First up, WonderCon attendees last week were treated to a new look at this summer’s big budget superhero flick Green Lantern, with never-before-seen footage and lots of newly-completed visual effects. Shortly after the footage was shown to the live audience, Warner Bros. posted an “abridged” version of it online that clocks in at four minutes long. And yes, it’s totally killer.

You don’t have to be a Doctor Who fan to appreciate this genuinely epic trailer showing off some absolutely amazing moments from Season 6, which premieres in April.

Cartoon Network is rebooting Thundercats for a new generation — with all new continuity, character designs, and animation — for a debut later this year. Am I the only one who thinks this reinvention has been heavily influenced by Lord of the Rings?

J.J. Abrams is tapping into a strong sense of nostalgia for his summer tent pole Super 8. It has a Goonies-meets-Cloverfield vibe.

I’ve saved the biggest clip for last. This 14-minute video is not a trailer at all — it’s the entire first act of the premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones. Based on the fantasy novels of George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones is the story of a complex world called Westeros, where a decades-long winter is the backdrop for a power struggle between several families vying for control.

If you are detail kind of guy, then you will love this video I discovered earlier today. Somehow, this guy got his hands on the much awaited Apple iPad 2. Being the sharing person that he is, he decided to share his experiences with the iPad 2. He even made a very comprehensive video, which reviews practically all the features that the new iPad has to offer.

Here’s the best review of the Apple iPad 2 that you will ever see. It’s a little long, but hey, if you want to get the dish, you’ll have to watch the whole thing!

What did I tell you? It can’t get any better than that, can it? As for me, I can’t wait till they actually get the iPad 2 out. It will certainly add some value to my non-existent jogging routine. For some, it will be the perfect upgrade for the drinks coaster that the first iPad already is.

Evidently not.  Two women thought it a good idea to strap a camera to their rears to see what happens behind their backs, specifically if guys look at their back(side).

The two ladies strolled around the Los Angeles area with a “hidden ass cam.”  Their goal?  To capture all the looks received as they walked around.

What the video, which has nearly 1.2 million hits on YouTube, shows are women, men, and  West Hollywood Jesus all give the women’s rears longing gazes.

The “Rear View Girls” are a pair from New Zealand named Jessie and Reanin.  When watching the video, if you’re curious, the song playing in the background of the backside video experiment is “Something Bigger, Something Better” by Amanda Blank.

Without further adieu, here’s the video:

One thing to note, the camera can easily be seen on the women’s jeans.  Genius material these two are not.

What do you think?  Have the women stumbled across something truly groundbreaking?  Is it any surprise to anyone that the women’s bottoms received numerous looks as they flaunted their “assets” through the streets of Los Angeles?

(source / Geekologie)

The ‘History of Gaming’ video was made by “Game Design” students from Munich. It is a very simple video but pretty geek and retro considering they actually use working consoles, even the TV gets updated when updating the console.

You can see the following games in the video:

• Tennis for Two, Oscilloscope, 1958
• Pacman, Arcade, 1980
• Donkey Kong, NES, 1986
• Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, 1991
• Street Fighter II. SNES, 1991
• Super Mario 64, Nintendo 64, 1996
• Final Fantasy VII, Sony Playstation, 1997
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursiut 2, Sony Playstation 2, 2002
• Ecco the Dolphin, Sega Dreamcast, 2000
• Super Smash Bros. Melee, Nintendo Game Cube, 2001
• Wii Sports Golf, Nintendo Wii, 2006
• God of War III, Sony Playstation 3, 2010
• Rock Band, XBox 360, 2008

A noticeable absence is the Atari console, a pity the didn’t include it as it is one of the most memorable consoles till today.

From these games I have only played Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Mega Drive. It was one of the first video games I ever played. The only console I ever owned was the NES, I only owned a couple of games, Mario Bros. with the Olympic set and Duck Hunt, Duck Tales, Top Gun and a memorable one, Bump ‘n Jump.

All games and consoles I have played I did at friends, Playstation 1 and 2, XBOX, Nintendo 64, Game Cube and once a Wii. Now the most close I come to playing video games is on my iPhone; Angry Birds, Fishing Kings and Tony Hawk.

Ever wonder what happened to your lost LEGO Bricks? This (sort of) stop-motion short film explains where they’ve gone. (Spoiler: they’ve found a happy place.) The whimsical video takes you inside the mind of an inventor who cooks up ideas using LEGO Bricks as his inspiration.

