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Geek Pride Day UK – 25th May 2011

Monday, May 16th, 2011

A ‘Geek’ – (noun slang)

Nerd, Dweeb, Dork, Spod and Genius….? However you disguise it ‘Geek’ is mainstream!

Iwantoneofthose.com is celebrating the phenomenal rise of Geek Chic as we embrace Geek Pride Day by outing the inner geek in all of us.

This year we intend to bring the party to the shores of the UK and show it is good to be a geek – what’s more we are making it as easy as e = mc2 to take part!

What is Geek Pride Day?

In 1998 a guy named Tim McEachern started “The Geek Pride Festival” in Albany, New York.

Geek Pride Day is an initiative which claims the right of every person to be a nerd or a geek.

It has been celebrated on May 25th since 2006, the date of the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977.

Geek Pride Day also shares the same day as two other science-fiction fan days – Towel Day, for fans of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy by Douglas Adams, and the Glorious 25th of May, for fans of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.

Why we believe the UK should celebrate Geek Pride Day

Iwantoneofthose.com is renowned for being the UK’s leading website for a wide selection of cool stuff including gadgets, gifts, boys toys and all sorts of fabulous goodies.

However when it comes down to it we’re proud to admit that the Iwantoneofthose.com team are a motley crew of geeks, nerds and fanboys / girls who love our tech, sci-fi and all things clever.

Us geeks are a diverse bunch with one common quality; passion, and we believe that it’s about time that the UK started celebrating and embracing Geek Pride.

How are we going to celebrate Geek Pride Day UK – May 25th 2011

We want to help make Geek Pride Day an institution in the UK over the next few years, starting in 2011.

Over the course of the next ten days we’re going to run social competitions and giveaways, talk to some interesting ‘uber-geeks’ , try to understand a bit more what you think being a geek actually means to you, run some great site offers and hopefully have some fun.

So keep an eye on Iwantoneofthose.com, our blog, Twitter and Facebook pages over the next few days and get ready to celebrate Geek Pride Day on May 25th.

Don’t forget to join in the conversation on Twitter: #geekprideuk

P.S.
If  you’ve any ideas or suggestions on how we should support  and promote Geek Pride Day in the UK on May 25th please mail  Daniella.graves@thehutgroup.com.

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Highlights: World Beard and Moustache Championship 2011

Monday, May 16th, 2011

According to someone “…the male beard communicates an heroic image of the independent, sturdy, and resourceful pioneer, ready, willing and able to do manly things.”

Yet for some men growing a thick beard with perfect coverage is near on impossible. Luckily for these blokes, who triumphed at the World Beard & Moustache Championships in Norway recently, they will always be considered sturdy and willing (for as long as their beard remains in tact).

Let’s take a look at some of the winners (inspiration for Movember perhaps?):

world beard and moustache championship

world beard and moustache championship

world beard and moustache championship

world beard and moustache championship

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Review of the Month Winner for April

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

We’ve had a tonne load of reviews for the products you rate the best (or if you’ve been honest, the not so good) this month and as usual we’ve read through them all and selected one lucky winner. Our thanks go to GarryBacon who produced this thorough review of the ZAGGmate iPad Case & Keyboard and walks away with £100 of IWOOT vouchers. Not bad for stringing a few sentences together.

“Practicality, Simplicity and Ingenious!

Those three words sum up this product. It’s Practical because you can get the Apple Keyboard Dock but you have to carry that around additionally and it’s bulky. This is a keyboard and case. The keyboard is bluetooth so you can have the orientation set to how you want it. It’s simple to pair, use and pack away, my nan can do it! It’s just ingenious in the way everything fits together to form what is effectively a very strong protector for the front of the iPad. Another thing is it’s cheap! A bluetooth keyboard and a good case costs more than this and with this your getting a case and keyboard that are made for each other. The design is so nice because it’s the exact same aluminium they use to make the iPad. If you get this case you will be as happy and as proud to own one as I am. I would really recommend this to anyone and everyone!”

ZAGGmate iPad Case & Keyboard

This could be you next month, so do keep reviewing your purchases – you could win big (£100 to be exact)!

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IWOOT’s New Clothes

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

In a similar fashion to the tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes, IWOOT’s two weavers (actually a design team of about 5 strong) have been grafting away to reveal a jazzy new site which we’re actually quite impressed with. Good work team.

Unlike The Emperor’s New Clothes (which didn’t actually exist, remember the story?) our new site is there in all its glory and we’d like you to take a look and tell us what you think about it.

Click on the image below to be swept away to pastures new or if you prefer the old fashioned way type www.iwoot.com into white bit on top of your browser.

new iwoot site

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Nintendo 3DS Arrives at IWOOT

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Well, with this being one of the most anticipated gaming console releases of recent times, we thought we’d better get in on the act and start stocking the Nintendo 3DS – and boy are we excited to be doing so!

