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Let's face it: right now, the head nods and other rudimentary controls of Google's Project Glass are mostly useful for looking good, sharing photos and not much else. A US patent application submitted last September and just now published, however, raises the possibility of more sophisticated control coming from your hands. A ring, a bracelet or a even a fake fingernail with an infrared-reflective layer would serve as a gesture control marker for a receiver on heads-up display glasses. Having this extra control would give the glasses-mounted computing room to grow by learning gestures, and it could even depend on multiple ornaments for more sophisticated commands -- at least, if you don't mind looking like a very nerdy Liberace. We can imagine the headaches a hand-based method might cause for very enthusiastic talkers, among other possible hiccups, so don't be surprised if Project Glass goes without any kind of ring input. That said, we suspect that Sauron would approve.

Google patent application could give Project Glass one true ring controller to rule them all originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 12:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Thomas: "Galadriel, is that new shampoo?"
Tim: "These glasses may be passive but I you may find me getting very aggressive if you use that flash one more time."
Brian: "I'll tell you what, you're making me Gandalf the Red right now."
Joe: "Would 'one standard to rule them all' be asking too much?"
Michael: "ZZ Top called, they want their roadie back"
Terrence: "Even Gandalf the Grey is powerless against the magic of these glasses which make any man look like a 90-year-old blind woman."
Richard Lai: "Ha, no 3D for that flaming cyclops in Mordor."
Darren: "One ring. Two Towers. 3Ds."
Christopher: "Sir Ian McKellen: the latest victim of Rick Rubin's Ambush Makeover."
Sean Buckley: "Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. What have I told you about interrupting me during my stories?"
Josh Fruhlinger: "You know how they say 3D is bad for children? This dude is 14."
Myriam: "Yes, wizards get hangovers too. Are you happy now?"

Caption Contest: you shall not interrupt Gandalf's 3D viewing session originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 May 2011 10:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Say goodbye to blurry Orcs, because The Hobbit is going 48 frames per second. King of Kong Peter Jackson announced via Facebook that the two-part Lord of the Rings prequel will be shot at an increased frame rate, double the 24FPS that has been the industry standard for the better part of a century. Halo's non-director preemptively addressed critics of the technology, comparing it to the transition from vinyl to CDs -- which, let's face it, some folks still aren't all that psyched about. The technology, when combined with a 48FPS projector, should cut down on blur and strobe. Jackson and Warner Bros. have their fingers crossed that a sufficient number of theaters will be capable of projecting at that speed when the film opens in December 2012. We're eagerly awaiting James Cameron's reaction -- and George Lucas's inevitable Star Wars re-re-re-re-release at the new speed.

Peter Jackson shooting The Hobbit at 48FPS, should speed up those long walking scenes originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Blu-ray set officially announced, arrives June 28th (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Thanks, Mitchell]

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The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Blu-ray discs are up for preorder on Amazon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Special Thanks to Warner for providing the discs!

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Engadget HD Giveaway: Win the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Blu-ray! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>blu-raygiveawayhdlord of the ringsLordOfTheRingswarnerwarner brosWarnerBroswhvTue, 14 Sep 2010 16:30:00 EST<![CDATA[Lord of the Rings movies break out of the box set, hit Blu-ray individually 9/14]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lord-of-the-rings-movies-break-out-of-the-box-set-hit-blu-ray-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lord-of-the-rings-movies-break-out-of-the-box-set-hit-blu-ray-i/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/lord-of-the-rings-movies-break-out-of-the-box-set-hit-blu-ray-i/#comments Yes, there's new Lord of the Rings Blu-ray news and no, it isn't the Extended Editions of the movies. If the pressure of buying the boxed set is just too much to bear don't worry, this fall you'll finally be able to buy each movie individually (we prefer to skip to RoTK, we're impatient like that.) September 14 is the date they go on sale with $24.98 MSRPs and identical features to their boxed counterparts, minus a digital copy, can we start the countdown to the release of the EE yet?

