Wonderland

Cath Kidston DS case

Cath Kidston. Doesn't get much more swirly-whirly girlie than that. And now there's a Cath Kidston DS case.

Polkadots and floral sprays!

Big Daddy cosplay + howto

If you missed this doing the rounds a few weeks ago (sorry to be so slow, Harry!), here's some Bioshock Big Daddy cosplay... and a how-to.

From Volpin Props, this sort of ambition clearly requires some professional skills too:

Finished effort. Love the little sisters.

... building the hand...

... and the body. And there's a ton more. He made blueprints from some detailed artworks published by 2K, which is a really clever thing to do on the publisher's part: encourage crafters, for they will love your work back.

It's the same guy who did the Portal Gun. And, it turns out, a Fallout 3 gun.

(Thanks Harry!)

8-bit house numbers

Nim over at Geekcrafting and Uberdorking has had an 8-bit house number sign made for her house.

Apparently a "space invaders mailbox" is next!

Scribblenauts plushie

Scribblenauts looks pretty amazing, and there's a plushie made already, despite the game only being out for 3 days in the US (and not yet in the UK, either).

Beauty!

(Thanks Rosemary!)

Smokescreen

I've been holding off blogging this for a bit mainly because I want to do a bigger post on it later when it's out of beta, but here's a quickie heads-up now.

Smokescreen is live! It's our game about identity, privacy, security and media literacy, designed for younger teens who are using, or about to use, social networks. Designed and developed by Six To Start, it's getting some very, very nice reviews all over the place.

Stalking, phishing, CCTV, fake IDs, scamming, lying and cheating. Identity is such a tricksy thing, these days...

• Wired review
• The Escapist review
• ARGN review
• The Ridiculant's review

(Disclaimer: Matt and I commissioned this! Grats to the Hon Bros and their talented team.)

Mario couture

The Bob-omb Dress. The Gold Coin Dress. The Mario Dress and Controller garter. The spangly Super Mario evening dress collection.

 

Made by craftster montyfull, and highlighted over at Geek Central Station. Montyfull says:

So I'm a fashion major. Graduated in 2007, and just NOW got around to uploading pics of my stuff!  I'm an avid gamer for life. Shooters, RPGs, PC, nintendo, Xbox... I'll play anything if I can afford it. I also don't like to take myself too seriously, so I decided that my senior collection was going to be mario eveningwear. Ya know, lots of sequins, duchess satin, chiffon, coupled with the crazy icons we know and love.

 

(Thanks Lisa!)

How to make a radish Mushroom

AnnatheRed is legendary - she makes those famous bento boxes. And now she teaches us how to make Mario mushrooms out of radishes (which, let's face it, need fancifying for they are otherwise quite revolting).

 

Zo cute!

The Wrong Kind Of Plastic

It seems this month's N-Gamer gave away a Super Mario ice cube tray.

Except...

AWESOME, erm not. As admitted inside the magazine - it’s been made with the wrong sort of plastic so it is impossible to get the ice out.  Which i can confirm. you have to wait for it to melt - and then its useless anyway.

Sad face. Also, whoever comes up with manufacturing ECO merch is going to be onto a winner. Broken useless plastic junk, uck.

Lucidity: new XBLA platformer

Uhoh, the bar just went up.

 

Via lovely Offworld, news of Lucidity, a new XBLA / PC platformer puzzle game from LucasArts.

Developed by the team behind the recent original Monkey Island remake, the game sees players going inside the imagination of main star Sofi, who (as is instantly clear via the video above) must be protected, Lemmings style, by dropping randomly generated puzzle pieces on the path in front of her.

Beautiful! Peaceful. Want.

Nearness. And magic.

I too am scratching my head over Derren B's lottery prediction. Having been to a few of his shows, I'm (of course) loath to believe that he would use technological trickery to do a, uh, trick with. But why not? Haven't magicians always been technological tricksters? It's an emotional thing, wanting to believe he wouldn't. Which is, of course, more power to him, bless his cashmere socks!

And today Matt shows me this. BERG is what was Schulze & Webb, and what is now schulze & webb & armitage & jones & pals, and this is what they've just built, using RFIDs, phones, levers, and just a bit of magic*. 

Nearness from timo on Vimeo.

*not really, it's just Sufficiently Advanced Technology.

Lastly a disclaimer, I should point out that Derren Brown features quite heavily in an upcoming commission of ours, Science of Scams, and that this is my personal blog and opinions, and that I have no idea whether or not he actually wears cashmere socks, sorry.