As you’re probably aware, the 3DS had a whopping great launch event in Amsterdam the other day (get all the info here), at which the release date of March 25th was announced. You can already pre-order yours over at IWOOT by clicking here (ooh, two colours!).  There’s a fantastic range of games already in the pipeline for the 3DS as well, including a Metal Gear Solid title (will it ever beat this moment?) and Pro Evo Soccer as well.

Most exciting, though, are the advances made with all the extras. Three cameras allow you to take 3D pictures, the StreetPass function allows you to exchange data with other players as you walk past them, and with the augmented reality feature you can watch your 3D games spring into life in front of your eyes. In short, it’s rather excellent and we can’t wait to get our mitts on one. Can’t even believe we’re saying this – it might be even more exciting than zombies and RC helicopters combined. Yikes!

On a side-note, look at this horrendous trailer for the 3DS. Thank goodness they haven’t made getting burned alive a major part of the PR campaign.

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RC Helicopters Building Towers

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Regular readers may already know that we love RC Helicopters. We love them enough to make obstacle courses, smash them to pieces, repair them and sell them (not in that order). Naturally, we were rather excited to see that some boffins across the pond (it usually is) have managed to create a small fleet of RC choppers that are capable of building towers. What next? Supermarkets? Branches of Poundland?

We’ll let those boffins explain:

Via Geekologie.

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Some customer photos…

Friday, January 14th, 2011

Now that Christmas is done and dusted (though the streets still seem to be littered with pine needles from discarded trees), we’ve had a couple of photos sent to us of people enjoying their IWOOT Christmas presents. This is exactly the sort of thing we love to receive at IWOOT, and heck, it makes us feel all warm inside, so we thought we’d share it with you.

First up, here’s an alternative use of one of our boxes, courtesy of @weeniebeenie on Twitter:

And this one from @harrietjeckells, who bought one of our Sumo Suits for her little brother:

Happiest boy ever? Probably. Furthermore, here’s one of his dad:

Do feel free to tweet us your snaps of IWOOT stuff in use, even if it’s just a cat in one of our boxes. Actually, make that particularly if it’s just a cat in one of our boxes.

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Skiing Is Believing

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Anyone looking forward to careening effortlessly down an Alpine mountain this season will already be rather excited (I just checked the Courchevel webcam for about the seventh time this morning… it’s definitely been snowing…). Well, prepare to be even more excited – we’ve just stumbled across the ultimate pair of skiing goggles to make your impending descents that little bit more Bond-esque.

These rather ridiculous Zeal Transcend GPS Goggles are fiendishly clever, and turn the skiing experience into something that resembles the POV text-sightedness of Robocop rather than Ski Sunday. And that, folks, is definitely a good thing. Due to some intense wizardry (probably mirrors), it’s possible to track your ski routes via GPS and watch them back later, and view your stats as you go. That means temperature, speed and even the height of your jumps are recorded and shown to you as you go. In short, it’s properly amazing.

Slightly frivolous it may be (and naysayers will undoubtedly go on about it turning real life into a computer game… don’t see the problem myself…), but it’s difficult to argue with the functions of this spanking set of specs. A slope essential, if you’ve got a spare three or four hundred quid.

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Worst Christmas Present Winner

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

As soon as Santa had delivered his last gift (feel sorry for whoever got that), we launched a competition to find the worst Christmas present given this year, and boy did we have some strong contenders. Of course, we had to select one winner from the photos submitted, and it turned out to be a pretty unanimous decision here at IWOOT Towers.

So without any more dilly-dallying, we unveil the winner:

We’re sure you’ll agree that this is literally unbelievable. A onesie. With elephants on. Pink elephants. Poor old Samantha Coles. She could at least try and look grateful. Congratulations and £100 of IWOOT vouchers are winging their way to her as we speak!

Thanks to everyone who entered the competition, we had a right old laugh wondering who on earth would think giving Sellotape as a Christmas present was a good idea.

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International Space Station visible in Solar Eclipse

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

You might not be able to tell from the dinky picture we’ve got on the left there, but if you click on this link you can see an amazing photo taken during yesterday’s lunar eclipse. You can quite clearly make out the shape of the International Space Station as the moon blocks out a fair chunk of the sun, a rare glimpse of what’s going on just outside our atmosphere. Also, it looks rather a lot like Pac-Man, so we’re down with that too.

Apparently the International Space Station itself is a mere 100 metres in length, so it’s truly incredible that we’re able to even see it. Thanks to the snapping skills of one Thierry Legault, we can. What a clever chap. You can find out more about the photo here. Here’s a picture of him taking the picture:

Via Bad Astronomy which looks, on first inspection, to be rather excellent.

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