Nickelodeon Launching Virtual & Augmented Reality TV Series

Nickelodeon today announced the development of Meet the Voxels (working title), an original TV, virtual reality and augmented reality series conceived by Chris Young, Senior Vice President of Nickelodeon’s Entertainment Lab. The animated sitcom, created in a game engine, marks a first for Nickelodeon in its use of cutting-edge virtual cinema technology, including real-time full body and facial performance capture, bringing an innovative approach to immersive storytelling. Nickelodeon’s Entertainment Lab is the network’s division established to spearhead long-range research and development around emerging platforms and new technology. Meet the Voxels is being developed to air across Nickelodeon’s channels globally.

Adult Swim Emojis are HERE

Prepare to take 50% longer to end any sentence as you choose the perfect tiny faces to convey your mood, since you want to be understood but meeting face to face is a major fucking hassle. Will it be tiny drunken Rick from Rick and Morty to express your desire to be blind, stinking drunk rather than sit through another useless meeting? Maybe it's 2 Ton 21 from Venture Bros to hammer home your excitement over a moment in Game of Thrones where 100 people are burned alive. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS!!! Well...not endless...but still fun.

E3 2015: Oculus Rift Prepares Gamers For A Whole New World

You aren't going to care how stupid you look.

A couple of years back, Oculus VR made massive waves at E3 with a very early prototype of their VR headset, and while they still haven’t launched just yet, the success of their prototype VR headsets have inspired a lot of excitement and a lot of other companies to get involved in virtual reality in a big way. This year there are at least five different VR headsets on show at E3, and that’s not including Microsoft’s own augmented reality concept, the Holo-Lens.

Fantasia 2014: Cybernatural Reviewed

The prophets of science warned us about "Cultural Lag"; where our technological advances rocket ever forward while society develops far slower. Thoughtful gestures of self expression like "the hand written letter", and to a lesser extent, the "phone call" ...and even the smallest bit of effort made in the thought provoking "email" fall by the wayside to a text containing the "winky face". Film and television assure us our obsession with the walking dead is still going strong as we stand horrified before the possibility of necrotic cannibal Armageddon, but I'm here to tell you friends, THAT DAY HAS ALREADY COME!! We walk silently through the streets, head down, jaw slack, staring into a little screen that spits out tiny slivers of people's lives. If someone in front of us is in distress, our first impulse is to point that little screen and record the moment with the full intention of sharing it with the world. Our apathy toward each other grows with each new iPhone release and infinite choruses of Sarah McLachlan's "In The Arms of an Angel" will do nothing to jar us from this system and make our hearts grow 3 sizes that day. This is the world we live in, and the perfect setting for a modern tale of horror where the very technology we are locked inside can reach over and grab us.

NYCC 2013: The Incredible Bionic Man

The Incredible Bionic Man” Appears at New York Comic Con –including panel discussion with scientists, special sneak-preview of film, and public display and demonstration of robot.

Smithsonian Channel is the exclusive U.S. television home to chronicle the behind-the-scenes story of the world’s first real Bionic Man–; a 6-foot-tall robot built entirely from bionic body parts and implantable synthetic organs –complete with a functioning circulatory system. The result of billions of dollars of research and featuring components borrowed from some of the world's leading laboratories, THE INCREDIBLE BIONIC MAN shows how far we have come in efforts to simulate the human body. A new one-hour documentary about the ambitious project premieres on Smithsonian Channel on Sunday, October 20, 2013 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Marvel @ SXSW

The annual South by South West interactive conference and festival is underway with new films premiering daily along side new innovations in technology and in some cases, presentations on how to better use the technology we have to create an exciting multi-media experience for the masses. Since Marvel Entertainment is on the front lines of the daily war for your entertainment buck, they would not miss a show like this. Here are the highlights from their presentations...

Floppy Drives Sing

With a tip of the hat to Wired for showing me this...

LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3

Today The LEGO Group announced LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ EV3, a new platform for consumer robotics designed to introduce a younger generation to the excitement of building and programming robots while adding new flexibility for its devoted following of robotics enthusiasts.

LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 is the result of three years of product development by an international team of LEGO designers, MINDSTORMS user-enthusiasts and leading technology experts.  LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 will be available in the second half of 2013.

New EV3 Intelligent Brick
When LEGO MINDSTORMS first launched in 1998 it was regarded as the first real “smart toy.” Fifteen years later, The LEGO Group has redesigned MINDSTORMS to excite and challenge an audience of children who have grown up with technology, many of whom are more proficient in commanding and controlling mobile devices and other technology than their older siblings and parents.  Furthermore, the audience for consumer robotics has grown considerably, leading the team to focus on simplifying the experience for a younger user while making it more flexible and powerful for hobbyists and other enthusiasts.

Behold.. The Elvis X Mimobot

At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Mimoco, creator of the MIMOBOT® brand of designer USB flash drives, is proud to announce their first music-inspired collaboration with none other than the "King of Rock and Roll," Elvis Presley. On what would have been his 78th birthday, and in partnership with Elvis Presley Enterprises, Mimoco is honored to add this preeminent American idol to its Legends of MIMOBOT collection. Featuring people that have influenced the modern cultural landscape, the Legends of MIMOBOT series debuted with Nobel Prize-recipient, Albert Einstein, and continued with the most influential martial artist of all time, Bruce Lee.

The Star Trek: Into Darkness App

As a thank you to the Star Trek: Into Darkness crew for fulfilling a certain wish to a friend of ours, I'll be posting every scrap of news Paramount sends over on the topic. This could get amusing.

Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom Inc., and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), through its subsidiary Qualcomm Labs, Inc., today announced that Gimbal™ context awareness technologies will be used to deliver exclusive content and advanced real world game experiences for the “STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS” application based on the upcoming movie from J.J. Abrams.

These cutting edge technologies are being showcased in a never before-seen way and will enable users to automatically engage with a wealth of movie related materials by utilizing their real-life surroundings to auto-complete integrated missions by employing audio scan, geo-location recognition, and image recognition functionality powered by Qualcomm Vuforia.  The “STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS” app will launch at the end of January.  Qualcomm’s Chairman and CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs made the announcement today during his keynote address at the International CES show in Las Vegas.

The Steve Jobs Action Figure

No, it won't have pouches or giant guns to mow down the competition, though you could add them later.
No, it will not come with rape face action.
No, it won't glance over at your inferior non-MAC products and snicker, though he is so realistic, you might think he is.

What it will do is have all your Barbies swooning and make your super sized Incredible Hulk feel inferior. IT HAS THAT POWER.








Master plastic chefs In Icons have cooked up this beautiful 12 inch Steve Jobs action figure; a piece certainly worthy of Hot Toys fandom praise. Your Steve Jobs: Super Soldier comes packed with...

-One realistic head sculpt & Two pairs of glasses
-One highly articulated body & Three pairs of hands
-One black turtleneck & One pair of blue jeans
-One black leather belt & One chair (wood + metal)
-One pair of black socks & sneaker
-Two apples (One with a bite.)
-One piece of "ONE MORE THING” hard backdrop





















Sadly, he does not come with an Ianything to show off to Batman and mutter "WayneTech my ass" as he saunters away. Steve retails for 99.99 without shipping and can be ordered HERE! They are set to start shipping late February, so this one is on the fast track and most likely is being made to order, so don't wait or risk being...umm...Jobless. yesh. That will do.