So what does Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-control camera really do as it’s capturing your movements? One enterprising individual turned to the magic of night vision optics to find out.
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The result looks like an eerie blanket of stars from far away, and a mono-colored Lite Brite …
Available today, Smule’s $2.99 Magic Fiddle iPad app turns Apple’s $499 tablet into a $501.99 digital fiddle of sorts.
The app teaches you to play the fiddle using a rolling line of notes that cross over a virtual set of strings, similar to how games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero work. You can play along to a built-in library of …
It’s Wednesday, which means New Comics Day in both the real and virtual worlds. But for DC Comics, their big release isn’t the final physical issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne or even the digital release of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Although, come on, that’s pretty great), but instead the launch of the company’s new …
Some movies have been based off of some pretty ridiculous premises, but the news today that Creative Artists Agency, who represents Hollywood heavyweights including George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Sandra Bullock and Brad Pitt, snapped up the rights to the Rubik Cube movie may be downright shocking.
It’s not only the puzzle toy that’s …
This week sees the first-ever reprint of Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali, the semi-legendary giant-size 1978 one-shot in which Superman faced The Greatest in a boxing ring to save Earth from an alien invasion. (It was created by the reunited Green Lantern/Green Arrow team of Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams, and is significantly better than it has …
Without his myriad of Web followers, there might not be another Conan show on air.
As word of Conan’s expulsion from his short-term gig as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show hit the Internet, fans held vigil via social media as Team Coco marched to the metaphorical courthouse steps of NBC by way of Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. The …
Here’s yet another new trailer (This one, for British audiences) for next month’s Tron: Legacy, this time setting up all the backstory you need to understand Disney’s revival of the 20+ year franchise and, in the process, giving the best look we’ve had so far at the CGI-deaged Jeff Bridges… and I have to admit: He’s kind of freaking me …
If you liked the 3D mix of CGI and live action footage of Avatar, but weren’t so convinced by things like “story” or “large blue aliens that kind of look like the actors in a way that’s kind of freaky,” then the news that the BBC documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs is to be turned into a big budget 3D movie is probably the best …
Here’s a good reason to be thankful that they didn’t have the internet when you were a kid: You would have probably known the end of The Empire Strikes Back two years before the movie came out.
Retroist has a newspaper cutting from 1978 that reveals that David Prowse, the body of Darth Vader, told fans that Darth was actually Luke …
Remember the View-Master? Imagine replacing those little round plastic disks with an iPhone and you’ve basically nailed down what Hasbro’s trying to do with the My3D iPhone accessory.
Due out next spring, the My3D kit will pair an iPhone-mountable viewing apparatus that costs $30 with—you guessed it—apps available from the …
Bill Nye educated thousands of kids and made science cool to learn. Though he’s put those days behind him, the television science personality still wants to educate people on how to lower your carbon footprint at home.
“[You need to learn about] a universal awareness of your place in space,” Nye told Techland. “Look at the planet …
Icons: The DC Comics and WildStorm Art of Jim Lee comes out this month–a big coffee-table book surveying Lee’s past two decades as a comics artist. It includes a hefty sampling of his work on Superman, Batman and the various titles Lee created for WildStorm, as well as a new Legion of Super-Heroes story drawn by Lee and written by Paul …
