Sci Fi Archive

  • Stargate Universe premeres tonight, set your TiVos

    Stargate Universe premeres tonight, set your TiVos

    Posted on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
    I’ve heard good things about Stargate Universe so far, but I’m still nervous about tonight’s premiere. SG-1 and Atlantis are two of my favorite shows of all time and I’m afraid that this new series is something different than those two. From what I’ve seen, it’s taking a very Battlestar Galactica-look, which might not be [...]

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  • Video: Panasonic commercial shows new “Avatar” footage (kind of)

    Video: Panasonic commercial shows new “Avatar” footage (kind of)

    Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
    The official trailer for Avatar, James Cameron's new (and supposedly groundbreaking) Sci-Fi movie, came out just last month, and now Panasonic is showing a TV spot promoting their Viera TVs and the movie on Japanese television. The commercial, which is currently in heavy rotation on TV over here, shows some very brief new scenes from Avatar (which is due out in both the US and Japan on December 18).

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  • Daily Crunch: The Zune Strikes Back Edition

    Daily Crunch: The Zune Strikes Back Edition

    Posted on September 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Zune Originals artwork now available for the Zune HD Zune HD’s UI: the full tour Ribcage pulled out by a bear? There’s an app for that.

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  • These are the worst sci-fi costumes ever

    These are the worst sci-fi costumes ever

    Posted on September 16, 2009 | No Comments
    You better act fast if you don't have a Halloween costume. I'm still debating mine: it's between being an Apple fanboy (dress up as an apple (with green trousers and shoes to keep it real), then wear a fan as a hat) or a death panel board member, which will play well in super liberal Manhattan. (Health care joke! Tip your waitress.) What you don't want to do, however, is dress up like any of these guys.

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  • He who controls the Spice, controls the LEGO universe

    He who controls the Spice, controls the LEGO universe

    Posted on September 3, 2009 | No Comments
    lego sandwormPaul Atreides, House Harkonnen, Bene Gesserit, Sandworms -- what's not to love about Frank Herbert's Dune? And what better way to immerse yourself in that world than by recreating things in LEGO bricks! If LEGO were to create a packaged set for Dune, the way they have for Star Wars and Indiana Jones, I would certainly buy a couple, and feel no remorse whatsoever playing with them, alone, in my basement. Alas, no such sets have been made, so enterprising fans of less-mainstream sci-fi and fantasy franchises are left to their own devices to create their favorite things from whatever collection of colored plastic bricks they can assemble.

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  • The first Avatar trailer is here (update: American version)

    The first Avatar trailer is here (update: American version)

    Posted on August 20, 2009 | No Comments
    James Cameron's highly anticipated Sci-Fi movie Avatar (to be released on December 18) has been getting a lot of hype in the last few months, and now Fox gives us the trailer for the movie. But judging from this 2-minute teaser trailer, Avatar will look pretty cartoony/video game-ish (this is my impression at least).

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  • District 9 loved on IMDb, ranked 8.9 out of 10

    District 9 loved on IMDb, ranked 8.9 out of 10

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    As just discussed in the CrunchGear chatroom, I don't know anything about District 9 because I'm eventually going to see it. All I need to know is that right now the movie is ranked number 26 on IMDB's top 250 list and has an 8.9 out of 10 rating. If the movie keeps the 8.9 rating after more votes are submitted, it will surpass The Dark Knight (8.8), Star Wars (8.8), The Empire Strikes Back (8.8), and LOTR: Return of the King (8.8) as the top Sci-fi movie of all time. Not that I'm going to read these comments because they will certainly contain spoilers, but is the movie really that good? Like better than The Dark Knight good?

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  • Touchable Holography: New projector lets you “touch” 3D objects with your hands (video)

    Touchable Holography: New projector lets you “touch” 3D objects with your hands (video)

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Here's some more info on a Sci-Fi dream come true: As if looking at floating images in free space produced by mid-air displays isn't cool enough, a research team from the University of Tokyo now makes it possible to even touch (kind of) those images with a newly developed projector system. The so-called Touch Holography is essentially made of three parts: Provision Interactive Technologies' Holo display, two Wii remote controls to track your hands in front of the display and a tactile display that uses ultrasound to provide tactile sensation onto your hand.

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  • China’s answer to Transformers: Metallic Attraction Kung Fu Cyborg

    China’s answer to Transformers: Metallic Attraction Kung Fu Cyborg

    Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Some early footage of this movie has been floating around on the web for a few months now, but today an official trailer was released. And in the meantime, the brilliantly named "Metallic Attraction: Kung Fu Cyborg" has evolved into some kind of Chinese version of Transformers.

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  • Disney reveals plot and title for new Tron movie

    Disney reveals plot and title for new Tron movie

    Posted on July 10, 2009 | No Comments
    A sequel for cult movie Tron was rumored to be in preparation for years now, and today Walt Disney Pictures has finally revealed a few tidbits of information about the reboot of the "virtual reality film". It will simply be called Tron (and not Tron 2, Tron 2.0 or "Tr2n") and we'll be able to see some footage very soon. Disney said they will show a 3D clip from the movie during the Comic-Con in San Diego on July 23. The poster is from the first movie, which was made back in 1982 (and has aged pretty well).

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  • TV Everywhere is Comcast and Time Warner’s answer to free Internet video

    TV Everywhere is Comcast and Time Warner’s answer to free Internet video

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Cable providers Comcast and Time Warner might be late to the Internet video party, but that doesn't mean they are going to let us enjoy content for free that they pay for. Oh no, the TV Everywhere Model is designed to give Comcast and Time Warner paying subscribers access to content and block-out everyone else. And this system might find its way into Hulu. You can't blame the cable operators for their plans. They have to pay good money for access to cable stations. Then they, of course, pass along the cost to subs via a monthly bill. The thought is that those people that pay for the content should be able to watch all of it on both their TVs and computers. Of course the other side is that if you don't pay for those services, then you'll be shut out. This authentication system will be used initially on sites like Comcast's video site, Fancast, but there is always the possibility that it could eventually make its way on to Hulu.

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  • IPhone Teardown Reveals Underclocked 833MHz CPU

    IPhone Teardown Reveals Underclocked 833MHz CPU

    Posted on June 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Rapid Repair has, as expected, descended on the new iPhone 3G S, bristling with sharp tools like some sci-fi torture-bot, and splayed its remains on the cold slab of the teardown lab. It’s not an easy job — you’ll need a heat gun to remove some parts, other sections can be taken apart but not [...]

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  • Daily Crunch: Smoking Room Edition

    Daily Crunch: Smoking Room Edition

    Posted on June 6, 2009 | No Comments
    OLED display-camera combo may have sci-fi-ish applications A mechanical flash drive too cool to be steampunk Windows Home Server + Humidor = Home Servidor

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