Tell you what: I’m just gonna leave this here, and you can totally just talk amongst yourselves. Or buy it. I just know there’s a joke that could be made about, like, pizza, and the Delta Quadrant, or something, but I can’t find it. Do me a solid and throw out some Star Trek/pizza puns, will ya?…
Both closeted and outed Star Trek geeks can now enjoy the Star Trek Captain’s Log app for the iPhone 4. The new app from Paramount integrates with Google Maps and Facebook to allow you to add photos, GPS mapping locations of your travels, and to either share your logs with other Captains or keep them private. Access to your own personal Captain’s Log will only cost you $1.99, and the divulging of your personal information to Paramount. I say if I can add a funky Star Trek logo to everywhere I’ve eaten at in the past week, they can know as much about me as they want….
Straight outta the Enterprise’s engineering lab comes the newly-launched Google Goggles for mobile platforms, which can translate text from photographs in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. No word on Klingon, yet. But seriously, this is for real – just snap a photo of the desired text and Goggles will translate it into your language… or another one, if you don’t feel like making any sensible use of the app. Any way you slice it, this is possibly the biggest boon to prolific world travelers in decades, as it renders obsolete the awkward practice of thumbing through a translation…
In an attempt to get everyone interested in the Vulcan life, Paramount Pictures announced that they will be teaming up with Seagate Technology to sell hard drives with a copy of the newest version of “Star Trek” already installed onto the device. Paramount and Seagate are offering the 500 gigabyte hard drive special for one month only and units will sell for $100, whereas an empty drive would normally have a price tag of almost $150. The hard drives include 20 additional well-known titles such as “GI Joe” and “Nacho Libre,” and each require a code to unlock them, at $10 to $15 each. The extra films take…
Ever wondered which of your favorite Star Trek actors are on Twitter and which aren’t? Wonder no more… the ubergeeks at Techi have assembled a comprehensive list. Please note that we have only included the major actors from each series and the last Star Trek movie. We also respectfully do not mention actors that are deceased. Actors listed with fake/unverified accounts have not been officially verified by Twitter to be the “real deal”. Some of them may be real, some of them may not be; we left it up to you to decide. Regretfully, we don’t have them on speed dial. Yet. Star Trek: The Original Series…
