Stuff found in the tubes of the interwebs.
I’m cautiously optimistic about the proposed new gaming console, the Ouya. I like big budget AAA games, but I also like smaller indie games, and the current consoles don’t really seem to support indie developers Read more…
This enormous grass painting indicates that the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens has free WiFi. Seems to work too.
I ordered this foldable keyboard on Ebay a while back. It arrived today and so far works really well. It’s rechargeable via usb, and feels like a laptop keyboard, but the escape key is in Read more…
I have backed a few kickstarter.com projects, but the Thunderbeam project (a retro game for the iPad) is the first to deliver me a physical object. It’s a button mp3 player with the game’s musical Read more…
I was hoping that people would take the Kinect, Microsoft’s new controller-less gaming add-on for their XBox360 games console, and somehow hack it into an affordable motion capture system for low budget filmmakers. But I Read more…
I just tried Omegle (chatting with strangers) for the first time. I don’t think I’m the target audience. This is the transcript of my first (and probably last) conversation on Omegle: Connecting to server… You’re Read more…
ZoomIt is the best PC-desktop-screen-zoomer-inner-thingy I’ve ever seen – and it’s free! Great for zooming in on presentations or during software demos – both of which I do at home and at the QSFT. I Read more…
It probably only works for people my age or older, but this YouTube video of the opening credits for Star Wars done in the style of the TV series Dallas made me smile. I particularly Read more…
Thanks to twitterer JamezRC, I saw this article about an oddly elongated, and slightly controversial, sculpture being built in the UK, and as soon as I saw the picture of the proposed design (on left) Read more…