Today supporters of the WWF will be turning off the lights for Earth Hour. When it turns 8:30 in your neck of the woods consider doing the same. This video from late last year talks about futurisitc and energy saving highways that might start to be built in the Netherlands this year. It’s a good […]
Nyan cat custom keyboard
How much modification do you do to your tech? A little? Perhaps you built your PC yourself? I’ve seen a lot of mods in my time, especially impressive casemods, but I’ve not quite seen anything like this custom Nyan cat keyboard. Shared via /r/funny/.
What does the internet look like?
Peer 1 have an app that shows the Map of the Internet. It’s available as a free app on iTunes or Google Play. As you can see it’s a bit different from the cartography gamers usually expect but just a few minutes into this video from CNN Money and I was having Cyberpunk ideas. What […]
The WristBow – handmade crossbow gauntlet
The video is a few years old and without sound. It’s still well worth a watch though. The crossbow gauntlet was created by Patrick Priebe of Laser Gadgets and Geek Native has featured his work before. Priebe is the brains behind this Iron Man gauntlet with lasers powerful enough to burst ballons. This crossbow gauntlet […]
Is Minuum the keyboard for tomorrow?
[Back this Campaign] This is an Indiegogo campaign that’s passed its fund raising goal already. There are 29 days left, at time of posting, and they’ve raised $30,000 of the $10,000 they were asking for. The keyboard is interesting because it allows for lots more screen space on smartphones and tablets while you’re tying but […]
British scientists create Red Dwarf’s Holly
Read the article on the BBC. This talking head is Zoe. She’s been created by developers in Cambridge. She’s remarkable because she is the most expressive controllable avatar ever created. It’s suggested that Zoe could be used on smartphones or tablets. It’s hard to look at this without thinking of Holly from Red Dwarf. Holly […]
Iron Man’s hand repulsor turned into a battle damaged lamp
What would you do if you found a bit of Iron Man’s battle damaged armour lying around? Hand it into S.H.I.E.L.D? See if you could use it rob a bank? Make a handy desktop lamp your gaming PC? I thought so! Good answer. Via Arianna Cesareo at Obvious Winner.
Just what is Marvel’s Project Gamma?
At the achingly hip SXSW (South by South West) conference that merges tech with anyone else who might be interested Marvel announced Project Gamma. In summary; it’s music that plays along with your comics. It’s a little more complex than it appears at first. Normally the way to assign music to comics would be to […]
ASUS signs magazine deal with lekiosk
I’m a big user of Comixology on my Nexus 7; especially after the popular comic app made the tweaks necessary to perfect the platform for Google’s popular 7″ tablet. lekiosk is a bit like Comixology except rather than comic books it works with big magazines from the likes of the BBC, Conde Naste and Dennis […]
It’s real: a taser sword
How many times have you heard a GM tell a player they couldn’t have such’n’such a weapon because it wasn’t realistic? I suspect a taser sword might fall into that category; even for some near future sci-fi games. After all, how would you persuade the taser to release its energy down the sword evenly and […]
