
In the film it’s a famous scene where Deckard inserts a photograph into a voice-activated branded machine called an Esper, which analyses the photo and turns the still image into a 3D one so Deckard can zoom in and explore the depicted scene and look around corners. But, as forward-thinking as this piece of design was, it didn’t anticipate the problems and glitches we face when it comes to voice-commanded devices.
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From the titles of the tracks alone, they’re the perfect two tracks to be mashed together—on the one hand you have Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ with people waiting up all night to get some and on the other you have someone who’s horny, horny, horny—together they go together like a horse and carriage.
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Why has no one thought of this before? Not only do you get to be chauffeured around, but you get to make out with someone too. Taxi app Uber meets dating app Tinder in this very funny sketch to create UnDer “the ultimate auto-erotic experience” and imagines a world where commuting and finding a partner, albeit it temporarily, are combined.
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Marvel have taken a few risks when it comes to handing unusual directors the reigns for their films, but perhaps using German director and all-round esoteric Bavarian Captain of the Weird Werner Herzog would be a step too far. But that hasn’t stopped someone from imagining what it might be like if Herzog had directed the Ant-Man movie.
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The Kirk versus Gorn fight is a favorite of fans of Star Trek: The Original Series, which featured in the episode called “Arean” and showed Kirk taking on a Gorn warrior (well, a man in a green rubber suit). It was already a pretty weird fight scene, especially strange compared to today’s hyped fights, but it’s been given extra weirdness.
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Back in the 90s the UK had a lot of great comedy on TV, which kind of worked as incubators for talent that would go on to be global stars. One such show was Big Train which was co-written by Graham Linehan who would go on to write The IT Crowd and Father Ted. And it was also one of the earliest television appearances of Simon Pegg.
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By now you’ve had the chance to either see Terminator: Genisys or avoid it like the plague—but even if you’ve only seen the trailer then you’ll know the plot involves an evil John Connor and a parallel time-line where seemingly elements of both Terminators 1 and 2 have merged. It’s all very confusing.
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To say that Star Wars fans were disappointed with the prequels that Lucas Pukus spat out of his furry Ewok butthole is an understatement—they’ve gone down in cinematic history as being the worst prequel to anything ever. An example of what not to do to when making one, and a how-to in alienating your fan base.
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If you ever wondered if you could do something with all that cardboard packaging you end up recycling, then the answer is yes. If you have the resources and know-how you can make yourself a skateboard. Which is what happens here, as legendary skateboard builder Paul Schmitt creates a board for world-class skater Tony Hawk.
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These are two Ultra Hal artificially intelligent chatbots, which learn from their past conversations between themselves and humans, along with observing Twitter conversations between humans. And this video features two of them in conversation with one another, and the conversation soon turns weirdly sexual.
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It starts with a Stephen Hawking type robotic voice waxing about the birth of the universe and the wonder and brilliance of the human brain, while we’re treated to visuals whooshing through the neural pathways of the mind—so it basically starts with a huge curveball that makes you question whether this is the right trailer.
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