Have a wonder over to the Media Molecule blog for more behind the scenes action. I believe Rex is involved with this bunch on the development of Little Big Planet, which looks like it’s going to be one of my favourite games of all time. Animation sketch vid of SackBoy the main character. Watch the work in progress trailer below. It’s pretty good! Kind of excited about this lil fella. Action packed and busting with fun stuff. I own a Wii but i might even get a Playstation for this one.  SackBoy wallpapers available from the Little Big Planet developers Media Molecule.  

Wow there’s an amazing array of robot technologies on show over at Time. A wine tasting robot, football playing robot, a rubik’s cube solving robot, dancers, weight lifters, camel ridding jockey robots (yes!), violinists, conversationalists, and super dexterous robot hands, surgical microbots that work inside your body, and last but not least Robo Parrot! Brilliant. Where can i buy mine ? I want a robot that can tell good jokes, make good margaritas, and maybe fury in texture rather than shiny.

( Well until Cookie comes home that is! ).

Have a go with this cute little number. It works in a way i’ve never seen done.
There’s an interesting subversion of regular ad space, to make part of the game - the game that’s really an ad that is … Where’s the line between selling you fun so you’ll buy a product, or selling you a product so you can have fun .. ? The idea spans multi urls but in a super simple way. I’m into that idea at the moment as you can probably tell by all these balloons floating around!

The race is on! Help me People!  :D  Click here to visit my balloon ( where ever it is on the internet ) and give me a buddy boost! Thank you thank you Nicky xx

Buy companies, fill them with people and new servers. I like the 404 jail, and the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ chance spot ;)Design and concept by Phil. Read more and get hi-res files to play, here.  ps. Someone sent me the Porn version! haha. The jail spot says ‘Free Lesbians’ … : )

Intrepid balloonists are gearing up as we speak to take part in the first ever internet balloon race! Balloons will race across real websites spread across the globe ( yours too if you’d like a bit of traffic! ), collecting tokens and teleporting through rainbows. Extra boosts are hidden around the course to speed you and your buddies on your way to victory and 20 grands worth of luxury holiday action in a villa in Ibiza. Preparations are underway, but there’s still time to grab a balloon, or even attach your very own website to the track. We’ve been feverishly drawing clouds and balloons for weeks, so if you think it sounds intriguing have a butchers at this… there’s some sweet audio touches in there too. And Coming Soon: the Balloon-Cam embeddable widget, so you can follow your balloon’s progress from the comfort of your own blog. It’s the follow up to our last adventure for Orange, Good Things Should Never End. You can never have enough rainbows in your life, i say

Also: Today coincidently happens to be the anniversary of another balloon first - the first ever public demonstration of a passenger carrying hot air balloon … aha! Or so it says on the Google homepage

PS. Igor has a good run down of the epic team involved in thrashing this beast into existence!

Check out SwashBot! Loads of great images here, and an explanation and video of his older brother SwashBot 2 who is a robot with wooden crab-like legs. So cool! Both made from remote  control helicopter parts, to create the unique walking motion. Link Via the supa Plockhead. And ps. if you like the look of his blog, you can download his liquorice css theme here ;) Nice - i like flat block colour. A few tips there too…

Mii Sculptures Via Geekologie. Have your Mii character turned into a 3D version of yourself. Your own action figure

By Kyle Bean. Great model ; ) i love that even the track pad’s been cut out through a couple of pages. Lots of interesting sketches and animations on his site including the adventures of a Delivery Box, How to hold a Bunny, and Boris the Alien. Check him out : )  Link Via It’s Nice That

Wow. I can now watch BBC on my TV. Big deal you many think, but it’s the iPlayer through my Wii. So you can watch whatever you want whenever you like. Excellent! I love Nintendo. Also on the Nintendo front, you’ll soon be able to learn Japanese with a range of new games coming out on the DS. After Brain Trainer, I’ve been wondering why it took so long. The handwriting recognition seemed it would be the perfect thing for learning to draw those kanji characters.

Hard drive space explained in a russian doll format. Simple. Link Via Ffffound

Learning bass but all your mates play bass too? Show Me How To Play has had the great idea of setting you up a virtual band to practice with. With a pile of tracks to download, you can freely toggle your instrument on and off, to use it either as a tutorial, or to play along with the rest of the band. There’s a lessons section too, but i just loved this MultiPlayer idea. Be great if you could web-cam-jam with ‘real’ people though

Nik just gave me a good WordPress tip to make my posts more Google-able.. My post Urls used to end with incomprehensible random numbers, but if you stick this little thing, /%postname%/ into the custom structure box, under Options and Permalinks, you get lovely permanent post urls in English, like this ..

http://www.monster-munch.com/retro-mac-system-icon-timepiece … Nice  : )

I’ve just changed my perma links, so sorry if you’ve linked to me recently and you’re wondering where the pages went ; )