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Dragon Speakers Breathe Music Not Fire

Whether you’re outfitting your media room with a Grauman’s Chinese Theater motif, or you just like scaly reptilians, these dragon speakers are sure to make a dramatic statement in your home. Designed...

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Super Mario is Really a Plumber, Really.

I’m not too sure what the trademark police will have to say about this one, but this UK plumbing firm shares more than just a profession with Nintendo’s popular mascot. I’m not sure if SuperMario...

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Digimech Clock Features Gear Driven Digital Display

I’ll just start out by saying this: I’m a sucker for cool digital clocks. And this one is a real doozy. UK designer Duncan Shotton’s Digimech clock may look like an LED or LCD timepiece on the surface,...

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Tetris Tiles Bring Gaming Goodness to Your Backsplash

Now that you’re wearing your new Tetris t-shirt, why not complete the look by outfitting your kitchen or bathroom with some Tetris ceramic tiles? Tetris Tiles come in a variety of shapes inspired by...

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Storm Ambition LED Watch: Where Did the Time Go?

In the market for a modern digital watch that’s looks cool, but is still easy to read? Storm’s Ambition watches might be just what you’re looking for. Featuring a stealthy face design that looks like...

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Machine Pp3 and Bob Battery Bots: 9-Volt Robot Goodness

What do you get when you take a couple of bright red LEDs, a tiny circuit board, a few wires and strap them to a couple of batteries ? I’ll tell you what you get. You get Machine PP3, a teensy, weensy...

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S-Shaped Bridge is Actually a Pretty Good Idea

When you want to connect two pieces of land via a bridge, the most efficient, practical and cost-effective bridge would obviously be a straight one. But the architects McDowell+Benedetti opted to...

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Storm Synth Watch has Nine Hands, Still Somehow Manages to Tell the Time

You’ll have to rely on your keen powers of observation to figure out the current time on this new watch from Storm. The limited-edition Storm Synth conceals the current time by taking standard hour...

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Sky Tv Makes Upside Down Remote Control “for Australians” in a Fit of...

I don’t know about you but this is new to me: apparently the English and the Australians are bitter cricket rivals, so much so that they have a tournament, popularly known as The Ashes series, which...

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Sky News Samples 6 Computer Repair Shops in London: Guess How Many Tried to...

A recent Sky News exposé gives PC repair shops a bad name. A really, really bad name. Sky News conducted a test of 6 repair shops in London. They intentionally broke a laptop by loosening a memory chip...

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Vacuum Cleaner Museum: a Place for Things That Suck

He’s not the Godfather of Soul, but Nottingham, England’s own James Brown is a bit popular as well, not as an artist but as a geek. You see, Brown collects vacuum cleaners. The 30-year old Brown has...

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Notificator: Primitive Twitter or High-Tech Bulletin Board?

The article below, published in 1935 in the magazine Modern Mechanix, shows off a “robot messenger” called the Notificator, a gadget so nice Boing Boing posted it twice: If I was alive during that...

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LEGO Reenactment of the Usa Vs England World Cup Match

The world is presently going bonkers over the World Cup, which happens every four years. The US did really well in a recent match, which was promptly reenacted with LEGOs to commemorate the momentous...

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Geeks in Uk Get Holiday iPad Deal

The iPad is sure to be at the top of holiday wish lists for geeks all around the world this year. If you are shopping for the iPad in the UK, some new deals are expected to go official today with...

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Uk iPad Price Drops With Orange Deal

I am willing to bet that whatever country a geek lives in, if they are into tablets and don’t already own an iPad, the Apple gadget is high on their Christmas wish list. If you are a UK geek that wants...

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Firebox Offers Angry Birds Plush Toys for UK Geeks

I really like Angry Birds, even if it does occasionally frustrate me and I fear the bill I will get from the in app purchases my daughter made. We have seen some plush toys made in the likeness of the...

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Harry Potter Maize Maze: Sending Him Off in Style

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be fully aware that the final Harry Potter movie is coming out this week. Apparently, people are celebrating (and commiserating) this all over the world....

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Daleks Invade London: Sanctioned by the BBC

It was a strange sight on London’s Westminster Bridge when people saw Daleks rolling about, getting ready to exterminate everyone. The procession included four generations of Daleks, showing how the...

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Seagulls Torment Woman By Dropping Plastic Golf Balls on Her House

Well, here’s an odd little story that happened over in jolly old England recently. A woman living in Paignton, Devon started hearing strange clanking noises on the roof of her house, and decided to go...

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Twitter Parody Accounts Hail the Eventual Arrival of the #royalbaby

So it’s official: Prince William and Kate are having a baby. To some, it’s great news. To the curious, it’s information worth knowing. To the vast population, it’s merely news that doesn’t have...

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