Month: January 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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Culture

Forget Matadors, These Guys Wrestle Bulls With Their Bare Hands

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT SIMILAR GALLERIES 30 Years of Amazing Sports Moments, Captured by a Master Photographer Meet the Coolest 84-Year-Old on the Internet Throwback Thursday: 100 Years Ago, Drone Cameras Soared on Kites 2,000 Feet High Powerful Photos Go Deep Inside America’s Fracking Boom Siamese Fighting Fish Show Off Their Fiercest Looks Haunting Photos of a Crumbling Post-Communist World 1 / 12 A forcado tries to hang on after the…

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Art

Trip on psychedelic GIFs from the safety of your browser

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Henrique Lima is a man of many talents. Perhaps better known as ‘Gringo,’ the São Paulo-based artist is one half of the illustrative duo Mulheres Barbadas, but he also creates typefaces, designs T-shirts for Tenso Graphics, is part of the loose Black Rock Collective, and, most recently, has turned his hand to crafting GIFs. Lima’s Mestre Fungo is a psychedelic series of expertly animated images, in which faces drip like melting waxworks, eyes well with…

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Automotive Culture

Will connected cars cause more accidents?

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries With a deluge of apps coming to the car, it’s time to start taking distracted driving as seriously as drunk driving Morgan Webb, the gaming and tech personality, stood on a purple-lit stage between a Chevy Impala and a Corvette and raised her arms triumphantly. The candy-apple-red cars looked ordinary, if a little shinier than normal, but it was what was inside that mattered: LTE connectivity and an…

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Apple

Apple’s next cash cow could be your fingerprint

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As reported on Engadget. BY BRAD MOLEN The mobile payments arena may not seem so big right now, but make no mistake: We’re just seeing the beginning of a rapidly growing trend. Some estimates we’ve seen from market research firms put the future mobile payment market in the US alone at around $90 billion spent in 2017. Compared to that, the $12.8 billion spent in 2012 is just pocket change underneath the couch cushions. Apple’s very much aware…

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Google

Google Glass gets prescription glasses: four styles, $225 each (video)

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH Remember when Google said its wearable would work perfectly fine with prescription glasses? Well it’s finally delivered, offering a $225 upgrade option for current Google Glass Explorers. Crafted from titanium (whatever else?), the designs are pretty unassuming and classy: they look like glasses frames you’d see at an optometrist. There’s four styles to choose from — Curve, Thin, Split, Bold — making the selection sound more like font categories than frame categories.…

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