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French Engineers Teach Kinect Sign Language

There are no lightsabers or oversized lady bumps in this Kinect hack, just an earnest attempt at aiding communication. Students at the École ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 19, 2011

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Stephen Fry Joins Cast of The Hobbit

Director Peter Jackson says that Fry’s performance will be “memorable.” Actor, comedian, and writer Stephen Fry will appear in Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 19, 2011

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Special Effects Wizard Reveals the Secret of Smashing Buildings with Transformers

You’d think that getting giant robots to smash stuff would be easy, but you’d be wrong. Whether you liked the Transformers movies or ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 19, 2011

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Activision: Engaging With Fans Turned MW3 Leak Into a Triumph

The publisher wanted to make sure that if anyone was telling Call of Duty fans about Modern Warfare 3, it was Activision. Thanks ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 19, 2011

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Man Chooses to Swap Disabled Hand for Bionic Replacement

Doctors are using technology to do something that biology will apparently never be able to achieve. A Serbian man known as “Milo,” whose ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2011

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Keanu Reeves Turns Down Akira Movie

It’s not been a great week for the manga adaptation, as it loses a potential star and a lot of its staff within ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2011

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Bethesda Outs Skyrim as Unlimited Dragon Buffet

Grab your weapons and put on your armor; there are dragons to hunt. Try as they might, players of the upcoming fifth Elder ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2011

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Hungarian Authorities Announce Flooding in Middle-Earth

If you’ve got relatives in Gondor or the Shire, you might want to call them and check they’re OK. The Hungarian authorities have ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2011

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THQ Claims It’s One of the Big Publishers

It’s not about how many games you release, says THQ’s CEO, it’s about how many you sell. THQ CEO Brian Farrell says that ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2011

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Raiden Rides the Crazy Train in New Mortal Kombat Episode

If someone tried to tell you he was a thunder god and that the world was doomed, would you believe him? After what ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2011

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Neil Gaiman Talks Swimming Pools, Regeneration, and Time Lords

A season change, budget problems and a whole lot of script revisions were just some of the things that got in the way ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 17, 2011

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Robotics Engineer Builds Pocket-Sized Portal Personality Cores

What better way to start the day than with mad AIs that fit in the palm of you hand? When he’s not busy ...

By Logan Westbrook Legacy AuthorMay 17, 2011

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