A Chinese company called Hi-Tech Wealth is showing at CeBIT a SOLAR-POWERED CELL PHONE called the Light-Energy Mobile Phone. The clamshell design captures light when closed via the solar panel on the outside. While on standby, the phone keeps itself charged “forever,” but blabbermouths will need to plug it in once in a while. The…
Microsoft will soon be releasing a new technological terror called the Xbox 360 Elite, which includes a 120 gig HD, be all black, run cooler with 65nm chips, HD-DVD, and have HDMI support. The price? A cool $479. Tweet ign.com
New Line has won feature rights to Microsoft’s hugely popular third person shooter “Gears of War.” Tweet teamxbox.com
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard is expanding into Austin, Tex., as the Irvine, Calif.-based company sets up a customer support center in the city of MMOs, the company tells Next-Gen. Tweet next-gen.biz
Comic Book Biz: Studio options rights to crimefighter — After years of buzzing around development circles and different studios, “The Green Hornet” is finally on its way to the bigscreen. Columbia Pictures, gearing up for the May 4 debut of its “Spider-Man 3,” has optioned rights to the property, with Neal H. Moritz and his…
eeks Later Poster 28 Weeks Later, the follow-up to the terrifically successful 28 Days Later, picks up six months after the rage virus has annihilated the British Isles. The US Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. As the first wave of refugees…
Creator Tim Kring told Sci Fi Wire that he’s encouraged his writers to be bold in season two. “I have to admit I feel pretty good about the fact that we didn’t leave a lot of things dangling for people,” Kring said. “There were one or two moments where there were things we had answers…
You can check out Jon Favreau’s MySpace group for information about the first week of filming. “We are done with the first week of photography. I am happy to report that the ten months of preparation allowed the extremely challenging first week of photography to come off without a hitch. The look is fantastic and…
On May 25, 2007, the world will end. Um, I mean… On May 25, we will be At World’s End. No, that doesn’t sound right either. OK, let’s forget all the apocalyptic doublespeak. The final installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, At World’s End, will arrive in theaters on May 25. If you…
It seems the rumors are indeed true, according to Gamedaily. Kotaku has posted a scan from Gameinformer that claims the new Zephyr Xbox is indeed real, and it is no April fool’s. Of course, this is a rumor tag for now, since it is April, but we reported this rumor from our own source over…
