CES is back again, baby, in full swing this week in Las Vegas. We here at Penny Candi central love the show's glitz and shine, particularly the wonderfully weird products making their public debut at the show. You never know which high-tech concept will resonate with people (Microsoft Surface, Oculus Rift) or which stunning product that looks like a slam dunk will wind up bouncing off the rim (Google Glasses).
Only time will tell for this year's batch of goodies. Here's a list below of some of the more noteworthy offerings. Can't wait to find out which shots will brick and which ones will ...
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Author: pcadmin
Manga Monday
There's a lot you would expect this week: RWBY; Battle Angel Alita ; Black Butler (issue 149! At what point do we just stop counting issues and just go by the year?)
But there are also some surprises. For example, I didn't expect to see Wolverine, but there he was in the search, holding an Infinity Stone of all things, so gotta include that. Along the same lines, Korra, daughter of Ang, the Last Airbender, makes an appearance. Thought that storyline was over, but what do you know? Here it is in print! High School DxD, Yona of the Dawn, and élDLIVE round out the list. The moral of the stor...
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What’s Public Domain Day?
January 1st marks the start of a fresh year and with the New Year comes Public Domain Day. This is the day when the legal copyright for certain creative works expires, opening those works up for public use. Once a work enters the public domain it can legally be shared, performed, reused, repurposed or sampled without permission or cost. This year's Public Domain Day targets works from 1927.
Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has a great FAQ which explains what the public domain is, how materials pass into it, how those materials can be used, and the general timelin...
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III – Jump Tech Preview
Chapter #3
Backwards
“Prepare to be dazzled!”
Larry Knight tapped the computer lab’s smart board and couldn’t help but smile at the collective “Oohs” and “Aahs” that rippled through the class as a large, shimmering cube materialized above their heads. He tapped the board again, and the same shimmering light erupted from its stylus and encircled his hand. Now for the true pyrotechnics. He stepped onto the sensor array directly beneath the ceiling projector. Immediately, the glow from the stylus spread up his arm, to his head, then all around his body until he was engulfed in bright, y...
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II – Jump Tech Preview
Chapter #2
Fresh Start
Christian squeezed his eyes shut, fully expecting the Toyota Tundra to smash him to the pavement, smear his body into paste, and crush his beaker of plasma balls into a coruscant fireball. None of that happened. He wasn’t exactly sure what had happened. Only that the mid-morning chill and smell of wet snow had been replaced by a warm numbness and the faint scent of curried lime. And though he had sprung forward, he still hadn’t landed. His body had stopped falling but hadn’t yet touched the ground. Maybe it would help if I opened my eyes.
He did, but whether th...
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I – Jump Tech Preview
Chapter #1
Hot Seat
Christian Meadows was ready to be fired. Or expelled. Maybe even shot by the campus cops if it came to that. Anything to get out of the university president’s outer office, off the damned uncomfortable visitor’s couch, and as far away as possible from the president’s high-strung executive assistant Doreen. She was having a bad day, to put it mildly—much worse than Christian’s, which was saying something.
Christian had been called to the president’s office to answer for the small matter of his PhD advisor’s treason, but Doreen had the much harder job of thwarting t...
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Jump Point: Book 1
Big Blue is calling YOU!
Mitch Campbell built a joke of a machine—just a battery crammed with wires and spare parts. It shouldn’t work. It couldn’t work. Then he flipped the switch and changed the world. The Canopy emerged, full of portals; each point of light offering fortune and adventure. But his path into the blue unleashed a danger. Before he and his friends are anointed the new Travel Barons, a dictator, hell-bent on glory and retribution, steals their tech and threatens to destroy their new world in an instant. Jumping from Colorado to Korea, can Mitch and his friends ...
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Jump Tech: Book 2
Welcome to Humanity 2.0.
In the second Jump Light Chronicle, Mitch Campbell and crew battle for control of the Jump Point technology. An old enemy tweaks the plasma grid framework, changing the fundamental nature of light holes and threatening the precarious peace. As their foe grows in power and prestige, the boys must find a way to reconnect him to humanity before the technology overtakes them all—and learns to fight back for itself.
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Jump Load: Book 3
Prepare for the Final Leap!
At last, Mitch Campbell and friends are on the path to Success. The Jump Point technology is secure and theirs. But with that security comes questions about their mentor and alarming revelations about his and Mitch’s past. In a whirlwind adventure that takes the Jump Point crew from the mountains of Colorado, to the steppes of Asia, out past the Kuiper belt and the edge of known space, Mitch must strive for more than security—before the future for his friends and mentor is lost.
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Author's Note:
I've just completed the initial outlining ...
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