Monday, June 7, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
Stanley Tucci Joins Captain America Cast [via Heat Vision]
Gadgets:
Apple’s Seven Biggest iPhone Snafus [via NewsFeed]
Apple Crams A Powerhouse Into The New iPhone 4 [via The Apple Blog]
Orange Power Wellies Convert All That Dancin’ To Juice …
I love football (soccer). I love Star Wars. Daft Punk rocks my face off. And I happen to be wearing a pair of Adidas kicks today, so it’s serendipitous that the sneaker company released the latest Star Wars mashup leading up to the FIFA World Cup today. Amazing, right?
More on Techland: Snoop Dogg, Darth Vader and Adidas Invade NYC
For some, the series finale of ABC’s LOST is still an oozing source of anger. This guy makes all other pissed off LOST guys look Island agnostic.
“A lot of people invested a lot of time and energy in following LOST over the years. I was one of those people. A lot of people were satisfied with the way the series ended. I was not one of …
Video blogger and musician Alex Day is able to explain the main story arch of LOST in three minutes using Post-It notes. And you know what, it actually works.
(More on Techland: All of LOST in 108 Seconds)
Day’s also got a new video game-themed EP 117% Complete: comedic musical commentary at its finest. My favorite is Pokemon, What …
Last night’s episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory was an origin tale: Leonard meets Sheldon.
The quirky, sometimes insane friendship between the two roommates all makes sense after Leonard fills Penny in on how things unfolded on the day they met. The whole episode was full of great laughs, but my favorite was yet another Firefly …
Though this video from The Onion is a tongue-in-cheek look at Google’s advertising platform, it may not be too far off from what’s coming in the future.
The idea is simple. Google gives away handsets and service for free and in return, it uses voice recognition software to detect what you’re talking about and whispers …
This will really put a stop to those uncomfortable wedding officiant tangents.
Japanese couple Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue recently tied the knot with the help of the I-Fairy bot, a ceremonial drone created by Japanese company Kokoro, where the bride works.
Inspired? The bot, one of only three in use, will set you back …
I wrote a little diddy for the magazine on four ‘rugged’ cameras from Panasonic, Olympus, Pentax and Casio. I also shot a video for the dot com and the iPad, as well. You can read the story here, but the video is a bit more fun to watch.
More on Techland:
The 10 Best Camera Apps for the iPhone
8 Netbooks Worth Buying …
If you saw a copy of Microsoft Office sitting unattended in a public area, what would you do? I’d think to myself, “Hey I use Google Docs, but Microsoft Office is expensive! I wonder where the rightful owner is. I’ll call Microsoft’s tech support hotline to ask them how to return it to said rightful owner and if they have no idea …
Marblecake, also the game.
Yeah, last year’s Time 100 poll was an interesting venture here in the office, most notably because we discovered we were had. Followers of 4Chan founder Moot, aka Christopher Poole, manipulated the votes using a special coding and then continued to deliver a message using the first letters of the names in …
Wil Wheaton of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stand By Me fame gives the inaugural keynote address at PAX East 2010. Wheaton discusses his obsession with Dungeons and Dragons, the strong friendships formed around gaming, and how the line between television, movies, and video games as entertainment mediums gets blurrier all the …
It’s amazing what a little menacing music can do to a film clip.
Here, we get an awesome glimpse at Han Solo’s reaction to Leia’s revelation that Luke is actually her brother. Yeah, that kiss was the retrospective “ICK” heard round the world. Enjoy.
(via The Daily What)