Avatatts: Avatar Worship Goes Too Far - or Just Far Enough?
Geekologie have continued to follow a chap who got himself an Avatar tatt - and he's gone down the blue road long and hard, entering Pandora with a self-altering gusto rarely (although, admittedly, sometimes) seen in Sci Fi circles. If a picture tells a thousand words, get ready for a three thousand word backfat essay on why Neytiri is just totally awesome. Known as 'IGGY' on the official Typepad Avatar Community, Raymond Knowles, who hales from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada plans to have at least...
Welcome to The Future. Welcome to The Yottabyte
We all know what a megabyte is and what a gigabyte is, some of us even know what a terabyte is. Hardly anyone, however, knows what a yottabyte is! A yottabyte will be the unit of measurement that we will one day use to describe our computer hard drive space. It is really, really big. Just can't tell you just how mind-numbingly big it is. It is as though the average PC storage was the size of a bee, and then they clumped all those bees together to form a planet slightly smaller than the Moon. To...
Guillermo Del Toro is OFF The Hobbit.
TheOneRing.net, the portal for all things Hobbitalicious, has announced that Guillermo Del Toro will no longer be directing The Hobbit. No. He will not. Neither Part 1, nor Part 2. It's not 'creative differences', he isn't chucking a tantie - he is still working on the script. It's actually the delay in the start date for filming that has brought about this sad state of affairs. You may have heard the news that the rights issues were still being worked out with the studios involved, creating...
What's On This Week May 31 - June 6
The first week of June is one of the great weeks of the year for 2010. Two channel premieres - and a WORLD premiere. It truly is a good week to be a SCI FI fan. Our first channel premiere for the week is on Wednesday night, with the all new Medium Season 4. It’s one thing having psychic powers. It’s something else when everyone knows about them! Allison has to confront a new life of irritating ‘celebrity’ - but she still has her disturbing dreams. She needs a way that she can help people,...
Minority Report Science Equals Reality Again: Eyeball Reader
Gesture computing just like in Minority Report is already a reality. Now the news is that a DARPA-funded team from Southern Methodist University in the US has already created Panoptes, and a new system called Smart-Iris, which, when combined, will allow a camera to zero in on a face, no matter angle or movement, then narrow right into the iris. It's real-life Sci Fi stuff. A person walking down a street, or through a security checkpoint, or a train station, for example, could be scanned by wall-mounted...
Werewolf Teens: For Realsies. Breakfast Club Just Became Midnight Snack Club.
Kids in the US are becoming werewolves. They're not Goth. They're not Emo. They're not Jocks. They're... they're werewolves. No. It's not Michael J. Fox. It's not Jason Bateman. It's for realsies. What looks to be one of those slick fake news reports that you see promoting movies, is in fact a real life news report detailing the rise of a new clique in the class room. The werewolf pack. Teens are wearing contact lenses, dog collars, tails and even fangs as part of the new regalia of the coolest...
Iron Baby
Not sure if this is the cutest Iron Man 'homage' ever, or perhaps the creepiest thing ever. It depends on just how cynical you are. On the one hand, creating a brilliantly rendered trailer including your daughter in an Iron Man suit, flying about and blowing stuff up - that's awesome. On the other, tiny, baby-sized Iron Men, with their slow walking and over-sized heads, out of this context, are on the clown-level of creepiness. We're not saying we're in 'It' territory, but there's something...
How About Some More Arthur C. Clarke Movies?
The Top 5 Unfilmed Arthur C. Clarke Stories When people who are new to Sci Fi discuss the authors they may have heard of, the name Arthur C. Clarke almost invariably pops up. Somehow, in this world of HD TV, sophisticated computer games and 3-D film, the authors made famous by the cheap Sci Fi paperbacks of the 40's and 50's and 60's still hold our imagination and our respect. With his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick for 1969's seminal 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clark touched a new generation...
James McAvoy to play Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class
After the news that Matthew Vaughn had been brought back into the X-Men fold after first being shunted and then being lauded with the stunning success of Kick-Ass, we thought that the story of the production of X-Men: First Class couldn't get any better. We were wrong. He's casting Wanted star James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier, a role defined by Sir Patrick Stewart in the first three X-Men films. Prepare for a fanboy hurricane. Or, grudging acceptance. The action of X-Men: First...
Killzone 3 is Coming - in 3-D
Here's a bit of news that may make you think seriously about becoming a 3-D TV owner. Killzone 3 is coming to the PS3 - and it's bringing 3-D with it. If you've played wither Killzones before, you know this is good news. High octane military action, great graphics, and a real sense of cinema makes the Killzone series one of the blue chip video game experiences. Sony have just announced the latest version is coming, and that it's coming packed with goodies. Killzone 3 begins exactly where...
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