Author: Stuart Dredge
Give your kid a RAWK legend's drumkit via eBay
Does anyone really want their child to turn out like Keith Moon or John Bonham? It's not as if they lived to a ripe old age. Still, Bayraider has turned up some marvellous miniature drumkits on eBay, modelled on…
Wednesday interview: Robert Perkins of LUUP on the future of mobile payments
Paying for stuff with your mobile? Yeah yeah. Heard that one before. Every three or four years there’s a lot of noise about the idea, only for it to fizzle out quietly when the technology isn’t ready. Except in…
Fire up a storm with Mel Gibson's sawn-off shotgun on eBay
Well, it doesn't exactly belong to the actor, which is probably a good thing – imagine the fuss if he'd waved a shotgun about while being arrested by the LA cops. Instead, this sawn-off shotgun found by Bayraider is…
Top 10 technoculture books for the beach
Okay, maybe not the beach – if you're spending a couple of weeks sunning yourself abroad you might want a break from technology, even in paper form. But if you're on the lookout for some more weighty reading matter on…
Missile Man and other robots taking over eBay
It's Robot Tuesday again over on Bayraider, and they've been hunting down more metal man-machines that are available to buy on eBay. Today sees a couple of cool Japanese toy robots from the 1950s and 1960s, with Bandai's 16-inch…
Monday interview: Channel 4's Steven Forde on their innovative Lost Experience
For many fans of Lost, the guessing games don't stop when the TV show's credits roll. Forget your bog-standard 'Cast Bio' websites: Lost has an innovative online game called The Lost Experience where players have to follow clues, crack…
Segway's ulta-cool Centaur concept ATV quad-bike
Remember Segway? No? Tsk, how quickly people forget. Segway was a Human Transporter (i.e. posh scooter) that used gyroscopic technology that meant when you leaned forward, it sped up, and when you leaned back, it braked. It's fair to say…
Casual Game: King Of Buttons 3 will rock your fingers
Casual games are marvellous. Why are they called casual? Because if you play them too much at work, you'll soon be casually sauntering down to your local job centre of course. Which is why I'm posting this at 6.15pm…
eBay turns up a 'Karma Sutra' bedsheet
Forget buying one of those illustrated manuals full of men with beards showing you how to do the nasty. Bayraider has found a Karma Sutra bedsheet (their mis-spelling, but we quite like it), which shows happy couples exactly where…
Grab a Willy Wonka scooter on eBay
Bayraider’s been busy today, they’ve turned up a scooter driven by oompa loompas in the recent Charlie & The Chocolate Factory remake. Its starting price is £1,450, although strapping six-footers need not apply. They’ve also had a scout for…