If you’re chomping for full-body control on your Xbox 360, the good news is that you won’t need a new console. The bad news is that it likely won’t be available for 10 months. As part of his address to the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft’s head of “entertainment and devices” Robbie Bach confirmed that Project [...]
We’re now at a point in history where computer generated art, whether it is animated or not, can be nearly indistinguishable from something you’d see in reality. Just check out the following piece, which has been fully rendered and animated via software commonly available to everyone (3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.) Architechture through the cinematographic [...]
“The Unbroken Thread” is the fourth video in the Symphony of Science series, and it features David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, and Carl Sagan. The clips used in this installment come from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, David Attenborough’s Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life, The Life of Mammals, The Living Planet, BBC Life, XVIVO Scientific Animations, [...]
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There is a natural inclination among humans to take the best videos games out of the machine and bring them into real life. Going old school in the geekiest way possible, Windell Oskay has built a non-video version of Pong. The process of building this marvel is posted at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
I saw this video this morning, posted by a few people on Facebook. I had to share. This one goes out to the Summoner, the Miller, the Wife of Bath, and the Monk. There are dozen of reasons to love Chaucer (hilarious stories, sexual innuendo, and fart jokes notwithstanding) but who knew the General Prologue [...]
ESPN has announced it will broadcast this year’s FIFA World Cup finals in 3D. It will be the flagship programming at the launch of a specific 3D station which will also show NBA games as part of a minimum of 85 3D broadcasts this year. The Discovery Network is also to launch a 3D channel [...]
Having still not yet entirely conquered my desire for a netbook—mostly staved off by the fact that my iPod Touch gets the job done most of the time—there may yet be good news. It is quite likely that I have simply waited long enough for netbooks to be, well, so last decade. Enter the smartbook. [...]
Ouch, I certainly hope there wasn’t anybody aboard that ship!
A very well done and highly entertaining Team Fortress II machinima by Laurie Johnson. The laughing in the background is a bit annoying, but otherwise, this is absolutely brilliant. Enjoy!
I’ve been a Star Wars fan since 1977, but I suppose you’d call me a casual fan. Until this morning, I had no idea there was a character named Jek Porkins. Who? In the most critical sequence of one of the most popular movies of all time, George Lucas cast William Hootkins, a portly, bearded [...]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] While news of this device leaked quite a while ago (and Google openly distributed it to their employees), the Google Nexus One still drew a crowd today, both online and at Google’s official launch event. The new phone is similar to other Android devices, such as the popular Droid, but [...]
