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• Google to build mega-fast broadband networks
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 11 February
  WASHINGTON - Google plans to build a handful of experimental, ultra-fast internet networks around the US to ensure that tomorrow's systems can keep up with online video and other advanced applications that the search company will want to deliver.
• Coke in rugby haka advertisement blunder
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 14 February
  A TV commercial featuring actors dressed as All Blacks performing the haka alongside Japanese dancing girls is raising hackles within Maoridom and the New Zealand Rugby Union.
  The Japanese commercial for Coke Zero, features popstar Namie Amuro alongside what advertising agency copy describes as "a troupe of studs from Kiwiland in the traditional Maori haka dance".
• Flying commercially into space
  TVNZ Breakfast video, 23 February
  Seven New Zealanders have paid nearly $300 each to become some of the first passengers to board a commercial flight into space with some of the group already preparing to start training for the flight.
  Discussion starters:
  • Proper / alternative function
  • Environmental considerations
  • Leisure technology
• Burberry proves it's plugged into the British weather
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 24 February
  Fashion isn't always as attuned to the weather as the British public but - appropriately, given the current conditions - the autumn/winter shows at London Fashion Week have been firmly focused on coats - and no one does luxurious, practical outerwear better than the British label Burberry Prorsum.
• Kiwi entrepreneur sets up Facebook 'for kids'
  www.3news.co.nz video, 24 February
  Today's children are growing up in an era of email and online games, but Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are no places for little kids. So Melissa Clark-Reynolds, mother and entrepreneur, decided she'd create something to fill that void. The result is MiniMonos, a virtual world where children create a monkey avatar then hang out and have fun.
  Discussion starters:
  • Values education – sustainability; ethical living.
• Our online relationships
  Tearaway Digital magazine, February
  Social networking seems to be here to stay whether we like it or not, but what are the larger effects on the way we interact, and why are opinions on this so divided? This issue was the basis of a survey, produced by Wellington East Girls College students, which found that college students are spending up to nine percent of their waking hours on social networking sites.
• Milan cools down winter look
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 1 March
  MILAN - What happened to sex in the city - Milan, that is?
  Far from the body-clinging styles that gave Italian designers their sexy reputation, the preview collections for the autumn/winter 2010-2011 are all about dressing like a lady.
• Hovercraft ready to take off
  www.3news.co.nz video, 2 March
  A Nelson inventor has created a flying hovercraft from scratch – a machine which isn't classed as a plane so doesn't require a pilot's licence and which he believes could be commercially viable for transport around farms.
  Discussion starters:
  • Creative design
  • Regulatory requirements
• Cute baby video wins battle against music giant
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 2 March
  How much should a copyright owner pay for improperly telling a website to remove content?
  Stephanie Lenz got into trouble with Universal Music Group in 2007 after she posted a YouTube video of her toddler dancing to the Prince song Let's Go Crazy.
• A deal between fast food giant and Weight Watchers
  www.tvnz.co.nz video, 3 March
  McDonald's have developed a series of approved meals equate to 6.5 Weight Watchers points, but is this a good dietary partnership?
  Discussion starters:
  • Food and nutrition
  • Marketing
• Post-apocalypse sirens, Mad Men wives in Paris
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 4 March
  PARIS - From sirens of the apocalypse to sixties chic housewives, picture perfect on the arms of their 'Mad Men', Paris had something for everyone on day one of the City of Light's autumn-winter 2010/11 ready-to-wear displays yesterday.
• Analysing the MacDiet
  TVNZ Breakfast video, 4 March
  McDonald's have developed a series of approved meals equate to 6.5 Weight Watchers points, but is this a good dietary partnership? Breakfast anayses the diet.
  Discussion starters:
  • Food and nutrition
  • Marketing
• Solar power system designed for portable bach
  www.massey.ac.nz, 4 March
  A solar power system specially designed for a revolutionary new portable building has featured in an exhibition of work by design students in Wellington. The exhibition represents the culmination of a year's work for postgraduate students from a variety of design disciplines including spatial, textile, digital, graphic, industrial, communications and performance design.
  Discussion starters:
  • Portable renewable energy systems
  • Building design
• AF Vandervost shows chalkboard chic
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 5 March
  PARIS - The Belgian design duo AF Vandevorst took fashion followers back to school yesterday with an autumn-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear collection of layered pant suits and asymmetrical draped dresses that doubled as chalkboards.
• Google opens app store for businesses
  www.nzherald.co.nz, 11 March
  SAN FRANCISCO - Google will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the internet.