Ok, if you work with After Effects AND are a sci-fi / Star Wars fan, prepare for a major geek-gasm. If you’ve never heard of Video Copilot and work with After Effects, where have you been? <joke – sort of> Video Copilot is the brainchild of Andrew Kramer and is a suite of VFX plug-ins…
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has a real life A.I. called … Jarvis. And he’s looking for a voice for it. So who stepped up and volunteered for the job? None other than Iron Man himself! Check out the full report from IGN below. Possibly Related Posts: Friday Fiction: Rules For Living With Roof Beings…
I am not editing a word of this. No italics, not quotes, nothing. You’ll know why. —The Editor My arm hurts. My hand hurts. My fingers hurt. As a writer this presents a bit of a problem. I am so used to using a keyboard that it never occurred to me how much I rely…
This is a piece on the psychological implications of virtual reality and thus it relies heavily on certain findings and beliefs held by the psychiatric community. Please be advised that if you hold beliefs that differ from those of said community that that is the basis of this particular article. We feature many different viewpoints on…
A Jedi’s greatest weapon is the lightsaber. It goes without saying really, doesn’t it? They use it in every battle whether it’s against other Jedi’s or to reflect a Stormtroopers bullets. But what we’re wondering is whether the glorious device from the Star Wars franchise can actually be built for real. It would be pretty…
It’s a weird month for science. The internet is a flurry with emotion over two things: the Planet Formerly Known as Pluto and the apparently fictional Loch Ness Monster. The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered in only 1930 and it became a part of our educational galaxy. You were bummed out if you had to…
This topic is a potential minefield to navigate, yet it is one that keeps cropping up on the internet the more and more I search. I recently went to the Science Museum in central London. As a kid, this was one of my favorite museums (the Geological was a close second—it had an earthquake machine!),…
Anything Google can do, Facebook can do better. So thinks Mark Zuckerberg the billionaire founder of the definitive social media platform. To give Zuckerberg his due, pretty much everything that’s introduced on Facebook gets used by the 1.393 billion active users (figures accurate as of February 28th 2015). Spherical video will be another fun addition…
In October of 2014, Professor Brian Cox made a bold claim during a BBC documentary in the UK: “There is only one advanced technological civilization in this galaxy and there has only ever been one – and that’s us. We are unique.” I was flummoxed by this assertion at first because, regardless of my opinion…
This is a question I have often asked myself, usually when I’m talking with my friends in a bar somewhere. To the best of my knowledge, we have yet to make significant contact with an alien race. If we have, it has been kept very closely under wraps. With Brian Cox postulating that life (as…
There’s not much to say, really. As Editor-in-Chief of this site, I have a few things to say, but I’ll save them for the end. For now, let me at least provide some level of preface. After hearing about the passing of Leonard Nimoy, one of the world’s, nay, the universe’s greatest cultural icons, I…
Two Boys Simon Kint (not his real name). It’s amazing how I can still remember the name of the kid who talked over and mocked my presentation on how sci-fi has influenced so many things in our lives. I was seventeen years old and this jumped-up, annoying little rhymes-with-skip kept begging our History teacher to…
