This is a wonderful build. Sold by Artype on Etsy this handmade heart of wood, rubber, silver and cocobolo is a memory stick too. The design is superb. The tiny USB key pulls out from the wooden heart and into your machine. Okay, as it’s heart shaped it’s perhaps not the very best way to […]
Xbox One Media Remote listing appears on Amazon
Yesterday Amazon Canada published and then quickly pulled a listing for the Xbox One Media Remote. Oops. Today Amazon UK has a listing for the Official Xbox One Media Remote. Double Oops. At the time of this blog post going live the UK listing hasn’t been pulled. There’s no picture but the page describes the […]
Building the Friday the 13th PlayStation 4 controller
This custom Dualshock 4 controller was created by /u/Scourge_of_Carpathia and shared to Reddit. It’s a little freaky. You can see the full build process on Imgur and the highlights are here below. Scourge says that it was fairly easy to get the controller open; 5 screws with 4 on the back and 1 inside. The […]
Is the Nvidia Tegra K1 a 192-core chip?
On paper and in these demos the Tegra K1 chip is impressive. We’ve got quadcore smartphones and things like 8-core PCs already – but this chip has 192. In other words it can turn your Android tablet into a machine with the same graphical oomph as your PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. But wait… is […]
Razer crosses the PC-Android divide
This video features a guy holding a giraffe. It also showcases Razer’s latest piece of tech – which is software not hardware. The Android app allows gamers to use their smartphone to talk to any of their pals who are in-game with the Razer Comms PC client. The same app also allows gamers to reply […]
Tour the Abandoned Kingdom of the Dwarves: Erebor
Google has a site called Chrome Experiments which showcases what is possible with creative code. The goal is to demonstrate open web tech like Canvas, WebGL and WebRTC. The latest such showcase is a project done in conjunction with The Hobbit film. It is the Abandoned Kingdom of the Dwarves: Erebor. Swipe your way through […]
Yes, that’s a life size flying TARDIS
This might not be straight out of Doctor Who but it’s very clever. It just goes to show what these quadcopter units can do. Okay, I’ve not counted all the blades… and, oh wait, there’s this landing issue. How does it land? Hats off to the Flyonix team for a cracking design and video.
Reasons to like the PadFone approach
ASUS have launched the PadFone Mini in Taiwan. It’s not a common concept in Europe nor does it appear to be so in the States but I like it. This is a 4.3 inch phone that slides into a 7 inch tablet. The video touches on some of the reasons why I like the tech […]
The death of the $200,000 funded game controller ICP2 Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703567677/icontrolpad-2-the-open-source-controller/ The iControlPad 2 collected nearly $210,000 from over 2,000 backers. The most popular tier cost $75 and attracted nearly 1,000 people who wanted a boxed edition ICP2 that would connect to the mobile device. The pitch was simple: a device that acted as a console controller for your smartphone. Funding ended in October 2012 […]
Microsoft turns to anime to help promote Internet Explorer
Watch the anime first and then have a think about what it means. Okay, it came from Microsoft Singapore so it had an audience used to anime. That said this ad for Internet Explorer has gone global. This shows just how wide anime’s appeal has become. It also shows just how influential geeks are. I […]
