In this episode:
- special guest Esteban from Please Save Me Robots (pleasesavemerobots.blogspot.com),
- Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA,
- the upcoming movie The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) starring Keanu Reeves,
- Ringo Starr,
- the BotCon Transformers convention,
- video game grading services,
- gasoline octane ratings,
- obsessed collectors,
- the upcoming movie TR2N (2010) starring Jeff Bridges,
- funny videos of The Wicker Man (2006) on YouTube,
- the Japanese origin of the Transformers toy line,
- Ironhide and Ratchet’s horrible robot forms,
- 3D movies (Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Star Wars),
- holographic video,
- putting your face in HD DVD movies,
- Esteban’s experience as a weather observer in the United States Air Force,
- his UFO sighting in Korea,
- the Alamo in San Antonio, TX,
- watching Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) in Turkey,
- Esteban’s experience at McMurdo Station in Antarctica,
- Antarctic roads and speed limits,
- and a celebrity death (Estelle Getty, thanks to www.deadoraliveinfo.com).
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See, I told you!
Yes, that is the album cover to Goodnight Vienna, Ringo Starr’s second solo album, in 1974.
Ringo was in that hideous Caveman movie, which co-starred his future wife Catherine Bach. Then again, George Harrison was the genius who paid for this movie to get made. Worse than St. Pepper, starring the Bee Gees?
Also, I mistakenly said The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor co-starred Chow Yun Fat, when in fact it is Jet Li.
Definition of Holographic video (ARTICLE LINK)
“Holographic images work by recreating the pattern of light that would be reflected by 3D objects. The viewer’s eyes receive the same light they would if standing in front of the real scene, even as they move around in front of the hologram.”
University of Arizona team who made the breakthrough in updating 3D images (LINK):
Animated GIF Example from University of Arizona project (ARTICLE LINK):
MIT Project: http://www.media.mit.edu/spi/holoVideoAll.htm
Holographic Versatile Disc:
How it Works?
Format’s Consortium
Greg, regarding that last picture (red 3D video), Nintendo already invented that technology in 1995. It was called the Virtual Boy.
esteban – what a great guest. he really complimented the show – funny and informative. now i know why ironhide and ratchet are the way they are! i swear i got two small silver takara men with my optimus prime in 1984 – would esteban have knowledge of this? are you having him on again?