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  • Kickstarter of the Week: Plant-In City Offers an Internet of Vegetation
    Plants are the best. They¿re pretty, they clean the air, they¿re good listeners, and they don¿t eat your furniture. On the downside, they need regular care, and they¿re lousy communicators. Designers Huy Bui, Carlos J. Gomez de Llarena, and Jon Schramm have created a system to make your relationship with them easier. Their system, called Plant-In City, proposes to house your greenery in elegant structures that wrap them in a field of sensors to help you monitor their health.
    06.22.12
  • Attack of the Lincolns: Honest Abe in Sci-Fi, Comics and More
    If you think the popcorn film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's alt-history novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter is the first cross-genre riff on America's greatest president, we've got a stovepipe hat's worth of speculative exercises for you. Check out some of Honest Abe's best (and strangest) appearances from comic books, TV shows and movies.
    06.22.12
  • Dead Animals and Other Art Grace New Exhibit
    David Shrigley has an art show opening in just over 24 hours. It will be the exclusive stateside display of his installation Brain Activity, and at 11:30 am on the day before opening he is still having paintbrushes delivered and putting the finishing touches on his work. ¿I think in a way the hardest thing as an artist is to find a starting point. Once you¿ve kind of got a starting point the work sort of makes itself. Or at least I think it does anyway.¿
    06.22.12
  • Review: UFO Can't Save Screwball Comedy Extraterrestrial
    If Three's Company (with fewer punch lines) collided with The Day the Earth Stood Still (without the giant robot), it might look something like Extraterrestrial, the new low-budget sci-fi comedy by Timecrimes director Nacho Vigalondo.
    06.21.12
  • Judgement Is Coming: The First Trailer for Dredd Is Here
    Judge Dredd was one of the first characters created for British comic 2000AD back in the late 1970s by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra, and has been its most popular character ever since. Based on an extreme version of Dirty Harry, Dredd is the ultimate no-nonsense street cop who lives and breathes every ...
    06.21.12
  • Wired Catches Up With Caine's Arcade
    In April of this year, Caine's Arcade became a viral phenomenon; Nirvan Mullick's short film has so far gathered almost 3 million views on YouTube and more than that on Vimeo. It seemed that everyone was fascinated by the story of the inventive nine-year-old and his cardboard arcade. I got Mullick on the phone for a short conversation to follow up on what's happened with Caine and his arcade since the story broke.
    06.21.12
  • My Journey to the Blue Side of Star Wars
    This past March I decided to embark on my first solo costuming project, Aayla Secura. I wanted it to be a total surprise to my squad, so I referred to it only as Project X on Facebook. It was quite the journey and a quick one at that. My animated clone trooper took five months and four people to help get it fitting me right. Since I wanted to march in Star Wars weekends, this costume had to be completed in less than three months and this time, it was all up to me, myself and my husband to make it come to life. It was a tight squeeze, but we were able to make our goal.
    06.21.12
  • Great Geek Debates: Kirk vs. Picard
    If you're a Star Trek fan, you've surely considered the differences between the captains in the various series, even if you don't have a favorite. And, while Sisko, Janeway, and even Archer have their fans, the quintessential Star Trek debate has been, since TNG premiered nearly 22 years ago, who's the better captain: Kirk or Picard?
    06.21.12
  • Bane Makes Batman Very Angry in New Dark Knight Rises Trailer
    Trailers for The Dark Knight Rises have heretofore been -- how to put this? -- kinda moody. Populated by slow, sweeping shots, doom-and-gloom dialog and plinking piano notes, they looked awesome, focused more on the drama and less on the butt-kicking. But the latest trailer for the final installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy (above) is much different.
    06.19.12
  • Reimagining the Marvel Universe
    When I was a kid the only thing I loved more than comics were comic book resources, and in the absence of Wikipedia ¿ not to mention, if you can believe it, the commercial internet ¿ I was largely limited to encyclopedic collections like the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. These massive volumes featured information on characters' powers, origins and often lengthy missives regarding their elaborate histories alongside detailed illustrations.
    06.19.12
  • Hip-Hop 101 With MC Edgar Allan Poe
    MC Lars has been espousing his love of classic literature in hip-hop verse for practically his entire career. With ample nods to Melville and Shakespeare already under his belt, his newest video single again centers on one of his favorite wordsmiths, Poe.
