I’m an HTC user and really enjoy my HTC One. I do worry about the company though; it’s not doing well. At lest the Taiwanese brand recognises the problem. It’s the marketing. Apple and Samsung are kicking butt despite HTC making some great phones. So, they’ve hired Robert Downey Junior as their “face” for two […]
Geek builds full-auto gauss gun
Gauss guns, aka coilguns, are a projectile based weapon most commonly found in science-fiction but which can be built with today’s technology. They work by using electromagnets to propel solid slugs at a high velocity. This gauss gun, with a full auto feature, was developed by Delta V Engineering. Delta V is about making sci-fi […]
The next evolution of tabletop RPG? Tablets & Titans
Every now and then I look at a new RPG and ask myself whether, in the future, all RPGs will be like. This feels very true of Tablets & Titans. This is a new RPG but it’s been designed to run off tablets. It’s another Kickstarter and here’s the pitch! [Back this Project] This Android […]
Ubunto Edge: World’s fastest crowdfunding effort avoids Kickstarter
Ubunto want to bring their OS style to the world of mobile. So they should. As Mark Shuttleworth points out in the opening seconds of the pitch video; convergence is the future of computing. I wish I could just plug my smartphone into my bank of screens and get on with work. [Back the Campaign] […]
Homemade robot completes quadruple back-flip
Where have we got to with robotics? I’m sure sci-fi writers in the 1940s expected us to be much further along in the field than we are. That said, we’re progressing and have some impressive specialist bots these days and the field of home robotics is growing. A case in point is Robot Number 16. […]
Giant robot stalks Comic Con
If you’ve got the Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects to build a mech that’s nearly ten feet tall and your plan is to have it stomp around San Diego Comic Con then a great person to unveil the creation is Adam Savage. That’s exactly what Conde Nast’s Wired did. The robot is an impressive […]
An art deco style keyboard
This keyboard is called The “Streamline” but it appears on Datamancer a site that uses the tagline; “Prestidigital Datamancery & Paraphrenalic Technofetishism”. I think that latter is far more evocative. Not even sure the heavily used “steampunk” is appropriate. It’s art deco, after all. This reminds me much more of styles we’ve seen in The […]
How to make your own NERF Vulcan sentry cannon
Fancy making your own version of this gun? The instructions are here. This video was introduced to me as “Look what this geek girl has built!” This person, who shall remain nameless, was partly impressed with the build and partly surprised that a woman had made it. Why? What’s so surprising about that? You should […]
The T8 robot spider is impressive
This spider is a robot but it moves very naturally. In fact, it’s wirelessly controlled, built from 3D printed parts and uses a total of 26 motors. That’s 3 motors in each leg and two in its abdomen. As the video explains the Bigfoot Inverse Kinematics Engine does all the calculations for keeping the movement […]
White Wolf co-founder takes the Darkling Plain to Kickstarter
Stewart Wieck co-founded White Wolf and co-created the original World of Darkness. It was Wieck who was the editor-in-chief and co-founder of White Wolf with his brother Steve. It was in 1990 that the company merged with Lion Rampant, publisher of Ars Magica and he and Lion Rampant’s Mark Rein*Hagen became co-owners of the White […]
