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Daily Tech: $30,000 Gets You the Hoverboard From Back to the Future

GeekSugar — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:00:03 -0700

The original Mattel Hoverboard, used by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future is now on sale on eBaywith bidding starting at $30,000. - Geekologie
Rumors are swirling that Apple is beta testing iPhone's 2.1 firmware, which is said to include more GPS functionality. - Gizmodo
Blockbuster is finally getting its very own movie download service that will go live in the next month. - The Boy Genius Report
Call 267) SLY-DIAL from either a cell phone or a landline if you want to connect directly to someone's voice mail. Great for breakups, avoiding awkward conversations, and canceling dates! - MSNBC Tech
Now that the iPhone 3G is pretty much sold out across the country, here are some tips and tricks if you're hoping to get your hands on one. - DVICE
It's giveaway time! Be sure to log in for your chance to win a new iPhone 3G by Apple! - geeksugar

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Daily Tech: Nike Coming Out With Marty McFly Sneakers!

GeekSugar — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:03:58 -0700

The Nike McFly 2015s may not give you airborne flying capabilities, but they will look like MJF's ankle-high sneakers and offer Flywire technology, which is said to be ultra-light materials. Watch for their availability in late July. - Wired
Sony Ericsson takes home the greenest electronics company award in Greenpeace's Greener Electronics Guide. - Gizmodo
Snackr is a PC- and Mac-friendly Adobe AIR-based RSS reader that will pull stories from your feed list and display them on your desktop. - CrunchGear
Over 100 students at Fort Sumner High School in Libery, MO, received Zune music players to watch educational videos and listen to podcasts recommended by teachers. - Yahoo! News
I feel for you Canada, why oh why isn't Rogers offering an unlimited data plan for the iPhone 3G like AT&T?! Unlimited plans should be a universal right! - Crave

Vintage Geek: Back to the Future II

GeekSugar — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:03:16 -0800

Some of my favorite movies growing up were the Back to the Future movies (I loved that Michael J.), particularly the second one, because of all the crazy technology I thought we could expect in the 21st century. All the kids had hover boards, the re-hydrater could take a tiny piece of food and zap it into a full gourmet meal, there were TV screens that doubled as window shades - I could not wait for it to be 2015 so I could have all those amazing gadgets (Sidenote: If they had flying cars, then why did everyone still look old as dirt?). I swear, every year after that movie was out, some other kid was telling me that this was the year hover boards were really coming out. Well, it's 2008 and we still don't have hover boards, my microwave still makes my burrito hot on the ends and icy cold in the middle, and I have never seen a video waiter. And we know how the film series' benchmark technological innovation - the time-traveling De Lorean - has panned out. Watch my slideshow to see how Back to the Future II's imaginary gadgets have stacked up, nineteen years later!

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Buzz Brainteaser

BuzzSugar — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:45:00 -0700

Welcome to Buzz Brainteaser, the trivia feature on BuzzSugar! Every weekday I'll test your knowledge about TV shows, music and movies. If you enter in the correct answer, you win points! What is the name of Doc Brown's dog in Back to the Future?

DeLorean Goes Back Into Production?

GeekSugar — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:00:39 -0700

If you've watched the Back To The Future series as many times as I have, your obsession has probably led you to a google search where you learned the funky set of wheels made popular in the films stopped production nearly 25 years ago. Lucky for car loving geeks out there, we may not have to go travel through time to see new DeLorean cars.

The BBC has reported that the demand for the DeLorean is so high that it may go back into production. It's a funny story really, because the DeLorean DMC-12 car was first released in 1981, but less than 9,000 cars were made because it was largely considered a junker. Today the car's failure has been forgotten, and its stainless steel skin and wing doors have a serious cult following. The vice president of the Delorean Motor Company is quoted as saying:

"You can't have any conversation about the car without talking about the impact of the whole series of Back To The Future movies. There are guys who were in their teens when they first saw the movie, who are now in their late 30s or early 40s, who are at that point in life when they can get the car they wanted when they were a kid."

Sure, the DeLorean may not have the sleek exterior and function as Tom Cruise's Minority Report Car, but when modified, it does travel through time, right?

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The Results Are In: Recast Back to the Future

BuzzSugar — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:14:09 -0700

Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

This week's recast challenge was a fond favorite for many of you, so I was delighted to see how thoughtful the recast lists were! Some of my favorite ideas include casting Frankie Muniz or Michael Cera as Marty McFly, as both actors have that youthful earnestness.

I also enjoyed many of the suggestions submitted for the character of Doc Brown, such as Steve Buscemi, and emei47's idea of Robert Downey Jr. Finally, selecting who should play the villainous Biff Tannen seemed to be a fun challenge for some of you, and I especially liked BunGirl's pick of Owen Wilson. BunGirl also posted her own cast photo, which I thought was awesome.
However, my favorite recast list this week comes from CocoChic! She wondered if we were casting these characters as teenagers or as adults. Because the actors in the original cast were in their 20s, I went with Coco's younger cast submission. To see who CocoChic picked along some new cast pictures, read more

CocoChic's cast:
Marty McFly - Shia LaBeouf
Doc - Johnny Depp
Lorraine McFly - Rachel McAdams
George McFly - Adam Brody
Biff Tannen - Chris Carmack

The new George, Lorraine and Marty:

The new Biff:

And the new Doc Brown:

Recast Back to the Future and Win a Prize!

BuzzSugar — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:32:02 -0700

Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

This 1985 sci-fi comedy should be tons of fun to recast, since the characters are so quirky, and the movie is such a favorite for many children of the '80s (well, and '70s, and '90s...). If you could recast Back to the Future today with new actors, who would you pick?

