By Brian Barrett, Gizmodo – December 06, 2010 at 09:40AM
Uh oh. I’m not sure who gave the green light to go from “fun and playful” Kinect hacks to “terrifying Predator-vision drone” Kinect hacks. But after watching this video, it’s clear that that person has clearly doomed us all. More »
By Noemi Twigg, ForeverGeek – December 06, 2010 at 09:00AM
Winter is coming, and George R.R. Martin readers cannot wait till Spring 2011, when it actually does. Confused? In a world where the Starks, the Lannisters, and the Targaryens are the main players, summers last for decades, and so does winter. The longer and more pleasant the summer is, the colder the winter will be. In Spring next year, those of us in the real world will have the chance to (visually) enter the world that George R.R. Martin has created, courtesy of HBO.
It really is not a secret just how much I get excited about The Song of Ice and Fire series, and much like other fans, I have been awaiting the premiere of HBO’s take on the story. They released a teaser earlier this year, and that was enough to get me all worked up. You can just imagine how enthralled I was with this video showing more insights about the making of the show.
A little background for those yet unfamiliar with the series. Considered high fantasy, the story is set in a world that is not that different from our own, but is totally not restricted by geographical boundaries as we know it. This makes for a realistic enough setting, but also allows for imagination to run freer. Politics, sex, drugs, war, dragons – it doesn’t get any better! Here, see it for yourself.
As far as I am concerned, I think they did the casting very well. For the most part, the characters look pretty much how I pictured them in my head. Only Jaime Lannister – played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – didn’t meet my expectations. I thought that he would have been fairer and “prettier”. As for Ned Stark – played by Sean Bean – I think they did excellently.
The sets and costumes will definitely make you stare. The attention to detail is amazing, and since there are no real historical references to stay true to, the artists behind the production really went all out.
Needless to say, I am wishing that it were Spring 2011 right now. In the meantime, I shall keep these words in mind:
“My sweet summer child, what do you know about fear? Fear is for the long night, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep. Fear is for the winter.”
Here are some photos from the making of Game of Thrones to further whet your appetite. 1
By Darren Murph, Engadget RSS Feed – December 06, 2010 at 08:42AM
Just in case you were concerned that the 3D revolution hadn’t yet taken over the scientific research field, EPFL is here to convince you that all is well. Researchers from a pair of EPFL laboratories have recently invented a fly-inspired dome camera that’s not only loaded down with cameras to snag views from (nearly) all angles, but also equipped with an output algorithm that constructs a bona fide 3D image. The trickeration lies within the hardware platform, which calculates depth on each camera image and then reconstructs a 3D visual based on how far away things truly are. That’s a far more sophisticated approach than the stereoscopic one used on existing 3D televisions, as the depth would (theoretically) change as your angle of view changed. There’s an outstanding patent application on the approach, and if the world at large latches on, we could see this thing used for “video surveillance, movie making, and creating backgrounds for video games.” Among other things, of course. A demonstrative vid awaits you just after the break.
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By (author unknown), MacNN | The Macintosh News Network – December 15, 2010 at 11:55AM
Flash Player 10.2, currently in beta, has just a tenth the CPU consumption of the v10.1 plugin in some cases, says Adobe product manager John Nack. A primary feature of v10.2 is Stage Video, which can shift most of the burden for Flash video to a GPU. GPU acceleration was first introduced in v10.1….
By Becky Stern, MAKE – December 15, 2010 at 11:00AM
The latest from art pranksters Ariel Schlesinger and Aram Bartholl in Germany is Looptaggr, a simple fixture for a spraypaint can that spins a stencil in front of the nozzle, effectively printing the same message over and over in a line. Photo tutorial included.
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By Kyle VanHemert, Gizmodo – December 15, 2010 at 08:40AM
I get so frustrated when I’m in a new car and there’s no way to plug in my iPod. Get with the times, car manufacturers! Or bring them up to speed yourself with the O’Car, a dedicated iPhone-based head unit. More »
By Steve, The Firearm Blog – December 15, 2010 at 02:26AM
“Lego Black Ops” is a parody of the recently released computer game Call of Duty: Black Ops.
It is all just Lego figurines but there is blood, violence and explosions so it may be NSFW
The guns used in the video were purchased from BrickArms.
By Brian Barrett, Gizmodo – December 14, 2010 at 05:20PM
For anyone who’s ever taken the a stormtrooper’s laser blasts or the roar of the Millennium Falcon’s engine for granted, you should watch this immediately. More »
By Brian Barrett, Gizmodo – December 14, 2010 at 04:12PM
For the first time, a man has been declared officially cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good. More »
By John Baichtal, MAKE – December 14, 2010 at 03:00PM
This is an illustration from physics professor Peter Alway’s 1995 book Rockets of the World. That little black-and-yellow smudge in the second row, that’s the V-2. Hit the jump for mega-size.
Click on the picture to zoom or download the full 3,322×5,079 image here. It’s quite amazing what a monster the Saturn V still is, almost 40 years in retirement.
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