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Aug 8, 2012 8:00 PM   Because showing highlights of the Olympics can be quite the political mess of air rights and restrictions and licensing and sponsors and other BS like that, ABC News in Australia decided to circumvent the issue by re-creating the women's 100m hurdles finals with Lego. It's awesome. As you may know, Australian Sally Pearson beat out Americans Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells for the gold and the Aussies on the news broadcast created a dramatic reenactment of the event with Lego bricks to show their audience. It's riveting stuff! The reason news shows can only show still pictures of the Olympic events is because the rules of the IOC in regards to highlight packages are pretty damn strict. From the Hollywood Reporter: a) Olympic Material may appear in no more than three (3) News Programs per day; and b) No more than two (2) minutes of Olympic Material may be used in any one News Program; and c) These News Programs must be separated by a period of at lea...

Turn the universe into your Twitterverse. Instead of broadcasting your 140 characters to just your followers, why not get your point across by broadcasting to infinity and beyond? Kickstarter campaign SkyCube is trying to make that possible, but first the group needs help to get the satellite off the ground. SkyCube founder Tim DeBenedictis is hoping crowdsourcing will get enough funding for liftoff, and in return for investing, SkyCube will let you write a tweet to be sent to and from the satellite. SEE ALSO: Your Tweets to Be Beamed Across Space. Will ET RT? In addition, if you invest and get the SkyCube app you will receive the photos the SkyCube is taking while in orbit. They’ve raised a littler over $10,000 already, but that’s only one-eighth of their final goal. SkyCube is one of many projects trying to get earthly beings into the unknown. Another Kickstarter project is working to send investors’ science experiments aboard a spacecraft, in an effort to make “space science” open ...