The Brick Thief is the second “LEGO Click” short film; the first can be seen below. Both were created by a company called Blue Source, which has made music videos and advertisements for the likes of Virgin Mobile, Pizza Hut, Snickers, Honda, and many more.

Here we go, in no particular order.

Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham Asylum was not only the first superhero game to actually satisfy superhero fans, it also had the audacity to be one of the most gorgeous games ever made. The sequel already has fans like me salivating for more. With a much larger playing area and new twists like multiplayer added to the mix, Arkham City is a an absolute must-play.

Duke Nukem Forever

What more can be said about the game that almost never was that has suddenly become a reality? Those who’ve gotten their hands on it say that it more than lives up to expectations. Can’t wait to find out for myself.

Mass Effect 3

Just announced a few weeks ago, but not a surprise to anyone, Mass Effect 3 is set to answer the cliffhanger at the end of the last game and bring this epic science fiction series to an Earth-shattering conclusion. Literally. The technology BioWare uses in this franchise has always been impressive, but when it comes to Mass Effect, the play’s the thing, and I’m hoping for a killer crescendo.

LittleBigPlanet 2

Undoubtedly Media Molecule will deliver another unforgettable platforming experience, but the real excitement here comes from seeing what the LBP community will come up with, using LBP2‘s expansive set of creation tools. Especially since beta users have already created everything from Portal to Windows XP. The explosion of creativity that’s about to happen should be simply amazing.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

As a major fan of the original Deus Ex, I have high hopes that Eidos Montreal will revive the series with gusto and flair. The studio has strong pedigree but creator Warren Spector’s absence is worrisome. Oh please oh please… give us a great Deus Ex or no Deus Ex at all.

L.A. Noire

The buzz of late has been all about that advanced facial-tracking technology, which is allowing Team Bondi to create CGI characters that emote better than any ever seen in a video game. But the late 40s setting, the stylistic, gritty visuals, and the crime-noir story promise for some truly intriguing gameplay.

Portal 2

Whereas the first game was a cheaply-made mod of Half-Life 2, Valve is going all out for Portal 2, with its own art assets, a longer game, and far more fiendish puzzles. Seriously, how can you not be excited for this?

Child of Eden

Since its unforgettable debut at last year’s E3 (seen in the video above), Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s spiritual sequel to Rez combines touch, visuals, and sound in a breathtaking shooter experience that’s part science and part art. And with a design intentionally constructed with Kinect in mind, Child of Eden might just be the motion sensing device’s long-awaited killer app.

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Naughty Dog carries video gaming boldly forward as a legitimate medium for storytelling with every new entry in the Uncharted series. Nathan Drake’s next big adventure plops him down in the desert, which in anyone else’s hands might be a snoozefest but with Naughty Dog at the helm, I can’t wait to see how they rise to the challenge and make this Drake’s most exciting and dangerous environment yet.

Kid Icarus: Uprising

As Nintendo’s flagship title for the new 3DS, Kid Icarus has a lot riding on his feathery shoulders. The future of the 3DS doesn’t hinge on this title’s success by any means, but it’s definitely going to be the first benchmark for what the platform can do. Is 3D gaming the future? How does it change the dynamic of a third-person game? We’re about to find out.

Assassin’s Creed III

Ubisoft has found its answer to Activision’s annual game franchise (Call of Duty) with a completely different and wildly original formula. All we know about 2011′s entry is that Ubisoft is planning a major AC game for release by Christmas, but I’m betting it’ll be the debut of a third historical hero for Desmond Miles to vicariously live through. Or might Desmond himself be the hero, climbing and assassinating his way through the concrete jungles of the 21st Century?

Homefront

THQ doesn’t have the best track record as an FPS developer (looking at you, Frontlines), but there seems to be a creative renaissance taking place behind THQ’s doors these days. And their “Call of Duty on occupied home soil” shooter Homefront — set in the near future in an America that’s been invaded and overtaken by North Korea — has some major talent onboard: John Milius, the screenwriter behind Apocalypse Now and Red Dawn. Throw in some real-life CIA consultants and you’ve got the promise of both a gripping story and super authenticity. Homefront promises to show us a possible future that’s frighteningly realistic, and I’m certain it’s going to generate some controversial headlines.

