Invisibility Cloaks: 'Straight Out of Harry Potter'

Visitors to NextFest, a San Francisco expo organized by the technology magazine, Wired, got to see many new things, including a really cool invisibility cloak.
Thanks to the many TLC readers who sent this in, including Peter, Francesca, and Reene.

Exclusive: Sneak Peek at New HarryPotter.com

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to be shown a sneak preview of the redesign of HarryPotter.com that's debuting in about a month - it's darker and cooler and dispenses with most of the notion that these are kids' movies deserving a kids' site. Here's what you can expect:

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In the Market for a Pensieve?

From NYTimes.com:
In the past year, a handful of separate research projects have surfaced, all sharing the same goal: offloading our memories to machines. Sunil Vemuri, a graduate student at the M.I.T. Media Lab, has spent the last two years wedded to a voice-activated microphone that makes a digital recording of everyContinued...

HP Special Effects House Uses Linux

According to an article due out in Forbes Magazine's November issue titled "Holding Up Hollywood; Special-effects makers love the 'free' Linux operating system", special effects for the Harry Potter movies are created using the Open Source OS:

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