The $100 XWave headset plugs into the headphone jack of any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch and claims to measure your Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma and Theta brainwaves. I have no way of proving or disproving these claims, though I can tell you that it certainly does something while you use it.
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You’d be forgiven for thinking, at various times over the last year or so, that the Marvel Comics/Sony musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was some kind of strange urban myth instead of a real thing. Directed by The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor, music by U2 and so dangerous that a stuntman broke his wrists during rehearsals? It really does …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about Detective Comics #871, Batwoman #0 and the Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali reprint.
GRAEME: Now, more than ever, Batwoman is an artists’ comic. With Greg Rucka out of …
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 from, which one offers the most …
Here’s a sign that Darren Aronofsky’s The Wolverine – AKA, Fox’s second solo Wolverine movie, spinning out of the first three X-Men movies – will probably have a difficult but fascinating birthing process, even if the finished product doesn’t quite work: The director has claimed that it will have “nothing to do” with either X-Men …
It’s official: Mark Wahlberg will be staring as hero Nathan Drake in the Uncharted movie, based off the popular video game. The actor confirmed the news to MTV.
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Yeah, we had the same questions. One, …
When it comes to CG animation there’s one big rule: Never touch the hair. You can create all kinds of characters and settings, but as long as you avoid those locks, you’re golden. Computer imagery of hair is just a beast of its own nature; each strand has to retain realistic body and strength. So most animators keep the coif short or …
This week’s issue of Detective Comics introduces a “Commissioner Gordon” feature by Scott Snyder and Francesco Francavilla, which will appear in two issues as a backup story, and then start alternating with Snyder and Jock’s Batman stories in Detective‘s. It’s about time: for all his prominence in the 71-year history of Batman, Gordon’s …
Their other regulations may make traveling this holiday season a pain, but the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has released an app that potentially can make traveling easier. (But, perhaps not enough to make up for those enhanced patdowns acceptable.)
The new free TSA App – simply called My TSA – updates users on wait …
Facebook is one step closer to trade marking the word, “face.” The very idea would be ridiculous if it wasn’t proof of the company’s rapid escalation within the race for web sovereignty.
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The trademark, which only applies to the word “face” when it’s used for online …
Microsoft hasn’t given up on the idea of a Halo movie just yet – In fact, the company is so eager to see one, that it might be willing to pay for it itself. Which, if the franchise’s development director Frank O’Connor is to be believed, may be necessary in order to for it to happen. (More on Time.com: Top 10 Failed Gaming Consoles)
It’s the Super Bowl of shopping, the Olympics of overspending, the ultimate culmination of consumer exuberance. It’s Black Friday!
Here’s a list of retail stores and their time-limited doorbuster deals. Be sure to check out Techland’s Black Friday Awards on the final page for an overview of where to find the best (and worst) …
