The Somewhat Ambitious

What ho! Be that an Orcish outpost you see before you? Nay, it cannot be. The Orcs have no mastery of balsa wood. Or high-grade electronics. Obvious give aways really. What it is, then, is the Wow Pod, a stroke of genius/insanity/just a stroke from a group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (it’s never [...]

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Much of the nerd community is begging for an excuse to go outdoors. Most nerds are actually normal people with hidden (or not so hidden) fetishes, some have skin allergies which make exposure sunlight impossible, and some are convinced they are vampires*. But I’ll wager even the most stalwart agoraphobic would venture outside for this. [...]

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I’m regularly accused of being childish. We’re talking on a daily basis. And it isn’t necessarily because I spend a disproportionate amount of time immersed in fictional universes, or because I laugh out of context. It’s because of shit like this.
Invented to tailor for “creative children” (or Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters), Food Face Dinner [...]

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The guys at Design Boom (I assume they are “guys”, and not, say, giant living easter eggs) have designed these bitching wallets. Nothing like a parenthetical aside to make me forget what I was blathering about. Ahh. Oh yeah! Wallets! Luke and myself are devotees of the mix-tape, and whilst Luke prefers crude acts of [...]

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For those of us who have a serious hankering to stab a Bulgarian defector but don’t dig the poison kick, here’s a pretty arousing alternative: a lightsaber umbrella. Well, to be more accurate they’re essentially replicas of the umbrellas weilded by hordes of sketchy neo-L.A. denizens from Blade Runner, but apparently I’m more amused by [...]

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I don’t normally blog about gadgets unless they’re inherently useless, or ridiculous enough to make fun of. However, as a recent mac convert, I’ve also succumbed to the ipod phenomenon (I say “phenomenon” because up until a year back, I actually still hauled a grotty little blue discman around with me). And being an absolute [...]

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Ever wanted to be rewarded for being a nerd? Rewarded with EMBROIDERY?* Well, now you can be, if you’re so inclined. Yep, nerd merit badges. I was a scout for a peroid of about six months, during which time I was constantly ridiculed by a bunch of knot-tying dong-holsters, toggled to the hilt, brandishing three [...]

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Having trouble waking up? Maybe you need more incentive. Normally, I can’t wake up quickly unless a burglar is dry-humping my macbook, or my underpant drawer has spontaneously combusted, or a bomb is about to go off. And by a happy coincidence, the Danger Bomb Alarm Clock fulfills the required air of urgency required to [...]

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Wheeeee! Ever wanted to grapple your way across an abyss, pursued by bad guys, with a woman you later find out is your sister? Me neither. However, if you are so inclined, Notcot have flagged a POCKET GRAPPLING HOOK. And apparently, it isn’t technically classifiable as a gadget, because it’s intended for military use:
This Is [...]

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Thinkgeek (a website I’m fast becoming Winehouse-grade addicted to) has released a brilliant gadget for the summer nerd: the Tetris icecube tray! Tired of trying to play tetris with regular icecubes? Yeah, me too (And if you’re trying to burst into inappropriate venues reenacting the apex of gaming that is a four-row tetris moment, using [...]

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