    06.19.12
  • Star Wars Comes to Scalextric This Fall
    Scalextric is one of the oldest, best-known slot car makers out there. Their tracks and cars have supplied hobbyists with fodder for decades and their devotion to detail has made even the most meticulous modelmaker mirthful.
    06.19.12
  • China's Biggest Challenge Is Aerospace
    Aerospace has long been an American bulwark. In most years Boeing is the nation¿s leading exporter. America has more airports, builds more airplanes, trains more pilots, and arranges more of its economy around aviation than any other country, by far. China would very much like a piece of this¿to have Boeings, NASAs, Cessnas, and fully fledged GPS systems of its own.
    06.18.12
  • Suggestions For Best Star Trek Episodes?
    Ok, so my children have never seen a Star Trek episode. Not one. Stop throwing things at me! We were hanging out with my dad awhile ago and he and I started chatting about the ethics of Voyager episodes when he asked the kids their opinion. They didn't have one. His eyes got wide when he found out they didn't have an opinion on any of the shows. "They haven't seen Star Trek?!"
    06.18.12
  • Super Dad v2 by Errol Elumir
    Just in time for Father's Day, Errol Elumir -- the Errol half of geek music duo Debs and Errol -- redid his video of Super Dad, a funny song that I think all parents will get greatly appreciate, especially the fathers out there who spend the day having make-up applied by their daughters.
    06.17.12
  • Video: Secret Space Plane Shatters Orbital Record as Chinese Rival Looms
    The second copy of the Air Force's X-37B robotic space plane landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California early Saturday morning, ending a record-breaking 469-day orbital mission. It's an indisputable triumph for the U.S. military and space industry. Much less certain is the X-37's future. Budget cuts, labor woes and the looming specter of a Chinese rival could blunt the diminutive robo-shuttle's orbital edge.
    06.16.12
  • Review: 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid Is a Pleasant Populist
    Until I passed the radar-equipped eye of the local constabulary, nobody had noticed the Toyota Camry I was driving. "Do you know how fast you were going?" the officer predictably asked. I was dumbfounded -- before I'd been pulled over, the drive had been a total blur. Outside of speed traps, the Camry beats Buster Bluth ...
    06.15.12
  • Dear Necktie...Why??
    Why do we give neck ties for father's day? This is something that has puzzled me since I was a teenager. I don¿t recall getting my dad a tie for Father's day, but it seems like that is what every dad should expect to get.
    06.15.12
  • Gallery: Rayguns and Robots! Will Zap Your Eyes With Retro Sci-Fi
    The constant rebooting of science fiction franchises -- Alien, Battlestar Galactica, Total Recall -- left gallery owner James Monosmith missing the classics. To fill that void, he's holding a show called Rayguns and Robots! dedicated to art influenced by the sci-fi stylings of the 1940s and 1950s. Get a sneak peek at the cool artwork that will be on display in Seattle.
    06.15.12
  • Contest Alert: Calling All Makers, Hackers, and Backyard Inventors
    Amazing things happen when designers are given a set of constraints. To celebrate makers everywhere, high-octane sponsor Red Bull is running an online contest in which contenders face off against the ultimate constraint: time. The event, called Red Bull Creation, is a 72-hour competition that will run in late July.
    06.15.12
  • Think the iPhone Is Cute? Check Out This Cell Phone Nesting Doll
    The nine nesting cell phones in Kyle Bean¿s Mobile Evolution are a new take on an old toy, by a young artist interpreting an evolving industry. From 1984 to about 2010, as mobile phones gradually took over the world, leaps in cellular technology allowed phones to shrink, while processing power exploded. Bean, a British artist, was interested in the phenomenon, and started collecting old phones from a local junk shop. Placing them beside each other, he drew an unusual parallel ¿ to him they looked like the old Russian nesting dolls, or Matryoshka dolls, that have been resurging in new variations.
    06.14.12
  • Geeky Gifts for Your Geek Dad!
    Ever since becoming a writer for GeekMom, I've found that there are geeky gifts lurking around every corner, you just have to know YOUR geek. Read about some last minute suggestions for Father's Day.
    06.14.12
  • Download the GeekDad Song For Free For Father's Day
      To celebrate Father's Day this weekend, you can download the GeekDad song for free! Just click the Download button on the player above. If you're viewing this post in a feed reader, just click here for the free download: The GeekDad Song This song was co-written with the magnificent GeekDad Z. from the Hipster, please! blog. If you like ...
    06.14.12


 

 

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