An utterly chilling poem that I stumbled on today. It’s from the pages of The Electrical Age, a pioneering gadget magazine, produced from the early 1930s by the Electrical Association for Women:

Hushaby! baby. Mother is near,
Don’t you cry, precious, take an ampere,
Cuddle down, sweet, near the dynamo’s brush,
The current will put you to sleep with a rush….

Hello! You’ve stumbled on my rough and ready page of videos on the Uncanny Valley hypothesis – a hotly debated theory about our very human fear of almost human objects.

This week, Spacedog has been moved by the spiritual teachings of the Tarvuists…

A cryptozoological marvel from gentleman rapper MC Elemental, highlight of the Marlborough’s recent Steampunk Hidden Cabaret.

The UK this week has been transformed into a winter wonderland.

Here’s a photographic gem from the Cold War archives, plus some very notable strips of Sellotope (they were used to hold the original Concorde ‘drop models’ together).

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever been asked to make at work? Installing a new exhibit at London Zoo today, I met all-round troubleshooter Dave Hitchcock. He’s been asked to build everything from an electronic ejaculator for gazelles to a tiny tracking system, just like an Oyster Card, for Panamanian paper wasps.

Pay attention all you skeptics: This is a 100% genuine, independently verifiable, Christ picture, snapped during a monthly cleansing ritual with a Suzuki Wagon R.

Do you worry about your pet chicken getting lonely when you’re away? Well researchers at the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore certainly do – and they’re tackling the problem with tactile computing.

An arrangement of sounds from Croydon’s wonderful fruit and veg market. There has been a market in Surrey Street since the 13th century.