Lists are great. They provide an simple way to impart knowledge and facts in a simple layout that can be scanned through and dipped in and out of quickly. We’ve been known to run the odd one or two here …
Continue ReadingLego tries again to reach the girl market more directly, but this time they might succeed.
Continue Reading“Hey boy, hey girl. Superstar DJs, here we go” – The Chemical Brothers Let me start this post by saying I have the utmost respect for real DJs – those people who can take two pieces of music, on two …
Continue ReadingSay hello to Bobo, your kid’s new best friend! Well, maybe not quite, but he is the star of a new iPad app out now from developers GameCollage, which they’ll definitely love. Bobo is a cute little robot who is …
Continue ReadingYou’ve probably already read a lot of posts like this one today and will no doubt read many more. I haven’t read any yet, as I wanted to collect my thoughts on the sad death of Steve Jobs before reading …
Continue ReadingHere on Geekdad, we like to share with you all the geeky places we take our families to, be they Science Museums, Woodland adventures or even good old fashioned Theme parks, but there’s obviously so much to do that we …
Continue ReadingA while back, GeekDad Dan Donahoo wrote about a new desktop learning adventure for called The Land Of Me, which weaves a kids learning experience into an illustrated storybook, complete with games, activities, sound effects and narration. It has been …
Continue ReadingIt’s less than two weeks now until The Great Tinkerer, Mr. George Lucas, bestows upon us his latest “updated vision” of our beloved Star Wars movies on Blu-ray. If you’re one of the many of us for whom these latest …
Continue ReadingI don’t really need to say much more than that (quote from Waldorf), do I? Internet video darlings meet crazy fluffy puppets and take the mickey out of themselves and each other in the process in the first video from …
Continue ReadingIt’s no secret that we GeekDads love our iPads. Recently Don Martelli gave us Five Reasons Why the iPad Was Made to Keep Parents Sane and Matt Morgan also gave us another Five Reasons Why New Parents Should Buy a …
Continue ReadingThe pentagon For the pentagon, you’ll need the thinner, longer starting point again, so fold the edges of your packet into the middle and then fold it half again. (this was a ‘family’ bag, so it will end up bigger …
Continue ReadingActually, this article’s title is misleading: Star Wars Fan Jamie Benning (a.k.a. Jambe Davdar) actually completed his fan filmumentary trilogy with the film that started George Lucas’ original one. Building Empire was his first foray in the fan genre which …
Continue ReadingWe’ve all been to theme parks based on movies. We’ve all been to theme parks inspired by toys. There are some built around both. Others are taken from the pages of books. There are rides that have spawned all of …
Continue ReadingIn the last episode of the BBC’s excellent Wonders Of The Universe series, everybody’s favourite pretty boy pop star turned serious physicist Professor Brian Cox showed us a wonderful trick. He had his Digital SLR camera on a tripod and …
Continue ReadingBack in February, British designer & illustrator Wayne Dorrington released his own special retelling of our most beloved of stories, Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope. He took the basic plot points of the movie and condensed them …
Continue ReadingI remember seeing a post about this interesting collaboration between our favourite plastic building toys and the Japanese stationery chain Muji a while back but I’d not actually seen one in store until a couple of weeks ago whilst on …
Continue ReadingBehold the results of Lego and Nintendo fan Filip Johannes Felberg’s two year mission to recreate every character, monster and plant from Shigeru Miyamoto’s classic gardening quest epics, Pikmin in our favourite plastic building blocks. I don’t think I even …
Continue ReadingIf you weren’t lucky enough to catch Paul at SXSW last weekend or at Graumann’s Chinese Theatre Monday, then you can catch this sci-fi-comedy in a cinema near you starting Friday. Here are the 10 things you should know about …
Continue ReadingIt’s a safe bet YouTube’s servers have taken a battering over the last week or so, what with the release of Jamie Benning’s Star Wars Begins documentary. This release marks the final part of his own trilogy which takes Lucas’s …
Continue ReadingRecently we had a death in the family. My wife’s 2007 MacBook locked up completely: no on-screen movement, no keyboard access, no mouse control, no ‘three finger salute’ to kill the nastiness (which incidentally was a Flash game). She wasn’t …
Continue ReadingFans can be obsessive, Star Wars fans may be the most obsessive and Jambe Davdar may well be the most obsessive of them all. He has just released his third feature-length documentary/commentary chronicling the original trilogy of George Lucas’ beloved …
Continue ReadingI haven’t made the leap to Blu-Ray for my movie purchasing just yet for two reasons. Firstly, I’m still waiting to see if the whole HD downloading/streaming thing is gonna take off properly – the iTunes store is getting there, …
Continue ReadingThat might sound a bit odd, but it’s really the best way to describe Papa Sangre (App Store link), an iPhone game from UK developers Somethin’ Else and Do Tank Studios. It was inspired by the theatre game Sangre Y …
Continue ReadingWell the big day has finally come and gone, TRON: Legacy is now out there in a theatre near you. Have you seen it yet? We’ve had a great week here on GeekDad, bringing you lots of lovely Tron-themed posts …
Continue ReadingHaving listening to Daft Punk’s awesome soundtrack for TRON: Legacy pretty much on repeat since I got it, I started thinking about other great movie soundtracks. Not just collections of nice music to go with the pictures (that’s been done …
Continue ReadingWhen I first heard that there was going to be a sequel to Tron I was very excited. When I found out that Daft Punk were going to score it, I think it’s safe to say I was even more …
Continue ReadingIt’s really, almost, very nearly here! On the 17th December TRON: Legacy finally comes to a cinema screen near you and to celebrate the end of what seems like a VERY long wait (28 years?), we’ve decided to have a …
Continue ReadingWhen my fellow GeekDad Tony Sims posted about Dorling Kindersley’s attempt to break the world record for the largest Lego Mosaic in London, I knew I had to go along. It was half term week after all so we needed …
Continue Reading(Reposted with minor changes from Friday.) Today is the 10th of October 2010, or 10/10/10, or 101010: a binary day! Of course, it’s also a decimal day too, and one of the few that is the same no matter which …
Continue ReadingIn the first part of our Countdown to Big School, my daughter and I covered Art and Science, and in part two we’ll be looking at Biology and History… London’s Natural History Museum is a truly amazing place. The building …
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