I have a sneaking suspicion that many of you will be itching to cast Shia LaBeouf in the part of Marty McFly, which might well be fitting, though I wonder who else could do well with the part. And who could play the zany Doc Brown? Or Marty's parents, Lorraine and George? And then, of course, there's Biff the bully.

Leave your entry in the comment section below, and I'll pick one winner to feature Tuesday, July 31, complete with a "new" cast photo. To see a list of characters to recast and a photo of the BuzzSugar t-shirt, read more

Characters to recast:
Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox)
Dr. Emmett ("Doc") Brown (Christopher Lloyd)
Lorraine Baines McFly (Lea Thompson)
George McFly (Crispin Glover)
Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson)

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Momofuku's David Chang Talks Sabbaticals and San Francisco

YumSugar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:48 -0800

We've always been huge fans of New York chef and restaurateur David Chang: He was Sugar's pick for Best Restaurant Chef of 2008. By fusing innovative flavor combinations and haute kitchen techniques with casual dining, the Momofuku overlord revolutionized the restaurant scene in America.

What's most refreshing about Chang, however, are his irreverent demeanor and unapologetic opinions. Even though I'd interviewed him before, when I heard Chang and his co-author, New York Times writer Peter Meehan, were in town promoting their new bible, the Momofuku Cookbook, I couldn't resist chatting with them. His two cents on culinary trends, TV, and Top Chef Masters, after the jump.

Is It a Time Travel Flick or Nail Polish Shade?

BellaSugar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:00:51 -0800

Potential nerd alert: recently, I have become rather captivated with time travel movies. What's not to love? The main characters make some kind of fantastical journey through time, typically to make things right. I think it was Back to the Future that started my fixation with this film genre, with perhaps a bit of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure thrown into the mix.

Just as these types of movies have some pretty whimsical names, so do nail polish shades, like Nicole by OPI's chuckle-worthy Black to the Future ($7). So let's go back in time to see if you can distinguish between the two: is it a time travel flick or nail polish shade?

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FlashForward Breakdown, "The Gift"

BuzzSugar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:30:48 -0800

On this week's episode of FlashForward, we get some of those big payoffs that Sonya Walger promised. While the main characters' most important relationships grow more tense, the FBI agents learn more about the blue-hand situation, and the end of the episode has two very big twists.

There's plenty of excitement to discuss, so to get into it, just read more.

Call me Al: We don't learn much about Al in the first handful of episodes of the season, but boy do we get an eyeful and an earful this week. Turns out Al's flash-forward is a lot more jarring than just a dead bird - it's followed up with a phone call revealing that a still-mysterious chain of events ends in Al "accidentally" killing a mother of two. Throughout the episode Al seems to have a laid-back, collected demeanor (even when he opts in for a game of Russian roulette), but inside he's a mess. In the end, Al is so overcome with grief about having a death on his hands, that he decides to "change the game" and commits suicide. I have to admit, as heartbreaking as that scene is, I was kind of glad Al went through with it - just to prove that the flash-forwards aren't necessarily the future. Everything is changed now, the paths can be adjusted, and both Mark and Demetri realize this as they head home to their significant others. Now that they believe the visions can be adjusted, I can't wait to see what else they try to do to throw their visions off course.

My blue heaven: Following up on Demetri and Al's scavenger hunt to find the "blue hands," the fun continues this week as the FBI agents discover that the blue hands are actually a "death club," with meetings set up all over the country for people like Demetri who didn't see a flash-forward ("living ghosts"). It kind of reminded me of Fight Club, though Mark defines it as a "book club with bullets." The guys are hilarious in their street clothes headed to the party, though what they find inside is pretty horrific. After a quick game of Russian roulette, the guys enter what can only be defined as a torture den - people who believe they are going to die doing all kinds of creepy things to each other. I have to say, if I was one of those "living ghosts" I think I'd either be trying to do all the fun things I never got to do before - or I'd just want to get it over with. Why anyone would want to be tortured when he or she is already tormented by the idea of their inevitable death is beyond me.

Blast from the past: Aaron gets a visit from Mike, a friend and solider who served at the same time as Aaron's daughter Tracy. Mike passes on a Swiss Army knife to Aaron, a good-luck charm that Tracy wanted her dad to have should anything happen to her. Aaron is overjoyed since the knife also appeared in his vision, though Mike isn't exactly receptive to the notion that Tracy is still alive. He explains to Aaron that he watched Tracy die (though hello! He didn't even check to see if she was breathing), but surprise! Tracy is sitting in Aaron's kitchen at the end of the episode.

Other plot points:

As tensions rise between Demetri and Zoey, Demetri finally admits to Zoey that he didn't have a flash-forward and is going to die. Zoey refuses to accept it, insisting that should could feel Demetri in her vision and that nothing's been decided yet. Demetri seems skeptical about choosing Zoey's side to "hope" for the best, but after Al's suicide, he seems to have warmed up to the idea that he can change his fate.

Like Demetri, Al's death is a wake-up call for Mark. After suffering problems with Olivia (how sad is it when Charlie catches him crying?) he runs home and embraces her sweetly.

Instead of helping out at the church, Nicole lands a gig volunteering at Olivia's hospital. We learn that she speaks Japanese pretty will, and now is helping Bryce try to find the mysterious Japanese woman from his vision. Will this somehow lead to Nicole's scary vision? Is she sticking her nose where it doesn't belong?

What did you think of this week's episode? Do you think other characters will try to "change the game," too?