This video is a rolling demo and timeline of a whole series of marble machines. These are simple in theory – a single engine, wood and wire used to channel ball bearings around. I think these machines are strangely hypnotic. They’re also far more sophisticated than they first appear – for example, just getting the […]
Steampunk Motorcycle
This is a rather awesome motorcycle – a steampunk motorcycle. This cycle was designed and made by Solif Design. I don’t understand a word of written Russian but it’s so very tempting to subscribe to their blog just to keep track of their latest projects.
Mobile Review: HTC Desire HD
Over the past few years HTC have enjoyed a meteoric rise from being a fairly low-key OEM handset manufacturer to becoming one of the leading names in the mobile phone market. Their winning combination of attractive hardware and intuitive software has won them accolades both at industry and grass roots levels. With the Desire HD […]
Kinect-Controlled Evil Genius Similator
Brightarcs is a UK based company that builds Tesla coils – no ordinary Telsa coils but musical ones. If you fancy you can hire them to create products that use high voltages and plasma. Sounds like good old fashioned dangerous fun. Geek comedian Tom Scott (who Geek Native has interviewed) took his camera crew to […]
Big gun
There’s not much to say about this picture. Should we do a caption competition? Leave your quotes in the comment section below. “You’re going to need more than a d20 for damage!” “No, you can’t roll to conceal” “Oh? You’ve got the weapon speciality. Do you?”
Robot or advertising wanker?
Here’s a little test you can do. Watch this video and try to decide whether you’re watching either a robot or a wannabe hipster and advertising wanker? The disclaimer here is that I work in digital marketing so I’m allowed to tease advertising folk. I’m allowed to tease robots as well. so there. What did […]
SpongeBob Terminator in… er, LEGO!
Did you know SpongeBob was a killer robot sent back from the future, by Skynet, to stop the saviour of mankind? You did? Well, I admit it, it makes sense. Suddenly everything becomes clear. It’s also true to say that the Terminator SpongeBob is entirely made out of LEGO. Surely it comes as no surprise […]
Mobile Review: Samsung Omnia 7
Samsung’s Omnia 7 is their very first foray into the world of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft’s secret weapon in their war to reclaim market share in the mobile space having haemorrhaged most of it away to their competitors since the emergence of the original iPhone and the subsequent rise of the smartphone platform in general. […]
Sony Ericsson announce the Xperia Pro and Xperia Neo
We all saw the “PlayStation phone” coming. It’s also known as the Xperia Play and Sony Ericsson describe it as the first “PlayStation certified smartphone”. It turns out that Sony Ericsson had a few more goodies up their sleeves for Mobile World Barcelona. Here’s what EA’s VP of Worldwilde Studios for EA Mobile has to […]
Furniture that eats meat will be part of the robot revolution
You have every right to be weirded out by this video. It’s going to show you furniture that eats meat. The furnture traps and consumes insects. Hey, I wonder if you can design furnture that’s particularly keen on eating spiders. That’s just part one. Part two – when things get really scary – is how […]
