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it's Tuesday March thirteenth you're experiencing the crave podcast and I'm Donald Bell eric franklin Bonnie Shah and I think you're forgetting someone forgetting one person yeah oh no oh Admiral Ackbar everyone run angel happening behind me I'm panicking all the time look at these little his little arms a little disembodied are missing Eric shot 20 is it yeah when you cut Eric trying to fondle the lava lamp kind of trying to milk this for all this right now is doing welcome to the crave podcast everyone we have another exciting lineup of vaguely nerdy geeky craveable news for you yeah it's not big oh absolutely a hundred percent grade a nerd quality news that's right yeah it is so if you don't like it think it's bland I think there's no point to the show yeah well you have a point but be like one of the other hundreds of millions of people who prefer not to watch this show but poor those corfu we have another great one for you yes and it starts with the marvell AR app for comic books whoa we have an exclusive for this app that's coming out April second a 99-cent app that you can use to get extras out of your comic books you pointed at a specific panel a piece of artwork and then you get this like 3d augmented reality animation that comes out or you get these extras where the animator will come up and talk to you about how amazing it is to be a marvel comic animator in order illustrator and then and then there's some other ones where it'll go through the actual art process and show you the original black and white art and then the coloring process and all that yeah pretty cool you know a window into the behind-the-scenes awesomeness of your comic book yeah another dimension it's a way to you know keep comic books or paper comic books relevant right you know giving you a little extra thing to do but you know Seth does make a good point in the video of you watching video it is kind of awkward it would be kind of awkward to what to read a comic with the ipad hovering over a waiting for that little icon the pop-up says you didn't ideas only certain panels have something yes reading that whole thing the idea is that yes I can second if you're watching a blu-ray and they have that little thing where you're watching blu-ray you get that little I comment pop up like hey there's some extras to the scene you can watch right now but not every scene has that right but still very cool especially the Iron Man Thing he showed it to me um um last week the marble came by with a demo of it and you can actually in 3d but you know they aren't that Iron Man model that came out in 3d go around it and see a few different angles and stuff like that it's pretty cool it's cool yeah you can kind of not really interact with it but whoever's standing you got to have a second a vigil there too yeah get in the scene yeah you kind of fight yeah I tried to find my lost but I got at least I got a few hits in yeah good how do you yeah so there's that but now here's the thing it it does seem like kind of like a weird meeting of like the old medium and the new medium that could just be simplified by having your iPad's comic reading app be able to do that stuff that'd be great right that'd be great but like I said they're trying to keep non digital comic comic relevant there I think it I don't know I don't know exactly I don't know why they don't just go all digital at this point maybe other than the fact that comic book shops would close down right now um and there's something to be said about comic book shops I love comic book shops I i still love going to comic book shop not just a comic sister just a whole like nerd feeling and there's like toys and comics and games that you know you wouldn't get at home on your iPad right now we are talking about comic experience come experience interest yes great commotion yeah it goes there every Thursday just to chat with oh yeah and I said yeah yeah exactly so go there in the mid nineties and and they would have artists there and they would have writers there will come there and sign autographs and just hang out so you don't really not gonna give head with a at home digital yeah yeah so I understand that especially even just coming from a dead medium like physical formats for meat for music yeah it makes me I love record stores i love you know moog story having worked in them and be part of them of course i totally understand that but it would be like holding your iphone / CD to get the audio extras on the CD when you could just download all that crap varieties and listened to it I don't know right it seems like a desperate gesture to kind of i mean i cool yet oddly desperate gesture they're gonna get Mickey Lake it seems it seems gimmicky no it does he really does it yeah I I don't think it's it's I think it's one of the things I hate well let's just try it now you know C&C you help you respond to it and they I think things like this it's good to get out and have people give their feedback on it because the next version of this could be something cooler you know someone could someone could say you know I really like this but you guys tried this is like oh we didn't think of that let's try that next time and it might be something even more worthwhile yeah yeah you know it's also always better in real life was that that he walks yeah I mean really can you compare the experience of like a digital Ewok on the screen that you're