Day: January 29, 2014

Culture Entertainment

Oculus Is Awesome for Games, But It’s the Future of Movies

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Photo courtesy Oculus   PARK CITY, Utah – I never thought I’d ever say this, but I’m onstage with Beck. He’s wearing his usual hat-and-blazer combo, and covering one of my favorite David Bowie songs. Out past the crowd is a full choir — a few faces I recognize because they played with Beck during last year’s Station to Station rolling art extravaganza — and a massive musical ensemble. People are…

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Art Entertainment Film

Inside the design of David Lynch’s ‘Dune’

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster The reception for David Lynch’s theatrical take on Dune was mixed, to stay the least. But for all of its narrative issues, it certainly was a lovely film to look at. Writing on io9, former concept artist Ron Miller provides some insight into how the world of Arrakis was created. Miller — whose job included crafting large-scale paintings to represent scenes from the film — touches on “the immense effort that went…

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Internet

.Guru, .Bike, .Singles And 4 Other Domains Will Open For Business Tomorrow

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As reported TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois If you are looking for a good domain name, your choices are about to get more interesting. Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to register a .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures domain name through numerous registrarsworldwide. Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) already made four new gTLDs in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic scripts available, but this is the first time new gTLDs will become…

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Google

Google Brings Chrome Apps To Android And iOS

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois Google’s offline Chrome Apps are about to find their way to both Android and iOS. Using Apache’s well-known open-source Cordova platform for turning web apps into native apps, Google today launched a developer preview of a toolchainfor building native apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.Using these tools, developers can take their existing Chrome Apps, wrap them into a native shell and submit them to Google Play and Apple’s App Store. Google is making a…

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Photography Tablet

Sony add-on will let you graft a giant camera to your tablet

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Whether you like it or not, tablet photography is here to stay — it’s only fair that slate owners get a fair chance at taking nice pictures. Sony certainly thinks so, since it has unveiled a new mount, the SPA-TA1, that attaches its QX lens cameras to tablets. The peripheral isn’t just for small devices, either; it includes six adjustable arms that accommodate larger hardware, like the Xperia Tablet Z and VAIO Tap 11. Sony ships…

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