"Animation powerhouse Pixar launches into space with this Sci-Fi tale about a lonely robot in the year is 2700. He's WALL-E, a robot, who spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for."
March 12, 2008
New WALL-E Trailer
"Animation powerhouse Pixar launches into space with this Sci-Fi tale about a lonely robot in the year is 2700. He's WALL-E, a robot, who spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for."
FUTURAMA FOUR-PART SPECIAL HEADED TO COMEDY CENTRAL
Emmy Award -winning animated series FUTURAMA has landed at ComedyCentral for the premiere of "Bender's Big Score," scheduled to debut as a four-part epic on Sunday, March 23, beginning at 8 p.m.
Starring in their first-ever television epic, Bender, Fry, the Professor, Leela and the rest of the Planet Express crew face the forces of time travel, gold plated Death Stars and alien spammers.
See just how strong the bonds of friendship are when a tattoo on Fry's butt forces him to flee the future and puts Bender on a manhunt to kill his best friend. With the fabric of space and time tearing apart and the Planet Express held captive, can Bender and Fry reconcile before the
universe is destroyed forever?
FUTURAMA focuses on the life of Philip Fry (Billy West), a 25-year-old
pizza delivery boy who accidentally freezes himself December 31, 1999
and wakes up 1,000 years later with a fresh start at life. His "diverse"
new group of friends includes Turanga LeeLa (Katey Sagal), a tough, but
lovely one-eyed alien, and Bender (John DiMaggio), a robot who possesses
human characteristics and flaws.
The show also features guest stars such as Sarah Silverman, Hank Azaria,
Bob Odenkirk, Pamela Anderson, Beatrice Arthur, Lucy Liu, Beck and
Coolio.
FUTURAMA aired on Fox from 1999 to 2003 and the series consists of 72
episodes. It was nominated five consecutive years and won three Emmys,
including Outstanding Animated Program in 2002.
FUTURAMA is produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox Television. The
show is created and executive produced by Matt Groening with co-
executive producers David X. Cohen, Ken Keeler and Eric Horsted.
Via Dan Sarto
An Avalanche on Mars!
What caused this sudden cloud of dust on Mars? An avalanche! The first avalanche imaged in progress on another planet was recorded last month on Mars by NASA's robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Visible in the above picture, digitally rescaled, are several layers of white ice thawing over red rock, with darker colors toward the right indicated Martian soil that mixed with lesser amounts of ice. As the cliff of over 700 meters high was thawing, falling ice crashed down raising plumes of ice and dust so thick they cast visible shadows. The scarp has slopes with grades greater than 60 degrees. The entire scene is illuminated from the upper right by the Sun. A thaw occurs each spring in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars, as the warming climate causes solid carbon dioxide ice to sublimate directly to vapor. Studying such avalanches allows planetary geologists to better understand soil configurations on Mars.
Via Astronomy Picture of the Day
BIONIC EYES!!!!
Waterproof and durable enough to last ten years in the body, and small enough to do its job while inside your little eyeball. The project spans multiple universities and hospitals and has been going on for decades, and they’re close to a working product. Can’t wait to get mine!
Full Story: Eyes on prize: Visionary device gives hope [Boston Herald]
March 11, 2008
SBS Who Do You Think You Are?: FACE
Click on image to look closer.Art Director: Josh Moore
Copywriter: Nigel Clark
Photographer: Andreas Smetana
Agency Producer: Danielle Solden
Retoucher: Electric Art
Trippy Star Wars Poster
UK-based company Synthetic Dimensions has gotten the rights to create a fully licensed lenticular 3D recreation of the original Star Wars Poster. I’m not exactly sure how they’ve done it, but they used the Synthetic Dimensions’ proprietary Syndimation process to convert the original 2D painting used in 1977 to promote the Star Wars. This unique, deep 3D lenticular poster is 47cm x 67cm (18.5″ x 26.5″ approx) requires no 3D glasses. I’ve seen some incredibly dimensional 3D posters in my day, so don’t let that crappy Speed Racer one-sheet scare you away from the lenticular processes. The company plans on selling the poster for only £12.99, or what translates into around $25 American (I’m sure there will be some shipping feeds as well). I’ll keep you guys updated on when this becomes publicly available. But for now check out the YouTube video after the jump to see some of the depth and detail Syndimation is hoping to show in the poster. Via slashfilm.com
See the cool Quicktime loop here.
See the cool Quicktime loop here.
Flash Animators Go Here:
This guy is a genius, if you work in Flash Animation,
visit this guy's blog and read his rants, they are
priceless and bang-on accurate!
March 10, 2008
Magic Cube Heralds the Future of Gaming and Human Interfaces
Nobody really knows what the future of human interfaces and gaming will look like, but Andrew Fentem—who went from working on classified missile systems to developing multi-touch human interfaces, kinetic surfaces and motion sensing technologies before almost anyone else in the planet—gave us a fascinating vision on where we are headed in this exclusive interview. Work like his Fentix Cube, a motion- and touch-sensing cube which can play Pac-Man among other games, have all the big companies taking notes. The videos speak for themselves.
The Fentix Cube is just the tip of the iceberg of his stunning work. Many of his inventions are still ahead of current technology, things which we are only starting to get familiar with now. I talked with Andrew about his inventions and the future of human interfaces.
Jesús DÃaz: We are big fans of multi-touch technology and think it's the future of adaptive user interfaces. Do you see them replacing the keyboard and mouse in many applications? I'm just looking at your sequencer now...
Andrew Fentem: Touchscreen and 'multi-touch' technologies have a bright future, and will certainly replace the keyboard and mouse in *some* applications. However, the keyboard and mouse have some BIG advantages that have proved hard to overcome: A physical keyboard provides great tactile feedback - meaning that you don't have to look at what your fingers are doing while you type. And the great thing about a mouse pointer is that it doesn't obscure what it's pointing at on the screen (unlike your fat dirty fingers - this is why the buttons are so big on touchscreen ATMs - wasting valuable screen real estate).
Another issue with touchscreen technologies (and multi-touch systems in particular) is their inability to track rapid finger movements. This not only puts many applications (especially certain types of games) off-limits, but can also interfere with gesture recognition.
The key future developments of touchscreen/multi-touch systems will be:
1. faster touch sensing hardware and firmware
2. improved (i.e. more intelligent) gesture-sensing software
3. improved tactile feedback
4. larger touchscreens
Via gizmodo.com
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