Sunday, 7 June 2026

Human Composition

If all the material in your body fragmented into the individual elements, most of it would dissipate into the air because it would be gas.
Most of your body elements are gases when they're not in chemical bonds. Oxygen, Hydrogen and Nitrogen would blast out in a plume of particles that are freed from their bonds. 

The largest solid substance left behind would be carbon, nearly 20 kg of carbon would be left behind and a bunch of reactive metals, calcium, potassium, sodium and a bit iron and zinc. There would also be nearly a killo of Phosphorus. 

Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Frogs And Toads

Toads are Frogs but with additional attributes. Toads and frogs are both a part of the Anura family. They are both frogs but toads have some attributes that sets them apart, they tend to have dryer skin with bumps on it to allow them stay away from water for longer. The bumps on their skin is not warts, it is a gland that excreates oils to protect their skin from drying out.
They also have shorter legs and tend to be bigger in size. When toads lay eggs, they're usually in long strings. Sometimes it is hard to classify toads or frogs because the have attributes from the other group. 

Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Grokipedia Upgrade

At the end of 2025, roughly at the end of November, Grokipedia was upgraded to version 0.2. It now listens to user input and decides if they it should upgrade the articles. It also produces a lot of its own images. Xai created Grokipedia to create a product that is non biased and focused on the truth. 

This is the website for Grokipedia : https://grokipedia.com/

The xAI machine that generated Grokipedia works around the clock researching thousands of books and published reports and various other trusted documents and even videos in search of a report that shows the truth. When it is satisfied it has found the truth, it generates articles for people to search and read. 

It will be interesting to see what they do next. 

Monday, 25 May 2026

Three Hearts

Octopuses have 3 hearts, 2 hearts for the gills and one bigger heart for the rest of the body. 

Everything about the octopus anatomy is strange from our perspective. They have a small brain for every one of their arms, they have human like eyes with lenses that can focus light and the probably see the world like us. 

They also have a bigger brain that connects the smaller brains together so they have 9 brains that work in tandem. 

They are very interesting creatures. 

Monday, 18 May 2026

Did You Know : MSF

Did you know the Clock radio Signal that sets the clocks in Britain often difts off across Europe. This is because it uses a long wave frequency and can sometimes get reflected off cloud clouds or charged parts of the atmosphere.
The transmitter is located in Cumbria in the North of England but it can easily jut out across Ireland and parts of north Europe. 

The signal carries the date and time and the day of the week. All the information needed to a decent radio controlled clock. 

Friday, 15 May 2026

Mega Man Watch

You can now buy a mega man gaming watch from the same company that makes the atari watch 'My Play Watch'. 

This is the official mega man gaming watch page : My Play watch| Mega Man gaming watch.

Mega man was a popular side scrolling game at the end of the '80s and early '90s. It features all sorts of enemies and boss fights and there are different types of mega man to chose from. 

The functionality of game play is reduced slightly because the of size of the watch and lack of controls but it is very much a mega man watch. 


Thursday, 14 May 2026

Clamshell Pocket Retro Computer Games

The company Hyper mega tech, a part of Blaise entertainment has released 2 classic portable handheld games consoles. 
They both come with 25 games each, all of them have 8 bit graphics although some of them were made recently as a homebrew indy project. They also both have a clam shell design and fit in your pocket. 

I found this Scottish guy that tried out all the games and gave a verdict , he goes by the YouTube alias 'Crazy Burger and gave a very comprehensive review of all the games : Pocket C64 , ZX Spectrum

These new systems won't take the vercade cartridges but they have a large folding screen and have 25 games preloaded. 


Saturday, 9 May 2026

Fluid Thoughts

Your Brain is surrounded by spinal fluid, a fluid that is mostly made of water. The Brain floats in this fluid and is surrounded by it so there is reduced pressure on the base of the brain.  The fluid surrounds the brain and the spine and helps to absorb shocks and to 

Your Brain is also 70% water. 
Your thoughts and emotions emerge from water because your brain is mostly water and it is surrounded by water. 

Tuesday, 21 April 2026

Europe's Biggest Amusement Park

The Largest Amusement Park in Europe is located in Russia and is Called Kudikina Gora and it about 500 hectares.




 Alton Towers in Britain is second place but is crammed with rides and attractions. Disneyland is not even on the top ten list; that because a large part of the park is a resort the actual amusement park area is only 50 hectares. 

You could say Kudykina Gora has a lot of potential because it is so much bigger than the other amusement parks. 





Sunday, 19 April 2026

LegoLand windsor

Before Legoland windsor opened in 1996, the site was a large safari park called 'Windsor Safari Park'
 The site was filled with many wild animals and visitors could drive amongst the animals in their cars. The brow of the hill would have given visitors a panoramic view of all the different animals. 
There was even a dolphin show held at the park. Amazing to think. 

There are many theories to why the original Safi park closed down. Some people think the whole park was on the side of a hill and it irritated the visitors. Other people think the cost of keeping wild animals increased. 

The bottom line is the visitor numbers dropped and at some point at the beginning  of the '90s, the park stopped making a profit. 

