Archive for April 4th, 2008Designed by Oscar Diaz and discovered by the awesome Cuarto Derecha, numbers and patterns in a calendar gradually get colored as time goes by. Is the ink really pumped by the paper or is it a design concept? I don’t know. However it is very nice, the ink seems to physically travel through the paper spongy material …
‘Transformers 2′ Just Got BIGGER! Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, RumorMonger, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels
The whole thing with these robots were that they could join together to form one massive robot called Devastator (see fan art to the right, courtesy of IESB and Rise Studio). Now, while there’s a chance Bay leaked this info on purpose in order to throw us all off, I could totally see this being the real deal. Why wouldn‘t he want to go bigger and badder for the sequel? Whatever the case may be, do you Transformers fans like this direction? Continue reading ‘Transformers 2′ Just Got BIGGER! Permalink | Email this | Comments
Bond News! Report from the Set of ‘Quantum of Solace’ Filed under: Action, Sony, Fandom, James Bond
–Why Chile? Antofagasta is home to the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), which stands as the lair of Bond’s latest adversary, Dominic Green (Diving Bell and the Butterfly star Mathieu Amalric). But even the ESO’s funky digs (a domed, modern building which will, thanks to special effects, be blown up in the finished film) take second billing to the gritty landscape. “I think what attracted us is the beautiful landscape, which contrasts with all the other landscapes in the film,” producer Michael G. Wilson told our reporter. “It reflects Bond’s inner feelings.” Continue reading Bond News! Report from the Set of ‘Quantum of Solace’ Permalink | Email this | Comments
SMS stamps!
By designing a series of rubber-stamps, the designers allowed the best messages to be stamped anywhere, perhaps to be used again with the postman as courier this time!
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Intel rep says people “probably won’t” need discrete graphics in the futurePosted by: admin in Games newsIntel rep says people “probably won’t” need discrete graphics in the future 
Intel’s already made some fairly bold promises at its Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai this week, and it now looks like it’s getting into the prediction game as well, with one representative from the company telling TG Daily that people “probably won’t” need discrete graphics cards in the future. That word comes from Intel Graphics and Gaming Technologist Ron Fosner, who was showing off a graphics demo running on a multi-core Nehelam system that, as you can see in the video at the link below, likely won’t have NVIDIA or AMD rethinking their strategy just yet. Fosner also curiously looked to the past to back up his argument, saying that “if you look back into the mid 80’s, there were no discreet graphics cards.” Of course, all of this is all the more puzzling given that Intel is itself dabbling in discrete graphics with its Larrabee project, albeit under the guise of a CPU / GPU hybrid.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Google to fire 300 at DoubleClick Filed under: Google (GOOG), Employees
For the first time, the tech darling of the internet will be cutting a large number of jobs, with the reductions coming from the company’s new DoubleClick workforce. Google completed its purchase DoubleClick on March 11, and it was widely expected that the Goog would fire some of DoubleClick’s 1,500 employees. According to The New York Times, though, the 300 number is larger than expected. Google is also planning on selling Performics Search Marketing, a unit of DoubleClick. Performics is a search engine marketing company that gets paid to place ads on search engines. This could interfere, or appear to interfere, with Google’s objectivity when ranking — and charging for — page popularity. So bye bye Performics! Google has about 17,000 employees worldwide, having added over 6,000 in 2007. CEO Eric Schmidt has promised to slow the pace of hiring in the coming months. Permalink | Email this | Comments
More on that nationwide cantaloupe recall Filed under: Business, Fruit, Health & Medical
Both Dole and Chiquita have issued voluntary recalls on some of their cantaloupe as well. Dole’s recall involved cantaloupe packed in cardboard containers that say “Dole” and “Product of Honduras.” The Chiquita boxes say “Mike’s Melons,” “Mayan Pride,” and “Chiquita.” Of course, I’m not sure if all supermarkets display fruit in their original packaging, so it’s probably best to ask the store about the cantaloupes they have for sale. Permalink | Email this | Comments
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iPhone overheats while docked, fight for replacement beginsPosted by: admin in Technology newsiPhone overheats while docked, fight for replacement begins Filed under: Cellphones  Not even a month after three iPods got all hot and bothered on separate occasions, along comes images showing that even Apple’s iPhone isn’t immune to melting itself. Purportedly, the handset was purchased from Carphone Warehouse in December, but was never activated for one reason or another. Just this week, the owner’s son slapped it in a dock with intentions of activating, walked downstairs to catch the last few minutes of Magnum, P.I. and returned to his room to find a “stupidly hot” iPhone which had already melted in some parts and had its screen cracked from the reaction. Not surprisingly, he’s currently in the middle of a runaround trying to get someone to remedy the issue, but thankfully no Earthlings, carpets or IKEA desks were harmed. Update: Thanks to Logan5’s quick eyes, it appears we’ve discovered a scammer in our midst. Essentially, this bloke posted the real story here noting that the crack (more on that here) actually appeared after it was mishandled and dropped. Haven’t we learned this approach doesn’t work by now?
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Butternut reduction like you’ve never seen it before Filed under: Vegetables, Television/Film, On the Blogs
I am going to have “butternut reduction” stuck in my head all day. I don’t want to be singing alone, so I had to share this video with all of you. It’s called “Akon Calls T-Pain” and it’s brought to you by Super Deluxe. Anyone want some lime on a steak soaked in wine? [via Gut Check]
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Ericsson unveils M700 LTE platform for mobile devicesPosted by: admin in Technology newsEricsson unveils M700 LTE platform for mobile devices Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless  The same week that Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled its LTE solution for North America comes a little nugget from Ericsson: the M700. Hailed as the “world’s first commercially available LTE-capable platform,” it promises peak data transmissions of 100Mbps down and 50Mbps up, which will undoubtedly be the next best thing since sliced bread. Reportedly, initial devices based on the unit will be ExpressCards, USB modems, etc., and of course, it supports bandwidths between 1.4 and 20MHz and the oh-so-exciting 700MHz bands. Unfortunately, a commercial release isn’t set to happen until 2009 — with products “based on the platform” not scheduled until 2010 — but to its credit, samples of ASICs will be ready to roll sometime this year.
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