Author: Rob MacKay
China Town Wars
The always controversial and much loved Grand Theft Auto series is back with a handheld addition. This version which is out now on DS and will be made available in the future of the PSP is as the title suggests, about gang land warfare in China Town.
On the DS though there are things that I jus ...
Beating Across Twitter…
No it was not another crude stab at Mr Jackson, but instead a device that informs your twitter followers your heart is still beating...
I was browsing Tech crunch and I stumbled across this article where you are now able to spam your followers with regular updates as to the speed your heart is be ...
Solar power without the clouds…
Solar power is a great idea, but in the UK, clouds like to spoil the fun.  There have been some awesome ideas for solar power, one of these is in Spain where they reflect and focus sunlight from huge mirrors to the top of a tower.
But anyway, imagine being able to collect solar power from spac ...
Stackable Electric City Cars
Cars and cities don't really make for the best relationship, and in many cities lots of different schemes have been tried to get things moving again.  Here in Manchester we have shared city cars where there are special parking places around town and you just pick one up and can park it in the spe ...
Strong Branding: Have a coke!
I was linked the video below the other day by a friend, and just love seeing things like this.  The advert is from 1954, and the Coca-Cola branding is still as strong today, even through the massive cultural changes. Now that's branding.
1954 Coke Advert:
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Dyson to take over Asteroids!
Well maybe not the vacuum hoovers we might be thinking of, but a game! Dyson is an indie game with a difference.  Its set with a strategic style of play where you control seedlings which you direct around asteroids, and plant into different kinds of trees. They then grow and either give off mor ...
Creating Wire-frames
David Perel over at Obox design has created a great little video of him creating a wire-frame for an update to the Obox site.  It is speeded up but gives an excellent example of how a wire-frame can be created. Personally my wire-frames have a lot of rubbing out with them too :)
Wire-framing ...
Trying to take a bite out of Apple…
With all the iPhone excitement or hype, however you want to look at it, Nokia is trying to release its N97. Now I have seen some comparisons, it has a full touch screen, and a kinda slide out full qwerty keyboard. Have a look at the detailed review below. My question is though, would iPhone us ...
“Speed Painting” on Youtube.
I was given this link this other day by my good friend @lydonator and it completely blew me away. Nico Di Mattia paints in good old Photoshop, he records his work and then speeds it up and makes it look as easy as putting on a hat. Nico is an incredibly talented man, and I just had to feature hi ...
Microsoft Search Veteran digging into Twitter…
Twitter has become a huge resource, and not just for telling people what you had for dinner. Twitter search is pretty much the best way to gage a feeling across the world of what is being talked about. Maybe its a little geek bias, but the information is flowing freely, news, links, topics and o ...
Hey kids, lets make guns!
TechEBlog featured a small post on a electromagnetic "coil" gun.  The gun holds 6 metal bolts and uses the power of magnetism to accelerate the bolt to a speed it could actually do some damage.  Whats a little more strange is this is supposedly the side project of a pupil in a schools woodwork ...
YouTube: Frozen in Art
Browsing through one of my many RSS Subscriptions, I dropped in on the site Gizmag.eu and issue 63.  They are an Internet based design magazine or web-zine however you like to say it. One of their features this month was by a pair of artists who have drawn YouTube.
Taking some of the most po ...
Has Valve been Left 4 Dead?
Valve recently announce Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) at the famous anual E3 Conference.  This will see a load of new content pumped into the L4D genre.  This can't be a bad thing, but the announcement has caused massive unrest within the PC Gaming world.
Valve are widely known for their excellent su ...
The Fasted Type of Open Source!
Open Source has been around for years now mainly driven by the Internet and of probably influenced a huge amount by the Linux community of coders.  These projects have enabled large and small applications to be developed by people around the world, slowly making them better, faster, stronger etc. ...
Who ya gonna call?
Ghostbusters of course! That's right they are back...
Ok so its been 21 years since Ghostbusters first appeared as a game, wow that makes me feel old, now it returns in full technicolor and 3D glory. Its actually amazing when you see what 21 years of game development and technology can produc ...