6 November 2004, by Webmaster
In a room crammed with more slide-rule prowess that your average calculus convention, the six-legged Geek Apparent strutted its self-aware stuff.
These nerd heart-throbs demonstrated not only that pocket protectors CAN be chic fashion accessories; they showed the great seam of humour than can be mined from the everyday life of the egghead.
Owing a debt to the outlandishly bogus set design of early Dr Who, Tripod make great comedic use of low-fi props and wonderfully crappy lighting effects. (...)