Check Out This Robotic Cheetah Sprint

Careful readers will notice that the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has a thing for robotic animals. While those were impressive in their own right, none of them were particularly quick off the mark — until now. Working with Boston Dynamics, the maker of BigDog, DARPA has produced a robot called Cheetah that can run at speeds up to 18 miles per hour, completely shattering the 1989 legged robot speed record of  13.1 miles per hour.  

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Smart Self Healing Gel

The ability to heal--to repair oneself repeatedly and thus sustain damage repeatedly--is one of biology’s greatest tricks, and one that humans have been trying to replicate in synthetic materials for years. Now, bioengineers at University of California, San Diego, have done so via a hydrogel that could be something of a game-changer in disciplines like medicine and materials science. 

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Fox Cancels Terra Nova

Sorry TV Nerds, no more evil dude from Avatar.  After just a single season, Fox's "Terra Nova" has been cancelled. 

The show, from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, René Echevarria and Brannon Braga, followed an ordinary family, the Shannons, on a journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as part of an experiment to save mankind. It starred Stephen Lang, Jason O'Mara, Shelley Conn, Landon Liboiron, Naomi Scott and Alana Mansour. 

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Bill & Ted 3 Script Ready

Keanu Reeves has been hinting for years now that he might someday show up in a third Bill & Ted movie opposite Alex Winter as Bill S. Preson, Esquire… but no one really took it seriously. Keanu was too famous, seemed like he was too far past that character, and the idea of revisiting them at all, no matter how beloved they are, felt ridiculous. But Keanu hasn’t been in anything significant since Day the Earth Stood Still flopped in 2008 and really, you have to look all the way back to the second Matrix movie in 2003 to find an all around successful film with his name toplining it. What do you do when your career is kind of dead but you’re still really famous? Dial one number higher and go back to the well. 

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Check It Out Assassin's Creed 3 Trailer

It's finally here. Your first look at Assassin's Creed III. The below trailer puts on display the game's setting of the American Revolutionary War, which was officially confirmed by Ubisoft last week. The hero of this third numerical installment in the AC franchise is named Connor, a half Native American, half English fellow who loves to wield a badass tomahawk. The game will take place across wooded areas (tree jumping!), battlefields and in Boston and New York during the years of 1753 and 1783. And hey, is that George Washington we see in the trailer? We think so!  

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Play The Old Republic Free

The official site of Star Wars: The Old Republichas announced a free "Friends Trial" that kicks off today (March 6) in which active subscribers are allowed to invite up to three friends to partake in the GFFA MMO experience. From the SWTOR.com announcement... 

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Star Trek: The Experience Back From The Dead

There are rumors going around the internet right now that the closed Star Trek: The Experience which was in Las Vegas from 1998-2008, is re-opening in London.  My wife and I for our honeymoon went to Vegas, purely for Star Trek: The Experience, after our Star Wars Wedding reception....hehehe. 

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New Super Nintendo Game Being Released!?!?

Wow who would ever though we would be seeing a NEW Super Nintendo game released in our day?  Originally planned for release in 1994, the SNES game Nightmare Busters soon found itself with massive development problems. Until now that is... 

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Real Life Shut Up Gun Created

Want to be the kind of person who causes entire rooms to fall silent when you enter? Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba and Ochanomizu University in Japan have created a speech jamming gun that takes the words right out of speakers’ mouths using a clever trick of psychology. 

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Another New Mass Effect 3 Trailer

Who knew a video game could have so many trailers...hehe. Bioware has released their official "launch" trailer, and Origin has a 4 day only special on pre-ordering Mass Effect 3 and get a free copy of Battlefield 3.
Developers from BioWare had always planned the series as a trilogy, so everything from the first two games has been leading up to this climax. 

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First Look: The Hunger Games Clip

The Hunger Games is about to rock Movie Nerd socks off!  With the film growing closer to its March 23rd release date, the first official clip has been released of Suzanne Collins' bestselling book adaption.  I have to admit the scene is cool, and has gotten me more excited for this movie than anything else released. 

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Amazing Spider-Man #681 Preview

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #681 
Dan Slott With Chris Yost (W) • Giuseppe Camuncoli (A/C) 
• Spider-Man And The Human Torch Are Trapped On A Space Station Full Of Octo-Zombies Plummeting Toward The Earth! 
• This Best Buds Super Team-Up Is Running Out Of Air And Running Out Of Time! 
• The Final Stage Of Doc Ock’s Master Plan Begins Here! 
32 Pgs./Rated T …$3.99   

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Uncanny X-Men #8 Preview

UNCANNY X-MEN #8 
Kieron Gillen (W) • Greg Land (A/C) 
• The Conclusion Of Tabula Rasa! 
• Namor Does The Unthinkable To Save The Day. 
32 Pgs./Rated T+ …$3.99  

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New Men In Black 3 Posters

Now this is more like it...  Universal has released two new and "Real" I might add posters which should please Movie Nerds.  The teaser poster was this weird mind enduing vomit, which I won't post here for your sake.  You can't say IamASuperNerd doesn't love ya. 

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Spock Coming To Big Bang Theory

Are you a TV Nerd?  Are you a Star Trek Nerd?  Well get ready Nimoy fans, he’s about to make a guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory, but forget about your camera’s and just bring your tape recorders. Nimoy is only making a guest VOICE appearance in a dream sequence. 

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New "The Hobbit" Video Blog

Peter Jackson and crew take us Movie Nerds behind the scene with a brand new video blog.  Some quick highlights, world's longest ramp, 127 day half way point = we're old and fat, and some dude who looks like Doctor Who...hehe. But for those who have read teh book,a sneak at the infamous barrel scene! 

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