Another week, and another new Tech and Gadgets editor! Nik Taylor is joining me on the channel. Look out for his first article and blog tomorrow.
It’s also been a gaming-heavy week here on T&G, and quite rightly so, in honour of our newly launched gaming tab – see it up there on the navigation bar?
Following my time at the massively multiplayer online gaming event Connect 2008 (for the blogging of which see below), I turned out a handful of pieces, and Iain Lee gave us his already notorious* console column.
*We really didn’t ask him to say those things, I swear. Stick around and you’ll see that he is allowed to say whatever he likes.
Now for a carefully selected clutch of Friday fun:
Yahtzee delivers an important lesson for first person shooter makers in his Turok review
Why is this (incredibly impressive) quadruped robot so spooky? I think it has something to do with its opposing knees: video of the BigDog quadruped robot
Slashgear makes a very astute observation about this Samsung vacuum cleaner: the Master Chief helmet vacuum cleaner. I’m holding out for the Weighted Companion Cube dishwasher.
How about a seemingly infinite depth of LED lights embedded in your glass brick walls? Trippy: LED glass bricks
If you thought gaming and shoes were two non-intersecting circles in the Venn diagram of life, you were wrong: these Gameboy boots are stylin’
I adore BigDog. Yeah he\’s a bit freaky, but cute at the same time. He just needs some ears eh
Thanks for the Yahtzee reminder too!
It\’s so lifelike when it nearly falls. I\’m assuming the video is the latest one I saw a couple of days ago via Geekologie. When it falls and panics and regains balance, it\’s so much like an actual animal it\’s unreal. It reminds me of when you see videos of baby giraffes, they just dont know what to do with their legs yet, so are a bit shakey.
You know you feel sorry for it when it gets kicked