just trying to reach out yeah our 21 you can actually take or craft maybe even with your own hands what if they try to hear you though like they've been known to do that they carry weapons they carry crude but effective weapons I've seen this I've seen that there's some documentary footage documenting return of jedi have you seen this guy my father-in-law actually just picked up recently like a DVD that has both like the Battle of Endor and like that other weird spin off one there's like two spin-off Ewok I remember the forever yeah well they came on TV yeah yeah yeahs to never collected I'm like one DVD was it was the one with the two kids right there brother and sister ragga older boy a young girl but don't don't don't think it killed at some point my gosh I see number I service remember that in the second movie at the beginning those two characters getting killed off that I happen to my misremembering this they're making this out we should redo what we should make a third one and making a trilogy yeah where it's really like it's it's solid it goes it goes dark you know where really the kids are figment of the Ewoks imagination right yeah they've created them to get to compensate for the loss because after the Battle of Endor like all the humans were we'd love to stay really blah but we gotta get yeah there's some like or just a compensator the psychotic split that occurred when they accidentally speared them when they first landed it killed them and felt really horrible about it and right there imagine selves follow them oh yeah sure yeah you know and then it ends in a wok Fight Club I'm all about it you walk by could be pretty cool is yes these will speak no more yeah great and sorry out there yeah but we can we can actually set a story boarding it we can get some felt and some twigs and we can actually make this like a live yet what are we talking about here okay see the next door DIY weekend project protect your precious flowers with felt Ewoks oh man and provide your own soundtrack apparently everyone knows the worst of this one right really looped it all surely yeah alright so this is dubstep he washe remix so this is a part of the same DIY Star Wars crafting book that Admiral sac bar over here was born from a charge I was born from back ron wottus attract uses the walks actually are pretty good at setting up traps earlier so should you be inspired to a derby pursue the sack bar project or the Ewok project we have a separate contest here Bonnie maybe you can tell me about the posture because I have no idea are looking for craves most dedicated Star Wars fan and we're holding a contest that's nice um we yeah send in your pictures and a little brief description along with your name by tomorrow Wednesday March 14 that new Pacific and the winner is going to receive an autographed copy of the Star Wars craft book my Bonnie Burton herself again the crafting will have no end about hey it's just me fall down the rabbit hole of craft you walk villages Admiral Ackbar's we fall down the exhaust port of crafting it's the less an explosion of glitter and felt that will shake the universe alright then you have to rebuild never I know you can gonna stop I'm gonna sound I think you should keep going and going down that exhaust pipe alright so enter that contest because the winners being picked tomorrow wow you got it you got a craft right now well it doesn't even well keep listening to the podcast yeah it could if you're just a big star Wars fan and maybe have a whole house dedicated star wars are a huge toy clutch that used to be me yeah we we got one entry that's gonna be pretty hard to be already keeps any man yes good I want to see that we will will definitely will hopefully by next week will also watch winner and will have a gallery so all right it was excellent all right more on the digital crafting the more hackery DIY crafting than the fealty Star Wars II glittery gluey crafty we have the piccolo draw bot a seventy dollar assemble yourself robot here with an adorable little video hmm that you can you can program to draw something specific or you can make to be honest a self-aware what am I trying to say autonomous so that it can pull in data from like how much light is around it and then make a little drawing of a tree whose size and you know characteristics are defined by the light input yeah or like it can receive information over the web and somehow the you know you could have it respond and make a little animated not animate a bit little generative art based on your Twitter feed or something I don't know is it seems like a cool little hackable seventy dollar gizmo for people who are in the Arduino hacking kind of thing right I want that to be me you want this I almost if don't yeah if i had money to spare order it now and then figure it out later because it's yums yeah I can feel the desiring you right now I do I would totally have just like some butcher paper on my desk and I while I'm working I would have the little piccolo draw a lot just kind of makes me generative tree art yeah and then no matter how happy my day is on the power a series of mustaches that makes me forget about my problems yeah and that's the idea that you have a little drawing that you can take with you it's like oh how can I be mad at my boss yes for not giving me that promotion mustaches on my outlet oh this is that my side stories I actually have another draw bot that I ordered like two years ago almost that