Jan 20, 2012 | Forbes
Photo by Jere Keys In the last few years, zombies have shambled into the public eye through movies, television, books, and videogames, generating $5 billion for our economy. But they haven’t stayed confined to fiction. No, the living dead have been walking among...
Jan 20, 2012 | HPIO
QR codes. I hates ‘em. The Quick Response code (QR code) popped up in our lives a few years ago, a strange square that looks like what you get when you cross Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House textiles (as seen in Blade Runner) with 8-bit graphics. They came to us by...
Jan 19, 2012 | Forbes
Image: Wikipedia When Richard Garriot de Cayeux, the founder of the Ultima series of computer games and the world’s sixth space tourist, went to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008, he didn’t just kick back and bask in zero gravity. No, during his twelve-day...
Jan 19, 2012 | Forbes
George Lucas, whose headstone will surely read, “I created Star Wars…and Greedo shot first,” has announced that he will be retiring from big-budget movies in order to make smaller art-house films. The New York Times wrote, “I’m retiring,” Lucas said. “I’m moving away...
Jan 19, 2012 | Forbes
Arrow-wielding DC Comics character Green Arrow is getting a pilot, courtesy of the CW. Entitled Arrow, if this pilot is successful, it could very well fill CW’s live-action superhero gap, created when Smallville vacated the air in 2011. But out of all the characters...
