Curious/Impressive Videos on TFTS

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch you have, quite probably, dabbled at some point with one or more of the many musical iPhone/iPod Touch applications – personally I managed to recreate Kraftwerk’s entire back catalogue in one evening doing just that, but I don’t like to blow my …

mentalists-with-iphone-app-instrements

It’s been a while since I built anything using Lego and, at the time of writing, I lack the child that would give me an excuse to purchase (especially) Lego Mindstorm sets en masse on their behalf (solely for their enjoyment, you understand) – but I certainly never got close …

DIY Lego Mindstorm NXT Colour Scanner

Boston Dynamics have released new, remarkable video footage of their robotic quadruped ‘pack mule’ in action showing just how far developed this DARPA funded robot’s sense of balance has developed – even to the extent that it can maintain its balance whilst climbing obstacles and when loosing its grip on …

Boston Dynamics Stunning BigDog
Posted by Andrew Tingle on February 21st 2008 | No Responses

Few of you will not know that the double decked Airbus A380 is the world’s largest passenger plane to see commercial production and even fewer of you are ever likely to see the A380’s flight deck in all its glory (especially in the worlds present security conscious climate) which is …

Airbus A380
Posted by Andrew Tingle on January 30th 2008 | 1 Response

On a somewhat lighter note from our usual posts, we could not help but offer a brief heads up concerning this cool advertisement for Aliph’s Jawbone Bluetooth Headset which uses a bikini clad (and rather foxy) woman to promote the Jawbone’s Noise Shield Technology.

Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth Headset
Posted by Andrew Tingle on January 27th 2008 | No Responses

We have to hand it to Prince Charles as, whilst he seems to court more than his fair share of bad press in the UK, he is rather more forward thinking than we’ve come to expect from the immediate royal family and now, apart from being the first royal to …

Prince Charles Hologram
Posted by Andrew Tingle on January 11th 2008 | No Responses

Ordinarily we wouldn’t offer up a post that simply diverts you straight away from us to another site but, in light of the fact that Gizmodo have always been extremely gracious to credit us for a wealth of our finds subsequently featured by them, we take great pleasure in making …

Blank LCD HD TV
Posted by Andrew Tingle on November 11th 2007 | 2 Responses

This Halloween we saw a raft of ingenious costumes make it onto the net but, as far as we are concerned, those iPhone and YouTube costumes paled into insignificance when compared with the awesome BioShock inspired Big Daddy costume lovingly crafted by Nathan Sharratt featured in this video interview from …

Bioshock Big Daddy
Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 13th 2007 | No Responses

If you are familiar with the story of Pinocchio then, like me, you’ll be surprised that Zeno, a robot boy presently being developed by David Hanson, presently does not appear to come with an inbuilt lie detector and extending nose but, lie detecting nose aside, what Zeno does offer is …

Zeno the Robot Boy by David Hanson
Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 1st 2007 | No Responses

We would urge to you view this video as it’s not often that we come across a new web technology that not only absolutely amazes us but that, we feel, could potentially have far reaching implications as far as web browsing is concerned, but this new dynamic, content aware image …

New Web Content Aware Dynamic Image Resizing Technology
Posted by Andrew Tingle on August 16th 2007 | No Responses

If you’ve had a particularly stressful day or are feeling a little fed up this video featuring the Keepon Dancing Robot is sure to bring a smile to even the sternest of faces.

Keepon Dancing Robot