is it uses like to servo motors and you hang it on a wall Tom several yeah I'm not terms / mo but then it makes a like a mandala like drawing like lettuce like a bagel Mandela super cool circle oh wait a turn of the school yeah dauntless um I never assembled it I like I never had a wall to kind of use it on yeah and I I didn't want to like the one mole I do have my house is kind of blank and ready I don't want to get butcher paper out but so I never had put it together uh I still have it but this one seems cool because you just have it like on your desk in it and it has two points of articulation right it can not you can draw you know horizontally yeah sure I can also adjust for pressure like so like mustaches it can kind of raise itself up to make little no I don't see why you don't have this already yeah I know you can keep my other draw but you know company yeah they can be friends baby buddies strontium maybe draw buddy yay even a close Admiral Ackbar has some has agree with that doesn't yeah in that DIY spirit we have the photo gallery of various projects yes of what is this guy's name I'm missing it now David Kramer Kramer yes grammar who has a pretty amazing collection of oddities that he's made including a a theremin that has been stuffed into the taxidermied carcass of a badger yeah it makes yeah why wouldn't you do that I mean really when it because playing a theremin is one of the most annoying activities anyone can undertake it but if it's there's a furry badger very bad kind of forgive it any better imagine here makes it a theremin inside his body my favorite one though and I put the link to the video for this next to it on to the right of it is this a this gnome this quartet of cam driven dancing gnomes it's a pretty simple little device but it's has a little motor and the motor drives a little belt over on the left-hand side there and that just tries these little alternating camshafts that no make us as a numb damn it seems at least sexual i don't know i think it's the rhythm of those rotating things just I kind of want this to be my alarm clock i'll keep you to set this to a timer oh they go faster you yeah they have different settings these gnomes and then you could play like the Ewok village you know the celebration song sure I'd be pretty great I'm glad we got a points right like that would be a great day yeah you should check out the gallery up it's in the will be in the show notes there's about 10 different photos here for the different projects he's done they're all pretty crazy but the badgermin and the he doesn't look at me I'm still lying in my blame is still working alright and then in oh not quite not quite my second favorite segment but let's also get this Hammacher Schlemmer how could I speak as much swimmer the Hammacher Schlemmer okay what is this they have now for us a killer whale submarine Oh hundred thousand dollars you can get your own two-person submersible how I know it reaches like a real killer whale kit Adi this is not this is not exist it's sad those are lockups right no no it's real you can get a pan that can be yours it jumps out of the water like that yes and you should also can enlarge the or click on the smaller photo there that enlarges and then you can see the view that has you can see the two people in yeah absolute is that and the one guys like trying like right cause way out of the other guys probably laughing maniacally that way Thank You area exactly as body in the background thank you you're never laid a trap I've trapped you in here this actually would be the perfect little getaway vehicle for Admiral Ackbar right sacré or either one yeah sure yeah because yeah when he and then he would get in his escape pod and will be shaped like this killer whale submarine screw all you losers amanha here off the party with Zoidberg find your own kernel where I like that I like that I love this thing this thing is yeah too bad I'm not rich maybe someday some yeah that's what this that's the illusion they they want you to believe alright we won't get it alright so for my second favorite segments that I've only really started as of last week choose the form of the destruct er this week I am choosing the DeLorean quadricopter or a quadcopter what do you what do you have against this yeah why is this because this is the it before the analogy this is to stay puft marshmallow man you don't think that this is the thing that's gonna kill you right no you know and it looks really cool it light has the eel lighting on the side make it look like this futuristic DeLorean that's going to go up into the air fly you to the Future II futuris it runs on mr. fusion runs on like you know garbage right but we've seen what these quadricopter 'he's can do we have right yes they're not all this cute little throwback to your childhood memories of of your favorites pretty cute to me know all right now custom the second video there's a second of video underneath it once it gets combined with this technology well that was just the cutest thing I know I think I probably want to get one now well the frozen tundra a little better de Lorean quadcopter feel like a better person because I saw that yeah next segment then huh ok and then oh my god tiny swarms of them and they're all going to like autonomously figure out where they are and where they're buddies are and how they're going to take you over and release little microbots that are going to eat out your eyeballs and then