While Apple is pursuing the world of touch/gesture interaction ultimately looking to abolish the aging peripheral, there’s still plenty to love about the little digital rodent. For starters, photo editing/CAD in particular can definitely benefit from the pin point precision a standard mouse offers — something much more blunt objects like fingers can’t yet do. Gaming is but another area, that in our opinion, won’t go mouse-less for quite some time. ...
UK readers will want to make sure they have or know someone who has access to Sky 3D TV this Christmas, for Avatar 3D is coming to town. The Christmas premiere will be exclusive to Sky 3D and Sky 3D alone. However, those who aren’t too keen on 3D movies in general will be able to see the 2D version of Avatar on sister channels Sky Movies Premiere and Sky Movies Premiere HD. The Avatar 3D (and 2D) premiere is scheduled to go live on Christmas Eve at 8pm. Interested...
A few years ago, seeing a movie marketed with the characters “3D” screamed “gimmick”. After Avatar however, the movie studios are scrambling to match Avatars success, especially with that impressive $2 billion+ box office. I’m positive that as studios try to cash in on the 3D mania, we consumers are merely along for the ride and subject to countless craptastic movies with 3D slapped on to earn an extra buck. Such is the world in which we...
If you spend any amount of time online, whether it be in forums or social networking sites, you’ve at some point or another seen a gray avatar box. The little box would house a clever little picture or icon if the person on the other end took the time to create one. Many people still cherish their anonymity or simply don’t have enough time or want to create such a picture. If you follow the former — not wanting to give up your faceless persona —...
Linguistics and language aren’t normally something you’d hear about on a tech blog. But this isn’t a normal tech blog. And learning something such as the Na’vi language featured in Avatar isn’t your normal language. Avatar if you didn’t know, has been a pretty big topic in the tech world for the last several weeks due to it’s groundbreaking 3D and filming technologies used during filming. With that, the language featured in...
