Posts by Category: Fun & Games

So maybe it’s pointless, but at least it’s happy!
Fun & Games November 13, 2008 posted by
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GPS Mission – the world is your playground

GPS Mission is a real live satellite navigation game played in real time, in the real world using nothing more than your GPS enabled mobile phone and a sense of adventure. Sign up, choose your mission and set off to find the treasure, following the coordinates you’re given on the map. You can even make your own missions and earn gold. It’s available for the Symbian and Windows Mobile platform (iPhone coming apparently), which covers a fair number of handsets….


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Awesome November 7, 2008 posted by
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The US Election Withdrawal Kit – some hot cheese with that cold turkey?

Heck it may be over but there’s no need to go cold turkey on this thang y’all. So here’s our humble Friday offering to help you unwind, relieve the moments and avoid throwing up in the middle of the night as you realise there are no more stump speeches due for another four years. Games. Maybe our top 7 election games can help. Play on, dude. McCain vs Obama. Fabulous little strategy game. Obama Solitaire. Card game gets the presidential treatment. Presidential Paintball. Hit…


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Fun & Games October 31, 2008 posted by
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Remote Controlled Golfer – mini golf your office or den in one stroke

Yes this Remote Controlled Golfer is silly. Yes, we should be concerning ourselves with matters of more import. Yes, it will look badly on our report card if we’re caught cavorting with one of these things round the back of the cubicles. But heck, it just looks like fun. And look, the remote is a golf bag. Hoot! $34.99.  Test your skills with the remote control golfer as you position him, choose his club (from a driver, an iron, or…


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Fun & Games October 29, 2008 posted by
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Electronic Rock, Paper, Scissors – why waste finger power when you can digitalize it?

This Electronic Rock, Paper, Scissors gamer gadget has got to be one for the ‘what the…’ department of missed points. Er…doesn’t the whole point of the game revolve around those ridiculously funny hand shapes and reveals? Ah well…it’s progress innit? $8.89 a pair.   Unless your nickname is “Captain Hook” this is probably the lamest electronic game ever developed. Based upon the traditional “rock, paper, scissors” game, this electronic version will randomly display one of four pre-set patterns. It’s an…


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Fun & Games October 22, 2008 posted by
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BookCrossing – where are they now?

BookCrossing has been around since 2001 and is still going strong with over 718,000 registered participants. For those of you new to the idea of BookCrossing, it’s very simple. Simply register at the website and register the book you’re going to set free. Write the resulting BookCrossing ID in the book, add a label and then leave the book where someone will find it. When the book is found, the person can look up the book on the website and…


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BookCrossing – where are they now?
but is it art? October 21, 2008 posted by
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The Human Calendar – make your day the people way…

Heh, the Human Clock guy is back, this time with the Human Calendar which is, yep you’ve guessed it, a calendar made out of real people. True to form, it’s fun, lively and entertaining. Enjoy!  All of the “models” are various homogeneous friends of mine who happened to find themselves near my garage between April-July 2007. Granted, most were lured with beer, food, lodging, or in one case…meat. Nearly everyone is from Portland, Oregon with the occasional person from Saipan…


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Free Software October 17, 2008 posted by
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Assault Cube – free open source first person shooter game

Assault Cube is a free Creative Commons licensed first person shooter game. It’s multi-platform (Mac, Linux and Windoze), very small and can be played multi-player over a 56k dial-up modem. You can even run it on an ancient Pentium 3 machine. Nice to see someone thinking of the cave-dwellers amongst us, eh?  AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast…


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Fun & Games October 14, 2008 posted by
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Hover Q – the world’s smallest indoor R/C hovercraft…fun, fun, fun

The Hover Q is the world’s smallest indoor R/C hovercraft. We don’t care. We just want one. Want. Play. Cute. Likkle. Toy. $34.00. Watch the video!   The World Smallest Indoor Infrared Control Hovercraft # IR Control: FORWARD, RIGHT and LEFT # Indoor usage # Simple charging system # Length: 10.5 cm # Blowing up a bottom of hovercraft flexible skirt in a second! Tags: hover+q, indoor+r/c+hovercraft, toy, radio+control


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Fun & Games October 10, 2008 posted by
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Swinger Video Sports System – wii clone offers cheap, energetic living room games

Swinger Video Sports System. If you’ve not had much luck finding or affording a Nintendo Wii yet, you might want to take a look at this rather similarly marketed TV games console package. The kit comes with two wireless controllers, a nunchuk and five on-board games, including golf, tennis, boxing and bowling. Oh OK, and baseball. The photos look jolly enticing, but as we know, chillun’, it’s all about the gameplay isn’t it? Anyway the price is a stonkingly magnetic…


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Fun & Games October 8, 2008 posted by
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Jinsei Tokei Life Clock – grab some of that gamer responsibility and follow us please…

This Jinsei Tokei Life Clock contains a tiny digital life form who mimics your lifestyle to the extent that will probably make you very nervous. It’s all very Tamagotchi like, and the object of the exercise is not to kill the creature or, we assume, yourself in pursuit of your abandoned excesses. You’ve got a choice of three types of lifeform and of course the alarm clock works as expected. $55.00.  Your Jinsei Tokei character wakes up with you when…


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Fun & Games September 29, 2008 posted by
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Pig Tones – funny voices you can download to your GPS satnav

Pig Tones is designed to spice up your boring old GPS voice instructions by letting you download celebrity and novelty voices to your TomTom or Garmin satellite navigation devices. Hey, it’s not a horrible idea, although we suspect that having Arnie or Yoda navigate your way around town could get old real fast. Priced at $12.97 a package. [Via]  Actually, we just want you to love your GPS. We know…you can’t remember how you lived without it. But soon, that once-welcome voice…


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Fun & Games September 26, 2008 posted by
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Hoaxcall – the world’s first prank call portal, a lawsuit waiting to happen?

Hoaxcall is a prank call web service which lets you set up annoying funny phone calls to any number you choose. The kicker is that you are actually in on the call as it happens via the website audio, so you get to trigger the responses in real time to make them more effective. There are only 3 scenarios at the moment, but you can betcha that number will grow if this thing gains traction. Is it funny? Potentially. Could…


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Fun & Games September 19, 2008 posted by
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Phosphor – online shockwave FPS game

Phosphor is a Shockwave FPS game. In default mode you play against three computer generated bots in a simple setting and try to stay alive. It won’t give Valve any sleepless nights, but it’s Shockwave for goodness sake. Running in your browser. Beware the crashing Firefox on exit syndrome though. Oh and it’s got multi-player support built in too. Astonishing.  Phosphor is a first-person shooter created with Macromedia Director. The Shockwave Player allows the game to run within a web browser…


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Bookmark This! September 15, 2008 posted by
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Play With Spider – like creepies? Love this…

Play With Spider is a cute (hah!) little online Flash diversion where you get to jockey around with something which looks almost but not quite like a Tarantula. Spider that is. Still interested? Good, then off you go and we’ll just sit here with a freshly squeezed juice and watch. Tags: play+with+spider, online+game, flash


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