Lord of the Rings movies break out of the box set, hit Blu-ray individually 9/14 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Blu-ray releases for April 6th 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Blu-rayhdLord of the RingsLordOfTheRingsMon, 05 Apr 2010 20:32:00 EST<![CDATA[Lord of the Rings and Blu-ray to meet in April of 2010]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/15/lord-of-the-rings-and-blu-ray-to-meet-in-april-of-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/15/lord-of-the-rings-and-blu-ray-to-meet-in-april-of-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/15/lord-of-the-rings-and-blu-ray-to-meet-in-april-of-2010/#commentsWe've been talking about Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray for as long as we've been talking about Blu-ray, so we're happy to finally see these two come together. The bad news is that if you're a big fan of the extended versions -- as if the originals weren't long enough -- you'll have to keep waiting as this $99 box set won't include 'em. What it will include is three discs of extras as well as digital copies of all three movies. If you aren't into buying movies on shiny discs anymore though, also on the 16th April, the trilogy will also be available at all the new sources like iTunes, Amazon VOD and Xbox/Zune Marketplace.

Lord of the Rings and Blu-ray to meet in April of 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Blu-rayhdLord of the RingsLordOfTheRingsTue, 15 Dec 2009 14:44:00 EST<![CDATA[Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray officially pushed back to 2010]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/lord-of-the-rings-on-blu-ray-officially-pushed-back-to-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/lord-of-the-rings-on-blu-ray-officially-pushed-back-to-2010/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/lord-of-the-rings-on-blu-ray-officially-pushed-back-to-2010/#commentsOur friend Bill at the Digital Bits continues to deliver on some of the best and worst Blu-ray movie news -- although we really wish he'd make his site linkable already -- and this time it is the sad news that one of the most anticipated Blu-ray releases ever will be pushed to 2010. No word on exactly when The Lord of the Rings will make it to Blu-ray, but it seems pretty certain that it won't be in the next four months. If it were up to us, we'd have a hard time shying away from 10/10/10, but that's just us.

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Lord of the Rings on Blu-ray officially pushed back to 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Thanks, Vipul]

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Now that we've already got one particular trilogy on our BD radar, it's only fitting that yet another blockbuster trio hit the screen. According to PSU, Peter Jackson has stated outrightly that he is "working on a Blu-ray version of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy with Warner Bros. at the moment," and although he confessed that a release date wasn't available, we are told not to expect it anytime this year. Reportedly, the comments were divulged while chatting about the forthcoming Hobbit, and while we're undoubtedly stoked to hear the news, we can't help but feel somewhat crushed that Profile 4.0 may very well be out and about before this collection ever lands. [Disclosure: Engadget is part of the Time Warner family]

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Lord of the Rings Trilogy headed to Blu-ray? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 May 2008 03:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>blu rayblu-rayblurayhdlord of the ringsLordOfTheRingslotrpeter jacksonPeterJacksonwarnerwarner broswarner bros.WarnerBrosWarnerBros.Wed, 28 May 2008 03:40:00 EST<![CDATA[All three Lord of the Rings films airing in HD on TNT]]>http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/all-three-lord-of-the-rings-films-airing-in-hd-on-tnt/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/all-three-lord-of-the-rings-films-airing-in-hd-on-tnt/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/all-three-lord-of-the-rings-films-airing-in-hd-on-tnt/#comments Our friends at TV Squad let us know that TNT will be airing all three Lord of the Rings movies December 15th. This will be the network television debut of the third film in the series, The Return of the King. Unfortunately what we're not sure about is whether the HD channel will be airing original aspect ratio 1080i beauty or stretched widescreen upconverts. As the films have yet to make their debut on HD DVD or Blu-ray we're keeping our fingers crossed but given TNT's history with stretching content we can't assume anything. The films will also be available for HDTVs via VOD, but that's no assurance as when the Star Wars trilogy aired on Cinemax it was OAR, but cropped on video on-demand, so they may be different. We appeal to our readers, does anyone know if the previous Lord of the Rings films shown on TNT were native or upconverted, and if there's any way to tell which these will be? Our plans for next Friday are riding on it (like we have plans).

[Via TV Squad]

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