Tag: TRANSFORMERS

In honor of the upcoming movie 'Transformers: Dark of the Moon,' Hasbro will release something called the Transformers CineMask 3D -- a plastic mask that includes RealD 3-D lenses. That's right. You can watch 'Transformers' in 3-D while dressed up as a 3-D Transformer. The film won't hit theaters until July 1st, but these $10 glasses will be available as of May 16th -- meaning that, until July, ...

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While they aren't full-blown 'Transformers,' ultra-thin smart sheets developed by MIT and Harvard researchers could pave the way for machines that fold into different shapes. According to Popular Science, the fiberglass sheets, which are made from .5-inch wide, .5-millimeter thick, triangular tiles, are dubbed 'programmable matter.' The researchers equipped the smart sheets with ultra-thin, ...

Since we know it's nigh impossible to survive a summer without those charming hunks of steel that are the 'Transformers,' and since the next movie won't be released for a whole year, we're here to help by giving away one PlayStation 3 copy of the newly released 'Transformers: War for Cybertron.' This third-person shooter puts you on the side of either the Autobots or the Decepticons as they battle ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... With help from former hacker Adrian Lamo, authorities recently nabbed the man responsible for divulging an inordinate amount of classified videos, documents and communications to whistleblower site Wikileaks. Now, federal officials just need to keep the site from publishing its supposed supply of 230,000 military and government ...

With Michael Bay's ode to robots hitting the big screen this week, the world and the Web are abuzz about giant hunks of shape-shifting metal that blow stuff up. According to the old TV theme song, Transformers are 'more than meets the eye,' and, while it only slightly resembles Optimus Prime or Megatron, you could say the same for this toy posted by Lubbock, Texas Etsy user 'reaver.' Dubbed ...

Turns out the prosecutor who recently got a 19-year-old girl to plead guilty of a misdemeanor crime for recording 20 seconds of 'Transformers' wasn't necessarily inclined to actually prosecute the case. While Jhannet Sejas admitted to recording the snippet, she obviously wasn't a movie pirate looking to sell it on a street corner. However, Richard E. Trodden did prosecute the case and reportedly ...

We were somewhat disturbed earlier this month to learn that a 19-year-old girl was charged with a misdemeanor crime for filming 20 seconds of 'Transformers' on her digital camera. She was shocked to find herself facing a $2,500 fine plus a year in prison for her crime, and, frankly, so were we. We are happy to report that she won't be seeing any jail time and her savings are safe. She did plead ...

Jhannet Sejas, a 19-year-old from Arlington, Virginia, did something she had no idea would get her in big trouble. When the ending for 'Transformers' was spinning up to its highest point, she took out her cell phone and recorded 20 seconds' of the movie which, according to Sejas, was to show to her little brother. Soon after, she was greeted by police, who promptly confiscated her phone. Sejas ...