Category: Entertainment

Entertainment

Light up your Converse All-Stars with Adafruit’s DIY tutorial (video)

By admin | by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Melissa Grey If you missed out on the L.A. Lights craze of the early ’90s, fear not — there’s hope for you yet. Adafruit’s DIY enhancement for Converse All-Stars takes customized kicksto a whole new level with the science of electroluminescence. To light up the star on your Chucks, all you need is a pair of EL panels, tiny inverters (like a coincell or AAA battery type), some common household tools and…

Continue reading

Entertainment Review

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ review: boldly going back to the future

By admin | by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop J.J. Abrams’ latest keeps looking back when it could be forging ahead In 2009 J.J. Abrams reimagined Star Trek, turning Gene Roddenberry’s near-utopian vision into a high-octane summer action ride. Rather than simply creating a prequel, however, Abrams opted to fork the Trek universe with a bit of time travel trickery and some heavy lifting from Leonard Nimoy. The result was a massive hit that set the stage for a new…

Continue reading

Art Entertainment Tech

Klingons to invade Bing translator, BIjeghbe’chugh vaj bIHegh!

By admin | by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Though some may look down on Star Trek‘s fictional Klingon language and invoke the infamous phrase uttered by William Shatner — “Get a life!” — Microsoft’s Bing translation team doesn’t see it that way at all. As part of a marketing join-up with Paramount Pictures, the service will be offering translation of the fictional tongue to and from its other 41 languages to support the release of Star Trek Into Darkness. According to the LA Times,…

Continue reading

Business Culture Entertainment

Financial Times: YouTube is close to launching paid-subscription channels

By admin | by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith YouTube has been making its own space on multiple entertainment services for a while, but according to a report from the Financial Times, it’s now on the cusp of revealing its own subscription services for some of its specialist video channels. Rumored for several months, according to the FT‘s unnamed sources it will include up to 50 different channels, with subscription pricing starting at “as little as $1.99 a month.” Google has already followed…

Continue reading

Entertainment

‘Iron Man 3’ review: Robert Downey Jr. becomes the latest lethal weapon

By admin | by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop The ’80s buddy action movie comes alive in Marvel’s new superhero epic Iron Man has always been the smartest of Marvel’s film franchises. From the very beginning, it matched Robert Downey Jr.’s effortless charm with a subtle hint of social commentary (Tony Stark is a weapons manufacturer who learns to give back to humanity after an electromagnet is plugged into his chest, after all.) That one-two punch turned what…

Continue reading

Entertainment Hardware Dev

Iron Man mouse fuels your hot-rod red obsession, is all about the next mission

By admin | by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg Whether you’re looking to instill fear in the hearts of enemies at LAN, or just want to edit spreadsheets in style, this Iron Man mouse will do everything a normal mouse can… just cooler. To capitalize on hype for the third installment of the superhero film franchise, Japanese company e-blue (aka E-3LUE) has released this gold and hot-rod red peripheral with Tony Stark’s blessing (read: under official Marvel license). Two AAA batteries power the wireless mouse (some…

Continue reading

Entertainment Film

Tribeca Film Festival Narrows Down #6SecFilms Submissions To A Short List Of 40 Awesome Vines

By admin | by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK Less than a month ago, Tribeca Film Festival opened up a sub-competition within the festival for those of us with a knack for brevity: the Tribeca Film Festival’s #6SecFilms competition. Partnering with Twitter’s new darling and video-sharing app Vine, TFF made a call for submissions from filmmakers who’d like to use the Vine platform to be featured on TribecaFilm.com, along with a nice cash prize of $600. Today, TFF…

Continue reading

Entertainment TV

Fox pulls ‘Family Guy’ episode linked to Boston bombings by conspiracy theorists

By admin | by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Sam Byford In the aftermath of yesterday’s tragic events in Boston, what appeared to be a chillingly prescient clip from a month-old Family Guy episode circulated around the internet. The video is a doctored composite of two scenes from the episode “Turban Cowboy,” and plays off Family Guy‘s trademark flashback method of telling jokes to suggest that lead character Peter Griffin detonated a bomb at the Boston Marathon. While the joke is crude and…

Continue reading

Application Entertainment

Netflix plans its move from Microsoft Silverlight to HTML5 video

By admin | by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Last month Google announced that Netflix was now available on ARM-based Samsung Chromebooks thanks to the use of HTML5 video — and now the streaming service has outlined its larger plans to eventually move to the format for all computers. Currently, Netflix primarily uses the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in when streaming video to web browsers, but Netflix’s Anthony Park and Mark Watson point out in a blog post that the current solution really…

Continue reading

Entertainment

Watch this: 21-minute ‘Oblivion’ featurette is a sweeping look at a post-apocalyptic Earth

By admin | by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon We’re just days away from the Friday premiere of Oblivion, Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski’s new big-budget sci-fi feature starring Tom Cruise, but if you want an exhaustive look at what moviegoers are in for, watch the 21-minute behind-the-scenes featurette below. It’s impressive to see how the VFX crew turned a barren Icelandic landscape into the ruins of modern civilization, or what went into the scale model of the movie’s iconic…

Continue reading