Animated ‘Super Mario Bros.’ movie tentatively planned for 2022

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Those rumors of a Super Mario Bros. animated movie in development? They're true. In a chat with Variety, Illumination founder Chris Meledandri confirmed that the animated flick was in "priority development" with hopes of putting it in theaters by 2...

Nintendo is Making Animated Super Mario Movie with Illumination

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An anime movie that is built around the concept of the Mario Brothers video game is about to become a solid reality. Mario and Luigi will be shown in their roles as hard-working plumbers in this film...

Nintendo might be making an animated ‘Super Mario Bros.’ movie

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Nintendo's plans to return to movies appear to include its most beloved franchise. Wall Street Journal sources understand that Nintendo is close to a deal for an animated Super Mario Bros. movie from Illumination Entertainment, the Universal-backed s...

Dragonball Z for the Firemen

Posted on 27/08/2014 by Radhika Seth

Light Ball is an illuminating ball designed for firemen. The innovation here is that the ball emits light and absorbs smoke at the same time. Small and portable, the ball is supposed to be thrown into an area that is affected by smoke and fire. The light ball absorbs fumes and emits light, increasing visibility and making it safer to cross the section.

Designers: Wonkyung Jang, Jiwoo Kim, Chanyeop Jeong and Narae Park

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Skip Till You Turn Red

Posted on 02/04/2014 by Radhika Seth

It took a bunch of designers to figure out that a number of us fall off the wagon while following an exercise regime. Hence, they have designed a clever motivational and goal oriented skipping rope that keeps you on your course. The No Red No Stop encourages persistence and teams the rope with visual illumination, which acts as the encouraging factor.

This is how it works:

Set your target number of jumps on the handle’s LCD touch screen.
During the exercise session, the color of the rope will change automatically, telling us which stage we are in and how close we are to our own goal.
The color changes from green to red, with blue and purple as intermediate stages.
Green represents health, and drives you to exercise actively. Red represents passion, and encourages you to stick to your goal.
Essentially, you shouldn’t stop skipping until the rope turns red.
The handles are made of rubber, which is non-slip and suitable for ergonomic design.

No Red No Stop is a 2013 Red Dot Award: Design Concept Winner.

Designers: Chen Xuyan, Fang Zhipeng, Gao Yuxiang, Lai Shengqi, Sun Duojun, Tang Chunhua, Yu Mengling & Zhou Tengjiao

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GreenWave Reality ships WiFi-aware light bulbs that flick on through motion and smartphones

Posted on 22/10/2012 by Jon Fingas

We've seen connected light bulbs before, some more sophisticated than others, but they're rarely as straightforward as GreenWave Reality's just-shipping Connected Lighting Solution. Eco-friendly LED bulbs in the lineup include support for WiFi and are immediately controllable from a smartphone or tablet as soon as they're receiving power. Basics controls like group presets and timed lighting are just the start; if you're not worried about leaving anyone in the dark, the bulbs can respond to motion sensors and only illuminate the rooms that need attention. And while the intelligence isn't new in itself, GreenWave would argue that sheer accessibility gives it an edge, with electric utilities in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden skipping the retail middleman by selling directly. Don't despair if you live in the US: the linked-up lighting is cleared for eventual use by Americans who'd like to save both energy and a trip to the light switch.

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MooresCloud Light runs Linux, puts LAMP on your lamp (video)

Posted on 13/10/2012 by Jon Fingas

Yes, we'll admit that we borrowed that pun in the title. MooresCloud founder Mark Pesce's Xzibit reference is still a very apt description of the Light, his company's Linux-based LED lamp. The Australian team's box-shaped illumination runs the open OS (including a LAMP web server stack) on an integrated mini PC with an accelerometer and WiFi. The relative power and networking provide obvious advantages for home automation that we've seen elsewhere, but it's the sheer flexibility of a generalized, web-oriented platform that makes the difference: the Light can change colors based on photos or movement, sync light pulses to music and exploit a myriad of other tricks that should result from a future, web-based app store. When and how the Light launches will depend on a Kickstarter campaign to raise $700,000 AUD ($717,621 US) starting on October 16th, although the $99 AUD ($101 US) cost is just low enough that we could see ourselves open-sourcing a little more of the living room. At least, as long as we don't have to recompile our lamp kernel before some evening reading.

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Ikea to sell only LED-based lighting by 2016, wants to be greener than your sofa bed

Posted on 01/10/2012 by Jon Fingas

While some wouldn't necessarily associate Ikea with eco-friendliness given that its business revolves around plywood, the furniture chain has just staked out a clearer position as a green pioneer. It's phasing out sales of all lighting that isn't LED-based by 2016, making it the first major home furnishing shop with a US presence to entirely banish less efficient illumination. Ikea also wants to take advantage of its economies of scale with the "lowest price on the market" for LEDs, which could shake up an industry where anything beyond incandescent technology usually carries a premium. We'll still have some time to wait for the full switch, but the company at least plans to practice what it preaches by replacing over a million store lights with LEDs -- so those of us with no light replacement plans can still feel as green as the Beddinge Håvet we're taking home.

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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review

Posted on 01/10/2012 by Brian Heater

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If you had told us at roughly this time last year that the e-reader race would be heating up going into the 2012 holiday season, we would have disagreed. If anything, 2011 seemed like the beginning of the end. Spurred on by the tablet explosion, companies like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and even Kobo were looking toward that space for inspiration, introducing flagship devices on which reading was just one of many features. Heck, even the readers themselves started to look more tablet-like, with many abandoning of physical keyboards in favor of infrared touchscreens.

But here we are at the end of September, and this product category has never been more exciting. Back in May, Barnes & Noble captured our hearts and midnight reading marathons with the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, a wordy name for a great little device that made reading in bed at night a little easier. (A problem, according to Barnes & Noble, that was tearing the country's families apart.) But don't let it be said that Amazon doesn't believe in the American family. Earlier this month, the company launched the Kindle Paperwhite, the latest addition to a product lineup that has more or less become synonymous with the term "e-reader."

At that launch event, CEO Jeff Bezos described the four years of R&D that went into the front light technology powering that bright screen. It was clear from our hands-on time with the device that, although Amazon is placing extra emphasis on the Fire line these days, it still has a lot invested in the e-reader fight. The sharpened, illuminated text is impressive, and Amazon has gone so far as to describe this as the Kindle it's always wanted to build. That's all well and good, but how does it compare to similar offerings on the market? Is this worth the $119 asking price (with ads)? Let's find out.

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