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Unfortunately, there is not much in the way of information (or pictures for that matter) of the Tardis bedroom that Steve Baker of Sittingbourne, Kent, built for his 10-year-old son George, but the image included here should give you the gist. Obviously the kid is a rabid Doctor Who fan —an obsession that is only encouraged by the fact that everyone notices that he looks like a miniature David Tennant. Watch your back David—George will probably be after your job one of these days. [The Sun via Peculiarosities via about:blank]
If we had to find one way for the iPhone and Windows Vista to interact, it probably would have been via SideShow, Vista’s secondary-display technology that gives you a small portable control board that you can tote around. The people at Ikanos Consulting have been fooling around with a SideShow webserver and are creating an iPhone-compatible version (along with DS, Wii, PSP, PS3) to control your PC wherever you have access. It’s not available for download yet, but a beta should be coming soon. [Vistasquad - Thanks Matt!]
The ski resort of Les Deux Alps wants to give visitors a chance to experience what it is like to be caught in an avalanche and learn how to survive without all of that messy “white death” business. The “Robocoaster,” as it is called, was the brainchild of of local businessman Marc Dode, who lost a friend in an avalanche several years ago. The simulator is encased in a large dome that features two cabins and a large fan to blow cold air.
Still burning up the charts at Amazon (currently no. 2 in computers, with a month-long leadtime) and other retailers six weeks into its US launch, we doubt anyone’s jolted awake by the news Asus’s Eee PC has moved over 350,000 units, 50k more than expected by the end of this year.
Like late-night white knights, Jon Stewart and Colbert are returning to save us from rerun/reality TV/web purgatory on Jan. 7—the news has been the exact same for weeks, right? But they won’t have an army of writers to make sure every word out of their mouth kills, so we’ll see just how much funny naturally spills out of their brains. I have faith, do you? [TechCrunch]
In order to combat the rising number of mobile phones smuggled into prisons, the UK Government is considering installing the Boss II scanner chair in every jail in England and Wales. The Boss makes every inmate its bitch thanks to three sensitive sensors that can detect internally hidden metal items as small as a pin or a sim card. Two Boss chairs are already being used in local prisons and have helped detect 21 mobile phones since April.
If you’re one of the lucky ones who are getting a Pleo under the tree this year, you can enhance his “holiday” spirit with the holiday behaviour pack. All you need is a blank SD card and the ability to load that up with the new programming before you shove it into Pleo’s gut and reprogram him. There’s even a special response when you tap him on the butt, which probably isn’t anything like the response we get when we pat our fellow Giz editors around that area. [Pleoworld]
Wisconsin State Senator Jon Erpenbach wants to pay to keep non-violent youth offenders out of adult court by funding rehab programs for juveniles declared delinquent by taxing another class of (usually) non-violent delinquents: gamers. His proposed one per cent tax on game consoles and games actually doesn’t tack an obscene penalty onto the receipt—$4.50 on an Xbox 360 Elite. We like the idea of the program but not singling out gaming to foot the bill in principle, ’cause it ties gaming to being a bad seed in two ways:
At 6:08 AM GMT on the 22nd, activists Donna Sheehan and Paul Reffell hope you will join them in their quest for world peace—by having an orgasm. Yes, the two have organised Global Orgasm 2007 with the hope that through “the largest possible instantaneous surge of human biological, mental and spiritual energy” we can “effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth”. Since manual stimulation is so 2006, we’ve rounded up ten gadgets that will help you contribute to the cause:
Lousy, lousy puns aside, these USB shoes can store 1, 2, or 4GB of your data, making it not only stylish, but fairly useful. They come in basketball and futbol varieties, meaning that if you’re more of a baseball fan, you need to wait for the next version. On the other hand, if you’re a baseball fan you’re used to waiting anyway—since that’s essentially 90% of the game. [futbol via Basketball]
