It’s not news that movie studios leverage 3D as a profit boosting tool, with theaters currently charging about three dollars extra per ticket for the privilege of viewing a given production with artificial depth added (often more than can be said about the characters in the script). Now, Sony proposes ending the standard practice of […]
Just when you thought 3.5 floppies were utterly useless, in comes Polish Super Genius Paweł (SileNT on his website), who programmed two old floppy drives to play The Imperial March from Star Wars. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE’] Paweł tells us how it works: It’s nothing new and it’s very simple. The sound comes from a magnetic head […]
Who doesn’t love DreamWorks Animation? Fools, that’s who. And so far, Netflix is no fool. Or at least not much of one. In the middle of all the bad hype that Netflix has managed to get recently, they signed an agreement that allows them to have exclusive internet video rights to stream film and television […]
Electronic Arts announces a new partner for their latest installment of the popular Need For Speed racing games, Sports Illustrated. More specifically, Sports Illustrated swimsuit models. Need for Speed: The Run, scheduled for a November 15 release, features Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover models Irina Shayk and Chrissy Teigen in a race from San Francisco to […]
The long-awaited Amazon Tablet is here, and it was outed by Bloomberg a good five minutes before the actual event started. At just 7″, the Android-based dual core tablet lacks cameras and 3G connectivity (there’s Wi-fi though). The Fire resembles RIM’s Playbook (there’s allegedly a reason for that) and is a smart looking piece of […]
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. This time around we have some techcitement that really is old. You know […]
Feeling upset? Music can solve all your problems. Or at least that’s what Grooveshark’s latest publicity stunt, emotionalbagcheck.com would have you think. Grooveshark, a kind of Pandora/Spotify-esque all-in-one streaming site, started up in 2009 and is now up to over 35 million users. Grooveshark, trying desperately to stay relevant as Spotify enters the U.S. and […]
Are you an iPhone user who subscribes to a streaming music service and aren’t happy with your current provider? Then you might be in for some good news, with an old name — Kazaa has just released an app to the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPad. Kazaa, we had such good times […]
Oh Google, come on. I have to say, I’m a bit disappointed in your behavior. I know it’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission, but I have a hard time picturing a group of Google executives sitting in a meeting and saying, “We’ll just do it, and see if they notice”, […]
Kabam, an online game developer, is bringing The Godfather to Facebook with their newest browser-based game, The Godfather: Five Families. They’re currently testing their beta and inviting select users, who sign up on their website, to play. I signed up, got access to the beta several days ago, and quickly began the arduous journey into […]
