Where the magic happens – Behinds the scenes

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Last week I shot a quick behind the scenes view of The Cool Stuff Collective studio before the madness of filming started. I think it gives a good impression of the size of the studio and they are fascinating places.

It’s an early return to the studio this week, as we now are filming on a Wednesday [...]

Cool Stuff Collective returns – S2Ep1 Cloud

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The second series of The Cool Stuff Collective hit the screens today, sponsored by Nerf (from Hasbro) which in itself is cool. It’s this Nerf N-Strike Barricade RV-10

The Cool Stuff Collective is now filmed at BBC television centre in Studio 2 which is a much bigger studio than we had for series 1 at MTV Camden.

There [...]

Having a go with Kinect Hacks

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For reasons that will become apparent in a few weeks time I needed to see if I could get my Mac to talk to the Kinect using the brilliant open source OpenKinect.org. I don’t do too much in the command shell on my Mac so the realms of Homebrew and MacPorts mentioned in the instructions, whilst [...]

Knowing who you know

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Very often the naysayers of social media will point to the vacuous nature of connections online. Friend does not mean an actual friend etc. We are also restricted as human in how many people we can successfully know and stay in touch with. We are though in a position where we are able to share who [...]

London Toy Fair 2011

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Yesterday i got to go along to the Toyfair 2011 at Olympia with a press badge with Archie Productions and with my Cool Stuff Collective g33k t-shirt on.

I was not there to film but to do a bit more research, meet some people and see how roving reporters and crews get things done.
I have been to [...]

Saturday morning – Look whats on ;)

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If you check your TV schedules you may notice The Cool Stuff Collective appearing. This Saturday morning 29th January 9am ITV1. There are numerous repeats during the week to catch up with too.

I don’t want to spoil any surprises or break any TV style embargoes, but tune in or record it and see a second series [...]

It is moments away – AR extreme

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I had to repost this video as I think it is brilliant in its extreme view of Augmented Reality. The extremes of a use of tech and how it impact life are were we start to find the new ideas. The diving into the social web mid tea making and then the final part of user [...]

Merging Cool Stuff Collective and Second Life for the BCS

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Last night I was invited by the BCS Berkshire branch to give a follow up presentation to my Washing Away Cave Paintings but this time do the pitch in Second Life. It seemed a great time to join some dots. I offered to talk both about the experience and content in Series 1 of The Cool [...]

Kaboom, there was supposed to be a Kaboom

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For reasons that will become apparent in the fullness of time @andypiper was kind enough to bring his @ARDrone over to Feeding Edge HQ again last night. The aim, investigate a good way to pop balloons with it. It sounds straight forward, get something sharp, but maybe not too sharp (for safety reasons), fly at the [...]

Want to know about 3D GT5 – head over to Gamepeople

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I was recently asked (via twitter initially I should add talking to @GeekDadGamer) if I would be interested in contributing game reviews to the Gamepeople site.

Gamepeople is a site where people review games from a personal perspective and with a niche angle. This perspective is different from the more generic reviews. There are reviews from a [...]