What’s on your 2011 must-play list? Dead Space 2, Bulletstorm, Rage, Elder Scrolls V, Gears 3, Twisted Metal, Zelda: Skyward Sword, or countless others? Care to speculate on sequels or games that haven’t yet been announced?

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Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime is the name of the next entry in the Ghostbusters video game franchise. Ghostbusters: The Video Game (man, I still need to play that one sometime…) was enough of a hit that Atari and Sony are planning a pseudo-sequel.

It’s not a traditional sequel, because where the first game was an off-the-shelf third-person adventure, Sanctum of Slime takes a top-down view (similar to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light), and it’s not selling in stores. Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and Atari.com will be selling the game for consoles and PC.

As developed by creative studio Behavior Studios, this new game finds you taking on the role once again of the “rookie” Ghostbuster that debuted in the first game, and fighting a major new paranormal threat to New York City. The downside: the original four Ghostbusters will not be part of this (or presumably, any future) game. Instead, Sanctum of Slime offers players the chance to team up with local or online co-op for up to four players. Atari also promises big boss battles and even a new Ghostbusters SUV/jeep for players to drive.

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime drops in Spring 2011. Check out the first screenshots for the game below.

What do you think? Are you interested in playing a Ghostbusters game without the original four main characters?

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So I took a little liberty with that expression, but who cares? I think that anyone who has worked on one of these babies knows that it is quite hard to go back to a Windows machine – hard but not impossible. Now, if you were to have a MacBook that behaved just like Optimus Prime and the rest of the gang, then turning it in would be a hideous thought at best.

Check out this video of a transforming MacBook, which I saw on YouTube today.

Truth be told, I find it rather silly. Don’t get me wrong – I like the whole idea. I actually found myself chuckling as I watched the video. That doesn’t change the fact that it is silly, though, does it? And, as much as I would want a MacBook that transformed into some other toy, I wouldn’t want to risk thousands of dollars flying out of that window, would you?

Can you remember life without online video? I know I struggle. Our colleagues over at The Blog Herald had a look at the history of online video in the alst 5 years and created an awesome infographic for TechSmith, the creators of the awesome Camtasia screencasting software.

Here’s a teaser of the infographic but you really should check out the full infographic over at The Blog Herald.

I am completely mesmerized by this. Steve Jobs take note: this might be the most ingenious use of an iPad yet.

A group of filmmakers made this nifty little film to explore three-dimensional typography. They use a proprietary program to show shapes on the iPad’s screen, and then drag those screens through a space that’s being filmed using long exposure. The result is what appears to be 3D words and objects that float and move through air. It’s so cool, it makes me wish I had their iPad app and a long-exposure camera so I could make a film of my own!

The film is part of an science/art project called Making Future Magic. Note that there’s a brief introduction to the film at the start of this video, so give it about a minute and a half before the actual film starts.

Is this some kind of strange alien communication? An encrypted military message?

No, this is what happens when you upload a video to YouTube, download it, and repeat… one thousand times.

The miniscule degradation that occurs every time the video is repeatedly uploaded and compressed adds up over time and ultimately transforms the original creation into something that its creator has decided is a singular work of art. It took YouTube user “canzona” one full year to complete the upload/download process a thousand times over.

The result is something bizarre, psychedelic, and fascinating. If it ain’t geeky, I don’t know what is.

I really hope you like awesome animation, especially stop-motion video as much as I do because I will post you every cool video I find. Run or instead, enjoy the awesome art that stop-motion video can be.

Today’s video is not only awesome animation but also has the abso-frakkin-lutely perfect soundtrack in the tunes of Radiohead’s “All I Need”.

The artist: Juan José López.

The story: watch it, it’s awesome and with lots of WTF!? moments.

Forget the possibility that a Beyonce track may not count as geek music (far too mainstream, right?) or that you don’t have to be an uber-geek in order to set this up…

…kudos to this girl for (a) having or obtaining three iPhones and (b) setting up apps to produce a pretty seamless performance.

Oh, and (c) for having a very nice voice.

It’s a nice video, anyway. Highly impractical, but then who said that experiments like this had to be practical? We’d never have “will it blend” if that was the rule.

So, who’s going to try it with potatoes? Or, hum, apples?

Click to see the video. If you can’t wait to see the answer, it takes 2,380 orange slices to charge an iPhone (slowly).

In our roundup of five Valentine’s Day gifts for your geek we featured Hallmark’s Valentine’s Day cards featuring sound. That’s fairly old hat now, so three years on and Hallmark has upped its game by creating a limited edition video card that plays some of Disney’s most famous screen kisses.

