Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Eclipse Breaks New Mood Record For Midnight Ticket Sales With More Than $30 Million [via LA Times]
Pornographers Next To Drop Flash For HTML5 [via Apple Insider]
Hands-On 3D Gaming Comparison Test: 3DS vs PS3 [via Popular …
When it comes to gore, there’s nobody quite like Greg Nicotero.
A go-to makeup artist, he’s worked on everything (Kill Bill, The Chronicles of Narnia, Inglourious Basterds) and with everyone (Quinten Tarantino, George Romero, Steven Spielberg). And now, as the head of special make up effects for AMC’s TV adaptation of The Walking …
According to Kotaku, the technical specifications for the Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on may have been outed by a British retailer. Here’s a list of what all is in there and what that stuff can do:
Sensor
Colour and depth-sensing lenses
Voice microphone array
Tilt motor for sensor adjustment
Fully compatible with existing Xbox 360
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File this under “It’s about damn time”.
Speaking to Computerworld at Cisco’s annual Cisco Live! Conference, Marthin De Beer, senior VP of emerging technologies, detailed a couple consumer focused points about what’s in the pipeline.
• a Wi-Fi-enabled Flip camera is on the way and will likely be available in time for …
Here’s hoping that star turns in last year’s Terminator Salvation and Avatar, not to mention this year’s Clash of the Titans, haven’t soured you on Sam Worthington; the Australian actor has just teamed up with comic publisher Radical to create an imprint dedicated to creating new movies for him to star in.
Comics created by movie …
Less than two months after the launch of KIN, Microsoft has decided to kill the entire initiative and integrate the team into the Windows Phone 7 group. Who knows how many millions of dollars went into the development of KIN aka Project Pink, marketing, concerts, etc. but we won’t be seeing any other KIN devices in the future. …
The Norwegian cartoonist Jason specializes in comics that take the premises of high-tension thrillers–zombies, assassins, time travel, bank robberies–and transform them into deadpan, reserved domestic comedies. (Also, almost all of his characters have animal heads, just because.) Werewolves of Montpellier, out today, concerns a bored …
So, DC Comics have declared this Wonder Woman Week. We’re getting an anniversary issue, a new creative team and a bold new direction for the character. In his comments about taking on Princess Diana’s legacy, incoming writer J. Michael Stracynski talks about wanting to modernize Wonder Woman. For a character created in the 1930s
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There are thousands upon thousands of step-by-step guides that’ll show you how to de-gunk your PC in the event of system slowdowns, crashes, and viruses. This one’s built for speed and can be done on a semi-regular basis if you just want to tidy things up a bit.
You’ll need to download, install, and run these three programs in this …
While $1,629 seems like a lot to spend on a notebook nowadays, it’s oddly comforting to know that you can get a decked-out computer with very few compromises for well shy of two grand.
Such is the case of HP’s EliteBook 2540p, a 12-inch rugged-but-portable notebook with a low-voltage Intel Core i7 processor, six-cell battery, Windows …
While I get the skepticism anytime the possibility of a Doctor Who movie is brought up – Who else remembers the rumors this time last year about an announcement due at the last San Diego Comic-Con? – I don’t understand just why the idea of Johnny Depp playing the Doctor in a big budget movie, as apparently “confirmed” by Tor.com …
Today, Diana Prince got her first pair of super pants.
To coincide with the release of Wonder Woman #600, DC has updated Wonder Woman’s look for the first time in 69 years. Though we’re sure it’ll outrage some fans, we’re wondering, what do you think? Is Wonder Woman still wonderful with pants? (Read more: Wonder Woman Undergoes …