Friday, 17 April 2026

City Via Assassination

Southend on sea, a seaside town in Essex England was promoted to a city because of an assassination; let me explain. 

The local politician for the area, David Amess campaigned for many years to change the status of Southend on sea from a town to a city. On 15 of October 2021 he was assassinated by a Islamist terrorist because he voted for air strikes against Isis. 
Out of pity for his death, the Leadership cabinet, MP Boris Johnson and the Queen of England agreed to change the status of Southend on Sea to a city even though the population was less than half a million. 

A year later the Queen's Son, prince Charles (now King Charles the 3rd) went to Southend to declare Southend on sea a city. The status of the city changing hinged on his death. If he didn't die, they wouldn't carry out his wishes, there were places with a bigger population like Reading that still remained with a town to this day. 

Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Early 3D Game

You won't think there was a 3d game available on the Atari 2600, but there was. In 1983 CBS electronics released a first person dungeon crawler game called Tunnel runner. 
The game pushed the 1970's hardware of the Atari to its limits. It featured a maze inhabited with monsters. The goal of the game is to get out of the maze and avoid  the monsters. 
In my opinion it is the most graphically advanced 3D game on the console. Very few people were aware the game existed because it didn't have an established marketing network like other games providers. They even tried to add some shading to give some depth to the game. 
When you were confronted by a monster, it felt like it was a part of the game terrain and was animated. 

Monday, 13 April 2026

Tyson Fury

Tyson Fury was named after mike Tyson by his father because we was born premature and only weighed 450 grams so they thought the name would bring him good luck and help him survive because Mike Tyson was a good fighter. 

Sunday, 12 April 2026

Run For it

Britain is such a small island that it is possible to run across it in one day. 

If you were able to run at a top human speed you can get anywhere in Britain in 10 hours. No one can though, most humans can only sprint for 2 minutes. 

If you jogged at half the sprinting speed 20km/h or 12 to 14 miles per hour, you could run to any part of Britain in a day. Animals that run fast like horses can't maintain a human jogging speed for long, they would just collapse after a few hours so humans are the fastest long distance runners on earth. 

Thursday, 9 April 2026

Hot air and Helium

Hot air has a lower density than regular air and that is why hot air balloons float. Hot air would need a temperature of 1800°c to have the same density as Helium at room temperature.  It would likely melt the envelope containing it at that temperature. 
So hot air is lighter than the surrounding air but Helium at room temperature is much lighter than hot air so it can lift more weight. 

That is why a large hot air balloon lifts a tiny basket yet a Helium blimps have an enclosed cockpit and engine attached. 


Tuesday, 7 April 2026

Physical Pong

You can buy a real physical Atari pong table. It's sold as a coffee table but it has a real 8bit brick ball that goes back and fourth. 
At the time of writing this post the price was over £2,000 (£2,295.82 to be exact). That is quite expensive for a table. I guess it was built to last and it looks amazing. 

The table uses magnets to drag a cube shaped ball back a fourth across the table to be deflectd by the paddles are a also real objects. It creates quite a nice effect. 

If I was loaded, I would buy one myself. 😍

Thursday, 2 April 2026

Games Watches

A family of retro gaming watches is currently being released by www.myplaywatch.com/. They're the same company that made the Atari watch with mini paddle controllers that I mentioned in the previous post. 
They lack connectivity; no WiFi or Bluetooth but they do have fitness tracking and they tell the time and have a selection of themed clock dials. At the time of this post there were three watches being released. I particularly like the space invaders one and Tetris. 

It is nice to have old computer games in a watch. 

Wednesday, 1 April 2026

Atari Watch

Atari is still around and now they're making smart  watches. You can buy an Atari watch with 4 popular Atari games on it. 
It also has a selection of retro gaming themed digital dials to chose from and all the other trimmings that come with a smart watch like fitness monitors and pulse metrics. 
I want one myself. I thought the four games on there like pong, super breakout, centipede and missile command are perfect for watches. I love super breakout. 

In the image above the wristband has a walnut finish just like the atari 2600. Very nice 👍 

Tuesday, 31 March 2026

New Hand Held Console

Evercade are releasing a new games console called the evercade nexus. What makes it special is it has eversync, a feature that lets you connect to another console and share the game on the cartridge through the air and play two players; only  one person needs to have the game cartridge, the console will send the game code to other console and let the other one play the same game as a second player. 
It also has lots of improved hardware features, wireless audio and improved sound output, better controls and a more crisp screen. It also has improved controller components. 

The evercade cartridges are the same ones that work on all the other Evercade consoles. 

Monday, 30 March 2026

WhatsApp Spontaneously Draws



Meta Ai can draw with commands prompts from inside from inside WhatsApp.
Everyone that has WhatsApp can now ask the meta Ai to draw an image and it will. In this example I asked it to draw a picture of cat playing scratch cards. 
I also like the default size of the image, 810 by 1140 pixels, it is a good size to share with other places and it's not too small in quality. 

Meta Ai was able to draw from the beginning of its creation but wouldn't take spontaneous drawing commands from inside WhatsApp until recently.