His name is Titan, he’s 8-feet tall, and he’s a robotic entertainment machine that was unveiled by Panasonic at Dubai’s GITEX 2009 conference. Apart from looking like something that would run after you to kill you, Titan can actually sing and dance like you wouldn’t believe it. Check him out below. [Via TechEblog]
Sometimes you hear a rumor that has very little detail, but the very idea of it is momentous enough to take seriously. This could be one of those cases: Google may be getting into the music business. Very little is known at the moment, with most reports tracing back to a post on TechCrunch. That [...]
Remember the auto-tuned song featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking we posted last month? Well the song was so popular that its creator, John Boswell, decided to create another one, and this time, he included Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye, to sing along with Sagan. Check it out.
When is selling 595,000 copies of a game in three weeks a disappointment? When it’s the Beatles edition of Rock Band. The sales make it the third best-selling game of September, beating out fellow debutante Guitar Hero 5, which just fell short of the 500,000. The Beatles game was up in second place for total [...]
Have you ever wondered what really happened to the unlucky “I” that gets flattened in the original Pixar Intro? Well Collegehumor gives you an extended look at the poor letter’s fate in their latest parody.
I may not really be into rap music, but I can certainly appreciate when something has been superbly done, especially when it’s in a particularly geeky way. Not only is the “follow me” clip a masterpiece of nostalgia for oldschool gamers like me, but it also features an 8-bit music track that is sure to [...]
I’ve always been fascinated by anyone who can fluently speak more than one language. People who learn a manufactured language amaze me. And being able to perform a known song in a manufactured language is just plain cool. Introducing the artist known as Klenginem, performing the Klingon version of Eminem’s song Without Me. In Klingon, [...]
Star Trek 2009 will be out on DVD and Blu-Ray on November 17, (available for pre-order right here: DVD – Blu-Ray), but while waiting, you can always check the movie’s gag reel below, which will apparently be available as bonus material on the media. Enjoy!
How often do you see movie clip mashups made into a rap song? OK, very often, but how often do you see a video mashup using movie clips that keep a dance rhythm and all rhyme? This brilliant edit is from Ricardo Autobahn. [via b3ta]
Last week we brought you our picks for the five sexiest female geeks from the United Kingdom. Two of those on our list have noted their placing in Twitter posts with Victoria Coren saying “I’m prouder of that than I have been of anything since I won Best Cake at the 2005 Clacton Festival” and [...]
I’ve started taking stairs about a year ago, mainly because I wanted to lose a little weight (hey, every bit counts!), but most people I see going to work each morning use escalators. Motivating yourself to start improving your health, even in little ways, can be difficult. But a bunch of guys in Odenplan, Stockholm [...]
With David Tennant departing from the show, the big news in Doctor Who world early this year was the casting of newcomer Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor (perhaps even overshadowing the other big news that Steven Moffat is replacing Russell T. Davies as head writer). And a couple of months ago it was announced [...]