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Mattel Hover Board prepped for 2012 holiday release

Chris Burns, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Before you have a heart attack over the undeniable excellence that would be a real live hovering Hover Board from Back to the Future: Part II, note that this one doesn't QUITE float yet. Instead we get an assurance that this Hover Board does not work on water and that the price for this 1:1 replica will indeed be produced by Mattel and will be released in a "minimum orders required" fashion. This means that because the creation of this item is so costly to Mattel, they're requiring that a minimum number of pre-orders be placed before they go into production. Read The Full Story

Piracy study suggests US Box Office completely unaffected by Torrents

Chris Burns, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

There's a brand new study being pushed at the moment which suggests that there's no evidence that Torrent piracy affects US Box Office returns. In addition the only discernible link found in this paper published by the University of Minnesota and Wellesley College was in potential sales cut down by users downloading films in the time between their US and international release. What these two points suggest is that if BitTorrent were the only way people were able to download movies, it would essentially be solely on the shoulders of the film industry to change their ways to stopper up piracy, not any type of government-made law. Read The Full Story

Swann HD PenCam and PenCam 4GB revealed and detailed

Chris Burns, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

For the spies out there amongst you and those of you wishing to keep up with the professors speaking at a million words per minute there's the brand new Swann HD PenCam. This PenCam is one of two, the first being HD and the second having a "4GB" attached to the name. These units both work as ink pens and are able to capture high definition AVI videos as well as JPEG images, both able to do so in complete silence and without the person you're recording knowing that the recording is going on. Read The Full Story

LTE DASH standard promises perfect mobile streaming video soon

Chris Burns, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut HHI in Berlin are working on optimizing data managers with DASH, this soon allowing LTE to bring citizens across the earth perfect streaming video. Streaming video will no longer judder or stop entirely, but will instead rise or lower in picture quality as the device's signal gains or loses strength. Until now, RRMs or Radio Resource Managers worked well to provide the amount of data a user needed at any single moment, but because videos are "beyond the grasp" of the current standard, there's no telling how high quality a stream might be. Read The Full Story

Warner Bros won’t let Netflix DVD renters add its flicks to their rental queue for 28 days

Shane McGlaun, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Warner Brothers and some of the other major movie studios are making it really hard on people that rent movies via Netflix and other services. The moviemakers are trying to force users to go back to the old days of movie rentals where you went into a store to rent or just bought the movie. The world has moved on, but Hollywood refuses to see that for the most part. Read The Full Story

Star Wars Uncut Directors Cut fan-stitched masterpiece now online in its entirety

Chris Burns, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

It's been nearly 3 years in development and thousands of hours of blood, sweat, and fun had in the process, and it's finally here: the complete re-make of Star Wars: A New Hope constructed entirely of fan-made 15 second clips. This project was originally called Star Wars Uncut, and this final product is of course called Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut, and stitches together the entire set of hundreds of clips into one perfected bunch. This version is the "final" version of the film, and is available for you to watch 100% for free and in its entirety. Read The Full Story

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Hands-on with Verizon Galaxy Nexus Camera and Movie Studio

Chris Burns, Dec 19th 2011 Discuss [4]

Inside the Galaxy Nexus you’ll find Google’s newest mobile OS: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and with it in combination with the advanced lens setup on this devices’ 5-megapixel camera, you’ll find a set of abilities that no Android has had before. This plus the Movie Studio app introduced first for Android 3.0 Honeycomb, you’ve now got the ability to make the video you’re about to see, filmed and produced with the Galaxy Nexus controlled by none other than your humble narrator. You’ll see facial recognition gone wild and a set of effects that, though basic, make for a video editing environment thats perfectly powerful for a smartphone.

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AVATAR iTunes Extras Special Edition makes you want it all over again

Chris Burns, Dec 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

There's this movie out there called AVATAR, perhaps you've heard of it, that's been what its creators have had no trouble saying is ground breaking innovations surrounding it since it was first previewed - and today it's been announced that through its iTunes sales channel, the folks at Twentieth Century Fox will be bringing you a whole new interactive experience for the movie unique to the platform. You'll be able to do things like use your mouse as a wand to see where the green-screen is behind the real actors, see the behind the scenes scenes with full menus, and deconstruct "some of the movie's most memorable scenes." This purchase will set you back $19.99 for the HD version or $14.99 for the SD version, and it all starts today (pre-orders, anyway.) Read The Full Story

Nokia N8 filmed feature film “Olive” hits theaters this month

Chris Burns, Dec 2nd 2011 Discuss [3]

This week we're to understand that not only has a filmmaker taken it upon himself to film an entire movie with only a set of Nokia N8 smartphones, it'll be released in theaters soon, too! This movie goes by the name Olive and will bring a story of "a little girl who transforms the lives of three people without speaking one word" to the big screen having been filmed in its entirety by a Nokia N8 smartphone double-taped to a set of traditional film-camera lenses. The director of this film, Hooman Khalili, does admit he had to hack the smartphone to turn the auto-focus and auto-zoom off to make it all work - beyond that it's nothing but Nokia greatness in the clicker! Read The Full Story

George Clooney tapped for lead in Jobs biography film?

Shane McGlaun, Nov 21st 2011 Discuss [8]

I think with the recent death of tech legend Steve Jobs and the fact that his biography is on the best sellers list we all knew a film was coming. The word is that the flick planned to start production next year is looking for its lead to play Jobs. According to The Register, the person who is leading the running to get that lead role is George Clooney. Read The Full Story

DreamWorks announce they’ve found the “Holy Grail” of Digital Animation

Chris Burns, Nov 14th 2011 Discuss [32]

This week while speaking at this year's Techonomy conference, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told audience members that they'd formulated the solution for real-time rendering of animation for video. Katzenberg told the audience that they'd been working hand-in-hand with Intel in order to rewrite their software to take advantage of scalable multi-core processors, this allowing them to achieve advances that will, for lack of a better term, revolutionize the animation process. While before recently DreamWorks had been considered mostly a story-telling company, Katzenberg now says they've becoming "as much a technology company as we are an animation company." Read The Full Story