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 […]
Archives for June 2011
Musical Harry Potter: Daniel Radcliffe dresses up and sings
If the thought of a musical Harry Potter wasn’t enough – do you think that Daniel Radcliffe’s costume here looks anything like Doctor Who? A touch of Matt Smith’s eleventh doctor with Sylvester McCoy’s seventh? Perhaps. As it turns out this video does feature a singing, dancing and ultimately rather sweaty Daniel Radcliffe but it’s […]
Amazon opens for Toshiba Thrive, the Android tablet, pre-orders in the States
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 […]
Sexy Dungeons and Dragons ad campaign from the 80s
I’d describe this as a blast from the past – but I’ve never seen it before. Geeks may well notice the ad for “Warlocks & Warriors” and “Dungeon!”. The TSR logo will leap off the page. What about the tag line; “Where The Action Is?” Do you agree? Via URLbits.
Fable 4: The Journey Demo was a “Horrendous Mistake”
I was watching Twitter during the Fable: The Journey demonstration at E3. I saw one comment whisk by “There’s a man on stage pretending to be a horse”. I laughed at the time. Now, it seems, Fable boss isn’t laughing. He(the horse man in question) and his team now regret the demo. In the demo […]
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 […]
Doctor Who: The Gallifrey version of Born This Way
Last week the X-Men version of Born This Way did the rounds in geek land. This week the Doctor Who version from What Travis Says will storm the gates of Demons Run. Nerd Bastard Mark Poynter picked this up and correctly calls out that 25k hits aren’t enough for this parody. It needs to do […]
Craig Engler of @SyFy talking about social TV at Mashable Connect
Mashable, a large social media blog that you’ll have heard of, invited Craig Engler to their Connect conference to talk about Social TV. Engler is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Syfy Digital. Expectations got the better of me. Based on the headline “Social TV” I expected Craig to be talking about the […]
