New York Comic Con
Thanks everyone for an amazingly awesome New York Comic Con 2014!!!! We had a blast, met a lot of fans. We were blown away by how many people remembered us from last year, and we didn’t even have a book to sell! But this year we did and the response was fantastic.
We’re going to post a little video sometime soon, of footage our friend Rahil shot for us. Until then you can peep my half-assed instagram feed. Luckily I was too busy selling comics to actually shoot many photos. 🙂
Modern Polaxis
Hey All, Sutu’s amazing augmented reality comic, Modern Polaxis is out to the world. I have the pleasure of having a copy in my hand it continues to amaze. I also had small collection that flew off our table at New York Comic Con this weekend, blowing minds all week long.
Check out this short promo video he put together.
Star Wars Surveillance
I am trying not to read too much of the Star Wars Episode VII rumors, but this one caught my eye. This is some straight-up crazy spy action. My mind warped not b/c some nut is flying a drone over a film set, but because this undoctored photo is so practical/nautural/cool scifi. That location is incredible, the space ships look so at home there, there is no reason to even blink. Is this the CIA looking at North Korea, or a dispatch from an imperial probe droid. You know, just a fly-by over the Rebel’s star port…
This is in from Toybox @ Io9.com via Latino-Review.
Zoe Quinn Implants Chip in Her Arm
Check this Wetwork hack from game developer Zoe Quinn, she’s 10 steps ahead of the Apple Watch with home automation and interactivity. Check out this video with all the gory details and read more over at GameBreaker.tv
Folding Origami Robot
“On either side of the composite and inside is stiff paper. In the very middle there is a flexible printed circuit,” Felton added. “When electricity is applied, it heats up like when you turn on a light bulb and the heat warms up the polymer and causes it to contract. Because the polymer is bonded to the paper it pulls on the paper causing the paper to fold over on itself.”
Imagine a ream of dozens of robotic satellites sandwiched together so that they could be sent up to space and then assemble themselves remotely
Neuromancer + 30 Years
Well, I didn’t read Neuromancer until the late 80’s, might have even been 1990, but it’s been an inspiration since. There’s nothing that I can add that so many haven’t said already. Great article over here at TheGauardian.com The Man Who Saw Tomorrow.
On its release, Neuromancer won the “big three” for science fiction: the Nebula, Philip K Dick and Hugo awards. It sold more than 6m copies and launched an entire aesthetic: cyberpunk. In predicting this future, Gibson can be said to have helped shape our conception of the internet. Other novelists are held in higher esteem by literary critics, but few can claim to have had such a wide-ranging influence.
Congratulations Bill, it’s as good a read today as it was 30 years ago. That’s an amazing feat in science fiction.
This is a photo of my 1st Edition copy. Thanks Josh.
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