With filming for “Sherlock” season 4 well under way, it was inevitable the cast and crew might share a few behind-the-scenes moments taking place at the detective’s home base of 221B Baker Street in London. As per usual, the season will feature three episodes of Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his partner in crime sleuthing, …
Read More »TimeLine Layout
April, 2016
-
20 April
Weird contraption turns your hoverboard into a hover
Two-wheeled hoverboards may simultaneously be some of the most maligned and most coveted gadgets on the market. The small rolling platforms have been implicated in a series of battery fires. Amazon stopped selling them. And yet you still see people zipping around on them. Now there’s a bizarre accessory that lets you sit and roll. The Hoverboard Cart comes from …
Read More » -
20 April
Deadpool brings the heat for DVD and Blu
“Deadpool” was a record breaker at the box office, but 20th Century Fox isn’t resting on its laurels for the Merc with a Mouth’s foray into DVD and Blu-ray. The most interesting of the extras is a five-part, 80-minute documentary on the making of the film. There’ll also be a gag reel, art galleries and something called “Deadpool’s Fun Sack.” …
Read More » -
20 April
Snapchat’s emoji pins are crazy fun. Here’s how to use them
Now playing: Watch this: Four tips to make you a Snapchat power user 1:35 Snapchat sensed you might be getting bored with swapping faces, so you can now stick emojis on moving objects in your Snapchat videos instead. You’ve always been able to add emojis to your photo or video snaps, but now those emojis can move along with whatever …
Read More » -
20 April
Bourne is back: Matt Damon gets his action hero on in new ‘Jason Bourne’ trailer
Jason Bourne is back and bigger than ever. Literally. Dude is jacked. Universal Pictures on Wednesday released a new trailer for “Jason Bourne,” the fifth film in the Bourne franchise. It features riots, explosions and Matt Damon boxing people in the desert. The film, loosely based on Robert Ludlam’s spy novels and also starring Tommy Lee Jones and Julia Stiles, …
Read More » -
20 April
Get an unlocked BlackBerry Priv for $434.99
CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Well, I’m just batting 1.000 this week! First that Dell printer sold out lickety-split, and then yesterday’s bonus deal suffered from code-doesn’t-work-itis. (For …
Read More » -
20 April
Westeros and Zelda collide in ‘Game of Hyrule’ mashup video
“Game of Thrones” and The Legend of Zelda are two beloved fantasy franchises, but they seem like polar opposites. One exists in a universe caked in blood and sex scenes. The other lives in a world where hitting an opponent with a sword doesn’t even cause dismemberment. Related links The good, the bad and The Legend of Zelda Algorithm predicts …
Read More » -
20 April
Pot
Want to give your Passover seder a higher purpose? Perhaps adding a sprig of cannabis to your seder plate and sprinkling in some reefer references will do the trick. That’s what Roy and Claire Kaufmann suggest. The husband and wife from Portland, Oregon, have created a cannabis-themed Passover haggadah prayerbook in hopes of sparking discussion about US drug policy (yes, …
Read More » -
20 April
Get to da Falcon! ‘Schwarzenegger’ does commentary for ‘Force Awakens’
The Blu-ray release for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a ton of extra features that offer great insights into the making of director J.J. Abrams’ epic sci-fi film. However, it doesn’t have any audio commentaries from the cast members, the writers or even Abrams. Hopefully, that will change in the future since Disney is bound to release new “special …
Read More » -
20 April
Pictar could make your iPhone a better camera than it already is
It’s not a mystery that most people use their smartphones as their primary camera, if not only camera. So it makes sense that you’d want the experience of using your phone’s camera to be a bit more, well, camera-like. There have been attempts including cases and slide-on grips and LG recently stepped up with an add-on grip for the G5 …
Read More »