Technology is helping to shape education and this geek thinks it is a good thing. Gadgets are helping in two ways; through application and through culture. I think it’s important not to forget the cultural impact of technology on education or under estimate it. Late last year, a survey said that 60% of students wouldn’t […]
Mad scientist builds working Tesla Gun
The mad scientist in question is Rob Flickenger. Dangerous Rob had help from Hazard Factory and Hackerbot Labs to make this gun – and it’s a real gun. Sure, it may look clunky and something out of a comic (actually, it’s out of The Five Fits of Science) but this device can shock at 20,000 […]
Popcorn Horror’s push for fan financing and rewards
[Support this Campaign] This is an interesting Indiegogo pitch from Popcorn Horror. It’s interesting because, like Indiegogo, it is also a pitch for an alternative form of financing. However, what Popcorn Horror are suggesting is a way to make money from content once the film has been made. There are few ways beyond YouTube and […]
Doctor Who: Cleric Wars augmented reality game
There’s a free app called Cleric Wars for the iPhone and some Android phones that looks interesting. The Clerics in question are ones we’ve seen on Doctor Who. In The Time of Angels we had military Clerics from the Church investigating an area that turned out to be rich in Weeping Angels. This AR game […]
Hacked Portal gun actually levitates companion cube
The brains at Hack A Day have put together a somewhat functional Portal gun. These are the guns that let you load companion cubes around with wild abandon.
Behind the scenes at Sony’s “Listen. Watch. Play.”
Sony Entertainment Network put together a funky and rather geeky party. The result was this showcase video you can see above. It’s not hard to imagine it being used in ad campaigns this year. When Geek Native heard about this – we pestered the agencies involved until we unlocked some behind the scenes information. What’s […]
Rumour: Could the LG Optimus G Nexus run Key Lime Pie?
Reports and apparent leaks of the expected next Nexus device are coming in. It looks like Google might have picked LG to be the next manufacturer to score the honour of producing the latest Nexus branded phone. One report said; ”I can confirm the next nexus is LG Optimus based. The phone looks surprisingly like […]
Your very own steampunk telephone
Fancy your very own replica L.M. Ericsson’s 1892 model telephone? Despite being a replica it features push buttons – probably because kids these days couldn’t work out how to use the dialler. Good news, the generator crank works. You can really wind that baby up and confuse anyone watching you on your beautiful steampunk phone. […]
How do you read a .mobi attachment in Gmail on your Android Kindle app?
Now and then people email me .mobi attachments. This is a popular format for eBooks, .mobi files are quite small so they’re a popular alternative than shipping paper books around. My eBook reader is my Nexus 7 Android tablet. I have Amazon’s Kindle app on it which lets me resize text, sync across devices and, […]
Nintendo goes Steampunk
This is not the Wii U nor is it a device that Nintendo used back when they made hanafuda cards. This is a converted NES Top Loader. NES Top Loaders are one of the most sought after NES devices among collectors, having been tried by the company back in 1993 as a way to extend […]
