Researchers Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar from University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab have been working on an autonomous quadrotor that, well, scares the bejesus out of us. Just watch the videos. No doubt the government has been watching what these fellas are up to.
The video above was released earlier this year and the one below …
For those of us who pay too much attention to these things, last night’s Warehouse 13 was a treasure trove of new information and new questions, as we ditched the artifacts for an investigation into the history of the Warehouses themselves. Here’re thirteen thoughts about “Buried”:
1. What Is A Warehouse, Exactly? Mrs. Frederick said …
Proving once again that there is no piece of comic-book intellectual property so minor that somebody won’t bank on nostalgia for it, Ardden Entertainment has announced that they’ll be relaunching the mid-’70s Atlas Comics line at this year’s New York Comic-Con.
The original Atlas/Seaboard didn’t last very long: it was launched in …
As far as arguments for going vegan go, you have to give David Agranoff credit for trying something different, if nothing else. The Portland-based founder of Try Vegan PDX has written a novel in which vegans are the only people on Earth safe from becoming zombies when chemicals used in animal products start to change everyone else… Oh, …
With Daredevil being taken out of commission for a couple of months following his current crossover “event,” Shadowland, Marvel Comics has drafted a surprise replacement to take care of New York City’s downtrodden and overlooked: T’Challa, AKA the Black Panther. Well, a Black Panther, at least.
Announced on last night’s Attack Of The …
For most of its history, Twitter hasn’t exactly had a reputation for rushing headlong into major changes. Actually, the company has been remarkably conservative–for as long as people have been using the service to share photos, videos, maps, and other information, it’s been obvious that would be cool if you could see all that stuff …
A while back, I wrote about Schwarznegger v. EMA, the case going before the Supreme Court that could possibly restrict video game sales. Currently, pro-gamer organizations are marshalling support for their side of the argument. The Entertainment Consumers Association is gathering names for a petition to include in an amicus brief to be …
Every now and then, you can tell that certain movies or television shows are just not going to turn out well, purely from how troubled their creation processes become. Joss Whedon’s ill-fated Dollhouse was one, and now it’s beginning to look like Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova will become another. A month after Fox pushed the premiere of …
Two of the best independent English-language comics publishers have sales going on this week: Top Shelf has over 100 of their titles on sale, many for $3 or less, and Drawn & Quarterly is discounting nearly everything in their catalogue by at least 30%. Here are five killer deals on excellent books from each publisher.
TOP …
Marvel has released preview images from Tron: Betrayal, their prologue to this winter’s upcoming Tron Legacy, and… is it just me, or is the mention of “the West Coast” seem kind of weird?
Tron: Betrayal is a two-issue series that spans the period between the first and second movie, filling in backstory for Legacy and introducing …
If you’ve been looking for a simple way to send HTML e-mail from your iPhone, MarkdownMail ($1.99) may be the answer. The application makes use of a simplified coding syntax developed by John Gruber known as Markdown, which it leverages to quickly create things like hyperlinks, bolded words, italicized words, bulleted lists, headings, …
An update to Thumbplay’s iPhone app allows users to cache playlists and albums. Other new features and fixes include: an improved UI, retina display support, shuffle/repeat and integrated player controls.
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