With Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Luc Besson is once again delivering an elaborate sci-fi epic, his first since The Fifth Element. (Lucy, his last film, with Scarlett Johansson, was decidedly more small-scale.) Based on the French comic series Valerian and Laureline — which also served as a major inspiration for Star Wars — the film centers […]
I finally got around to watching Master of None this month and sped through its two seasons with my girlfriend. The show is so sweet, fun, and funny that it’s really kind of hard to stop watching. What I loved most about Master of None is how much it refuses to be a traditional sitcom. The show is surprisingly experimental […]
Yesterday, we reported that Verizon Wireless appeared to be throttling Netflix traffic, — and today, the company seems to have come clean. In a statement provided to Ars Technica and The Verge, Verizon implicitly admitted to capping the traffic, blaming the issue on a temporary video optimization test. “We’ve been doing network testing over the past few days to optimize […]
All of us love homes with views. You crack open a window to be kissed by the sun, and a bit of a summer breeze. Ah, perfect! Well, the Wind Pecker was designed to give you that exact feeling. Set amidst a windmill farm, the Wind Pecker are a series of conceptual residential spaces that are literally mounted on windmills, […]
I still live with a 16gb phone. It isn’t impossible, but it’s difficult. The world isn’t moving towards adapting to low storage, it’s increasing it. So what do you do when you run low on storage? Delete photos and apps? NO! Back everything to the cloud? You could, but you’d need constant access to it to retrieve data. What else […]
Those with missing limbs are more capable than ever of living fulfilling lives and, thanks to devices like the Nimble Prosthetic Fin, they may even be more capable than able-bodied individuals in some instances! This aquatic prosthetic features a vacuum socket that allows for quick and secure attachment to the limb. Once in place, the user is immediately transformed into […]
Last year, LinkedIn announced a new native video capability for their 500 or so “Influencers.” While the rest of us on LinkedIn weren’t granted the same privilege, I and many other marketers saw this experiment for what it was: A beta test for a broader roll-out to their 500 million-plus members. Sure enough, as I and others had predicted, LinkedIn […]
The 3Doodler pen is a rather fun toy. I say toy because while it’s an extruder, it isn’t capable of industrial-grade printing. However, it’s cheap, fun-to-use, and retails at $99. Kodama’s Obsidian 3D printer is a rather capable printer. It prints at a minimum resolution of 50 microns, and works with a wide range of materials. It also costs the […]
What an exciting time to be alive – gadgets that only existed in Sci-Fi movies are slowly creeping into our everyday reality, revolutionizing the way we experience the world. Technological innovation is never static, and there is always something new and exciting on the horizon. Virtual Reality is once again taking the world by storm and promises to become more […]
The Fender name is legendary in the world of music for its guitars and amplifiers. But now the company is setting its sights on a new chunk of the music industry — Bluetooth speakers. The company is launching two speakers: the larger $349.99 Monterey, and the smaller, portable $199.99 Newport. The $349.99 Monterey is the more powerful of the two […]