Posts by Addy Dugdale
Toys
Soccer Fan Recreates His Team’s Journey to FA Cup Final in LEGO
9:30PM Addy Dugdale | Fans of the English soccer league will know that today is the F.A. Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, where Premier League mid-tablers Portsmouth F.C. take on relative minnows Cardiff City. To mark the day, Cardiff City fan Ashley Weaver has made a stop-motion LEGO video of his team’s amazing journey to the finals, complete with BBC commentary and black-and-white replays. The two videos took Weaver, who will be cheering on the underdogs at Wembley today, around 40 hours to do, and he shot around 1,000 still photos—that’s around five or six every second. Part two is after the jump. More »
Gadgets
First-Ever Phone Directory and Instruction Manual to Be Auctioned
2:10AM Addy Dugdale | This is the world’s first phone directory—and it’s going up for sale next month in New York at Christie’s auctioneers. The Telephone Directory, Volume 1, Number 1, for New Haven, Connecticut, aptly enough, is, at 20 pages, more of a pamphlet than the kind of thing that big strong men rip in half to make the ladies swoon (and us geeks shrug and say, “SFW?”) But the funniest thing about The Telephone Directory (apart from the estimated price) is the first eight pages—which are instructions on how to use the telephone.
Design
Mimique Mobile Phone Concept
10:50PM Addy Dugdale | If anyone ever brings out a phone that looks like this, I’ll have 10 of them, thangyewverymuch. A proposal of Californian design studio RKS, the Mimique is all about skins and downloads—a customizable phone with bells on, basically—using, as it does, open source software. I just love that old-school antenna bump and the analogue clock. See another picture of it after the jump. More »
Computers
Samsung’s Display Division Shows Just What it Can Do With AMOLED Notebook
9:00PM Addy Dugdale | Samsung SDI, the Korean manufacturer’s display arm, has been showing off a 12.1-inch laptop with an AMOLED display. With 1280 x 768 resolution, and a weird-arse keyboard, the prototype is being displayed at SID 2008. And what’s going on with on the backside of the screen? I can’t for the life of me figure it out. [OLED Display.net] More »
Games
Wii Chewing Gum Comes in Rabbit, Zelda and Fit Flavours—Okay, Mint
8:45PM Addy Dugdale | Better than chewing on your Wii controller, or have the dog chew on your face (which ours has just done to Jesús, so guess who’s off to see her husband in ER in a minute?) this official Wii chewing gum is a snip at four bucks. Normally, this is where I type something stupid, but it just doesn’t seem appropriate. [GK World via TechnaBob] More »
Online
When Headlines Reveal What’s on a Tech Writer’s Mind
7:20PM Addy Dugdale | It is a truth universally acknowledged that girls are good at multi-tasking, but one has to wonder what Aving USA’s Grace Won was thinking about when she wrote about DZone’s SATA hard-disk-drive cradle. [Aving USA] More »
Cameras
Sony Releases Limited-Edition A350 in Japan
6:40PM Addy Dugdale | With its yellow-gold body and webbing camera strap, Sony’s limited-edition A350 is available in Japan and will cost you the equivalent of US$850. The camera, which came second in Wilson’s entry-level DSLR Battlemodo last month, looks pretty spanky in champagne, doncha think? Check it out in the extensive and gorgeous gallery below. [Impress]
Gadgets
The Butt Station: Crap by Name, Crap by Nature
3:00AM Addy Dugdale | Basically a desk tidy, the Butt Station, as it has been tastefully named, stores your business cards, sticky tape, pens and pencils, and has a little compartment for paperclips, in the toilet bowl. Lift up the little man and the clips will come out attached to said little man’s bottom. It’s classy, it’s assy, and I think I’ll pass(y). [Urban Outfitters via Bem Legaus] More »
Entertainment
NYU Student Creates Virtual Girlfriend—Shame She’s Only 2D
2:20AM Addy Dugdale | Created with lonely people in mind, Drew Burrows’ INBED is an “infrared-sensitive” light projected virtual girlfriend. A sexy brunette, she’s got about three tricks up her sleeve—and she does all of them from a supine position. More »
Robots
