Every now and then Geek Native finds a Strandbeest story. It just goes to show just how Theo Jansen’s designs are reaching people. This particular strandbeest turns you into something of a centaur-strandbeest, adding hind-legs powered by a household drill and letting you scoot around the street. It doesn’t look like an entirely smooth ride […]
The people of Hackerville
The Romanian town of Ramnicu Valcea is known by security experts as “Hackerville” and is considered by some to be the most dangerous town on the internet. Norton, the anti-virus, firewall and security company, have teamed up with the award-winning indie director Sean Dunne to create a documentary. It’s a look at the hacker culture […]
Ghost in the Shell watches
Big Ghost in the Shell fan? As part of the promotional activities for the upcoming Ghost in the Shell: Shin Gekijoban film a limited set of 2,5000 watches have been made. You can buy these from iei.jp as they’re made by Independent. The back of the watch is engraved with a portrait of Major Kusanagi […]
Crazy home invention: 40W laser shotgun
This shotgun is many times more powerful than the lightsaber styropyro had already built. As Chris Mills over at Gizmodo points out a 40 watt laser is hugely more powerful than the 0.005 watt lasers you can buy from stores but still a far off the US Navy’s prototype cannon that blasts at 30,000 watts. […]
Iaijutsu sword master versus MOTOMAN-MH24 industrial robot
Should we teach industrial robots to use katana? Machii Isao holds five Guinness World Records including the marathon 1,000 iaido sword cuts whch took just over 36 minutes. In this challenge the advanced industrial robot, the MOTOMAN-MH24, was taught Machii’s style (and we can see him help the robot) and then put against him. The […]
Drone technology creates flying X-Wing
This X-Wing was created with drone parts from Hobby King.com so does this mean we’ve got X-Wing technology in our hands? Naw. There’s a slight issue with scale still to solve.. and well, okay, we’re miles off. It’s still pretty cool, though. I can see drones being used outside conventions to advertise films. Imagine a […]
Lenovo introduces laser projector smartphone
Wow. I’ve had some strange looks from people in the pub because I’ve been playing Ingress on my smartphone before but I can only guess at what would happen if I played the game in holographic projection mode! What about using your smartphone to power a projection based tabletop games map for your RPG night? […]
200,000 sticky notes, a train set and Sony’s Action Cam
In this promo video Sony’s team built a model train (you can see the process at the end of the clip), attached a Sony Action Cam and drove it through a colourful landscape brought to life with sticky notes. Lots and lots of sticky notes; 200,000 sticky notes. Early on you can see white drones […]
How to build a fully operational gas rifle out of pipes and propane
In this video the Backyard Scientist uses every day items to build a series of rifles. Are they powerful? By the time the video finishes we’re able to launch golf balls further than the video can track and we’re blasting holes in beer cans. Also; pretty blue flame. If you want to build one of […]
Can a bedside lamp be cute?
[I want this] This Big Hero 6 Baymax USB nightlight is super cute. This Baymax will do a number of things; brightness controls at 25%, 50% and 75% plus a fade out mode, breathing mode, flash mode and even a soothing sleep mode. Nightlights don’t often let you move their head and hands but you […]
