New GE Breakthrough: 100 DVDs On One Disc!

Okay, here’s a quick question: how many DVDs do you own? If you have less than 100, then there is now a way to put them all onto one disc.

It would appear that General Electric is the one who is responsible for this technological breakthrough. The company who has been “bringing good things to life” have used holograms to make this good thing a reality.

This could eventually lead to micro-holographic players that could play CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and these cool holographic discs. These discs could hold 500 GB of memory, and it is possible to produce these holographic discs at 10 cents per gigabyte. That is a lot cheaper than the $1 a gigabyte for a 25 gigabyte disc.

As I said before, these micro-holograms can create a capacity of putting 100 average DVDs on one disc, and it is possible to put 20 Blu-rays discs on one. These jam-packed holographic discs will come in handy when it comes to high resolution formats like 3-D television, which is getting bigger everyday.

I hope that the Research and Development at GE are celebrating the six years of work to make this revolutionary technology. Of course, it will probably take a while before the consumer can get their hands on it, and even longer before it is cheap.

New GE Breakthrough: 100 DVDs on 1 Disc!

‘Car Wars’ Comes To Life In New Discovery Channel Series

I’m just gonna go ahead and quote you the Discovery Channel press release on this one, because otherwise you might think that there’s no POSSIBLE way what I’m talking about could actually be on TV:

From the producers that brought you MYTHBUSTERS comes an explosive new series, WEAPONIZERS (3 x 60 min) premiering on Discovery Channel US, May 11, 2009 at 9pm.

This new program combines creativity, military-like strategy and engineering as two teams of master builders — dubbed “Weaponizers” — turn ordinary vehicles into remote-controlled machines of destruction. With the pace and intensity of a video game, the vehicles are completed with live-ammunition machine guns and other seemingly ordinary objects that are transformed into powerful weapons. Building on the teams’ expertise — hot rod restoration, pyrotechnics, special effects, crash engineering and military weaponry — the opponents harness their ingenuity in a competition face off where the goal is to achieve victory by creating an indestructible vehicle.

In each episode, the teams convert regular rides such as a shuttle bus, an ice cream van and muscle cars into vicious vehicles. Using science, special effects, engineering, metal fabrication and a bit of fantasy, they construct and test their vehicles to ensure that they pack the biggest punch and are fully remote-controlled. Once all testing is complete, each team descends into respective underground control bunkers to command their vehicles for the two-round competition.

In round one, the teams undertake a challenge-based phase where the vehicles race to destroy or defend exploding targets such as medieval castles or Mad Max style fuel depots. Then in round two, the “Weaponizers” are thrown into a Carmageddon Round — the rules are… there are no rules. It’s a gloves off test of what expertise these teams can draw on to achieve victory, which in WEAPONIZERS’ terms means there is only one vehicle left standing!

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Amazon To Charge Per MB To Send Personal Documents OTA To Your Kindle

It’s still free of charge if you transfer the documents over via USB, and sending them to “name”@free.kindle.com will return converted files to your email address gratis. If you’re trying to be frugal, we might suggest combining all those pending transfers into one fat PDF and sending it off sometime this weekend.

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Ryan Reynolds Talks Swords, Deadpool, and Spinoffs

Ryan Reynolds, co-star of the upcoming action film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, told reporters that he was thrilled to play the character of Deadpool despite the role’s physical challenges.

“I’ve actually wanted to play Deadpool for a very long time, so it was a bit of a dream come true,” Reynolds said in a news conference last weekend in Los Angeles.

In Wolverine, Reynolds’ character Deadpool is a motor-mouthed master swordsman who works briefly with Jackman’s title character when they are recruited to be part of a special team coordinated by William Stryker, played by Danny Huston. Reynolds spoke alongside Jackman and co-star Liev Schreiber at a press conference; following is an edited version of that news conference. X-Men Origins: Wolverine opens on Friday. (Spoilers ahead!)

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Todd McFarlane In Talks To Make A New Spawn Movie

It’s been a week of reboot news, and tonight is no different. Comic book artist/writer turned entrepreneur Todd McFarlane tells IESB that he’s got “five offers on the table” for a new Spawn movie, ranging from big studio to smaller scale. Todd says that he’s leaning towards the latter, which would “keep it down, keep it dark, keep it grungy”, comparing his idea to “The Departed with something moving in the shadows.”

“It’s not a comic book movie, it’s just a scary movie, a creepy movie. Everything’s real except for one element, which happens to be the character we know as Spawn. So it’s not going to be super villain vs superhero or any of that stuff, it’s just going to be a ‘tight’ movie.”

Back in the early 1990’s, I was a huge fan of Spawn. McFarlane, a popular Spider-Man artist defected from Marvel and formed Image Comics with six other popular comic book artists. McFarlane’s art was always the big selling point for me. The first issue went on to sell over 1.7 million copies, a record for an independent comic book. McFarlane has since expanded to other areas, and is probably best known outside of the comic book world for line of action detailed figures.

