We love a good Star Wars remix in these parts, and especially dig freelance illustrator Mattias Adolfsson’s rendition of the story as told through Baroque era illustration. If Vader had the Death Star back somewhere between 1600 and 1750, this is how Lucas may have imagined the characters (with powdered wigs, rocking the counterpoint). [artist via superpunch]
Oh, poor Batman. His Batmobile from Batman Forever fetched less than half its reserve price on eBay after Warner Bros. put it up for auction. Expected to go for between $US600,000 to $US800,000, the Batmobile was only bid to $US297,000. Apparently Warner Bros. restrictions like “you can never, ever, ever, ever dream about driving this car in public” turned off some buyers. But we’re guessing what really happened was that car enthusiasts came to their senses and remembered, “wait a second, Batman Forever sucked”!
A new rumour claims that Amazon wants to take their Kindle e-reader international. And while such a feat isn’t a big deal for most of its competition, the Kindle’s Whispernet service (a free EVDO connection allowing the downloads of books, etc from the Amazon store) will need a new partner to work across Europe (along with some hardware revision). And as rumour has it that Amazon is in talks with Vodafone Chief Arun Sarin to make this happen, sell e-books to everyone, take over the world, etc. Buyer beware: our attempts to burn Kindles in protest just won’t have the impact of a good, paper book burning. [mobileread]
Here’s yet another Apple patent. This one has all the elements for creating the Greates Apple Rumor Theory ever, from multi-touch displays and gaming to multiple screens and media players. Clearly, we are witnessing the creation of the next nuclear-powered, worm-hole-inducing gaming platform with mind-reading capabilities. Or something like that. Really, after reading the whole text of the patent, I don’t have a clue about what are they talking about:
