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The Gadget Show Live 2012 review

April 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Once again The Gadget Show Live rocks on up to the NEC in Birmingham leaving us with questions like “is it any good?”, “should I go?” and “what are the gadgets like?” This blogger did not attend during the press day; instead four of us, including one wheelchair, went on the first day and got […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: android, connected tv, Gadget Show Live, htc, ios, ipad, Jason Bradbury, reviews, robots

Think Geek’s impressive 2012 April Fool collection

April 1, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Think Geek have a proud tradition of being heroes on April Fools. This year they’re as good as ever with a large collection of geek humour items. Sadly, this year, some are the item are so good that I wish they were real – like the Minecraft Marshmallow Creeps. Here’s the round up for your. […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: game of thrones, ipad, ThinkGeek

Impressive iPad magic show

March 30, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This magic show is a recruitment drive for Stockholm. The city is looking to lure in interesting companies and people. It wants to keep its lead in areas like robotics and continue to support the growing tech scene there. The phrase “magic show” might put you off – don’t let it. This is a hi-tech […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: ipad, magic

Tesco accidentally sells new iPads for less than £50

March 13, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The largest retailer in the UK accidentally put the new iPad on their webstore with a price tag of less than £50. At the time of posting, the super cheap new iPads are still online but a helpful Twitter user has tweeted the supermarket to point out their mistake. We’ll have to see whether they’ll […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: apple, ipad

16 iPad cases for gamer geeks

February 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you lucky enough to be an iPad owner? More and more gamers are, if not iPads but Androids tablets like Amazon’s Fire or the Asus Transformer Prime. These tablets are pretty useful; GMs can now more easily access PDF materials and gamers can take notes, share drawings, run virtual character sheets and gaming groups […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: casemod, ios, ipad

Enjoy hentai tentacle sex with your iPad

September 16, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Thank you Japan. Japan gives us anime and some of the very best tech there is. For example, over at Datacider we have a brand new iPad stand. This iPad stand is so clever that you can position it beside your sofa, next to your PC or even over your bed. It means you can […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: ipad, Japanese genius

The Shadow’s iPad ad

August 31, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I was lucky enough to watch Dave Gorman’s PowerPoint presentation during the Edinburgh Festival. Like Geek Native readers he is a creature of the internet. This is a good thing. In the presentation we get to look at a poster ad for Apple’s iPad. I don’t want to spoil the show – it’s on tour, […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ipad

Make your own hologram style video with an iPad and Kinect

July 6, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What happens when you put Apple tech and Microsoft tech together? Do you get a fight? laan labs have proven otherwise with this demo of 3D style videos appearing on the iPad. You’ll get an R2-D2 vibe from this. The Princess Leia projection is a thing of the very near future. Check it out.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: ipad, kinect, r2d2, star wars, tablets

Free to Download: Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Nightjar

April 28, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Native geeks will remember Benedict Cumberbatch not just form his impressive performance as Steven Moffat’s Sherlock Holmes but for speculation that he may have a forthcoming Doctor Who role. The possibility of either a Cumberbatch Master or Omega has been put forward. In the Nightjar he stars – at least his voice stars – in […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: apple, Benedict Cumberbatch, doctor who, free to download, ios, ipad, iphone, Sherlock Holmes, steven moffat

Watch NBC’s The Cape today – that’s before it airs on TV

January 6, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

NBC’s new hero show The Cape will premiere today – but here’s the catch. It won’t premiere on TV. To get it yo need DC Comic‘s free iPad app (AppStore link). Yup. You need an iPad. This is clearly a DC Comics enabled project but it’s pretty good of NBC to play along. The assumption […]

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: dc comics, ipad

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