‘Voltron’ Movie is Being Made for Real
August 18, 2008
Another day, another chance for Hollywood to hastily scrape the lining of the 1980s’ uterus, hoping something they can rake out will resemble a movie if they project some light through it. This time: Voltron.
Fox-based New Regency has put robot project “Voltron: Defender of the Universe” into turnaround.
Ryan Kavanaugh’s financing and production venture Relativity Media is in negotiations to back the property, though on a more moderate budget, utilizing the type of cost-effective technology employed in films including “300.”
Last summer, New Regency picked up the rights to the property, adapted by scribe Justin Marks, who’s behind Warner Bros.’ bigscreen versions of “He-Man” and “Green Arrow.”
Marks’ take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico, where five survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth’s invaders.
The worst part will be when I see the trailer in the theater and inevitably hear some kids talking about how it looks like a Power Rangers rip-off. “Hey, idiots, Voltron was around first! No, you’re an old nerd!”
‘Voltron’ facing a Relativity reboot [Variety]
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6x Telescopic Lens for iPhone 3G
August 18, 2008
The famous 6x telescope now finds it compatible with the latest iPhone 3G. What this does is give you 6x optical zoom making zoomed images far better quality then the regular digital zoom you would normally use.
Using the telescope is easy and is just a matter of putting your phone in a supplied crystal type case. Once there the 6x zoom camera attaches to the rear over the regular iPhone’s camera lens.
The 6x telescopic lens costs just $19 and is available from Brando.
Product Page Via: TechChee
Anchor Clock for those who Love Popeye
August 14, 2008
A bunch of weird gadgets are available these days with most of them being USB. This one however is not USB but is still weird. It’s a clock shaped like an anchor. The anchor clock shows over 10 gears which all move slowly when the clock has power. Two C type batteries are needed to power the clock.
The only thing that isn’t weird about this clock is that it has real hands that tell time. Apart from that, I think the rest (including shape) is just plain odd.
The Anchor Clock costs $115 and is available from Brando.
Via: TechChee
Lucas to transfer Star Wars movies to 3D
July 23, 2008
Talk about flogging a dead horse.
George Lucas is reportedly planning to transfer all six Star Wars movies into 3D.
This news was revealed by DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, who said that Lucas has the technical resources to actually make it happen. We all know that he also has the financial resources to actually do it if he does make up his mind.
We’ll keep you posted on this news as it develops in the future.
3 Popular Music Search Engine
July 19, 2008
I’m checking out 3 popular music search engines (songza, seeqpod, and skreemr). Among the 3, I seem to like songza more.
When using a music search engine, I expect to search either for a specific song, or I enter an artist and expect to see a list of songs by that artist. I don’t want to see wikipedia articles or news about those artists.
I tried doing a search for “Duran Duran”, one of my favorite bands in the 80’s and here’s what songza returned.
Songza returned a list of Duran Duran songs. The nice thing about this is that if I click one of the songs, it’ll play it. Really cool!
The second music search engine I tested was Seeqpod. Here’s what seeqpod returned.
Honestly, I didn’t like what I saw. I has a couple of links to you tube. Does this mean that if I create a video at youtube and I include the word “Duran Duran” in the title my video would be included in this search result page? Hmm…. we might be seeing a new form of spam. … ‘video spam’.
The 3rd music search engine I tested was skreemr. Here’s what it looks like.
This one seems better. One of the results was “The Reflex” which was a very good Duran Duran song. I noticed that the link pointed to this file “http://musicglob.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/duran-duran-the-reflex.mp3?
When I click that link, it’ll play the song.
I guess by creating a music search engine which crawls the net in search for mp3 files uploaded on websites and indexing it, these search engines won’t be liable for copyright infringement since technically, those mp3 files are not hosted on the search engines. They just “found” these files and returns a list of urls where it can be found.
People can then just do a right click and click “save as” and these mp3 files would be downloaded to their hard disks.
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