This Geek Native post has a look at some of the Gravity Assist cards from the Kickstarting Xtronaut. Xtronaut is designed by Dante Lauretta who actually led NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return. You can find out more about the Kickstarter here. [Back this Campaign] The campaign asked for $15,000 and has over $28,000 in the […]
Archives for October 2015
Zombie teaches you how to make the best brain cake ever
Hmm. Red velvet cake as the base for a Halloween or Walking Dead inspired brain. Tasty brain. What I like about the video is that it begins with a mistake and we learn how to cope with problems like that. After all, cooking videos in which everything goes like clockwork aren’t very useful to me […]
How the Batmobile has evolved over the years [infographic]
Have you kept up with the various Batmobile models over the years? The Batmobile first appeared in 1966 in the form we’d recognise. Compare that with the 30s and 40s through out which Batman’s car was barely seen. The infographic was done to help promote Book My Garage. I had thought that was a Just […]
Sharp’s new phone is a little robot
Is the “Heart moving phone” the future of smartphones? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtIlxe_ZkY The little robot weighs about 390g and includes a phone, camera, projector and can walk around. No mention of what OS the phone uses but there’s a quad-core 1.2Ghz CPU in Robohon. Not sure the bot really has much chances of replacing my phone but […]
Competition: Metal Hurlant – Resurgence
Based on the popular sci-fi comic book the Metal Hurlant Resurgence live action sci-fi anthology has a cast that includes James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings), Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight) and many faces geeks with taste will recognise. There’s six different adventures in this anthology, […]
Pictures from the giant Lord of the Rings LARP at Bitva o Fort
Bitva o Fort is home to a very large LARP that’s loosely based on LoRT and has a special interest in large scale, realistic action, around Minas Morgul. A huge number of LARPs made the event in the Czech Republic and you can read the details and access more pictures over at LARPing.org. Alternatively, skip […]
How to make a green fire Jack o’Lantern
Want your Halloween pumpkin to burn with mystic green flames? I think YouTube user Anne Helmenstine has the best collection of videos. This how-to video for making your own green flame Jack o’Lantern is dead easy to follow. Why stop there? What about rainbow flames for your Halloween carving? As ever, when messing around with […]
Callout cover: Colder – Toss the Bones
Juan Ferreyra’s cover for the next Colder is worthy of a callout. What a clever idea and fantastic scene. This is the third in the five-part Colder: Toss the Bones series. Paul Tobin’s Eisner-nominated series follows ex-inmate Declan Thomas who can step inside a person’s madness so that he, sometimes, can cure it. The comic […]
Robotic, self-rolling d6 and Bots Battleground game turn to Kickstarter
The Kickstarter is for a card game called Bots Battleground but all the focus are on the Boogie Dice. What are Boogie Dice? They’re d6 that spring to life, at a click of the fingers or a clap, and dance around your tabletop to roll themselves. You can check out more details on the Kickstarter […]
Competition: SF Masterworks collection
The SF Masterworks series is so important it has its own Wikipedia page. Back in 1999 Millennium started to pick the very best of sci-fi from the 1950s for reprint. It’s now run by Victor Gollancz and continues on its mission. The original list was described as amazing by Ian M Banks. In this competition […]
