WATCHme failed on Kickstarter, coming just €5,000 or so short. It was an attempt to have a charging stand for your Apple Watch that would be a little monster. In the comments we find backers asking for alternative ways to get their hands on the design anyway as well as comments about the clean style. […]
Made real: The gun from Psycho-Pass stuns
I rather enjoyed Psycho Pass. At a first glance it is set in a wonderful future in which the police leave you entirely alone because they can tell who’s guilty. At a second glance things get dark quickly. It’s not just your intent to do something criminal but the possibility of you doing so that […]
Mad science? The drill powered Strandbeest walker
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 […]
