Tag: tech Digest
Visit the filming locations of all the Star Wars movies
Those boys over at Lost Weekend are churning out the geek holidays faster than you can recite Peter Kay’s infamous Teletext sketch, and probably causing many of our bank accounts to deplete day by day. Darn our insatiable geek prowess and longings for a holiday!…
Borders promoting new books by TXT MSG
Cosmopolitan book/cafe chain Borders has announced plans to send sample chapters of new releases to customers’ mobiles, to get literary types into a HOT FRENZY before books are released.
Bongo Pong: play Pong using a skateboard. Just attempt an ollie with this, dude!
Bored of playing Pong with your boobs? Get off this site, sheesh! If you’re after, however, a more safe-for-work format of playing the retro game, then check out what this chap who goes by the name of Imagitronics, has created…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 10-Jul-07: Second Life, Simpsons video game, Yahoo's Mosh, Photobucket, iPhone
– Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of Lumines and Rez, is developing a Virtual Tokyo for Second Life (1up)
– Matt Groening to be final boss in new Simpsons video game (Slashdot)…
2007 Tech Trends No. 7: Lifecasting
In 2006, YouTube became an internet sensation, as thousands of savvy users realised they could grasp their 15 minutes of fame online, armed only with a good idea and a digital camera / webcam / mobile phone. Sure, there’s loads of rubbish on YouTube, but there’s also some killer vids that wouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near a ‘professional’ TV studio.
Man releases album – on a NES cartridge
He’s decided to release his latest collection of bleepy, distorted work on a NES cartridge, which is your in exchange for $22.
You can see a YouTube preview of the NES interface here…
Top five Simpsons gadgets, just in time for the movie!
I was in Paris last week, and on a late night drunken binge, we ventured into Quick, which was obviously the red light district’s premiere fast food joint. I knew the Simpsons film was vaguely around the corner, but their completely Homer-fied menu quickly (heh) knocked the proximity into me. So, in ode to the Simpsons-themed ‘Long Fish’ burger, and Simpsons-fries I don’t *actually* remember eating, here’s my list of the five best Simpsons gadgetry Bart would spend his pocket-money on. That last sentence was so meta my mind feels like a deep-fryer now, and speaking of which…
The GPNC 70" PC / monitor / HDTV combo
If you can imagine it, someone in Korea is making it. This is the Korean-made GPNC 70″ LCD TV, which comes with the added bonus of having a PC stuck inside it.
Shiny Video Review: iPod accessories from Intempo, i-Station, iLuv and Griffin
Alex umms and ahhs over the best accessories to kit your iPod out with, from radio alarms to karaoke mics.
Thanks to IWOOT for providing the iKaraoke…
Opinion: Social networking sites bring people closer, but what happens when you break up?
Katherine Hannaford writes…
Several months into what my mother would deem a ‘casual courtship’ – you know, those brief days/weeks/months/years (oh, I pity you in that extremity), when the officiality of your lip-locking has as yet not been classified, he popped the question. “Would it be ok if I changed my relationship status on Facebook to ‘in a relationship’?”, he asked. I didn’t need to hesitate twice – after all, not only was [redacted] an amazing guy, but with a pitch like that, how could I refuse. Yes, it was the perfect way for one geek to ask a fellow geek if she’ll always be there on his couch to watch re-runs of X-Files and battle over Wario Ware and Rez…
