A $300k 3D-printed burger exists, because why not?
No matter what restaurant week specials they put out in your local town, none will compare to the stale taste of the $300,000 3D-printed hamburger Modern Meadow offers. The father-son startup company has figured out a way to combine the process of bioprinting with edible food so they can create a hamburger patty – albiet at an astronomically expensive price.
Of course, the resulting meat, such as patties and pork chops, created by the bioprinter will still need to be cooked on a frying pan to taste.
Read the full story here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/300k-3d-printed-burger/
DISNEY PREPS INFINITY: NEW UNIVERSE FOR INTERACTIVE GAMING
Disney does not define “Infinity” as merely a game, but as a universe. People can buy Play Sets, which will include traditional game missions, but Disney stresses the importance of the Toy Box mode in which users ”can create their own worlds and drop in objects, characters and power-ups to create their own adventures,” writes Mashable.
The Toy Box mode will allow users to share worlds and experiences, creating an interactive element. The mode will allow characters from different games to interact in a way that mimics the way children play with action figures.
John Blackburn of Disney-owned game studio Avalanche Software (which built “Infinity”)...
See the full story here: http://www.etcentric.org/2013/01/22/disney-preps-infinity-new-universe-for-interactive-gaming/
Sundance 2013: Are Filmmakers Vain or Nostalgic? The Digital Distribution Dilemma
Chris Williams, chief development officer at Maker Studios, responded that the idea of the theatrical experience is "a lot of vanity."
“You can distribute across myriad platforms, self-distribute and raise financing through digital," Williams said. “In a large way, a theatrical release is about a director who must see it on that big screen.”
Rick Rosenthal, a veteran director and producer and founder of Whitewater Films, took exception to that. “I really disagree,” Rosenthal said. “Film was the outgrowth of theater, which was a tradition of gathering a community, telling a story and experiencing it as a group. As our society becomes more and more wired, we think we’re being wired together, and in fact we’re being wired apart.”
3D TV is dead, replaced by 4K, says BBC controller
Writing in TV trade publication Broadcast, Harrison says "everyone has finally accepted that 3D TV is dead," with the glasses being reserved for gaming and the cinema. So what'll take its place? 4K, aka Ultra HD, Harrison reckons.
4K is more important because it's not a gimmick, Harrison says. He adds it'll soon have more of an impact on the TVs we buy.
"We are years away from being able to make and transmit in 4K, yet it matters far more than 3D ever did: it enables manufacturers to focus on making bigger, better, normal TVs," Harrison says.
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He was also excited about smart TVs, saying they "just stopped being stupid."
Google TV is the most compelling offering, Harrison reckons. But while it's "brilliant" for audiences and producers, he says, it's "scary" for broadcasters.
See the full story here: http://www.techradar.com/news/television/hdtv/3d-tv-is-dead-replaced-by-4k-says-bbc-controller-1125721
Quantum Dots Get Commercial Debut in More Colorful Sony TVs
Sony is using nanoscale particles called quantum dots to significantly improve the color of some of its high-end Bravia televisions. It showed off the technology, which increases the range of colors that an LCD television can display by about 50 percent, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. This marks the first time that quantum dots—which for a long time have fascinated researchers because of their unusual electronic and optical properties—have been used in a mass-produced consumer electronics product.
Other quantum dot displays are in the works. For example, last year Nanosys announced it would have a quantum dot backlight product in a notebook in 2013, but it hasn’t disclosed the specific product (see “Quantum Dots Give Notebooks a New Glow”).