Eagle eyed geeks have noticed that Amazon in the States (not elsewhere such as tech hungry UK) have published pre-order pages for the Toshiba Thrive. This is an Android 3.1 tablet. The RRP starts at $429.99 and that gets you 10.1″ high-res LED screen with Toshiba’s auto-adjusting brightness, duel front and back cameras, two speakers […]
Optimus Prime forged from spare parts and scrap
A huge geek native shoutout to Rachel Blackman for this photograph of the Autobot leader, forged from scrap metal and given something of a steampunk look. Rachel snapped this while at the Solstice Festival in Fremont but was somewhat shy of the £300 required to take Optimus home. I would have been in the same […]
Cute monsters hidden in lithographs
Creatures & Ives is a tribute to lithographs and a tribute to monsters. Who knew the two went together so well? This is the project of talented Chris Trout who started this on April 1st, no joke, and plans to do one a day for 91 days. Part of his challenge is to find old […]
The datamancer’s impressive steampunk laptop
This laptop is impressive. It’s a machine to be proud of, a work of art and given how long it probably took to build I’m sure it’s part of the family by now. A shoutout not just to Datamancer for having the awesome talent to build this machine but to Tiberius at Geek Tyrant for […]
Leicester City Council unprepared for zombie invasion
In national news today from the BBC comes the revelation that Leicester City Council is unprepared for zombie invasion. Should When the zombie invasion occurs in Leicester it will be the council who will have to deal with it. The discovery follows a Freedom of Information request from a “concerned citizen” and had the council […]
Can GLaDOS the potato-borg survive forever?
Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System? Potato? Potatoborg? Obvious Winner had an obvious winner when one of their readers, David, sent in some photos of the potato-powered portal menance. This powerful potato home was made from scrap but it irrigates and positively ionizes the water. There is one system for an air pump at the […]
Doctor Who: Your very own flesh goo pod
What did you make of the Doctor Who’s episodes “The Rebel Flesh” and “The Almost People”? A tricky ethical business with using flesh goo to create your own Ganger – especially if you then happen to find out that they remember what happens to them and you’ve already allowed hundreds to die. What would you […]
Sneaky robot controlled by Wii remote
This robot isn’t part of Nintendo’s Wii U news. The first thing you’ll be invited to do is try and spot the robot on a table of items. Yes, one of those items just happens to be a Tachikoma. Okay, sure, we’re talking about a pretty basic robot but it is controlled with the Wii […]
SkyDrive syncing for WP7
Right now, as this blog post is written, the Open Mobile summit is on and Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop is speaking. He’s denying, again, that Nokia is for sale. There’s been a host of cracking comments from him. In fact, Nokia themselves have just retweeted; “Nokia are making lots of contributions to WP7 s/w, not […]
PlayStation TV lets two people see different screens
Do you think multiplayer works if you have to cope with split screen? I don’t. Even if you have a large TV you still have to game with the fact that the other player can see what you’re doing. If you’re not going head to head there’s still the chance that you’ll briefly peak at […]
