Reviews, Blog, and the occasional Rant
My blog and occasional comment on current affairs.
A scientist called Kevin Kit Parker went to an aquarium with his daughter and saw a stingray. Thinking, as I have often thought myself, ‘That’s pretty cool, we should have robots built from gold, silicone, and rat heart-cells that behave and act like that.’
Here is an amazing video made by a talented fellow called Santiago Menghini. It’s a tribute to NASA’s Voyager space program and combines real footage, recorded sounds, Voyager images, animation and more, into a very cool little film.
Here at the Word of Ward we are unanimous in our support of space exploration, ESA, NASA and the brave people who go into space in the quest for knowledge. … Read More
You read that right. Free books. My three books, to be precise. I have decided to put them out to share with the interweb because I am feeling generous and … Read More
Thanks to science, photosynthesis, soil, our lord the Sun and a clever group of people, you can now charge your phone using plant power.
Anyone who has not seen this site before will now assume that I am a spammer thanks to a headline about wrinkle cream. I’m sure you have all seen those … Read More
The Flyboard Air looks like fun over a lake, I wonder if it could make it over the channel…
(Feel free to skip my rant and just see the clip at the bottom. I apologise in advance.) I’m not going to tiptoe around this – we should go into … Read More
I have had my beloved iPad Pro for about 4 months now. I always said when I got the iPad 1 that I couldn’t wait until they brought out a … Read More
I would have loved a day off designing complicated devices and designs for eggs. These are really cool. I can sum up with: Eggs + computing skills + robot + camera/strobe + imagination = cool Easter eggs.
Loving Vincent is a project that was begun by Hugh Welchman, the Oscar winning animator of Peter and the Wolf in 2006. He saw the Royal Academy’s van Gogh show in 2010 and decided he really needed a ridiculously long and involved project to sink his teeth into.
Some very clever people have been doing some very clever things with liquid metal and plastics/polymers/general stretchy stuff. Or something. The result of this cleverness is electronics that can be … Read More
I am now plotting away on Ulysses and it has been great. It looks and works great on the iPad too. It is a lot simpler that Scrivener but I was never that into doing complicated anyway.
Although I knew the solar system was flying around the super black hole at the middle of the galaxy (which is itself on the move), I never really envisage that movement.
Happy Chinese New Year from everyone here at the Word of Ward offices. I was born in Hong Kong and spent 21 years there so I will use the Cantonese version – Gung Hey Fat Choy!
Far Cry 4 is a colossal sandbox adventure in the fictional kingdom of Kyrat. It is a gorgeous but deadly little place.
The Temple of Art is a documentary (and website) about what it is like to be an artist. Although not just an artist, just generally creative. There are lots of writers, musicians, directors and actors, etc, featured, and the end result is damned inspiring.
Cooperworld is a 17,000 word short story that looks at the nature of intelligence and consciousness and how meaningless those terms might be.
Happy bloody New Year! I hope it is going well for you so far and that you haven’t already failed miserably at keeping your resolutions.
Merry Christmas from all of us here at the Word of Ward! (i.e. me.)