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by Keith Shaw

Keith Shaw writes the Cool Tools column for Network World, and is the Multimedia Content Editor for IDG Enterprise, responsible for editorial video and audio content creation. Follow him on Twitter @shawkeith.

Weekend checklist: Scary geeks and Wikileaks

Posted Sep 13, 2013 - 01:07 pm

Summer movies are over and the new TV season hasn't yet started, but there's still plenty for a geek to do this weekend. We offer up our weekly picks.
Casablanca, Geekend
Dishonored: Assassin's Creed meets Steampunk

Posted Apr 17, 2012 - 10:37 am

Check out the debut trailer for Bethesda Softworks' new video game, "Dishonored", in which you play a "supernatural assassin driven by revenge."
steampunk, video
Motion-tracking security camera watches your dog sleep on your couch

Posted Aug 28, 2012 - 11:18 am

In-home security cameras that can monitor pets and/or children have been around for years, but if the pet (or child) moves from the field of view for the camera, it becomes pretty useless.
Japanese technology, security cameras
Squee alert: Elder Scrolls Online announces beta

Posted Jan 22, 2013 - 11:24 am

Bethesda Softworks launches beta program sign-up with an awesome real-life Elder Scrolls Online cinematic trailer.
Elder Scrolls Online, game trailers
Science Thursday: Cracking the chicken/egg dilemma

Posted Jan 24, 2013 - 02:47 pm

Watch this very quick explanation of the whole "which came first?" philosophical question via animated video.
animated videos, chicken
Pee-wee Herman overdubs Batman trailer

Posted Jul 12, 2012 - 09:50 am

When Bane says the secret word, make sure you scream real loud!
Batman, funny videos
Science Monday: E=mc² is incomplete

Posted Oct 29, 2012 - 09:41 am
explainer videos, physics
Video: Santa goes high-tech

Posted Dec 22, 2011 - 04:45 pm

With iPads, Facebook, Twitter and Google Earth, today's kids now live in a world where telling them about Santa in a toy workshop at the North Pole seems a bit archaic. Fortunately, the world of TV and movies have it covered - Santa's now just as high-tech as the children he's delivering presents to.
Christmas, Santa
How to geekify your Fourth of July weekend

Posted Jun 28, 2013 - 09:47 am

Get ready for a big weekend of barbecues, animated movies and local carnivals to satisfy your inner geek.
Geekend, movie trailers
Did this 1993 film predict Google Glasses and iPads?

Posted Aug 13, 2012 - 03:05 pm

The folks at the AT&T Archives have dug up another "envisioning the future" video - this time from 1993, the same year that their "You Will" ad campaigns started (and right about the time the Internet started to take off).
1990s, archive video

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