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Armour your dog

September 7, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In a world were we can turn horses into dragons it is important that we can also armour our trusty hounds. Or, from a roleplaying mechanics point of view; does your system cope with non-humanoid armour? Game systems with abstract armour rules tend to cope better than those which require hit locations and tables. Sure […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: animals, armour

Bearded Dragon loves to play games on her HTC Android

December 14, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This Bearded Dragon seems to be happy to play Ant Crusher on this HTC Android smart phone. It’s not hard to work out why she’s so good at it. She seems happy enough but after the cute factor… a little bit of me worries this might be cruel. I hope she’s given a tasty ant […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animals, htc

5 questions for the man who gave lightsabers to squirrels

November 16, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

If you follow Geek Native on Facebook or Geek Native on Google+ then you would have seen a quirky video in which some crazy squirrels picked up lightsabers. This video was put together by Bryan Harley. He got in touch. I took the chance to put five straight forward questions to him. They’re included below […]

Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: animals, humour, lightsaber, star wars

Real life snake and ladder

May 20, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s not quite real life snakes and ladders – there’s only one ladder and only one snake. Mind you; it’s a pretty big snake! Also; not sure whether you’d simply climb the ladder only then to be eaten by the snake and fall to the bottom again. Oh dear – am I turning into a […]

Filed Under: Art, Geek Stuff Tagged With: animals

Genesis biopod. Sleep with the fishes. Underwater coffin.

May 20, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Designer Jack Hokanson invented this pod in honour of his own father. It’s a coffin. It’s a coffin that’s designed to sit at the bottom of the ocean… and be a mini marine habitat. Within minutes of reaching the bottom of the ocean floor the Genesis biopod begins its transformation from urn to habitat. The […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: animals

The Elephant Bee sound… of doom!

May 5, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I bet you knew that elephants are pretty smart and that they communicate frequently with one another? Did you know they had a specific “bee warning” sound? They do. Not only that but you can play it back to them and they’ll trudge off and away from the sound. Not in a panic but in […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animals

Batcat is bat cat!

April 14, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cats are cool. Batman is cool. Hmm. I wonder if there’s a way to bring these two together. Ah!  I know. What about Batcat!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animals, batman

Funky cat house

December 3, 2009 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you think some cats are spoilt? What about building an entire play house just for your favourite feline? Where do we have to go for such a clever invention? That’s right; Japan.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: animals

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