This picture by Mykly Roventine was made famous by BoingBoing’s Maggie Koerth-Baker. The post is in theory answering a question from a 4 year old who wonders whether any dinosaurs ate both meat and plants. However, the opening comment about Jurassic Park inspiring homemade velociraptor escape plans tapped into an XKCD powered meme.
Sony’s new Android S1 and S2 tabs: one sparkles, one spooks
I don’t think the second of these videos are supposed to be spooky… but it is. How come? It’s the gradual creep, the slowness, and the silence. However, let’s distract ourselves with the first ad. This is shiny. This promises the latest in Android tablet tech. Tech that can talk to your PlayStation. The S2 […]
Balloon monsters
Larry Moss is quite some guy! He was the founder of one the first websites on the internet outside of academic circles. It was BallonHQ.com and althuogh the domainer in me can’t but help wonder if he could have done any better… it’s still shows thought leadership years ahead of almost everyone else. Larry is […]
Aurora borealis or the Green Lantern?
This is supposed to be a picture of the aurora borealis as taken from the International Space Station. That’s what NASA would have us believe. I suspect we’re actually able to see the contrail of a passing Green Lantern; perhaps Hal Jordan himself. Agree? I must be right, right?
The truth of the Portal wedding cake
If you study this case closely you can see what’s going on. At the first glance it looks like the bride and groom have popped through a portal near the base of the cake to appear at the top. Is that really what happened? Why do neither of them have a portal gun? That piece […]
Steampunk smartphone
Richard Clarkson, aka @Clarkson_Rich, has designed this simply stunning steampunk phone. He calls it a “rotary mechanical smartphone” and I can see why. Clarkson writes that he wanted to include more feeling and life into our digital technology. I think he’s succeeded. Don’t you?
Batman Live’s Batmobile
The Batmobile was revealed to a select team of geek journalists today. Geek Native wasn’t invited! No. The only conclusion this blogger can make is that the invite was lost in the post and that DC and the Batman Live team will try very hard to make up for the disappointment in some goodiebag shaped […]
Google puts the blood moon in your phone
There will be a blood moon tonight – a total lunar eclipse. It will be a long one too, lasting for about 100 minutes, that’s the longest since the year 2000. The ecplise starts at about 6:20pm BST (for UK readers) and about 11:20am PDT (for US readers) but, of course, there’s a catch. In […]
Swype 3: Search and Poke for Android tablets
I’m a big fan of Swype. It’s a custom keyboard for Android phones – and now, with Swype 3, for tablets. The bad news for iOS users is that these sorts of apps are illegal in the Apple ecosystem because they replicate features that Apple themselves wish to provide (generally, in Apple’s eyes, to preserve […]
Wear your scary robo-armour to work – see what happens next!
All hail to Chinese telecom worker Wang Kang. Why? Not only does he have a rhyming name – he so inspired by the 2008 Iron Man movie that he built his own scary looking armour suit. Then he wore it work. This is what he told press; No colleagues knew my mission, and some of […]
