Looking for some great events to attend? You may have noticed our fancy schmancy new GeekWire Calendar and now we’d like to officially kick this baby off with some hot picks just for you. These are our hand-picked events, which we’re compiling in this new feature that will be coming at you each week (or so). And to really get… Read More…
The big news out of Hollywood this week is that Disney is bringing back one of the greatest movie franchises in history with its $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm Ltd. Star Wars fans will now get to enjoy Episode 7, due for release in 2015 with Episodes 8 and 9 to follow. But is “enjoy” the… Read More…
Our guest this week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast is Stephen Toulouse, better known as Stepto, who joins us for a conversation about the Kickstarter funding platform and other methods of paying for projects through fans and customers. Many people in the tech world know Stepto from his long career at Microsoft, working most… Read More…
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we debate the merits of Google’s augmented reality glasses, talk about the world’s geekiest coffee machine, and assess the prospects for the Nokia Lumia 900, and its chances for helping Windows Phone. Our guest in the studio is Mike Fridgen, the CEO of Decide.com, the Seattle… Read More…
If you have a spare 30 hours and $300 this weekend, you may want to try a do-it-yourself project that’s a bit more satisfying to your inner geek than, say, installing new linoleum flooring. Dave Putnam, who put his eight-foot by eight-foot, roughly one-third scale replica of the iconic TIE fighter from Star Wars up… Read More…
Are you ready to dance your heart out for Jabba the Hutt? It’s not unusual for derivatives of “Star Wars” to bend the beloved franchise in some questionable ways, but when it comes to dubious ideas, one feature of LucasArts’ long-awaited Kinect Star Wars game for Xbox 360 promises to rank right up there with… Read More…
News, notes and other interesting stuff on a drizzly Seattle weekend … The idea was “to figure out how to make a living off the trees without cutting them down,” explains treehouse builder Michael Garnier in this video, giving a tour of his “Treesort” in Takilma, Ore., which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Ewok… Read More…
The Grand Master of the Jedi Order, Yoda, is one of the most beloved movie characters of all time. You will find references to him in almost every context of working life. In technology services start-ups, we talk about how certain people are the ‘Yoda’ of some given topic, where the term Yoda is meant to indicate they know all things, and are the go-to… Read More…
One of the E3 leaks from Microsoft’s website this morning was a new Star Wars game for the Kinect motion-sensor, and a teaser video is already available on YouTube. Watch it above. Microsoft’s E3 event is starting at 9:30 a.m. here. Stay tuned for more.
Halo 4 is “on the way.” That’s the (inadvertently) official word from Microsoft this morning. The company isn’t taking the stage at the E3 video-game convention for another half-hour, but its website was temporarily updated a short time ago with much of the news that the company is expected to announce, including another installment in the… Read More…
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