No, it’s not a YouTube link or a card sent by email. This is a real card which contains a small video screen on which the romantic video is played.

Here’s the rub: in the UK, just 1,500 of these cards have been made and, at just £20 each, demand is likely to be high.

Video clips include moments from Lady and the Tramp, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin, and this could be one card that doesn’t end up in the trash soon after February 14th.

(If it does, you’re not allowed to rescue it and give it next year… to anyone)

If you’re in Britain and you want one, you’ll need to get yourself to a Clinton’s store in early February to see if you can bag yourself one.

Otherwise, here are some more Valentine’s gift ideas.

scoreLight is “a laser-based synesthetic experience” and works by allowing one, two or more red lasers to trace over drawn shapes, objects, even people.

Similar to how the pickup of a record player scans the grooves in vinyl, these lasers simply traces the shape and then sound is generated based upon its movement. There’s no camera or projector involved.

It’s not only the shape of the objects being traced that affects the sound, but also their colour and texture. Abrupt changes in direction (such as a right angle) trigger discrete sounds such as percussive effects, while smoother shapes change the sound in other ways.

What’s really cool is that this is another example of the visuals enhancing the audio, rather than simply being a by-product. It’s quite mesmerising watching several laser pointers tracing around a picture or object.

It’s also possible to have the lasers “bounce” around objects or to interact with each other, and it’s a great base for collaborative music-making.

OK, some might question how musical the output is at present, but I can imagine some genres really making use of this, and what an amazing live show you could put on, maybe with audience participation?

Really, the possibilities are near endless, and to think (apart from the lasers and processing unit itself) all you need to get going is a whiteboard and a marker pen.

scoreLight (Via)

It was meant as a joke — “we really don’t Facebook THAT often” said the groom — but it proves, if proof were needed, how pervasive social networking now is.

You can bet at least a couple of people in the assembled congregation were tweeting the event or sending photos to Facebook or Flickr on the fly.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has lifecast their wedding, though it would be interesting to see how the some church policies would deal with that (when I got married, the pastor wouldn’t even allow normal video cameras to be used inside the church, though my dad snuck one in)

Marriage proposals have been made via Twitter. Those who haven’t already discovered Mr or Mrs Right online are using the Net to find them. It was only a matter of time.

I’m sure there are some who’ll disapprove of technology “getting in the way” of these kinds of occasions, but if it brings people together (possibly even those who can’t attend the event in person) then why not?

You’d expect this kind of thing at geek weddings, of course, but I’m all for seeing it go mainstream.

I just hope there was no tweeting from the honeymoon suite.

Check out the video. It’s in German but with subtitles. See if you can understand what the piano is “saying”, based on the recording of a young child, without looking at the words.

Really interesting concept. Totally impractical, but hey that’s not the point.

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OK, we know it’s just a really cool bit of animation from Manuel Eder, but what a concept if it was ever invented. It would almost certainly never happen because not only does Apple love the touchscreen keyboard so much, but it’s already squeezed in a hell of a lot into the iPhone casing, and there’d be no room for this keyboard.

Of course, using the internal circuit board as a screen stand might also not be the best method.

Never mind — this is a great piece of work. For anyone who really wants a keyboard for their iPhone, let’s hope someone brings out an add on.

It would be great if the video was longer, with some more fancy moves, but this will do for now.

While it would be even more amazing if the ping pong ball was real, the fact is that there is some nifty animation going on.

If you’re in any doubt, look closely for the times when the ball loops the loop mid-table — unless you know anyone who can make a ball do that in real life, it’s animated.

More please!

Yeah it’s Friday, whatever.

Sit back and enjoy:

1. Tetris

2. Super Mario Bros 2

3. Video game medley

4. C64 International Karate

5. Legend of Zelda

6. Kid Icarus

7. Super Mario 64 Overworld Theme

Find any more? Share the link in the comments.

Great idea, quite a few submissions (check out the Vimeo channel). Here are my favorites:

Pac Man romantic meal spoiled

Retro love

Over 9,000 points!

Old Pac-Man

The giant gorilla and other characters are made out of Post-It Notes (how long did that take to put together?)

I don’t remember being able to kill Kong with the hammer before, but I’ll let it pass.

Pretty cool but now I want more. I want to see scaffolding, moving levels, more barrels. Can you help?