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Download Iron Man Demo for Free

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Apr 25th @ 5:44 PM
If you're like a bunch of people I know, you're pretty darned excited for the upcoming Iron Man movie. As you may know, there will also be an accompanying Iron Man video game for Xbox. Both game and movie will arrive on May 2nd, but you can sample the game now, for free, via the demo available on the Xbox Live Marketplace. According to the description on Major Nelson's site, the game lets you: "Immerse yourself in hardcore shooting action and explosive combat from the film as well as exclusive content created just for the game. Customize your Iron Man suit and battle against armies of fighter jets, tanks, armored Super Villains and more. You are a One Man Army. "  (via Xbox 360 Fanboy)
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End - for the XBOX 360

Posted By: Laura Foy | May 23rd, 2007 @ 1:07 PM
Aaaargh! Get ready to play as Captain Jack Sparrow and his charming cast of characters. Beyond incredible character likenesses and tongue in cheek dialogue, there's actually great gameplay as well. Pull off sword-assisted acrobatics, adaptive combat and classical dueling in unique gameplay. Experience the Pirates of the Caribbean world in never-before-seen detail, going beyond the films' events and storylines to introduce new locations, an extended story, legendary pirates and a unique ending. Live and die by the sword, matey!
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Change a bulb, change everything.

Posted By: Laura Foy | May 22nd, 2007 @ 4:40 PM
Al Gores Academy Award Winning documentary about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth" has exponentially heightened America's awareness about the state of our environment. The film is both frightening and motivational. I met with the producer of "An Inconvenient Truth", Lawrence Bender about his latest effort to help save the planet : 18seconds.org. On his site and in this interview you'll learn about some tiny changes we can all make in our daily lives that can drastically help preserve our planet. Watch this interview, visit 18seconds.org and spread the word.
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Newtek Lightwave 3D creates emmy nominated nuclear explosions!

Posted By: Laura Foy | Mar 29th, 2007 @ 7:08 PM
If your friends are anything like mine- you guys love to settle in front of the TV and watch Jack Bauer kick ass on 24. Well- the season premiere episode this year created a ton of buzz amongst digital artists and graphic animators. Jarrod Davis of Zoic Studios created the most realistic, brilliant nuclear explosion to ever go off over the city of Angels. I tracked down the man himself to see what software, hardware and undeniable skill is required to create this kind of digital art. And now...he shares this knowledge with you. Watch and learn.
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Spinning DVDs like vinyl with the Pioneer DVJ 1000

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jan 17th, 2007 @ 5:45 PM
Remember when DJ's just played music? Well those days are in the past now. At CES this year I was awestruck by the performance I saw at the Pioneer booth. "DJ Roonie G" took control of the Pioneer DVJ 1000, the worlds first DVD turntables, and mixed music CD's with movies- both professional and home made. He created a visual and musical masterpiece where all traditional lines became blurred. You have to watch this piece...and demand all your favorite DJ's do the same. Clubbing has never been so cool.
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Netflix adds new business model: online movie viewing

Posted By: JD Lewin | Jan 16th, 2007 @ 10:46 AM
The worst kept secret about Netflix, just stepped out into the light. The goal is to distribute rentals over the Internet -- shipping DVDs is only for generating revenue and biding time. This morning Netflix announced the rollout of their immediate viewing feature.

By June all existing Netflix subscribers will have access to the 1,000 titles initially licensed for online viewing, which requires Windows XP and IE. Each user will have somewhere between 6 and 48 hours of online viewing per month depending on their membership agreement.

Via Hacking Netflix
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Xbox Live Video brings HD movies and television to your Xbox 360

Posted By: JD Lewin | Nov 7th, 2006 @ 12:04 PM
If you're like us, one of the most obnoxious things about living the geek lifestyle is switching between television inputs. Video-1 for the Tivo, Video-2 for the HD content, Video-3 for the Xbox, etc. For the all the happy proliferation of digital toys in our lives, we always end up craving consolidation (termed by the jargon demagogues as 'convergence').

Beginning on the 22nd of this month, which just happens to be its birthday, your Xbox 360 will offer feature film and television downloads. Through the cunning use of the Live Marketplace and your Microsoft Points, you'll be able to subscribe to television shows like CSI: Miami and Robot Chicken. Also if you want to rent an HD version of V for Vendetta it'll be there waiting on the other end of your broadband pipe. Check out the Live Marketplace movie and tv menus at Engadget.
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Brave New World: Make your own movie, tv, or radio show

Posted By: Bill Crounse, MD | Oct 27th, 2006 @ 7:16 PM
Next week I'm off to New York for the International Freddie Awards.  If you don't know about the Freddie Awards; it is a celebration to honor excellence in medical and scientific film, documentaries, television, videos, Web sites, DVDs and CD-ROMs.  Now in its 32nd year, the International Health and Medical Media Awards, the Freddies, have become the equivalent of the Academy Award for Film or the Emmy for television.  At the awards ceremony next Friday, it will be my distinct honor to present one of the evening's highest honors; a founder's award that is named after famous heart surgeon and researcher, Dr. Michael E.  DeBakey. 

Why am I hanging out with this crowd?  I haven't shared with readers of my Blog that a substantial portion of my career has been dedicated to medical broadcasting.  For more than 20 years, I anchored medical programming for Lifetime Medical Television, ABC News, Medical News Network, Discovery and other outlets.  I also served as medical editor for the ABC and CBS television affiliates in Seattle, appearing nightly on the evening news.  In fact, my career in television news and entertainment programming started long before I became a physician.  I was actually anchoring the evening TV news (on weekends) before I was old enough to vote.  Trust me that would never be allowed today. 

Back in the day, I needed a multimillion dollar broadcasting studio to do my work, along with complex and costly recording and editing equipment, camera people, sound people, and more.  Today, any one of you could produce, host, and broadcast to the world from your desktop or laptop or iPod (that wireless will come in handy on the Zune).  My point is this.  There has never been more opportunity or more accessibility for everyone to be heard and seen.  Broadcasting has become commoditized.  While that makes it much harder to earn a living, it makes it much easier to break into the business.  And as the founders of YouTube and others have learned, there is gold in them there hills if you can find it. (By the way, have you checked out MSN Soapbox yet?) There is also an opportunity to change the world; to educate, inform, entertain, and enrich the lives of people.  Sometimes I think, "If only I had been born a few decades later".  The possibilities today seem infinite.

So please continue to write those Blogs, produce those podcasts, and post those videos.  And every time you do, thank your lucky stars you live in an era when the communications universe is at your fingertips. If you are looking for a list of people to thank, besides the usual names that come to mind, check out the Computer History Museum.  

Bill Crounse, MD     Healthcare Industry Director       Microsoft 
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