Leave it to the Japanese to take something as simple as a smile and turn it upside down with technology. Everyday before punching in for work, employees of the Keihin Express Railway get in line to have their smiles analyzed by a computer. Smile Scan measures the curve of the mouth and gives a score ranging from 0% to 100%. ... [Read More]

It's been a long time coming, anime has been influencing comics and cartoons for decades. And now Marvel is taking the plunge with 4 new anime style series: Iron Man, Wolverine, X-Men, & Blade. Marvel unveiled the first trailers for Wolverine & Iron Man series at Comic-Con this weekend (video below), but don't ... [Read More]

No it's not the highly anticipated sequel unveiled at Comic-Con this weekend. It's a hilarious new web series by Ben Hansford about an older but not necessarily wiser Tron. The episodes, which average about a minute in length, reveal what life's really like inside of a computer: boring! It's exponentially better than the ... [Read More]

Green Lantern's light doesn't shine nearly as bright in his new origin story: Green Lantern: First Flight. It's bad enough that they cut out the death of Hal's father but they barely touch on his fearlessness, which is kinda important considering it's the whole reason he's chosen to become a Green Lantern! While ... [Read More]

Over the years the Doctor has perhaps best demonstrated the space inside the TARDIS with his seeming inexhaustible wardrobe of bad clothes. The last 2 Doctors were the exception, but Matt Smith is bringing unsexy back with his uncanny impersonation of the quintessential loser George McFly from Back to the Future. He's even ... [Read More]

Blackest Night is finally here and with it the return of long dead characters as zombies! But it's not the adversaries of the past that you need to worry about, it's the loves lost. That's because unlike traditional zombies, Black Lanterns want your heart not your brains. Perhaps the most earth-shattering zombie will be ... [Read More]

When news broke earlier this week that the military was developing an Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) that "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources)," it immediately conjured grisly thoughts about what exactly fueled this robotic ... [Read More]