How Elf on the Shelf createdand convinced CBS to aira "special" commercial for its product. Elf on the Shelf , Christa Pitts's Marietta, Georgia-based company, is one of the fastest-growing private corporations in the United States.
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Feed SubscriptionAs "Breaking Dawn" Shatters Box Office, Its Screenwriter Breaks New Ground With "Earthseed"
Screenwriter-producer Melissa Rosenberg helped make Breaking Dawn a box office smash by staying faithful to the books. With her next project Earthseed, she ditches fan loyalty for high fidelity, by "sounding out" her script with f/x experts at ILM
Read More »Hotel Tonight Raises $9 Million
With $9 million in new funding, could lodging-search app Hotel Tonight could disrupt online travel agencies?
Read More »Are You Ready to Sell on TV?
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Read More »"Being Elmo" Is The Ultimate Muppet Fan Film
The other must-see Muppet movie this month is a documentary exploring how Jim Henson's puppetry inspired one man to go way beyond Kermit and create a giggling global icon named Elmo. This Thanksgiving Disney's long-awaited Muppet reboot will finally be in theaters
Read More »This Week In Bots: When Buck Rogers Became Real
Asimo Gets An Upgrade For robot fans, Honda's Asimo has perhaps always been the biggest treasure: He's been in development for decades, and Honda just this week revealed a refresh that makes Asimo the most advanced yet. There's a host of improvements, from slicker and faster gaits, more sophisticated movements, individually articulated fingers (flexible enough to cope with sign language) to improved voice recognition that can discern commands even when three voices are talking at once. The best way to understand how advanced this child-sized bot is nowadays is to watch this video: [youtube eU93VmFyZbg] Asimo is, arguably, just one step away from being the science fiction robots we've been seeing for years
Read More »Google+ Brand Pages: Should You Launch One?
Google+ is nowhere near as big as Facebook and Twitter... yet
Read More »A Long, Strange "Trip to the Moon"
It took science, faith, and a bit of magic (oh, and 10 years and a million bucks) to bring a lost version of a pioneering silent film classic back to colorful life. Here’s how it happened.
Read More »Connected: How Technology Explains The World
In her new film, Connected, Webby Awards founder and Internet philosopher Tiffany Shlain sees digital connection as the next step in harnessing our collective brainpower--as long as we don’t lose our ability to relate to each other. Is technological connectivity mankind's next evolutionary step
Read More »Spurlock Penetrates The Nerd Herd In Comic-Con Doc
With the likes of Whedon, Smith, Groening, Del Toro, and Roth as interpreters, Morgan Spurlock explores what's become a pop culture mainstay in Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope. Commonly, and mistakenly, considered the domain of smelly dudes in freaky costumes, Comic-Con has emerged as the epicenter for pop-culture influence and a hotbed for creativity
Read More »Filmmakers Band Together To Renew Focus On U.S. War In Afghanistan, Now In Its 10th Year
Friday, October 7th marked the 10th anniversary of the War in Afghanistan , which now surpasses the length of the official U.S. military engagement in the Vietnam War. Despite its longevity, the war has receded from daily headlines in mainstream U.S
Read More »Combating Cancer with Edmond Fischer
Nobel Laureate Eddie Fischer was born in Shanghai in 1920. Since then, China has emerged as an economic superpower
Read More »Get Funding or Go Lean?
Only 14 percent of Inc. 500 companies are venture backed, which makes you wonder: Is it worth it to take on venture funding? Tonight was movie night at the Inc
Read More »Pentagon Retreats from Biological Attacks Protection Initiative
By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine In the film Contagion , it takes just a few months for scientists to make a vaccine against a deadly virus. [More]
Read More »PhD Comics Hits the Big Screen
The creator of the popular online comic strip " Piled Higher and Deeper " has turned it into a feature film.
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