Here’s a new series of YouTube vids to keep an eye on. It looks like Lumberjack Films aka Patrick H Willems on YouTube have landed a deal with Bleeding Cool to syndicate their geeky videos. Here’s the first one. It’s called “Sonic Screwdriver” and does a good job of explaining why we don’t get the […]
Archives for October 2011
The super mega awesome geeky Halloween pumpkin post
This Halloween you’ll find dozens of blogs posting geeky Halloween carvings. It has to be done. Some of these pumpkin creations are fantastic and analytics show just how popular these posts are. It’s very risky but this year Geek Native wanted to do something different. A single post. A super mega awesome geeky Halloween pumpking […]
75th Anniversary The Hobbit edition contains newly discovered Tolkien drawn art
Researchers discovered more than 100 illustrations created by JRR Tolkien in the archive of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Publisher Harper Collins have the rights, and as it is the 75th anniversary of The Hobbit, they took the decision to publish a deluxe limited edition of the famous fantasy book that contained some of the […]
Does Tower Defense meet Assassin’s Creed in Revelations?
The latest video sneak peak into Assassin’s Creed: Relevations seems to conjure up images of Asssasins and Tower Defense. Ezio has a “Den Defense” challenge in which he has to keep the Templars out from the dens of the Ottoman assassins. The better the assassins do then the greater their morale but the difficulty of […]
LEGO digital clock
This is a digital clock. You’ll recognise the display style straight away and then that the clock has been built from LEGO. No surprise to know it’s a Mindstorms line. It’s an impressive piece of mechanics. I suspect there will be plenty of times when you might look up to check the time, catch the […]
Blow stuff up with science. This is engineering.
For science, you monster? Oh. Wait. That’s Portal 2. This video showcases some other interesting and dangerous science. In fact, do watch closely for all the way our engineer film stars flee the scene after dropping one reacting agent into an other.
The Tech of Tomorrow
There are a bunch of videos doing the rounds today that certainly worth watching. Two from Microsoft and two from RIM (BlackBerry). They all look at devices we might expect to be able to play with in the near future. There are clearly some trends; lots more speach and touch, lots of holographic projections but […]
Grim Night trailer leaked
One a year the Grim Reapers come to claim souls. Can the village hire a plucky band of adventurers to fight them off? No. Wait. Start again… once a year the Grim Repears come to Earth, our world, to claim souls. That’s the premise of Grim Night and what really strikes me is that we […]
10 reasons why you should buy Doggie Doo for your children
Goliath Games has a very popular kid’s game that you might be able to scoop up this Christmas. You’ll have to be quick because it’s expected to be a big seller. It’s called Doggie Doo. The object of the game is to feed the dog, make it poop and pick the poop up. Good news. […]
Cthulhu Earrings – what do they whisper?
I rather like the look of these Cthulhu geek girl earrings. Okay, I’m not a girl and I suspect these earrings might be on the large and heavy side… but it’s all too easy to imagine what sweet lunacy these earrings might whisper to the geek girl who wears them. I imagine she would be […]
