This Star Trek Ten Forward Door Cover will make any interior door look like the entrance to everyone’s favorite galactic watering hole from Star Trek: The Next Generation without the exorbitant expense of building a spaceship. (As an added bonus, these same doors were seen in the first season – before the set for Ten Forward was built – in Starfleet Command in the episode “Conspiracy.”) Intended for interior doors, this 38″ x 84″ piece of fabric has elastic on the corners so it stretches to fit over your door snugly. You have to provide your own El-Aurian.
In this series of pictures, Artist Jen Lewis took some of the scenes in Jurassic Park featuring various dinosaurs and replaced them with the dinos from the ’90s tv series “Dinosaurs.”
The Hundred Acre Wood is opening up to our world. Watch the brand-new teaser trailer for Disney’s Christopher Robin. Coming soon to theatres.
The film stars Ewan McGregor as Christopher Robin; Hayley Atwell as his wife Evelyn; Bronte Carmichael as his daughter Madeline; and Mark Gatiss as Keith Winslow, Robin’s boss. The film also features the voices of: Jim Cummings as Winnie the Pooh; Chris O’Dowd as Tigger; Brad Garrett as Eeyore; Toby Jones as Owl; Nick Mohammed as Piglet; Peter Capaldi as Rabbit; and Sophie Okonedo as Kanga.
You may have heard that a new Mary Poppins movie is coming out (even though we did not post the trailer because meh,) but someone as made a fan trailer that replaces Mary Poppins with Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy. Now this is something that resonates with me, so there you go, I’m posting it.
We were asked to write a song for this year’s Academy Awards…
Unfortunately, it wasn’t chosen because it was “financially and logistically impossible”, so for fun we thought we’d share the rough storyboards of what would have been a fully shot, star-studded music video of exorbitant cost. All vocals and visuals are temp, so please use your imagination and enjoy!
Trevor Baylis, the inventor of the wind-up radio, has died aged 80. His invention not only helped fight HIV but is credited with inspiring engineers and technology experts to think about products for the developing world.
After a professional life that included stuntwork and underwater escapology, he began his inventing career by producing modified household goods for people with disabilities. These included a one-handed bottle opener and scissors that could be operated with feet rather than hands.
His most famous invention came after seeing a television show which talked about the need to use radio to spread an educational message about HIV in Africa, something that was difficult given that electricity and batteries were either inexpensive or unreliable for many people.
Baylis put together a prototype of a clockwork radio using pieces cobbled together from spare devices in his workshop including a radio, toy car and clockwork music box. He said the basic idea came from early gramophones which had to be wound-up to be played.
The invention took several years to catch on before it was featured on BBC technology show Tomorrow’s World. It became hugely successful, with more than three million units sold. However, Baylis made little money from the invention as his patent on the technology was too specific. A small design change was enough for other manufacturers to make the radio without needing to pay royalties. He later ran a company designed to help other inventors get their products to market while protecting their rights.
Professor Will Stewart told the BBC that the radios’ “biggest impact was probably that they had been made by a First World engineer who cared about the Third World” and that this inspired other inventors to follow in his footsteps.
