coffee can’t get your day on track. Daylight saving sucks. But you know the worst part? It doesn’t have to be like this.