I’m a backer on Trapdoor Technology’s Codename: Morningstar Kickstarter. This is a crowd-funding campaign to pick up a digital toolset that Wizards of the Coast pulled out of. The replacement software works with the Pathfinder Reference Document (PRD) instead. Geek Native was lucky enough to land an interview with Trapdoor’s founding director Chris Matney. In […]
This bracelet is a flamethrower
Adam Wilber stresses that this watch-sized device isn’t a toy. Then again; he also says it’s a badass professional device that allows you to launch fireballs. You can pick up your own PYRO for $174. Maybe you know someone who’s a pain to get Christmas presents for you? There’s no “add to cart” button. There […]
Life without Wizards as Trapdoor take Codename: Morningstar to Kickstarter
This pitch for Codename: Morningstar talks about stories. It’s worth knowing the back story to Trapdoor Technologies before watching the video, I think. It began with Wizards of the Coast appointing Trapdoor to build the D&D 5e digital toolset. We don’t know what happened. There was a change of heart and the two companies stopped […]
Cutting the rope: tomorrow’s elevators will go sideways
If you’ve stood in an elevator then you’ve probably stood in a ThyssenKrupp elevator. The steel company is huge and is a power player in the space. This video explains their new breed of rope-free elevator. Here’s the question; would you ride in a Multi? If there’s no rope would you brain be comfortable knowing […]
Project J-Deite: The real life Transformer
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started to watch this Transformer video unfold. An animation? A model? I should have paid more attention. It’s clear that this is scale replica of a real life Transformer. By “real life” we mean a robot capable of transforming, actions and travel. It’s surprisingly agile. Unlike cartoon […]
Two thousand dollars for scariest Halloween prop ever
Uh-oh. Normally I get frustrated when a video is shot in vertical rather than horizontal. This time I’m glad as it helped cushion the blow. If you want your Halloween to be filled with screams this year then you can buy this “Chair Screamer”. You just need to pop over to Posion Props and splash […]
How to use a GameCube controller for your Nintendo 3DS
Worried that you’ll button mash your 3DS to death trying to play Super Smash Bros? This $12 hardware hack might put you at ease. That’s right, dekuNukem’s project only cost $12 in parts and the code is all up at GitHub. No surprise to see an Arduino Nano in the project. The Arduino reads the […]
Flying drones? Why not race them Star Wars pod style?
Quadcopters are everywhere these days. What’s the next step in their evolutionary path? Races! This footage comes from a pre-event that happened in France. You don’t need to understand the language to see that they’re racing these drones through the woodland and driving them with video goggles. That’s right – the pilot sees what the […]
Watch as a 3D printed machine gun fires paper airplanes
Sometimes you don’t know what is missing from your life until you see it. Now you know you need a machine gun that fires paper airplanes. The design is clever. 3D printed parts put together to make a machine gun. It’s like a printer in the inside – drawing paper through rollers and spitting it […]
Fancy a cyberpunk bracelet that plays Tetris?
This bracelet comes from the same team who make the Arduboy. The Arduboy is a fully-featured PC that’s small enough to slide into your wallet. The world of tiny, wearable, computers is a world with Tetris in many interesting places.
