Blog Posts by Tori Floyd

Star Wars and LEGO fans got a big surprise in New York City on Thursday when the Danish toy company unveiled a massive X-Wing made of LEGO bricks to promote their new animated television special, The Yoda Chronicles.

The massive sculpture is actually a 1:1 scale model of the X-Wing fighter, the craft that Luke Skywalker flew in the original Star Wars films. Gizmodo reports that it measures an amazing 43 feet long, stands 11 feet high and has a 44-foot wingspan.

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If that isn’t enough to impress you, it’s the largest LEGO structure ever assembled, and uses 5,335,200 pieces. Just in case you need a comparison, the original $60 LEGO set this is based on uses 560 pieces. The 1:1 model also weighs 45,000 pounds, and requires an internal metal structure to keep it from falling apart under its own weight.

The official Times Square Twitter account grabbed some up-close pics of the X-Wing in its new home:

The X Wing makes a

As the world continues to work towards that dream of smell-o-vision, a Brazilian advertising agency and international pizza chain Domino’s think they’ve come up with a way to make you crave a slice of pie when sitting down to a movie.

Ad agency Artplan Sao Paulo is distributing “enhanced DVDs” to 10 movie rental stores in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Ad Age reports. If you pick up a copy of Argo, The Dark Knight or Skyfall from one of those locations, you may find the label on the DVD has a special thermal ink that has a scented varnish.

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As the DVD plays in your DVD player, it heats up the disc, activating an image of a pizza on the disc along with the scented varnish. By the time your movie is done, your living room will smell like pizza, and you’ll be greeted with this message on the disc: “Did you enjoy the movie? The next one will be even better with a hot and delicious Domino’s Pizza.”

Everyone knows by now to be careful what you tweet: parents could read it, employers could read it, and in the case of a rash tweet made by a British woman, the police are reading it, too.

21-year-old Emma Way has ended up in hot water after tweeting about hitting a cyclist earlier this week.

“Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier – I have right of way he doesn’t even pay road tax! #bloodycyclists” Way tweeted from her now-defunct (or at least private) Twitter account @EmmaWay20 on May 19.

Shortly after sending that tweet, the Norwich Police department contacted Way to tell her that they had been made aware of her actions by other Twitter users, and encouraged her to get in contact with them.

Toby Hockley, the 29-year-old cyclist that Way allegedly hit, had been participating in a 100-mile bike ride called the Boudicca Sportive, and told the BBC that she came speeding down a blind corner on the country road they were sharing, and nearly hit another cyclist before coming in

At an event held at the company's Redmond, Washington campus, Microsoft unveiled the new Xbox One, their next generation video game console — although "game console" may be a bit of a misnomer.

The presentation focused largely on interacting with live TV and sporting events through the Xbox, playing up the Xbox One's role as a central entertainment system for the home. Features such as motion and voice controls for television watching and interacting with the user's media library were major focal points of the presentation.

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Big partnerships were also unveiled at the event, including one with the NFL that will allow viewers to watch the game and see their fantasy teams update in real-time on a sidebar. Microsoft will also be taking one of its biggest franchises, Halo, and turning it into a live-action interactive television experience.

Unlike the PlayStation 4 reveal back in February, we did get to see what the new console will look

Running out of juice for your mobile device has to be one of the biggest problems that smartphone and tablet users face during their day. Now, a California teen has come up with a way to save you from a dead phone in just 20 seconds flat.

Eesha Khare, an 18-year-old high school student has put her impressive chemistry knowledge to work by inventing an energy storage device that can charge a cell phone in 20 to 30 seconds, NBC News reports.

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Khare says that her cellphone battery always dies, which led her to work on the supercapacitor. The device, which lets you store lots of energy in a tiny space and hold it for a long time, has about ten times the number of charge cycles than a conventional rechargeable battery.

Khare’s invention was part of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona last week, where she took home the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award and $50,000. Along with Khare, Henry

Microsoft is set to reveal their next-generation Xbox today, which is great, because we won't have to refer to it as "Codename Durango" any longer. Will we get an actual look at the console, unlike the PlayStation 4 reveal earlier this year? Join us at 1 p.m. ET to follow live coverage of the event and discuss what you think is in store for the future of Xbox.

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An iPod Touch is shown with the App store on its screen in Toronto, January 13, 2011.And we have a winner! After 13 days of watching the counter tick up, Apple has now sold its 50 billionth app in the App Store.

The winner is a man from Mentor, Ohio by the name of Brandon Ashmore, who downloaded the game Say The Same Thing. For his free download, he’ll receive a $10,000 App Store Gift Card.

In the press release announcing Ashmore’s win, Apple included some other interesting facts about the App Store: it now contains more than 850,000 iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch apps, and is available in 155 countries. Web Pro News also reports the tidbit that every second, 800 apps are downloaded from Apple’s App Store.

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Arguably the most interesting part of Apple’s milestone contest is finding out what exactly that lucky winner downloaded. When Apple held a similar promotion for their 10 billionth app, a British woman won when her daughter downloaded the free game Paper Glider, CBC reports.

Say The Same Thing

Google Glass might not have had as much face time at this year’s Google I/O keynote presentation, but it’s still top of people’s minds as the tech giant rolls out the device to the ‘Explorer’ group who have been chosen to start using the product. And as we see more and more people start sporting the heads-up display, it’s leading some to speculate how life will change once many more people start using Google Glass.

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Playground Labs, a digital creative agency, put together this short film speculating on the question, “what if we had Glass?” and exploring a world where Google Glass is integrated into pretty much every aspect of our lives:

In their accompanying blog post, Playground explains that while all of the things they feature are technically possible, the current battery life and API platform limit what can actually be made to run on Glass. But as both the platform and available battery technology will