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Jon Chu’s idea to make a dance-based television show might not that seem unconventional, especially with the popularity of shows like So You Think You Can Dance? and Dancing With The Stars. His idea, however, was for a series called The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (The LXD), a show about people with special powers that [...]
For my latest Technologizer column over at TIME.com, I peered ahead into 2011 and compiled a list of products and trends that should have an impact before the year is out. I tried to avoid making out-and-out predictions: I think that so much is unknowable that if your prognostications pan out it may be due [...]
If patents are to be believed, Apple is working on the creation of the world’s first glasses-free 3D display that would produce holographic images using a screen made up of “pixel-sized domes” that would be read differently by the human eye depending on where they’re viewing from.
Move over Netflix and iTunes, it’s time for the Big Box Stores to get in on this Video On Demand action. Sears and Kmart have teamed to launch their own movie download service, with their famously low prices and… wait, I mean surprisingly familiar pricing and format. I guess this might not be quite the [...]
The first volume of European comics creators Mezzo and Pirus’ King of the Flies, subtitled Hallorave, was one of the creepiest graphic novels of 2010–an intersecting set of short pieces about a small group of people drawn together by sex, drugs and violence in various combinations, whose horror deepens with every new connection it draws [...]
The number of Facebook friends you have is correlated to the size of your amygdala, the center used to process the memory of your emotional reactions in your brain, according to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience. The volume of your amydala has been connected to the size of the circle of those you [...]
Embarrassed by your Google search results? Old blogs and newspaper archives can be haunting, but cleaning up your search engine reputation is thorny. Google will only remove a search result from its queue if you can prove that the web page can be used for identity or credit card theft.
A new video on the Playstation blog reveals a little more insight into why the Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception team decided to take their protagonist to the desert. Game Director Justin Richmond doesn’t remember who suggested that they should set the next chapter in the game series in the sand, but said the whole team [...]
The latest round of iPad 2 rumors to trickle out of Asia point to three different connection options: Wi-Fi, UMTS, and CDMA.
In an effort to improve phone service, AT&T is rolling out new public wi-fi hot spots for their customers in popular areas in San Francisco and New York City. Subscribers will be able to access the service in San Francisco’s Embarcadero area near Rincon Park later this year, according to the press release. For those [...]
From highly anticipated titles like Marvel vs. Capcom 3 to the last part of the Mass Effect trilogy, we’re eagerly playing our current titles in preparation for 2011′s upcoming releases in gaming. Next year’s most anticipated games will not only showcase vast technological advances in animation and new techniques in gameplay, they also remind us [...]
