Memory glasses

Another quick post to show something I saw whilst on holiday. CK sunglasses with a built in USB flash drive, which is embedded into the right arm. I saw them on sale at over £100, but I didn't overly like the glasses design. This didn't stop me from seriously considering buying them, to live out a fantasy spy role in corporate espionage, then I realised this may involve running so didn't get them. Still at least ideas like this would stop me loosing my USB stick. J!

Avengers movie

This is just a really quick post because to me this is the height of coolness, yes i'm a geek, but the teaser site for 'The Avengers' movie has just become live after its comic-con announcement. All the stars from Marvels latest film 'Iron Man 2' are present, along with those from upcoming 'Thor' and 'Captain America', and also Mark Ruffalo is replacing Ed Norton as the Hulk. For me 2012 can not come quick enough. J!

Bad Guy design

This is the final design of my enemy for Little Jay. I decided on using similar colours as I did with my other designs, to add connections and continuity through the brand. As I also couldn't think of a name which I liked I decided to settle on Bad Guy, as this sums up the character, but allows me the opportunity to change/reveal a new name at a later date. J!

Cloud city

Above is the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicles (LEMV) which will be built for the US Army within 18 months and ready for operations by early 2012. It will cost £350m, with the contract awarded to American military contractor Northrop Grumman, one of the world's largest defence companies. It will be able to stay in the air for up to three weeks at a time and provide what designers describe as an "unblinking eye" of surveillance for forces on the ground, transmitting data without any delays. The skin is also made up of a mixture of tough materials and Kevlar, being able to withstand most small arms fire.

Using my love of comics as a reference point, I predict that it won't be long until we see fully fledged sky bases in our skies, like the Marvel Helicarrier (below). All I can say is bring on the Iron man armor suits. J!

PSP (but not as you may think)

I don't want this thread to be purely about computer games, and I am aware of what I said in my previous post about the PSP, but I feel I must tell this tale.

As I mentioned in my last post I recently went on hol with my wife, however we have very different ideas of what makes a great holiday, but as we only had a limited budget she had her wish and we went somewhere hot with a pool. I knew it would be great to spend some quality time together, but I did not want to just sit in the heat (honestly, like roasting a hog!) so I decided to invest in a PSP to take with me. I did not use it. I was too busy enjoying myself, so like all the others I had it was going to be traded in.

However, we came back to some bad news and I found myself having to spend an awful lot of time waiting around in hospitals, and this is where I found the real joy of the PSP. It wasn't in the games but in the fact that I loaded up my holiday photos on there to show my parents, I downloaded my music and films to keep me entertained, I also downloaded a few classic PS1 games, but best of all I found that it had a comic reader similar to the motion comics on i-Tunes, so for only £1.19 an issue I could also read my favorite comics (and you guys know how much I love my comics). All of these things I did on one small machine without inserting one UMD, amazing.

Now I also know most of you are screaming "Get an i-Phone, it does all those things!", but this was £99, and you can also get good UMD films and games rather cheaply. So it was just to say that the PSP is back in favor with me, and yes it is a good games console but its' extra features are also just as good and useful, especially when I didn't even mention built in Skype, radio, attachable camera, and GPS.

Live the dream, J!

Alive

I just wanted to put out a post stating that I am still breathing and active, just had a real busy month, went away for one week but then had to go all around the UK, and spent a lot of time in hospitals (everything's fine now, I hope). Anyway that means that the time off I was going to take for planing projects has shifted to now so I won't be very active for the next month or so, but then you should check back for hopefully some cool new stuff.

Thanks J!

3DS

The other major news from E3 for me is the 3DS. What can I say, the kings of handhelds, Nintendo, batting for another home run, I know where my money will be placed.

I can't really say a lot for this other than I remember when the original DS was announced, I looked at the stats, compared them against the PSP's, added the fact that the DS's biggest game was going to be an 9yr old 'Mario' game and believed that Sony had it in the bag. How wrong was I, the DS felt right to play, it was fresh, and appealed to everyone. Yes the PSP is more powerful, and yes there are some awful howlers on the DS, but any game that Nintendo touches is like pure gold.

So imagine a more powerful DS with bells and whistles on, and you have the 3DS, and with any worries about remakes of Zelda games etc on launch, I only have to remind my self of how wrong I was with 'Mario 64 DS' to enable me to place them to one side.

I WANT ONE NOW!