Jan 18

World IPv6 Launch Solidifies Global Support for New Internet Protocol

Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.

Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. Full Post…

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Jan 17

Filmmakers Use Technology to Create Classic-Style Films

Professor Wilmarth explores the Mi-Go cave, in a scene from the film “The Whisperer in Darkness.”
Long before Cthulhu became a Web meme about the ultimate doom of the world we know, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society was well at work bringing life to the works of the master of strange horror. After five years of work, the HPLHS just released the film “The Whisperer in Darkness”. The film recounts the tale by H.P. Lovecraft, following professor Albert Wilmarth as he investigates legends of terrifying creatures in the remote hills of Vermont. The f Full Post…

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Jan 09

1TB USB Drive unveiled

CES 2012 is finally under way, and one of the biggest surprises of the event thus far comes courtesy of Victorinox, the guys behind the Swiss Army Knife. The company unveiled a pair of Swiss Army Knife-styled storage drives, one of which holds a capacity of 1TB.

What was unveiled

The company unveiled the Victorinox Slim 3.0 drive, a USB 3.0 drive which reads and writes faster than the now universal USB 2.0 drives.

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Jan 03

Mimbo the iPhone Robot Mimics Your Emotions

Interested in robotics, but building a robot seems too complex and you cant afford an Asimo? The folks at Instructables have a solution: Mimbo, a simple, iPhone-based robot in a cardboard body that mimics your facial expressions.

At first glance, Mimbo isnt really all that interesting: it consists of two eyes and a mouth on an iPhone screen, with the rest being concealed by a simple cardboard body.

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Jan 02

ESRB: Soul Calibur V lets you “augment” breast sizes, shows “buttocks”

The ESRB has said that Soul Calibur V will allow you to augment the size of female breasts in the game.

It reads in a rating recently listed on its website: Some female fighters wear outfits that reveal large amounts of jiggling cleavage and portions of their buttocks.

On the character creation menu, players can augment fighters breast sizes and manipulate the camera to zoom in on their bodies.

The ESRB also said the game will have players use guns, swords, spears and other melee weapons to strike opponents and drain their health meters, as well as characters getting impaled with swords.

The games out on January 30 in the US and February 2 in Europe for PS3 and 360.

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