Sony might have figured out a sneaky but ingenious way to increase sales of its next crop of e-readers: Cash in on the still-existent Harry Potter craze.
Of all the literature missing from the e-book realm, the omission of the Harry Potter series was seen by many as the most egregious. And for good reason.
Harry Potter-style animated photos are closer than you might think. A U.K. company is working on technology that prints electronic circuits onto incredibly thin layers of plastic—so thin, they can be attached to paper and you’d hardly notice they were there.
From flying cars to portable alarm systems, here are our picks for the best pieces of wizard tech we wish we could take with us.
When you think about it, Harry Potter video games were simply born under a bad sign. The stuff that video games can do well when inspired–incredible world-building, the explication of a fantasy construct and its rules–were all done to genius levels in the rich imaginings of J.K. Rowling’s writing. And then, the eight movies that [...]
Remember the moving photos that appear in newspapers and magazines in the Harry Potter stories?
It’s taken…well, far too many years, actually, but Harry Potter might finally be getting around to entering the 21st century. The Scotsman newspaper reports that after years ignoring the format, JK Rowling is considering e-book versions of all seven installments of the series that made her name. The newspaper quotes Liz Thomson, editor of publishing [...]
With The Dark Knight‘s Facebook trial being deemed a success, Warner Bros have released five more movies to stream from the social network, and this time they’re going outside of the nerd demographic. As originally announced, Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s Inception is now available to stream on the movie’s official Facebook page, but the [...]
School! It’s where you send your kids when you’ve realized that you don’t love them enough to keep them around all day. But if fiction is to be believed, schools are also magical and exciting places where children learn more than just the basics of geography or math. But with so many schools to choose [...]
There’s definitely something magical about the world of Harry Potter brought to life on film, and surprisingly, it has nothing to do with wizardry. The man behind the magic is actually Tim Burke, visual effects supervisor for Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part One, in theaters now.
As the theatrical release netted a franchise record opening weekend of $125 million – and that’s without the 3D component originally planned – ABC has announced that the last two Harry Potter movies, Deathly Hallows Part One and Two, will get their television debut on ABC Family. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone [...]
