Virtual Reality is pretty convincing when you’re all jacked in and wired up — but even the best headsets today aren’t particularly sharp. Sharp, taking notice of this, has produced a display specifically for VR that’s double the resolution of what’s out there right now. Read More
The company touts itself as an ally in the battle against gentrification, but its effects in New York are decidedly mixed.
There are a lot of short films out there based on Stephen King's short stories, largely because of King's "dollar babies" program, which permits film students to pay a buck for the rights to make a non-commercial adaptation of one of King's short stories. But short films based on his novels are much rarer, because the adaptation rights are largely owned by other people. That's
Mike Pence's strategy during the VP debate? Deny, deny, deny. The post This Is the VP Debate Rapid Response Video You Saw Coming appeared first on WIRED.
Chicken, peas, beef, sweet potatoes, and blueberries, the stuff of $40 meals in places like Hayes Valley and Greenwich Village — and starting today, also the stuff of dog food. Ollie, a new startup founded by Alex Douzet, Gabby Slome and Randy Jimenez is aimed squarely at disrupting the premium pet food space by offering something like a Sprig or Maple for dogs. With a new $4.4…
Figuring out how to keep pets entertained can be quite tiring. No, you don't really feel like playing catch with your dog after a long day at work, or dangling strings in front of your cat to stop them from destroying every piece of furniture in sight. Luckily for the tinkerers among us, there is a way to keep your feline entertained for hours without
Next year, some of Netflix's original movies will have a debut home on the big screen. The streaming service just signed a deal with the theater chain iPic Entertainment that will give a same-day theater release to a portion of Netflix's films, The Wall Street Journal reports. The deal includes 10 of Netflix's upcoming movies, including The Siege of Jadotville (which will see a simultaneous release
Happy Twitter-versary (for the nth time around this time), Jack Dorsey. Things haven’t been going well, it seems, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel — Twitter may be acquired by someone somewhere in the tech (or entertainment) industry, perhaps. To be perfectly fair, the company Dorsey inherited from his predecessor(s), including an array of former product leads as… Read More
If you’re looking to buy a smartwatch today, there are plenty of options. Or, you could follow in the steps of hardware hacking YouTuber Daniel Davis, and build your own. But Davis’ smartwatch isn’t just a Pebble clone or a homemade Android Wear device. Instead, Davis took a different approach, building the smartwatch out an old Nokia 1100, which already had most of the parts he’d need between
Get ready for furry surfers: MIT engineers have created “fur-like, rubbery pelts” that mimic the insulating behaviours exhibited by beavers. The new design could pave the way for more effective wetsuits, which can insulate human bodies in cold water, but also quickly dry off for time spent up in the air. The concept of a warm, dry wetsuit is a surfer’s perfect dream… Read More
