Two of England’s biggest literary and film series have breached into the real world with functioning businesses straight from their respective magical worlds. After the break, learn about the Harry Potter Shop at Platform 9 3/4 and The Green Dragon Inn from The Lord of the Rings.
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Back in the summer of 2010, we told you about an amazing feat of human engineering and imagination. Brit Trekkie Tony Alleyne had spent years redesigning his apartment to look like the interior of the starship Voyager from the Star Trek television series of the same name. Now it could be dismantled thanks to divorce.
Read MoreClark Gregg is probably best known by readers of the site as Agent Coulson in the new Marvel film universe that includes Iron Man and the upcoming The Avengers. Last week, Gregg got to visit the Raytheon Sarcos research lab in Salt Lake City, Utah for the debut of the XOS 2, a wearable robotics…
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In Real Life (IRL) is a new feature in which we highlight real world things that are directly inspired by (or strikingly resemble things from) the movies. You may remember when we told you about the DIY auto-lacing shoes that were inspired by Back To The Future II (aka “power laces”). Now it looks like…
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