Posts Tagged ‘Alien’

Keep Watching The Skies

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

It seems to be a fairly regular occurrence at the moment that new military files are being declassified regarding UFO sightings, as in this article. Also apparently the number of UFO sightings doubled from 2007 to 2008, with various things being given as possible reasons. There is the fact that Dr Who and Torchwood are both filmed at studios in Wales, and it has been suggested these series may be responsible for people walking around looking at the skies more than they used to. The growing popularity of Sky Lanterns as an alternative to fireworks, just have a look at the video on our page and you’ll see the reasoning behind this, is cited as another possible reason for the increase in sightings.

However you explain the sightings however it doesn’t change the fact that an awful lot of people are fascinated by them. Obviously this is to different extents with some, such as myself, merely curious, or others who are certain of full blown conspiracy theories, and the other extreme of people who rubbish the whole thing.

Now, you are probably wondering why I’m talking about UFO’s and what that has to do with Gadgets exactly. Well the reason is this:

We were recently contacted by Richard Ellam, the artist responsible for the glow in the dark life-size Gray bust shown above. As everyone here at Gadgets Towers knows I’m the resident geek, and have something of a penchant for the X-Files they pushed it in my general direction.

These very cool looking sculptures are hand crafted using environmentally friendly materials and made to order. Yes, you did hear me right, you can have your very own life-size Gray sculpture. Available in a choice of glow in the dark colours you can find Richards page here which will give you further information and where you can place your order.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work…..

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Yep, it’s All Hallows Eve again. That time of the year when small children dress up in various spooky costumes and it’s actually encouraged to ask strangers for sweets.
I’m a massive fan of ‘scary’ movies, so Halloween TV is great for me. Admittedly this is mainly for their comedic value more than anything else, though I’m not entirely sure what that says about me…? That being the case I decided to have a roam around blogs and sites looking for ‘Halloweeny’ type stuff. Of course on our own website at Gadgets.co.uk we have a few gadgets suitable for scary occasions such as our The Thing Crawling Hand.
The following I feel are the best of the ‘Gadgets’ that I’ve found. First of all there is this great Skull Candle Holder.

What I like about this is that when the candle starts to melt, the wax flows out of the eye sockets giving a blood like effect making it look a lot creepier. Something to shock trick or treaters with is this great ‘Pizza Face’. No, it’s not a spotty teenager, it is in fact this rather disturbing pizza with a face seemingly trying to escape, perfect for surprising the poor unsuspecting individuals knocking on your door, or maybe for slipping into the middle of a pile of pizzas at a party…

Although I couldn’t find any pictures of it I was also impressed, at least in theory, by the ‘Haunted Bush’. You strategically place this in a hedge or similar and is triggered by motion sensors. Upon being triggering it causes the hedge to shake violently, make growling noises, and flash red eye-like red LED’s, giving the impression that your garden plants are either possessed or hiding some sort of gruesome monster!

Whatever you have planned for your own Halloween, all of us here at Gadgets Towers hope you have a spooktacular (Yes, I did say “Spooktacular”… sorry) time, I myself shall mostly be hiding behind the sofa watching scary films. Mostly.