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  • Iron Man 2: the gadgets (video)

    Iron Man 2: the gadgets (video)

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    When done right, a science fiction or fantasy film will leave audiences with a prescient glimpse into our actual gadget future. Remember the heady pre-iPhone, pre-Pureness days of 2002 when you first saw Minority Report? Staring silently, mouth agape, jonesing for a chance to partake in a multi-touch, transparent display future using nothing but gestures? Well now that Iron Man 2 has been released, we've got another chance to look into the high-tech crystal ball, this time envisioned by a team of artists at Perception who did the design, animation, and visual effects work that turned Tony Stark's transparent LG smartphone (pictured above), touch-screen coffee table, and holographic lab environment into an on-screen reality. The group was compelled by director Jon Favreau and the team at Marvel Studios to keep the UI elements "legible and logical, while still appearing to be several generations beyond the typical user experience." Perception tells us that some of its inspiration was directly attributed to Engadget as it researched near-term technologies for the film's future reality. No doubt, we do see influence from Emblaze's First Else navigation elements and limited color palette as well as Microsoft's InkSeine research at the heart of the doomed Courier UI. And if we're not mistaken, Stark's big ass computing table is almost certainly inspired by Microsoft Surface. Now get past the break and check out Perception's contribution to Iron Man 2, the future of Google search alone is not to be missed.

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  • Boing Boing shows off the Marvel Comics iPad app

    Boing Boing shows off the Marvel Comics iPad app

    Posted on April 2, 2010 | No Comments
    The Marvel Comics app one of the three iPad apps that actually make me want to drink the Apple kool-aid and go lay down alongside the Apple faithful to slowly drift towards a land of simple, non-multitasking computing. So far we’ve only seen screenshots and a press release for the app, but Xeni over at [...]

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  • Let your geek flag fly with official Xmen TVs

    Let your geek flag fly with official Xmen TVs

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Word has come down that Marvel has licensed some of their characters to TV builder RTC23. No, I’ve never heard of them either, but apparently someone has since they are now producing the official “ultimate comic book fan” television. The new TVs will be available in 22, 32, 42, and 55-inch versions, and feature custom splash [...]

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  • Breaking: Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment For $4 Billion

    Breaking: Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment For $4 Billion

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today. Under the terms of the agreement and based on last week's closing price of Disney, Marvel shareholders would receive a total of $30 per share in cash plus approximately 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own. Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28, the transaction value is $50 per Marvel share or approximately $4 billion. Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its more than 5,000 Marvel characters, including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor. (News breaking, more coming)

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  • Hooray!: Don’t expect crappy movie games from Marvel anymore

    Hooray!: Don’t expect crappy movie games from Marvel anymore

    Posted on August 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Praise jeebus! Marvel’s Executive Vice President of Global Digital Media Group, Ira Rubenstein, said Marvel is done making crap games based on movies. We are not doing movie-based games anymore,” Rubenstein said following yesterday’s announcement of Digital Comics for PSN at Sony’s GamesCom press conference. “Actually, wait … we are not doing crappy movie-based games [...]

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  • Marvel releases Spider-Woman motion comic trailer

    Marvel releases Spider-Woman motion comic trailer

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    Just wanted to share this in case you haven’t seen it. Marvel Motion Comics

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