Raw footage for “Wired In,” a never completed series on the technological trends and innovations of the 1980s. Raw tape of Bill Murray doing takes for a promo. He rants about technology. “People have hands… Watches should have hands.”Read More
“Thank you, movie god,” Life of Pi director Ang Lee said when accepting the Oscar for best director at the Academy Awards. But movie worship is a polytheistic practice and many deities preside over the making of a film. For Life of Pi, Lee said he shared the award with “all 3,000″ with whom he Read MoreRead More
Debuting early in 2011, the dual protocol Thunderbolt standard promised dramatically improved transfer performance between peripheral devices and even the ability to daisy chain up to six devices form one port. So why, two years later, is it still considered a marginal technology? Andy Stout reports As the name suggests, Thunderbolt is fast, very fast, Read MoreRead More
Some day not too far from now – all this will look so incredibly arcane. Via Popular ScienceRead More
Veronica Belmont interviews the inventer and rides Mondo the eight-legged robotic walking machine.Read More
One small step for robotics, one large step toward the death of all humans. Disney researchers developed a test robot platform to see if it can interact with guests in a simple game of catch. Do we learn nothing from the Simpsons? Read More
Mama always said writing memorable movies lines was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. That is until now. Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has created software that identifies memorable quotes with the same accuracy of humans. This means computers might one day help writers test Read MoreRead More
News of Hollywood’s decline and death are a little premature – even Peter Levinsohn, the head of Digital Distribution at 20th Century Fox can see the a positive future for the movies. Twentieth Century Fox’s head of digital distribution readily acknowledged the headline-grabbing trends buffeting the film industry — declines in DVD sales, the rise of low-cost Read MoreRead More
Reeves dissects the gains and losses of technological advances and industry shifts in filmmaking, which he details in the documentary, Side by Side.
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Filmmaker IQ’s John Hess rips into the insipid message lurking under the cutesy Susie Lemonade Ad for Verizon.Read More
With the backing of Gates and Google, Khan Academy and its free online educational videos are moving into the classroom and across the world. Their goal: to revolutionize how we teach and learn. Sanjay Gupta on assignment with CBS News reports.Read More
As filmmakers we rely on them every day. But few of us have any inkling oh how the sensor actually works. Things have come a long way since the days where a little pieces of silver suspended in film reacted to light…Read More
