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One of the beneficiaries of Avatar's success could be the on-again, off-again Heavy Metal movie. Now there's talk it may be reborn as an all-3D, all-animated anthology with contributions from Avatar's James Cameron, Watchmen's Zack Snyder and David Fincher.
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Ruffian Games and Microsoft do what they can to take care of the traditional summer gaming drought with Crackdown 2, heading to the Xbox 360 the first week of July.
[Kotaku]
Powermat already makes a portable, tri-fold version of their induction charger. But it's only a bit portable, as you have to plug the thing in. Their latest Powermat is loaded with a lithium ion battery so you can charge anywhere.
[Gizmodo]
If you want to make a slideshow of photos and music but you don't have the know-how or time to use an advanced video editor, Flixtime is a web-based solution that will have you cranking out slideshows in minutes.
[Lifehacker]
Pop your head into an fMRI machine, think of a recent memory, and it's likely that a neuroscientist can guess what's on your mind. If we track memories as they form, does that mean a new era in mind control?
[io9]
Artichokes are, like mangoes, pineapples, and avocados, not inherently easy to cut up and prepare for eating. Serious Eats suggests getting some lemons, water, and a sharp knife ready, then digging in to pull out every single edible piece.
[Lifehacker]
Your birthday party isn't complete without the helium-induced squeak, but what does physics say? Discover how people think it works, how it really works, and many, many ways to get hurt while demonstrating it. Don't worry, no chipmunks are involved.
[io9]
Lithium-ion batteries are already close to the 20-hour life promised back in 2007 for laptops, but Lithium-sulphur batteries being worked on at Stanford University may improve battery life by 300 per cent.
[Gizmodo]
Peter Molyneux was smarting last week from the fact that half of the people who played his studio's last game, Fable II, didn't bother with half of its depth. People didn't even change their (virtual) clothes. His fault.
[Kotaku]
Last week, Matt Smith explained what his new Doctor was like, and now it's the turn of Doctor Who's new companion, Karen Gillan, to introduce her character. Plus, what is Panic Moon?
[io9]
Developers and product managers from the Gmail team hosted a jam-packed panel at SXSW Interactive yesterday, and talked in a refreshingly honest manner about what they've done and what's coming next—including speed improvements, new features, Buzz, better Contacts, and more.
[Lifehacker]
British comic Dan Dare is coming to the big screen, starring scifi hunk-du-jour Sam Worthington. But back in the 1980s, legendary model-maker Martin Bower created these designs for a Dan Dare movie that never got made. Look back in wonder.
[io9]
Gabe Newell. John Carmack. The creators of Uncharted 2, Scribblenauts, Farmville. Even Penny Arcade. I interviewed a parade of award-winners backstage at the Game Developers Choice Awards. And I wanted to make sure these post-awards interviews were not dull.
[Kotaku]
Some people have their Saturday SFO-JFK flights cancelled and get stuck by AA having to fly Sunday-Monday overnight to BOS and then transfer to LGA. Those people will REST on Monday, while you here at TAY discuss video games.
[Kotaku]
An interesting question asked by Leverage's John Rogers in this blog post (which itself spins out of an io9 post): When should newbies stop watching Battlestar Galactica? Here are some of the answers he received.
[io9]
If you buy a 3G iPad, you'll be able to purchase data, month by month, from AT&T. Neat! But you already pay for unlimited data access on your iPhone, also from AT&T. So why not have one plan, for everything?
[Gizmodo]
The stock Palm Pre has an adequate but ho-hum 500MHz processor inside with 256MB or RAM. And even the Palm Pre Plus simply doubles the RAM. So how would the Pre run with a much faster processor? Now we know.
[Gizmodo]
J.J. Harrison's Lost In Comics series recasts the castaways as a bright and cheery comic strip while simultaneously emphasizing the show's dark, totally screwed-up streak. Check out Harrison's funny pages take on Dharma food drops and the ill-fated Oceanic pilots.
[io9]
You need a plan of attack if you want to make your social networking experience productive. Create an event card to help you navigate your next networking engagement and come out with fruitful new contacts.
[Lifehacker]
Lenovo's rolled out three new monitors, but only one of them really grabs our attention: the L2461x Wide, a 23.6-inch (1920x1080) display with capacitive multitouch goodness. Don't believe the marketing, though: you'll need to provide your own disembodied hands.
[Gizmodo]
Learn why the Predators want Adrien Brody's company, and the possible villain of The Avengers. Fringe pics reveal a startling Walter Bishop makeover. Ron Moore promises Caprica explanations. Annabeth Gish joins FlashForward! Plus Doctor Who, Supernatural, Lost and The Phantom.
[io9]
With Aliens vs. Predator already out (and reviewed!), it time to get excited about the next project with Predator in it, the upcoming feature film Predators.
[Kotaku]
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