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Daily iPhone App: Star Legends

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2011)

Star Legends is the release title of Blackstar, an MMO whose origin I've recounted on the site here before. Spacetime Studios was a company formed from the ashes of an unreleased PC MMO that went on to make Pocket Legends, a full mobile MMO that started on iOS and then moved on to Android. ...

Found Footage: Apple vs. Predator

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 26th, 2010)

Molly Wood of "Buzz Out Loud" issued a call earlier this week to make an Apple vs. Predator video and YouTube user Kelvington stepped up to the challenge. The video shows that the Predators invented the "slide to unlock" feature circa 1987 and are pissed that Steve Jobs stole their idea. However, ...

Found Footage: Dalek controlled by iPhone accelerometer

by Dave Caolo (Mar 5th, 2010)

Self-respecting science fiction fans will remember the Daleks. They're the mutant alien villains from the Doctor Who television series with armored casing, warbling voices and a penchant for extermination. Steve at BotBuilder is a fellow fan who combined his love of sci-fi and bots into the ...

Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 Newspad finally arrives, nine years late

by Steven Sande (Jan 28th, 2010)

One of my all-time favorite movies is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. At several points during the film, we see ill-fated astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole using a flat, iPad-like device. In one of the posters for the movie, astronauts at a base on the Moon are seen using this device ...

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