On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger fell from 20 miles (102,800 feet) above the Earth’s surface setting the free fall record. In 2010, Felix Baumgartner plans to break Joe’s record by falling back down to Earth from 120,000 (~23 miles) feet high. Think about that for a second, folks.
Man will free fall from Earth’s stratosphere with …
Thursday Jan. 21, 2010
Today in Techland: Steve chats about the bad ass factor of fallen angels with Legion director Scott Stewart, tech guru Doug shares his tips for keeping gunk out of your gadgets and Mike gives us the best panels of this week’s comics. We also spent the morning giggling over Avatar sex. It was good day,
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After some shipping issues, Techland has finally received review units of the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus for Verizon Wireless. Both devices launch on the 25th of this month for $149.99 and $99.99, respectively. After a $100 MIR and 2-year contract, of course. The unlimited data plan for Verizon is $29.99. A unique and exclusive …
Take a second look at the promotional Legion image above. If you’re anything like me – or the hundreds of people I’ve seen checking out Legion posters on the New York City subway system – your eyes drift to the wings, then those abs, and then you’re almost caught off guard by the dagger in his right hand….and the Uzi in his …
Talk about burying the lede. In a blog post about the Sundance Film Festival, YouTube slipped in that they’re going to offer rentals of five Sundance faves as a first step into the movie rental business. YouTube’s been long-rumored to be interested in this space, but its a crowded one: iTunes has offered video rentals since 2008, Amazon …
If Ed McGuinness draws it I will buy it. It’s become that simple. Fall of the Hulks takes center stage this week and it’s about time. Rounding out our other panels are vengeful planets, cosmic thugs, life-sized action figures, and ridiculous villains with ridiculous costumes and even stupider names. Here it is, the
Seriously: Sony Computer Entertainment is producing a reality show about contestants competing to be an official PlayStation game tester. To prove it’s really happening, SCEA just announced the cast of the show, whose collective list of favorite games and characters suspiciously references titles that you can only play on the …
Yet another zombie apocalypse day in Hollywood!
News came down late Wednesday that AMC has given the green light to create a pilot of The Walking Dead, an adaptation of the zombie apocalypse graphic novel by Robert Kirkman. (More at Techland: See the top 10 comic books of the decade)
As if that wasn’t exciting enough news, the …
Techland’s Peter Ha digs into what it means that Amazon is adding an apps store for the Kindle, gets psyched up about AMC planning to turn Robert Kirkman’s comic “The Walking Dead” into a TV show, lists the latest Apple tablet rumors and weighs in on whether or not you should see “Legion” this weekend.
All that and more in today’s …
