I first saw this while looking for some kitchen utensils at a home/kitchen store. It is a silicon jar opener. Composed of a rubbery silicon material with a hard plastic tightening collar, it is made to open the toughest of jars.
Read MoreI’ve heard this argument from people who attended NAB this past year. Apparently, with the release of new prosumer video cameras that have DSLR sensors in them, professionals at NAB have proclaimed this coming year to be the “Death of DSLRs” for shooting video. Seriously?
Read MoreSppoky Squid has released the debut trailer for the upcoming They Bleed Pixels, a game I’ve personally been waiting for to make its appearance on Xbox Live Indie Games since before I first got a chance to play a beta version at TCAF this year. The “fast-paced, gothic lo-fi, platforming beat’em up” is due to appear on the Xbox sometime this summer.
Read MoreSpoiler warning: Spoilers for Hydrophobia—both the Pure and Prophecy versions. Yes, they have slightly different stories!
Read MoreWinner of the recent Nokia Shorts 2011 filmmaking competition, Splitscreen: A Love Story is a short film shot entirely with Nokia’s N8 mobile phone (in 720P @ 25fps). The surprisingly watchable footage uses dual frames to represent two ‘days in the life’ — one set in Paris and one in New York — with the shots arranged to show the two lives proceeding in harmony, half a world apart. (They don’t stay apart, though. Watch and see.)
Read MoreSure, the Canada Day long weekend is right around the corner, which means patios, barbeques and fireworks for most, but that doesn’t mean the fun starts (or stops) there. There’s a couple of great events coming up over the next few days worth taking note of…
Read MoreThe company Lytro uses a new light field sensor that allows digital cameras to record all the light that is moving in all directions in its field of view. The most obvious benefit is that there would be no need to focus before the pictures are shot. Once the image is captured, the user can select the focal point.
Read MoreIf I had to categorize Child of Eden, it would be a “first person J-pop electronica visualizer science fiction dance rail shooter”. While that sounds like a disjointed mouthful, everything flows together seamlessly. Taking place in the same universe as Q Entertainment’s earlier Rez, Child of Eden ups the ante in all respects, making it a singular experience, that all but achieves designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s goal of inducing synesthesia in the player, delightfully crossing the wires between sound and vision.
Read MoreIn the past, we had the above course and it was very well received. Unfortunately, we can’t have it as often as we would like due to the tutor’s schedule. We are pleased to let you and your readers know that Entertainment Law for Filmmakers series is coming back once again because of its demand. It would be greatly appreciated if you could post the following on your website: ENTERTAINMENT LAW FOR FILMMAKERS DATE – JUNE 13, 16, 20, 23 TIME – 6:30pm to 9:00pm LOCATION – St. Paul’s Church…
Read MoreMicrosoft had the least to lose with their E3 press conference this year, so it’s not surprising that the overall feeling by the time it wrapped up was one of evolution as opposed to revolution. Nowhere was this felt more than the sheer number of Kinect related news.
Read MoreWhile at TCAF this year, we spent a few minutes talking with Miguel Sternberg of Spooky Squid about the latest Torontron arcade cabinet, the High Roller. Also on hand was a playable version of his latest game They Bleed Pixels, a “fast paced, gothic, low-fi pixel art, platforming beat’em up” that will be coming out ‘soon’ on Xbox Live Indies.
Read MoreYes, this is YAKH (Yet Another Kinect Hack), but this one is a little different. By way of OpenNI and Max/MSP, Matt Davis was able to map it Ableton Live and Henry Strange’s MIDI to DMX Laser Control System, which gives him control of both sound and a laser show.
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