Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

Students hack an XBox Kinect to control a robotic arm

Yesterday we showed you how Korean researchers are using motion capture suits to control robotic avatars. Today we have a project from students at University College London using an Xbox Kinect to control a feisty robotic arm in real time. This project was designed by Adaptive Architecture & Computation students Miriam Dall’Igna, Criaco Castro, and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 8

Before it hit Broadway, the Spiderman musical was a parade float (featuring Batman)

Remember those NSFW superheroines of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval we saw yesterday? Their scantily-clad antics weren’t the first time superheroes have hit Rio. In 2010, this building-sized float wowed revelers. Says YouTube uploader SoundsofSamba: This huge structure was being pushed down the parade ground by people hidden inside. The black square on the slope is…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 8

In praise of the totally lunatic comic book advertisement

While thumbing through last week’s comic book haul, a dire realization struck me like a bolt from the blue, like a veritable ball lightning of inspiration blasted out from the meridional regions of the Wizard Shazam’s toga. What was it? The 21st century doesn’t have its own version of the famous Hostess Cupcake ads. And…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 8

Thor and Gotham’s finest are the stars of comic book Wednesday

What’s on the stands this week? A new printing of Gotham Central, a new host for the Venom symbiote, new Walking Dead, and much, much more! First Issues Marvel resurrects the CrossGen line of comics with Sigil (Mike Carey pens the script). Marvel also introduces a new keeper of the symbiote in Rick Remender and…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 8

Frustrated Berliners build oversized kaleidoscopes to block subway ads

Subway advertising is a risky proposition for the advertiser because you’ll never know if someone will remix your ad into, say, Darth Vader chugging a beer. In Berlin’s Friedrichstraße U-Bahn station, advertisers have eschewed print completely and have taken to projecting commercials on the subway’s walls. The city’s street artists have adapted accordingly: A couple…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 8

Motion capture suits may someday allow you to control a robotic twin

The applications of motion capture technology go beyond Andy Serkis hopping around as Gollum, whispering to his Precious. Korean roboticists are researching the ways in which motion capture could someday aid humans in controlling a mechanical (or dare we say, a mecha?) doppelganger. This footage comes to us from Professor S.Y. Shin of the Korean…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 7

Marvel editor’s tweet inspires webcomic starring Deadpool and Charlie Sheen

You may have heard that beleaguered Hot Shots: Part Deux thespian Charlie Sheen has been having a bit of a strange time lately, what with his free verse interviews about tiger blood and warlocks and whatnot. Anyway, last week Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Axel Alonso asked fans if they’d like to see a meeting of Sheen…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 7

Five years from now, we will talk on phones shaped like squirming tadpole men

Remember the Telenoid R1 telepresence robot we featured several months back? Now researchers from Osaka University have collaborated with NTT Docomo and Qualcomm to build the Elfoid, a telephone shaped like a pallid amphibious man. The phone you see above is still in development, but the functional Elfoid will be able to mirror the body…

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A battle with every Power Ranger in existence going absolutely bonkers en masse

In this scene from the Japanese tokusatsu show Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (which premiered last month in Japan), a battle erupts between some bad guys and what appears to be every Super Sentai (a.k.a. “Power Rangers” stateside) hero ever created. Somewhere deep within your subconscious, your inner child’s head has exploded into a million candy-colored pieces.…

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Storm, Elektra, and Wonder Woman get body-painted for Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval (NSFW)

For the Cubango samba school parade for Rio’s 2011 Carnaval, several nice young ladies donned painted-on superheroine outfits…which is more or less how they look in the comics. I also love how Elektra’s music in this segment is the theme song to Electra Woman and Dyna Girl and Storm’s theme is from Marvel vs. Capcom…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 7

College professor commissions android clone of himself, presumably to mess with students

This robot right here is the Geminoid DK, an android clone of Professor Henrik Scharfe of Denmark’s Aalborg University. It was built in conjunction with robot manufacturer Kokoro (who built Raptor Santa Claus) and famed roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Nara, Japan. The professors have yet to elaborate why…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 6

In the Japanese cult classic Hausu, schoolgirls are eaten by an evil house on LSD

In Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 horror classic, House (a.k.a. Hausu), a band of plucky vacationing schoolgirls make the fatal mistake of spending summer vacation at a very hungry haunted house. After languishing in cult obscurity for decades, this psychedelic ghost romp got a much deserved wide release on DVD late last year, thereby delivering Obayashi’s ghostly…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 6

