Gaming

Michael Jackson Virtual World Will Be Free Of Lawsuits, Overdoses

Gizmodo AU

Oww! The virtual genitalia jokes write themselves, don’t they? Yes, Michael Jackson’s estate has approved an online interactive world, perhaps inevitably called Planet Michael, which will appear in 2011. All the crotch-thrusting detail after the jump.


February 24, 2010

Dance Away Your Paternity Anxieties With DIY “Billie Jean” Shoes

If you have a pair of hard-soled shoes, two pressure-sensitive LED tiles, and some baby mama drama from which you need to extricate yourself, let this Instructable be your guide and recreate the special-FX steps from Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”.


January 11, 2010
Entertainment

Blu-ray MovieIQ Sync Lets You Play Along With Michael Jackson’s This Is It

This bit of Blu-Ray news was left suspiciously out of Sony’s CES keynotes and big reveals, which doesn’t bode well… but anyway. Now it’s out: The BD Live feature MovieIQ Sync debuted with Michael Jackson’s This Is It. Woo?


December 19, 2009
Entertainment

Michael Jackson Is Back In Glorious But Sightly Outdated 3D

I remember watching Captain Eo with polarised eyeglasses back in my uni days. At the time, I was blown away by the 3D experience, which also incorporated real-life effects, like lasers and fog. Now, the 17-minute film is back.


November 19, 2009

Michael Jackson’s 3D Body Scans On eBay For $US1.5m

This just seems wrong. A US businessman claims he’s been sitting on 3D scans from 1996, when MJ was aged 37. It’s rumoured the singer wanted a virtual or robot double, and this data, if real, would enable just that.


November 5, 2009
Entertainment

The Michael Jackon Movie Is Kinda Good

I’m not going to admit I teared up a bit when Michael Jackson sung The Way You Make Me Feel in this movie. Let’s talk about the tech for a bit.


September 24, 2009

Michael Jackson, A Moving Tribute

There are many ways to say, hey friend, you’ve been an important element of change in my life. But the best way—by far—is to place that person’s visage, charcoal print style, on your iPhone. $US6. [FatYourWallet via ChipChick]


September 9, 2009

Thriller Action Figure Allows Kids to Legally Play with Michael Jackson

Oh, Michael, the world misses you. And as Billie Jean plays for the 152,345,160,433rd f–king time—yes, I’ve counted them all—what other better way to remember you than to play with this morphing Thriller action figure.


August 21, 2009

15-Metre Michael Jackson Gundam Almost Destroyed Las Vegas

Las Vegas is the most horrible place on earth, so I’m almost sad it wasn’t destroyed by a 15-metre robot Michael Jackson wanted to build in his image that would stomp around the desert. No, I’m not making this up.


July 16, 2009

No One Really Knows How Many Albums Michael Jackson Sold

Some earth-shattering sleuthing from the WSJ: No one really knows how many albums Michael Jackson sold—certainly not 750 million. See, in the barbaric days before album sales were electronically reported to Nielsen SoundScan—1991—it was all guesswork.