The Machine is a British sci-fi film starring Caity Lotz (who played Black Canary on Arrow) as Ava and Toby Stephens as Vincent, a doctor in some futuristic government operation that creates android soldiers. Vincent finds an up and coming scientist in Ava who creates a robotic brain that is so self-aware, Vincent hires Ava on the spot and so begins the android’s journey.

The Good:

The Machine is obviously fairly low-budget but manages to hide it pretty well. The CG effects are decent but luckily the script doesn’t call for much. The outdoor city scenes are reminiscent of Blade …

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CES 2014 offered the usual heavy hitters in the electronics industry like LG, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, etc., along with a few pleasant surprises. It’s always fun to find those little booths with the really cool gadgets that you’ve never seen before or startups who have taken an already established tech and expanded it into something awe-inspiring.

One can easily surmise that when it comes to the arts, everything has already been done, that now it’s just about reinterpretation. But while much of the tech industry does that as well, the possibilities truly seem infinite as far as where this all is …

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Underground: The Julian Assange Story is a biographical film based on the early years of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as he rises in the ranks of a budding hacker to infiltrate major military computer databases and wreak havoc on nuclear missile test launches. It also stars Rachel Griffits (Muriel’s Wedding) and Anthony LaPaglia as an investigator who works day and night to bust Assange, all the while exhibiting some underlying fascination and perhaps even admiration for the kid.

When he was in high school, Assange would help his mom with her anti-nuke protests. At one point he becomes angry …

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“Almost Human” is a sci-fi / detective story set 35 years in the future which centers on a detective named John Kennex (Karl Urban) who is partnered with a “synthetic,” an android designed with human-like emotions who shows more empathy at times than his human counterpart. The synthetic Dorian is played by Michael Ealy. Together, these two fight crime in a not-too-distant future where the criminals are all very tech savvy but Kennex has an edge because Dorian is not only a badass cop but he’s also really handy being that he is equipped with the ability to access databases and …

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One of the best things I found at CES this year is a little gadget that plugs into your iPhone and your guitar. It’s called the iRig. Produced by a company called IK Multimedia, the iRig is this amazing little device that turns your Android phone, iPhone or iPad into a guitar amp. The gadget comes with an app download off iTunes that shows up on your phone like an amp and pedals. It comes with different effects for guitar and bass and all you need to do is plug your guitar into it, plug it into your iPhone, then plug …

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The Lucien Elements booth was located in the accessories section of CES. They were way in the back of the room on the end and as I turned the corner, these glimmering pieces caught my eye. I had to stop and check them out.

Handcrafted with Swarovski crystals mined in Austria, Lucien Elements phone cases are manufactured in Thailand. If you’re into stuff that’s shiny, it honestly doesn’t get any blingier than Swarovski crystals. If you have ever seen them glimmer in the light, they are actually shinier and give off more color than diamonds do.

Founder Nicolas Charles Thomas comes …

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In case you were wondering, there isn’t actually some fashionably minded, tech-savvy Asian woman behind this name, although it does make me giggle a little bit for obvious reasons. Fanny Wang was started by two guys out of Silicon Valley who saw an exciting opportunity to blend fashion and technology in the earphone marketplace. The result is a line of high end over the ear headphones that retail between $249.-299. and ear buds, called WangBuds, which retail for $79.95.

Monster Beats sued Fanny Wang in 2010, not for any technology theft but over a design patent, and tried to get a …

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Have you ever heard those stories about how technologically behind the times we are in America? That might be true in some, well, many respects, but you would never believe that by walking around the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. Otherwise known as CES, this convention boasts some of the biggest names in the tech industry: Samsung, LG, Sony, Toshiba and Ericsson to name a few. There were rows and rows of accessories for cell phones and stuff that would make Thomas Edison proud like waterproof cases that mount your iphone to the nose of your surfboard or fisheye lenses that …

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Long time ago, in a Galaxy far away, Darth Vader was an evil bastard. But, he realized that being a bad MFer wasn’t good for his health. Today, he silently spends his time hanging out with musicians, businessmen, and hot babes. Life doesn’t seem so bad after being the worse Dad ever!

What does Vader have in common with the Samsung Galaxy S? Absolutely nothing, except that they’re both black, just like most iPhones, and my car……

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the virtual pop idol Hatsune Miku, Sony has announced that it will be releasing a limited edition Walkman in Japan which will have Hatsune Miku’s profile on the back and her image in the wallpaper on the screen.

There will be three models to choose from: a blue, a black and a blue with speakers. Each Walkman will come with Miku’s song “Hoshi no kakera” preloaded.  It will also come with her image embellished on a neckstrap.

Sony will only be releasing 3,939 units which is believed to be a play on the Japanese pronunciation …

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