No, alien life was not discovered this weekend

If you’ve been scanning the internet this weekend, chances are you’ve seen that particular Fox News story about alien bacterial fossils being discovered on meteorites. The findings in the Fox story were published in the Journal of Cosmology, which is less of an academic website and more like watching laser Jethro Tull at your local…

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Superboy shows up on Smallville and hits on Lois Lane

After last week’s mind-boggling “drunk Superman bachelor party” episode, Smallville came down to Earth with “Scion,” the latest installment in the saga of Lex Luthor’s hyper-aging clone (or as I call him, “Clex”). The thing is, Clex might not be willing to assume Lex’s Machiavellian mantle. Genetics have a different fate in store for this…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 6

Hungarian Star Wars posters advertise a movie starring only Greedo and Darth Bucket

Old Eastern European movie posters often took massive creative liberties with familiar plots and characters by remixing them into some wacky cinematic chimeras. In these Hungarian posters for the Stars Wars trilogy, the movies become almost entirely about Darth Vader, a fanged Greedo, and Darth’s noble shoulder pad R2-D2. [Via Buzzfeed]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 6

What if Terminator was a 1950s PSA about good manners?

You may remember OneMinuteGalactica’s hilarious science fiction instructional movies that recast the Star Trek gang as participants in an anger management film and Superman as an office safety lesson. Now he’s condemned the once fearsome T-800 to be an unwitting lead in a cheeky short film about good manners. [Via Buzzfeed]

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 5

In Uncle Boonmee, a man’s final family reunion brings Thai sasquatches and catfish sex

In the Palme d’Or-winning supernatural drama Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives , director Apichatpong Weerasethakul chronicles his titular character’s final days in the Thai countryside, where he’s reunited with his dead wife and lost son, who’s undergone an otherwordly transformation. As he slowly dies of kidney failure, Boonmee’s mind turns to both…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 5

Hidden camera prank reveals that creepy kids standing in hotel hallways = instant terror

For this candid camera stunt on Spanish television, a disheveled little girl stood in a hotel corridor and waited for guests to walk by (and wig out). The maid’s reaction is priceless. She’s like, “Oh bother, another spectral child. We have one of these haunting the dumbwaiter too.” [Via Super Punch]

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Scenes from a Star Trek convention from almost 40 years ago

Here’s a delightfully retro montage of footage from a 1973 Star Trek convention in New York. Check out the awesome costumes (that wouldn’t totally be out of place in the glam rock days of the 1970s) and George Takei’s rad haircut. [Via CBM]

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 5

The Guild’s most roguish member gets ready for his own comic book close-up

With Felicia Day dropping by Emerald City Comicon this weekend, Dark Horse Comics has given us a first look at the cover art for the upcoming one-shot The Guild: Bladezz, starring the Knights of Good’s rapscalliony rogue, the model Finn Smulders. Here’s the solicitation: The Guild: Bladezz One-shot Writers: Felicia Day and Sean Becker Artist:…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar Mar 5

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Students hack an XBox Kinect to control a robotic arm

Before it hit Broadway, the Spiderman musical was a parade float (featuring Batman)

In praise of the totally lunatic comic book advertisement

Thor and Gotham’s finest are the stars of comic book Wednesday

Frustrated Berliners build oversized kaleidoscopes to block subway ads

Motion capture suits may someday allow you to control a robotic twin

Marvel editor’s tweet inspires webcomic starring Deadpool and Charlie Sheen

Five years from now, we will talk on phones shaped like squirming tadpole men

A battle with every Power Ranger in existence going absolutely bonkers en masse

Storm, Elektra, and Wonder Woman get body-painted for Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval (NSFW)

College professor commissions android clone of himself, presumably to mess with students

In the Japanese cult classic Hausu, schoolgirls are eaten by an evil house on LSD

No, alien life was not discovered this weekend

Superboy shows up on Smallville and hits on Lois Lane

Hungarian Star Wars posters advertise a movie starring only Greedo and Darth Bucket

What if Terminator was a 1950s PSA about good manners?

In Uncle Boonmee, a man’s final family reunion brings Thai sasquatches and catfish sex

Hidden camera prank reveals that creepy kids standing in hotel hallways = instant terror

Scenes from a Star Trek convention from almost 40 years ago

The Guild’s most roguish member gets ready for his own comic book close-up

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