A team from the University of Southern California has developed a free to download system that will let you play World of Warcraft or other off-the-shelf titles with the Kinect. The Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (aka FAAST) was put together by the USC’s Institude for Creative Technologies, is currently available for Windows and […]
An Assortment of Underachieving At-Ats
This fine poster highlights some of the alternative uses for At-Ats that might achieve rather less than a successful assult on Hoth. A special shoutout goes to the Subaru Brat-At since that Bantha looks so cute. Via Geeks Are Sexy and Tobias Lunchbreath.
Mass Effect Plushies
I really like it when the spotlight of the blogs shine on someone who is clearly rich in talent. This time round we’ve got Jo Roberts aka Eitanya on DeviantArt. Jo makes plushies based on RPG characters. That’s fantastic. Blogs are pointing out that she’s managed to make Mass Effect‘s Garrus Vakarian rather cute. I […]
Camera attached to sword
This video is from a camera attached to a sword tip. It’s facing back the way; towards the person holding it. The result is impressive as the sword blade remains your constant and the world view spins. If you like the music then it’s Right Round (featuring Ke$ha) by Flo Rida.
How to survive a zombie apocalypse during the holidays
Got all your Christmas shopping done? Got all your anti-zombie defences built? I doubt you can answer “yes” to both of those vitally important questions. Fortunately, Team Unicorn has some helpful advice on how to survive a zombie apocalypse during the holidays. This advice is nicely packed in the helpful form of an instructional video. […]
Thirteen1 tease Bleach and Naruto fans with “Project Ninja”
I’ve a press release from gamer magazine and collective Thirteen1. It’s for Project Ninja – the only catch being that they’re refusing to say what Project Ninja is. A web comic? Could be. A game? Could be. We know that Project Ninja followss the life and journey of one ninja who has been tasked with […]
Your very own Bad Robot
The folks at Entertainment Earth are collecting pre-orders on an extremely cute Bad Robot with “Slusho” statue. Geeks will recognise this bad robot from the end of certain TV programs. Now, they’re only going to make 1,000 of these bad robots and my hunch is that we’re looking at a sellout. What do you think?
Are these the cutest dragon plushies evah?
Every holiday season the collection of plushies in this small flat grows. It can’t be helped. Some are just too cute to leave out there in the internet. They need to be bought and given a nice home. These three cute dragon plushies are perfect examples. It might now be too late to get these […]
Alien cake – who eats who?
Jet City Cakes’ website says, “We specialise in outrageous cakes for all occasions”. Oh, really? Okay. I think we can credit them with success. This alien wedding cake is amazing. It’s the sort of cake you need to have a large knife in your hand as you approach. Those chestbursters manager to look cute and […]
Impressive LEGO Terminator
Not much to say about this except Martin Latta‘s status as a geek native will rocket through the roof as blogs go nuts about his impressive Lego Terminator build. There’s plenty of photos of the lego killing machine from the future on his Flickr account but just to prove how impressive it is I’ve included […]
