Wonderland

Star Trek feeding set, with flashing lights

It's almost worth having another kid for.

Augh! So good. Over at thinkgeek. You can't shove it in the laundry of course - wipedown only, so I wonder how long it'd be useable for, in practice. Baby food is like wet cement.

3d printed Minecraft pickaxe/sword

Hand painted, too.

$10 or so.

London Gaming Con

Here's a new London event, from the folks behind the AnimeCon:

London Gaming Con is an 18+ gaming convention (with a good measure of anime and cult thrown in) of over a thousand people set to take place this December 3-4 in London. It is the sister event of the successful London Anime Con taking place in the same venue, the much-loved Rocket Complex.

Feels like it might be a little more j-influenced, and perhaps a little naughtier, than your average games convention. Let's see!

It's only a tenner, too.

London Gaming Con.

 

The Sims opening vid remade in Minecraft

Give people the tools, and they will build...

(Via Reddit)

Gamers Opt Out: a physical mailing service for gamers needing to opt out of clauses in EULAs

This is lovely - some Redditors have set up Gamers Opt Out, a form-letter service for gamers wishing to opt out of the newly inserted anti class action lawsuit clauses in often pages-long one-click-to-accept-all EULAs. Sony/PSN and EA/Origin are the culprits so far.

I didn't even know you could opt out of clauses: of course, it requires a paper-based letter to the company to do so (pff), and these excellent people are doing this for free/donations. Good on them.

Gamers Opt Out (via Reddit).

3Dprinted Yoda head

The RepRap is an open-source, low-resolution, ultra cheap, filament-based 3D printer. Here, from Wikipedia:

The RepRap project is an initiative to develop a 3D printer (RepRap, short for "replicating rapid prototyper") that can print most of its own components. As an open design, all of the designs produced by the project are released under a free software license, the GNU General Public License.

So, Adam Hoyle just pointed me at Faberdashery.co.uk, who are making "sweet-smelling" spools of filament in many interesting colours, compatible with said RepRap (and Makerbot, by the size, anyway. Good news for us: we've been paying ££ to UK customs for our NYC-sent spools). From Faberdashery's Twitterstream, to WatsDesign's Flickrstream:

He looks thoughtful.