Category: Audio/Video

The song is a little 1999 (the guys having missed the Nu-Metal train by about ten years), but the video for The Anix's 'Enemy Eyes' is all 2010. Just a few minutes after one of the band's members got home with his iPhone 4, the group decided to see just what the built-in 720p camcorder could do. The results are quite impressive. Sure, a MacBook Pro was needed to add some effects and color ...

Chances are you've never heard of JavaZone. And nobody is going to blame you for being unfamiliar with "Scandinavia's biggest meeting place for software developers." But we guarantee you that after watching the video below you'll never forget it. As part of its marketing campaign, and anti-Microsoft agenda, the conference put together a trailer for a fictional film called 'Java 4-Ever.' The ...

We've been reporting that Hulu was planning to move to a subscription-based model since at least June of last year. In April, rumors were that a service called Hulu Plus would be launching before the end of May. Now, June is coming to a close, and there is still no official word from the most popular Web-TV destination, but All Things Digital is reporting that a beta launch of the service could ...

Let's face it. Casually riding your bike around on a calm, summery afternoon might be a pleasant experience. But wouldn't it be a whole lot more pleasant if you could pedal around town and produce seizure-inducing synthesized music at the same time? With a device called the Velosynth, you can. As explained in this slightly annoying demo video from the creators at EFFALO, the Velosynth "allows ...

You've totally heard about this thing called the Large Hadron Collider because 1) it is easily confused by children and poor typists to be a euphemism for an erection, 2) it cost $8 billion to build and yet was easily shut down when a bird dropped a baguette on it, 3) it makes some people fear that it'll open up a black hole or bizarro universe where Justin Bieber is NOT trending on Twitter, and ...

As most Phish Phans know, terrible music and illicit drugs go together like Trey Anastasio and egomania. After all, you can't expect any sentient being to sit through 26 minutes of 'Down With Disease' without a pair of saucer-sized pupils and a parched mouth, right? Little did Trey know, though, that he never had to rely on a fabricated, Dead Head drug culture to make his music palatable. Because ...

Has the digital zeitgeist blown the CD out of irrelevance and into the realm of retro art curio? We wrote just earlier this week about Tristan Perich's limited-edition chiptune array built into a CD jewel case, and now we've just stumbled upon this hybrid audio object by electronic musician Jeff Mills. Mills' new project 'The Occurrence' blends the truly antiquated with the relatively ...

Taking a stance different from those of other film studios, Paramount Pictures recently decided to allow Redbox, a $1-DVD-rental kiosk, to distribute its films on the same day they go on sale in stores. According to the Los Angeles Times, Redbox will pay Paramount about $575 million as part of the revenue-sharing deal, which runs through 2014. Other studios, like Warner Bros., Universal Studios ...

Share Google recently added a cloud-based video editor on YouTube. It's not super-advanced, but the YouTube editor does allow users to trim videos they've posted, and to stitch together multiple clips from their collection into a single film. When holding the mouse over a thumbnail, a scissors icon appears that lets you cut parts of it you don't want. You can also add music files from the ...

We're not going to write much here because this screenshot says it all. Some outfit called Wonder-Tonic wrote this bit of code called Cageflix to add the epic thespian's entire 49-film-strong oeuvre to your Netflix queue. Using a "complicated and seductive Web-based tango" (otherwise known as oAuth, an open-source protocol that allows secure API authorization), Cageflix only requires your ...

Michael Jackson may be dead, but your killer moonwalk doesn't have to be. At E3 yesterday, Ubisoft, the makers of 'Just Dance,' announced its latest creation: an "interactive, performance-based" game featuring none other than the King of Pop. As DailyCaller reports, the still-unnamed game will be among the first to feature the Kinect and Move motion-sensing camera systems for XBox 360 and ...

Vuvuzelas, those long plastic horns, are inescapable at this year's World Cup. The stadium horns, as they're sometimes known, are as integral a part of the soccer experience in South Africa as fight songs are in the U.K. Outside of South Africa, though, the horns are regarded largely as an annoyance. The sound generated by the constant blaring of the "instruments" has been compared to the sound ...

With the prevalence of digital music, we've stepped so far away from the physical realm that audio entertainment often seems like an abstraction (Perhaps why so many indie/hipster folk have tried to revive the vinyl LP). In light of that, programmer and artist Tristan Perich decided to bring back the physical -- well, sort of physical -- components of music-making with his "album" '1-bit ...

Well, those crazy kids at MIT have done it again. We're pretty floored by this video (after the jump) of student Natan Linder's LuminAR robotic assistant, which looks like a desk lamp married to the Terminator's exoskeleton. And a task lamp was, in fact, Linder's inspiration for this gesture-driven droid, as he essentially replaced the traditional incandescent bulb with a state-of-the-art ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/06/13/recycled-3-d-glasses-at-movie-theaters-are-crawling-with-germs/'; Next time you visit a movie theater, think twice about putting on a pair of 3-D glasses. According to ABC News, staff from Good Housekeeping magazine studied seven pairs of 3-D glasses at movie theaters in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and didn't find one sterile pair in the ...