Lord of the Rings

How Lego's Great Adventure In Geek-Sourcing Snapped Into Place And Boosted The Brand

A second product from Lego's crowdsourced Cuusoo project--the Japanese asteroid reconnaissance spacecraft Hayabusa--is scheduled for release on March 2. The venerable toy company may never be the same.READ»

Numerology: The Price Of Piracy

With Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hitting theaters May 20th, it seems our obsession with pirates just won't end -- though for many of us, sailing the seas of digital piracy is about as close as we'll get to an eye-patch-and-parrot lifestyle.READ»

Tea Buds Thrive in New Zealand's One and Only Tea Garden

Zealong's Vincent Chen moves from skyscrapers to tea fields.READ»

Geoff Vuleta's Fahrenheit 212 Is Scorching the Consultancy Business

The New Zealander and former ad man develops large-scale growth initiatives for major firms seeking $100 million-plus in new revenue. He only makes money if the idea works.READ»

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The 12 Best and Worst Digital Characters

With the coming release of James Cameron's sci-fi epic, moviegoers are focusing anew on digital characters. It's tough to fashion from mere pixels believable beings that walk and talk and seem to feel the same emotions of real humans. Here are the virtual actors that lived up to their living colleagues, and those that fell flat on the screen.READ»

Infographic of the Day: The Plot of Lord of the Rings

Randall Munroe's claim to fame is XKCD, a Web-comic devoted to geekery which has a rabid following. Today, he's scrapped the math jokes and dry wit for a massive infographic, illustrating all of the character interactions in Lord of ...READ»

Motion-Capture Invention Promises WETA Digital Effects on a YouTube Budget

Motion capture is a staple of movie-making. It's also extremely expensive. The required equipment can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But a professor at MIT has invented an entirely new system, for just a fraction of ...READ»