You can now walk into a room, say “Alexa play Spotify” and Amazon’s internet of things offering to the smart home will obey your instruction. Okay, you need to be in the US and need to have a Spotify Premium account. Alexa’s new integration supports Spotify Connect so you can transfer and control the listening […]
TradeCraft Bonus: Incredible wearable steampunk lanterns
Today’s “wearable” talk seems to be all about smartwatches, fitness bands and the occasional VR headpiece. Haven’t we forgotten something important? Something incredible? Something like these wearable steampunk lanterns from Harlots and Angels. Steampunk Cthulhu warding lantern I want this one Steampunk kraken glowing lantern Show me moar Steampunk Elder Sign lantern I demand access […]
Use this magic potion to make your gaming den light up
Show me moar! You can change the colour this bottle shaped light glows at by tapping it. If you want then you can leave it alone to gently fade through all the colours it has. I couldn’t think of a better lamp for the tabletop gaming table. Maybe the GM could use the colours the […]
Holographic Halo 5 and Netflix
Hololens is Microsoft’s augmented reality solution. I imagine it’s easy to say “so what” to tech like that but this little video makes some of the use cases pretty clear. Imagine watching Netflix without having a TV or even a screen handy. Why stop at just watching TV? Why not play a whole computer game […]
Loyal droid or junk? A review of the R2-D2 desktop vacuum
Here’s a safe bet – Star Wars toys will be all the rage this Christmas. I was pondering Star Wars gifts for my godson and his brother but wasn’t sure if they’d seen the films. After all; The Phantom Menace came out in 1999. That’s 16 years ago and neither boy is 16. As it happens […]
New Shepard makes space history as the first reusable rocket ship
Sit back and watch New Shepard, 110,000 LBs of thrust, mach 3.72, 100 KM in height and a perfect landing. The company Blue Origin is owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and they’ve just become the first to create a reusable space rocket. The space vehicle (can we call it a spaceship?) is called the New Shepard […]
Gaming – while falling from 10,000 feet
This ad for the NVIDIA SHIELD is designed to get your attention. We’ve one brave soul, in his arm chair and a gaming rig set up. I rather like the TV; good quality images. The guy in question is Jeff Provenzano. If you’re curious about the NVIDIA Shield it’s a Android powered gaming console that […]
Man builds real life Mjolnir and trolls with Thor’s hammer
YouTube engineer Sufficiently Advanced created a real life Thor’s hammer. It’s a great little demonstration of some agile engineering. Also; it’s a great way to troll people and make a popular YouTube video. What puzzles me is why so many people gave picking up the hammer a go.
Sharp’s new phone is a little robot
Is the “Heart moving phone” the future of smartphones? The little robot weighs about 390g and includes a phone, camera, projector and can walk around. No mention of what OS the phone uses but there’s a quad-core 1.2Ghz CPU in Robohon. Not sure the bot really has much chances of replacing my phone but if […]
Robotic, self-rolling d6 and Bots Battleground game turn to Kickstarter
The Kickstarter is for a card game called Bots Battleground but all the focus are on the Boogie Dice. What are Boogie Dice? They’re d6 that spring to life, at a click of the fingers or a clap, and dance around your tabletop to roll themselves. You can check out more details on the Kickstarter […]
