Laugh all you want, but the stupendously silly $ 200 million Battleship blockbuster opening Friday isn’t close to sinking toy- and game-based films anytime soon. Here are 10 classic childhood diversions that got burned into our brains thanks to cheesy television commercials. We think Hollywood should eye these for their own movies.
Self-promotion is tough for anyone, but for designers it’s an Olympic challenge. Everything they hand out, post, and send to potential clients has to visually represent their (inimitable) style and (immeasurable) talent.
Producing a quality Kickstarter project requires little more than computer access, a functioning camera, and some old-fashioned wit. Here are our tips on how to pull it all together to get funded.
Brain implants, a robotic arm, thought control ? it sounds far out. But in Brown University?s BrainGate experiment, the combination worked. Scientists helped stroke survivor Cathy Hutchinson train her mind, a computer, and a robotic arm to work together to perform a simple task her own body hasn?t been capable of since 1996: raising a cup of coffee to her mouth, and drinking it.
Virgin Atlantic begins offering cellphone coverage on transatlantic flights. The pricey, and somewhat limited, service will use items found in space and in the homes of outlying carrier customers to help passengers call in sick to work while flying to London.
On this week’s edition of the Gadget Lab Show, the gang takes a gander at the Nook Simple Touch e-reader and Pebble Smartwatch, the most successful Kickstarter project ever.
Conch shell flower pots, Radio Flyer wagons-turned-go-karts, bamboo bicycles. The Internet’s made it easy to share individual projects. But the web’s also given designers a sense of community, says Shoshana Berger, Wired Development Editor and curator of Wired Design, the magazine’s newest addition to its website.
Ten years ago, creative types didn’t have outlets like Etsy …
In the early days of Web 1.0 beta (i.e. the ’90s), most of us who were paying attention thought music middlemen were on their way out. Things didn’t really pan out that way, but we’re sniffing a return of the “direct to fan” ecosystem. Here are five apps that could rewrite the industry’s rules.
In the inaugural episode of Wired’s video show The Monitor, senior editor Peter Rubin talks about new movies (The Avengers, Dark Shadows), comics (Dial H) and videogames (Max Payne 3).