Tag archive for ‘news’
Star Wars Like Hologram Video
I really want to see how this works. It looks pretty cool on the video. How was it projected? Did the anchors on the set see the same thing home viewers saw? Details, that’s what I want.
I think it would look even better if the hologram were blue and blurry.
Altered Photos
The telegraph.co.uk site has a great article on doctored photos on their site featuring 20 great examples.
I remember doing a presentation on this topic in college. The research was incredibly hard. This was before Google, so most references I used were found after hours and hours of searching. The presentation was for a Journalism [...]
Strange Blue Cloud
In a scene right out of LOST, a strange blue cloud floated around an Ohio gas station for almost 30-minutes before quickly disappearing. Several people reported seeing the image and some believe it was an angel or a ghost.
What the online version of the story is unclear about is whether or not the image [...]
Circuit Boards + Playdough = Bad Idea
It was a conflict of book smarts versus common sense when MIT student Star Simpson entered the Logan International Airport wearing a shirt with a circuit board and a 9V battery attached. To make matters worse, she was holding a lump of playdough in her hands.
Star Simpson, 19, was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and [...]
Apple Offers $100 Credit to iPhone Early Adopters
Having worked in electronics retail for many years, I know that cutting edge products will always drop in price and that first gen. products will always improve with later releases. Even if I weren’t in the middle of a Sprint contract, I personally would have waited. Still, there were hundreds of thousands of people that [...]
30 Years Later - Shooter Returns to Legion
Jim Shooter penned his first issue of DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes when he was only 13. Selling the stories to DC through the mail, Shooter created many of the Legion’s most popular characters and his run on the title (in Adventure Comics) is fondly remembered.
Now, a little over 30 years later, Shooter is once [...]