Category: blade runner

The synth tones of ‘Blade Runner’ now fit on your desk

[ad_1] The MK2 has all the features of the MK1 — the smaller size doesn’t mean Black Corporation skimped on the specs. In fact, there are new controls for the synth’s sustain mode and timing features. It comes with detachable wooden side panels and can also slot into a rack like the MK1. If you […]

Syd Mead, concept artist behind ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Tron,’ dies at 86

[ad_1] Mead’s background in industrial design may have helped him think up advanced technologies that are still believable. Before he created concepts of futuristic worlds, he worked on designs for Ford and illustrated catalogues for companies like United States Steel. He also designed products for Philips and drafted architectural renderings for Intercontinental Hotels and other […]

The 1997 ‘Blade Runner’ PC game is now on GOG

[ad_1] ScummVM is a program that lets users launch certain games on platforms that they weren’t designed for. Fans used this as a way to get Blade Runner working on modern computers, but it wasn’t a simple procedure. They spent about eight years analyzing the game’s code and reassembling it into its current form. Earlier […]

LA museum’s sci-fi car exhibit includes HoloLens tours

[ad_1] Just how you experience the exhibit may be as important as what’s there. Microsoft is playing a big role in the exhibit, and you’ll have the chance to don a HoloLens headset for mixed reality tours of the DeLorean and Warthog. It’s a shameless plug for Microsoft’s technology, of course, but it promises a […]