Geekery

Pokens – Leave them alone. They’re cute.

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Jake.

They’re cute. They are decorated by top graphic designers and look a little like vinyl toys. They utilize cutting edge Near Field Communication technology. They have almost no worldly use whatsoever. Meet the Poken.
The Poken is a little device that has ambitions to replace the business card. And, seeing as we need to decrease our [...]

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The obligatory iPad post

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Jake.

Ok, so it’s actually here, the device that, as a friend of mine put it, ‘will change the way people wildly speculate about new technology before it is even actually released’.
Now that it’s out, the question is, is it all that? We have crazed fans in one corner declaring it a work of unmitigated genius, [...]

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Top 10: Forgotten games of the past

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Jake.

Graphics and screen res may have come along way, but the games below, while primitive by today’s standards, were just as much fun to play. Below is a personal list of some of the games that defined my childhood, and maybe yours too (if not, you are probably pretty old or pretty young)… Nostalgia FTW!!!

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The 2010 Nerdy NomNoms have begun

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Jake.

SheBee, otherwise known as Sheena Gates, the queen of online culture blog Nerd Mag, has invented her own award ceremony – The Nerdies. Now in its second year, the first instalment even saw one of my good friends nominated – none other than social media don Mike Stopforth. I’m not too sure who the winners [...]

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Google vs China

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Jake.

Google vs China is threatening to take over from past rivalries such as 50 Cent vs Kanye West and Microsoft vs Apple as the world’s most newsworthy beef.
The latest news in the whole debacle is that Google have postponed the launch of two of their new cellular phones using the Android operating system. The monolithic [...]

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