In a little over 4 hours it’s expected that Steve Jobs (or maybe Phil Schiller) will take the stage at Apple HQ’s Town Hall to address the iPhone 4 and its reception woes or lack there of. On the eve of every Apple press conference, the Internet explodes with last-minute rumors and various individuals “close to the matter” seem …
Emanata: The Phone is the Panel is the Page
Just about every comics creator I’ve talked to recently has been thinking, at least a little, about how mobile digital technology is going to affect their work. For anyone who’s going to be at Comic-Con International next week, I’m going to be moderating a panel on “Comics After Paper” on Saturday the 24th, with creators Dylan Meconis, …
Firefox Home for iPhone Syncs Desktop Tabs and Bookmarks
If you’re a Firefox user and iPhone owner who’s longed for a way to synchronize the data between your computer’s web browser and your mobile device, Mozilla’s new Firefox Home project may be right up your alley.
The system consists of the Firefox Sync add-on running in your Firefox browser and the iPhone-specific Firefox Home app. …
Apple holds press conference on iPhone 4 issues at 1 pm ET
What X-Villain Will Kevin Bacon Play In First Class?
So, it’s official: Kevin Bacon will be the bad guy in Fox’s mutant reboot, X-Men: First Class. But what bad guy will he be? Fox are keeping things remarkably secret right now, which is probably either a sign that it’ll blow our minds, it’ll be someone so ridiculously lame that we won’t care, or it hasn’t been decided yet (My money’s on …
Inception in theaters
New episode of Haven airs on Syfy at 10 p.m.
New episode of Eureka airs on Syfy at 9 p.m.
The Daily Dose
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
More Green Lantern Pics Arrive [Slash Film]
Gadgets:
Apple Doesn’t Plan To Issue A Recall Friday, Person Familiar Says [Business Week]
Five Robots To Watch [NYT]
Taiwan’s MSI Gunning To Be The HTC Of Tablets [LA Times]
App Review: James …
Assassin’s Creed Sneaks Its Way From Video Games Into Comic Books
The hugely successful Assassins’ Creed franchise has been a huge hit on game consoles, with its mix of stealth, strategy and visceral combat. Part of what work in the series has been the ability to place its fiction in a myriad of historical time period. The first game had players controlling Altair in medieval Jerusalem and last …
“I’m Just A Zombie Nerd” The Max Brooks Interview, Part One
In 2003, Max Brooks published The Zombie Survival Guide ($10, Amazon) in an original run of just 17,000 copies. No one really expected he could sell that many, let alone did they ever dream it would become a best seller – not a book about how to survive a zombie attack. Oh, how glad we are they were all wrong.
Brooks recently …
Brammo Gets Serious With 100MPH Empulse Electric Motorcycle
Announced earlier today, Oregon-based Brammo revealed a street fighter-like all-electric sportbike. The Empulse will come in three models with varying range of distance per charge. The Empulse 6.0 is capable of going 60 miles per charge, while the 8.0 and 10 will be able to go 80 and 100 miles, respectively. Depending on how fast one …