For the next stop on my trendy light-feature tour – which appears to be happening at the moment and features Light Stax and the Floating Light – I am looking at the officially licensed Pac-Man Ghost Lamp. As you might expect from a ghost-themed item, the lamp is super lightweight (get it? … [Read more...]
Pac-Man Ghost Lamp
For those retro gamers amongst you the Pac-Man ghost lamp from Firebox brings a sense of gaming fun to your home. It comes with a remote which as well as turning the lamp on and off can set the lamp to any of sixteen possible colours. If you can't decide on just one colour then you can … [Read more...]
Dork Review: Knit Vintage by Madeline Weston & Rita Taylor
As something of a vintage geek I must confess I was rather excited to receive a copy of Knit Vintage by Madeline Weston & Rita Taylor. The book is jam-packed full of projects based on vintage knitting patterns from the 1930s to 1950s that have been updated by the authors to use modern yarns … [Read more...]
A guide to Sensible Software and the games we should still be playing
Mobile gaming has very quickly become a lucrative and accessible platform for developers to stretch their creative muscle. It’s also proved a place to breathe new life into older games, either by straight-up ports or doe-eyed homage. Recently I reviewed Kukouri’s Tiny Troopers, which left me … [Read more...]
VHS Tape Notebooks: two obsolete media combined!
When I was little, I had a VHS tape that I used to record all my favourite snippets of programs. If memory serves me, it was bright pink with "Please keep off, this means you!" scrawled across the top to warn off my family. Rocking the passive aggression note writing from a young age there. If … [Read more...]
The best Christmas decorations for geeks
It can't have failed to escape your notice that Christmas is now well and truly on its way. Not only are people roaming the streets with mugs of mulled wine and German sausages in hand, but the Coca-Cola advert is back on our screens which is a surefire way to tell the holiday season will shortly be … [Read more...]
Free Lemmings Amigurumi crochet pattern
You know you're a child of the 80s if you....spent hours addicted to the platform game Lemmings. For those of you who didn't whittle away large chunks of your day playing this PC game, the concept was to persuade a line of green-haired little people to make their way to the target whilst avoiding … [Read more...]
Retro Robot lightswitches for the nursery
Decorating nurseries for a new baby always seems like a pointless pastime. By the time your child is old enough to notice the décor, he or she is going to have developed toddler-based design tastes and you're going to be painting everything Power Puff pink or something equally unpleasant. So, if … [Read more...]