Feels like Geek-day today. After the virtual girlfriend article I present you another article that falls into the geeky but cute category. This time it’s Papercraft Toys by Cubeecraft, a website that is offering free papercraft model downloads that can bring a smile on the old and young.

Now this would not be that geeky if you would not be able to download models like Stormtroopers, the Master Chief, Kirby, NIN - Ghosts I-IV (!) or Mario. Each model is designed to fit on a standard piece of A4 letter paper and nothing is keeping you from creating your own army of Stormtroopers, Iron Mans or Batmans.

“Each toy features interlocking tabs for construction - eliminating the need for tape, glue or other messy adhesives. To download click on the model you would like then save the template image.”

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I have seen my fair share of geeky stuff on the Internet and the Virtual Girlfriend definitely makes it straight to the top. Geeks don’t have girlfriends, that’s what people believe and while it sometimes may be true it more often than not is not, except for gay geeks maybe who tend to have boyfriends instead. (sidenote: wow there is even a website with that name but no content yet)

If you do not have a girlfriend yet you probably dislike sleeping alone. While it definitely has some advantages most people prefer the historical two humans per bed approach. If you are one human short you can instead try the virtual approach which adds a virtual girlfriend to your bed that responds to your reactions.

If you lie on the back for example she snuggles up next to you, lie on the side and the spoons on you. The only difficulty so far is that she only exists in 2D which means that you cannot feel her at all.

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I really like to watch technology presentations and demonstrations, especially on the TED website but also on other websites. I recently came upon a presentation for Microsoft’s Touchwall, an inexpensive rear-projection system.

The video below is a demonstration by Director of Envisioning Ian Sands who explains various features and the technique behind the Microsoft Touchwall product. The software used to run the show is called Plex running on the Vista plattform. The other equipment was a plexiglass screen, a rear projector, an infrared camera and three infrared lasers.

The user can interact with the content on the screen in an organic fashion, unlimited zooming, watching videos, flipping through pictures and a lot more. The potential is amazing. The Touchwall does look incredible in my opinion and it is a shame that Microsoft has no plans on marketing the product.

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Yes, we could chuck a lot of ones and zeors at each other (which would probably be fun), but until I have those in production, let me show you a cool desktop toy or wallpaper, or screensaver, I honestly don’t know which category this Would fall in.

Binary Toys is a simple executable file that will put one or more creatures on your desktop. The creatures look a bit like voxel (triangle shaped pixel) creatures, or perhaps some Tron characters and will happily trot around your screen to their hearts content. You can pick them up, drop them, throw them around, following the laws of physics, but they will move on their own, in an actually quite lifelike way.

There is absolutely no point to all this, but it is quite cool. The application could be a bit more advanced with perhaps an easy way to create your own creature, but if you just want some little dudes running around the screen it’s a great choice. I seriously hate any type of movement on my desktop, but I am using this as a sort of screensaver, for which it does very well.

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Photo mosaics look beautiful if they come in small sizes or if you are have enough distance to the mosaic to be able to fully enjoy it. The mosaics are called photo mosaics because many photo are used to create the mosaic. Computers have made it easier to create photo mosaics and the website Pic Artia provides an online script that can create a photo mosaic from an image that you upload from your hard drive or select from a server on the Internet.

The process of creating the photo mosaic could not be easier. Three steps are needed to create it. The user uploads the image that he wants to create a mosaic from in the first step. The second step provides several themed photo galleries like Tokyo, Bikinis and Faces. One photo gallery is selected to create the photo mosaic. The third step finally processes the image and creates the photo mosaic.

The user has to enter his email address because the information about the photo will be send to this email address. The @ sign has to be entered as if your keyboard would be using an English layout, that is Shift 2 for the @ sign.

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