I have an hour commute everyday which affords me the luxery of being able to consume a great deal of podcasts and movies. I received from Netflix a slew of movies I had been looking forward to seeing but never got to see in the theater. The Dark Knight Rises. Total Recall. Chronicle. Battleship. Underworld […]

I just returned from my first Dragon*Con and my head is still spinning. I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t think any event could match Comic-Con for geek impact and intensity, but I was wrong. A lot of people like to compare the two Cons in a heated exchange. I think this is unnecessary. Both are […]

The votes are in: FemShep will be a kick-ass ginger. This week at the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), BioWare unveiled the final image of the female Commander Shepard for the cover of the upcoming Mass Effect 3 (to be released in March 2012). In two heavily debated rounds of voting, fans on Facebook voted for […]

It surprises us not at all now to see in-game product placement — like, for example, hopping in a specially-designed street vehicle to outrun enemies in a military FPS. But Jeep’s turning that upside down, offering an in-game vehicle IRL. It’s called the Call of Duty: Black Ops Edition 2011 Jeep Wrangler, and besides offering […]

Our friends over at Wired posted this awesome beginner electronics project that mashes up a cheap digital camera and an Arduino board to create a “camera trap” — a camera that snaps a digital picture when triggered by an external switch, in this case an IR emitter/sensor loop. Whenever something breaks the beam, you get […]

If you’re a Futurama fan you won’t want to miss Ript Apparel’s offering today. ($13 shipped in the USA) I Heart NNY [Ript Apparel, link expires 8/14/11]