Check Out This Real Life Jarvis From Iron Man Dan Koelsch, April 7, 2010April 7, 2010 The Boston Globe has a story about a 27 year old tech support worker named Chad Barraford who created a “digital life assistant”. What’s interesting about the story is that the assistant is a computer program that communicates with Chad and is integrated with his home, similar to the JARVIS (Just a Rather Very Intelligent System) program in Iron Man. In fact, that’s where Chad got the idea for what he calls “Project Jarvis”. Check out a video of Jarvis in action after the jump. The program can’t do everything Jarvis does in Iron Man, but it’s not too far off. Here’s how Chad describes the system on his Project Jarvis blog:Project Jarvis is a digital life assistant (DLA). He uses mainly human communications means such as Twitter, instant message, and voice to create a two way connection between me and my apartment, controlling lights and appliances, notify me of breaking news, Facebook notifications, personal finances, package tracking, netflix, bittorrenting, assist in cooking, check stock quotes, weather, and more. Not bad for a software running on a Mac Mini. You can read more about Project Jarvis at Boston.com or at Chad’s Project Jarvis blog, where he also has more videos of Jarvis at work. Viral Marketing Iron ManIron Man 2Jarvis
Tribeca Film Fest Announces New Transmedia Award August 7, 2012The Tribeca Film Festival announced today that they would be creating a new award for transmedia projects to “celebrate new trends in digital media and recognize these transmedia creators who employ an innovative, interactive, web-based or multi-platform approach to story creation.” More after the break. Read More
Watch NBC’s Community Web Series April 23, 2010As we promised, NBC’s Community debuted their first ever webisodes yesterday on their homepage. In “The Spanish Video Assignment”, Abed and Starburns present their video assignment to the Spanish class. Though highly entertaining, the video didn’t follow the guidelines, so Professor Chang allows them to do it over again, as… Read More
“Veronica Mars” Film Funded By Kickstarter Opens In Theaters Today March 14, 2014The first fully funded major motion picture project funded by Kickstarter opens in theaters today. The Veronica Mars movie has the internet to thank for that, for without they generous funds, they would not be here. It’s success on Kickstarter instantly went viral. The fact that they were able to… Read More