All Geek All The Time
So tomorrow is the day that Apple and Steve Jobs will announce something new. What will that new thing be? Well a lot of speculation has gone on and most of the crystal ball gazers agree that Jobs will unveil the long rumored Apple tablet. And while that may be true the real mystery is [...]
Back when I use to do a lot of figure news and reviews around here I would often make mention of the the Usual Suspects when it came to where you could buy such figures and other goodies from Japan. But, I never really said who these suspects were. So over the next few months [...]
I got Volume 5 of Adam Warren’s Empowered the other day and when I sat down to wright a review of it I relised that I had never wrote my review of Vols 3 & 4. So here we go.
So for those who are not in the know Empowered is Adam Warren’s “Sexy Superhero [...]
Finally got around to do the figure shoot of Art Storm’s Juliona Trans from Masamune Shirow’s Wild Wet West GalGrease series. I did something a bit different this time as a bit of an experiment. I went with a black background and used the camera flash for most of the lighting. The only other light [...]
So today was the start of the Apple WWDC where durning the Keynote Apple unveiled changes to the product line that are going to happen over the next few months. There was all the talk about the newer/faster iPhone, cheaper iPhone, and updated laptops, thou still no Mac Netbook (damn you Jobs). Apple went over [...]
One of the things I’m going to be missing at Maker Faire is this Big Mess of Wires (BMOW), which is a totally hand built CPU. Steve Chamberlin designed and built a custom 8-bit CPU from dozens of simple logic chips primarily using basic 7400-series logic. No 6502, Z-80, etc. After that he added on [...]
Well the smart folks over at GE are getting closer to being able to use Holograms as a storage medium. While theoretical holographic storage has been around for quite some time the technical problems have keep it off the road map. The GE boys and girls however, have had a breakthrough.
The challenge has been to [...]
