What does the Navy do when it needs to know for sure that a new weapon system or electronic countermeasure works, not just under stringent lab-like settings or at a land based range, but in its intended operating environment? They put it to sea on a giant remote controlled Destroyer and throw live missiles at it. Read more…
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This Destroyer Is The World’s Largest Remote Controlled Vehicle
If you’re looking for two hours of deleted scenes and alternate footage from the original Star Wars Trilogy and hoping that they’d be masterfully edited together documentary-style, well, here you go. Garrett Gilchrist put together all this Star Wars footage you probably never seen before in Star Wars: Deleted Magic. Read more…
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Watch two hours of deleted scenes from the original Star Wars Trilogy
An anonymous reader writes Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, spoke at the 2014 Samsung Developer Conference last week about the company’s forays into the young medium of virtual reality. In addition to real-time experiences, DreamWorks is exploring ways to enabled their bread and butter in VR: high-fidelity pre-rendered CGI. One method the company is exploring is a “Super Cinema” format: pre-rendered 360 degree 3D frames to be projected around the user in virtual reality. On stage, Mayoss showed a video glimpse of the format using assets from the company’s “How to Train Your Dragon” franchise. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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DreamWorks Reveals Glimpse of "Super Cinema" Format For VR Films
Hydrogen fuel cells are a cool technology that were perfected to enable humans to go to the moon. Now that they’re perfected even more, they’re enabling humans to go to work or the liquor store, and, incredibly, this is progress. The Toyota Mirai is an example of this remarkable progress. Funny looking, maybe, but it works. Read more…
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The Next Prius? What It’s Like To Drive Toyota’s $57,000 Hydrogen Car
There’s really only two things you need to know about the 2015 Dodge Charger Hellcat: it may be the most American car you can buy right now, and it’s absolutely, unrepentantly clamshit insane. The idea of a well-appointed four-door family car with enough power to liquify everyone you love is crazy. And wonderful. But crazy. Read more…
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The Charger Hellcat Is The Most American/Insane Car You Can Buy
Defense giant Lockheed Martin, Notre Dame University, DARPA and the Air Force Research Lab have begun flight testing a streamlined and greatly miniaturized airborne laser turret that has the potential to totally transform air combat as we understand it today. Read more…
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Lockheed’s New Laser Super Turret Could Change Air Combat Forever
The new Star Wars hardware keeps trickling out. This is the new stormtrooper helmet, an updated model that looks way more modern but also less menacing than the original one. The left one is an actual unit in a warehouse. The right one is a render. They look nice but I have a question for all of you: Read more…
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Why did JJ Abrams make these new stormtrooper helmets for Star Wars?
You probably know that heat is bad for your computer, and you might even know how to monitor its temperatures . But how hot is too hot? Linus from Techquickie explains in this video. Read more…
Amazon has expanded its same-day delivery service to San Francisco, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Good news for those who leave things to the last minute. Read more…
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Amazon has expanded its same-day delivery service to San Francisco, Dallas, and Los Angeles.
In the 1980s Irina Margareta Nistor worked as a translator of TV programs in Romania under the Communist regime. But in her spare time she secretly dubbed over 3, 000 banned movie titles, all VHS tapes smuggled in from the West. These tapes quickly spread throughout Romania. Nobody knew Nistor’s name. But everybody knew her voice. Read more…
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This Woman Secretly Dubbed American Movies During the Cold War