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eFun’s aPen Touch8 makes non-touch laptops extremely friendly with Windows 8 (hands-on)

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As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez This may not be a highly priced diamond in the rough, but we were still rather pleased to come across eFun’s aPen Touch8 while walking around the showfloor at a Showstoppers event here in beautiful Las Vegas. Although not exactly surprising, it’s worth noting the Touch8 aPen takes an obvious cue from its A5 sibling, sporting a very similar design and being powered by the same ultrasonic infrared technology. What’s different…

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First footage of Giant Squid will air on the Discovery Channel on January 27th

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As reported on The Verge. By Laura June Monsters on Earth, deep in the Pacific Ocean A team of scientists from Japan’s National Science Museum have been searching for a Giant Squid for a long time. Failed attempts to catch it on film in 2006 and early 2012 have been followed up by success, announced last week. The creature, which has been the subject of myths for hundreds of years, and known in Nordic myth as…

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Guillermo del Toro in talks with ‘a very, very big company’ over future of Insane

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As reported on Polygon. By EMILY GERA The future of the Guillermo del Toro-headed project Insane isn’t as grim as was thought, as the film director is in talks with “a very, very big company” over the fate of the game canceled last year by THQ. “We are in talks with a very, very big company. I can’t say who, but it’s one of the big ones. They really responded to the game, they responded to what we…

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The Violent Film Roles Of 8 Celebrities Fighting For Gun Control

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kirsten Acuna Fox Cameron Diaz is one of a few celebrities to call for tighter gun control. It was later pointed out the actress has starred in a few gun-happy movies. Celebrities were very outspoken about gun control in the aftermath of the Newtown shooting last month.  Late December, many joined together to create a video for the “Demand a Plan” campaign. The movement’s goal is to get Congress to pass legislation that will require gun buyers to…

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Video: How Dredd 3D Shot Its Brain-Melting Slow-Mo

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Easily the best part of Dredd 3D (after Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd scowl, obvi) is the slow-mo/Slo-Mo – both the movie’s drug of choice and the camera technique used to create the retina-stimulating scenes that accompany its use. To create those acid-trippy images the filmmakers used a 3-D rig that was outfitted with Phantom Flexhigh-speed cameras capable of shooting at a whopping 3,000 frames per second (and higher). That footage was then…

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Meet the Hollywood eccentric who invented high frame rate film 30 years before ‘The Hobbit’

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom Douglas Trumbull tried — and failed — to bring HFR to theaters in the 80s. With digital cinema, he’s getting another chance The hyperreal high frame rate style that came into theaters with The Hobbit is usually described as cutting edge, but it’s older than most of the people buying tickets. HFR has actually had a nearly 40-year journey to the theaters, starting from a small Paramount lab run by Douglas Trumbull.…

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Steve Jobs Film Coming in April

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As reported on Mashable. by Brian Anthony Hernandez jOBS, the independent film about former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, will arrive in theaters in April, the movie’s distributors announced Thursday. The film — not to be confused with the one Sony Pictures is creating based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late tech luminary — will star Ashton Kutcher as Jobs and is still slated to premiere this month on the closing night of the Sundance Film Festival. Along with…

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Visionary Images: The Lost Fractals of Benoît Mandelbrot

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As reported on Wired. BY BRANDON KEIM Many people know Benoît Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries that earned him the sobriquetFather of Fractals. Less appreciated, though, is the process underlying his work: Mandelbrot relied as much for guidance on visual imagery as whiteboard formulae. Primitive computer printouts were his maps to uncharted mathematical terrain, their dot-matrix patterns a “here be dragons”…

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Most Dangerous Object in the Office: Skike VX Twin Roller Skis

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As reported on Wired. BY KARISSA BELL Photo: Matthew Reamer     Finally, skiing minus all that cold wet snow. With inflatable tires, elaborately adjustable bindings that allow your heels to lift, and optional ski-style poles, Skikes are designed to replicate cross-country skiing. But unlike conventional Nordic skis, they work indoors. So now we can pretend the cubicle aisles are snow trails. OK, the janitors keep griping about the shredded paper we sprinkle around to enhance the…

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The Animated GIF: Still Looping After All These Years

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As reported on Wired. BY CLIVE THOMPSON The photographs of Eadweard Muybridge were meant to capture motion. Decades later, GIFs enabled his photos to be put in motion. Dwight dancing on The Office is great. Dwight dancing in an unstoppable GIF loop is positively epic. A kitten in Japan who injured her jaw (she’s fine), OMG Cat catapulted to internet stardom when Justin Bieber parodied her expression as part of an April Fools’ Day prank. Originally pulled from a Conan…

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