Anyway, a film based on the comic was released in 1997. Despite the special effects, which were impressive at the time, the movie was not well received by fans or critics. I know that we’re now in a post-Dark Knight world where dark is back in style, but I felt one of the reasons the original film didn’t work was that it was too gritty, and lacked much of the style and gloss of the comics. Don’t get me wrong, Spawn will never be Spider-Man, but I think its better to aim for stylistic more than gritty. More Sin City than The Dark Knight, Spider-Man or X-Men. What do you think?

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Empire: Total War Patched - April 29th, 2009

A new patch for Empire: Total War is now automatically available via Steam. The release notes for the new version are quite extensive, as a large number of issues are tackled along the way.

They also note a couple of changes that will wait for the next patch, one where user-created patches can crash the game and improvements to AI naval invasion behavior.

Just some of the changes with this newest patch are:

Multiplayer

• Various fixes for joining games/game lobby issues
• Fixes for problems relating to spectators being kicked/locking up on other players joining games in certain instances
• Long riflemen and winged hussars removed from early era battles
• Fix for insufficient funds always showing on unit cards even when enough money is available
• Player name is now displayed on unit tooltips
• Team chat is now displayed in a different colour

Balancing

• Land unit recruitment cost in campaign has been increased, with higher cost on higher difficulty level
• Ship recruitment and upkeep costs have been increased in campaign
• Various balancing and cost adjustments to improve multiplayer land battle balance
• Ship costing improvements made for both campaign and multiplayer
• Economic tweaks have been made to campaign to reduce amount of money made in later part of campaign

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Relic Releases Dawn of War 2 Soundtrack For Free

Relic today generously released the full soundtrack to its latest strategy title, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2, as a free download.

The 20 tracks are the result of work by composer Doyle W. Donehoo and audio lead Jason Ross, along with contributions by artist Noah Stacey and everyone’s favorite designer, Noobie Noobinson.

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Henry Cavill Almost Became Edward Cullen In ‘Twilight’

There was no chance that the actor who landed the lucky, life-changing role of Edward Cullen would not become an instant heartthrob. But could he have been someone entirely different, and still found a way into the hearts of Twilighters all over the world?

That’s the question that presents itself when one ponders the curious case of Henry Cavill.

We just published an interview over on the MTV Movies page with the 25-year-old “Whatever Works” actor, who was open and honest about his little-known “Twilight” past. In the early stages of the film’s development, author Stephenie Meyer publicly stated that the Edward she could see best fit for the part was British actor Cavill. Eventually, of course, the role went to RPattz with Stephenie’s blessing – but even then, she still said she’d love to get him into the series somewhere.

And while the chemistry between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart on-screen is undeniable, if things had worked out the way Meyer originally had hoped, the steamy on-screen interactions would have undoubtedly been fueled with a whole different feel.

Ever since the day the “Twilight” movie was announced, fans began naming their dream Edwards: Tom Sturridge, Logan Lerman, Gerard Way, etc. And it would seem that the combination of a young actor’s good looks, paired with the words of Meyer, would be an instant recipe for a million “OME!” fan-crushes around the globe.

So, we want to ask you: Try, as hard as it might be, to imagine anyone winning over quite as many hearts as Robert Pattinson. Could Twilighters have fallen as in love with a different actor who scored the role? Is RPattz simply irreplaceable? Or do you think fellow British stud Cavill could have filled Edward Cullen’s shoes just as successfully?

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City of Heroes Reactivates Accounts for Its 5th Anniversary

To celebrate City of Heroes’ fifth anniversary, NCSoft has reactivated all expired retail and trial City of Heroes and City of Villains accounts for free until 11:59pm EST Sunday.

Retired heroes and villains have five days to uphold/crush justice in Paragon City and check out all the updates they’ve missed–first and foremost a swanky mission editor.

No anniversary is complete without celebrations and NCSoft promises a full utility belt of festivities and special events, with in-game commemorative badges for all party-goers.

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J.J. Abrams Talks About A Possible ‘Dark Tower’ TV Series

Lost celebrates its 100th episode tonight, with the eventual goal somewhere around 125 episodes. In case you don’t know, it’ll all wrap up next spring. And after it’s over, J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof may finally get to work on one of the more ambitious adaptations you can even imagine: Stephen King’s Dark Tower.

Abrams’ Bad Robot earned the rights to the project back in 2007, after Abrams and Lindelof met with Stephen King. And it looks like the day is nearing when The Dark Tower will move to the front burner. “Damon is obviously still on Lost, we’ve been working on Star Trek together,” Abrams told IGN.

“As soon as Lost is done, hopefully we’ll get to begin tackling that.”

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