A team from the University of Southern California has developed a free to download system that will let you play World of Warcraft or other off-the-shelf titles with the Kinect. The Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (aka FAAST) was put together by the USC’s Institude for Creative Technologies, is currently available for Windows and […]
Archives for December 2010
An Assortment of Underachieving At-Ats
This fine poster highlights some of the alternative uses for At-Ats that might achieve rather less than a successful assult on Hoth. A special shoutout goes to the Subaru Brat-At since that Bantha looks so cute. Via Geeks Are Sexy and Tobias Lunchbreath.
Super Mario Galaxy Medley
It seems to me that a good way to get your vocal talents noticed is to pick a song or a tune that’ll appeal to the geek community. We excel at getting videos noticed, starting that viral effect and creating stars. Step forward Diwa de Leon who’s put together this impressive Super Mario Galaxy Medley. […]
Mass Effect Plushies
I really like it when the spotlight of the blogs shine on someone who is clearly rich in talent. This time round we’ve got Jo Roberts aka Eitanya on DeviantArt. Jo makes plushies based on RPG characters. That’s fantastic. Blogs are pointing out that she’s managed to make Mass Effect‘s Garrus Vakarian rather cute. I […]
Camera attached to sword
This video is from a camera attached to a sword tip. It’s facing back the way; towards the person holding it. The result is impressive as the sword blade remains your constant and the world view spins. If you like the music then it’s Right Round (featuring Ke$ha) by Flo Rida.
Falling Skies trailer
Here’s a new sci-fi series the Americans are getting and which we’ll have to hope finds its way to the UK. It’s produced by Steven Spielberg and will star the like of Colin Cunningham (Elektra, The 6th Day, Centigrade), Mpho Koaho (Blindesss, Four Brothers, Saw III), Sarah Carter (Shark, DOA: Dead or Alive, Final Destination […]
Pirates of Langkasuka review
This is a film with many names. It’s known as Pirates of Langkusaka in Europe, The Legend of the Tsunami Warrior in America and Puen Yai Jon Salad in Thailand. It is Thailand’s big cinema adventure and it’s been warmly received. It’s also sometimes known as the Queens of Langkasuka. It might be interesting to […]
Doctor Who season 6 trailer
I’m supposed to be too ill to be blogging. That might be so but sharing Doctor Who goodness is a higher calling than mere “blogging” and surely this season 6 trailer will restore health points to anyone who watches it? Needless to say if you consider the “next time” trailers to be spoilers and you […]
Zombie musical for Christmas!
It’s Christmas. What should Geek Native post? Why not a story about someone coming back from the dead? Why not make it all musical and fun? Perfect! Can do! Any Christmas messages to pass on to fellow geeks?
How to survive a zombie apocalypse during the holidays
Got all your Christmas shopping done? Got all your anti-zombie defences built? I doubt you can answer “yes” to both of those vitally important questions. Fortunately, Team Unicorn has some helpful advice on how to survive a zombie apocalypse during the holidays. This advice is nicely packed in the helpful form of an instructional video. […]
