A North Shore Auckland man's "snappy" invention attracted a thousand visitors at this month's Powtech 2010 (powder technology) show in Nuremberg - resulting in distributor appointments and potentially millions of dollars in sales.

The mobile phone is without doubt the most indispensable gadget on the market today. Although humans were happily phoneless for millennia, it's hard now to imagine how we got by without them. Picture teenagers communicating with each other without mobiles? That's like so not possible.

Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, 12th May 2010 Today, adidas football superstars Leo Messi and David Villa proudly presented the F50 adiZero; adidas' lightest ever football boot, during a speed themed event at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.