just leave your corpse by the side of the frozen Road like shaking yes we have alive yeah instead of a snuff film wait till they organized now oh man are you afraid yet look where's the ride of the Valkyries those could be DeLoreans don't be fooled there's a retired immoral multiplied and that buzzing sound is the last sound you'll hear all right I think you should do a voiceover to that that video well that the heads aksam yeah that's kind of like a yes the gallon sista just a reading of the first chapter of Cormac McCarthy's the road sure you know yeah exactly and there is a movie Donald well they're playing double oh seven yeah see again they're trying to make us like them love you guys like music that's vaguely funny sounding is that cute adorable communing with jumping and stuff what's sad is after they've killed us all this is what they're gonna yeah yeah we just won we just wanting all your instruments right play music that's all we wanted except all the instruments will be made out of art you know frozen entry are you like the best we've learned that um yes humans actually do delicate guitar strum make the best insurance I i I don't I don't share your fear that it looks I i guess i'm thinking more selfishly about how i can take those in control I give you can use them be argues for my own evil domination of at least San Francisco right yeah well and that would be the form of the destruction then right you're right you be like clear minds think of nothing yeah I'm like whoops I thought of the gist DeLorean from Back to the Future it's not good and what can I do why would I yes mr. fusion everyone loves him all right now for everyone's favorite segment meanwhile doom doom doom doom this is actually atmos Ackbar's favorite segments mm-hmm I love it it's a trap don't do it don't believe I listened to the segment um yes big news this week mm-hmm you guys if I say The Lone Ranger Oh what are the feelings you get when I say that name like Donald when I say The Lone Ranger will what what conjures in your mind uh white cowboy hats and a Scots alright Bonnie the hi ho silver the all right okay now see my question is okay so they released the first shot of they're making a new well they're making a lone ranger movie starring johnny depp and armie hammer the guy from the social network we played the twins um and they released it for a shot and Stevie you can put that up there ah so that's Johnny Depp in the background is tanto the lone Ranger's uh faithful Native American companion and this you know Hannah Ernie hammer as the lone ranger that you know with a mask in the white hat and everything just like you said um that's not quite a Scott those more just like an X yeah that's what I was meant yeah yeah don't yeah exactly um I see that and I'm excited personally but I'm also an old man I don't know that this movie needs to be made like I don't like guys like even as a like Wells grown up in the late 70s or early eighties like Lone Ranger cart in the cartoons but Lone Ranger reruns on TV fifties reruns they're awesome I love watching it I don't know how races they were already buddy I had no idea all I know is that I love I love the the music I forgot the name of that tune but you know what the horns and everything and you know just beginning that very the intro when he's on silver and stuff and with his faithful pregnant comparing intanto and all the stuff I loved it hmm but kids don't care about westerns any more like you they're putting so much money into this movie they're putting like two hundred million dollars into his movie they got gore verbinski that parts of the Caribbean dude to direct it I don't see the point of doing this I feel like is this gonna be like sweat Hollywood your ranking yes yes but a West like each they try cowboys in the aliens last year right right I saw them we recently loved it I thought was great but I don't think that you can effectively market a Western these days especially a 200 million dollar western and get your money back I don't know what are your feelings on is you think kids are over westerns is it doesn't matter if it's a westerner it just matters well i was actually i was reading an admit that i was reading wired recently and they were talking about what's the new the john carter movie yes and they're like example how they like Disney had had the rights to that from like the 70s r yeah like earlier than that sure and they they just either couldn't make it the way they wanted to or people pick it up and not make it you know wasn't but then they and then they were out of the like assumption that kids just wouldn't likely not a budget they would have to put into this to make it work right wouldn't pay off because who goes out and sees just wild sci-fi movies anymore right and then avatar aim and later Oh apparently people love this ass exactly we should why should you know really fast track John Carter to get the Avatar momentum what the thing is it's by that point is too late right because avatar takes from that story Star Wars lift some that story heavily Star Trek everything that story is really written like what 90 years ago something like that you know ACC now you figure it's derivative of all right when kids see that looks like a lame version of avatar to me you know so well the point is being like you can't really ever predict what is suddenly going to be the hotness right sure the same way I would think with pirates of the caribbean they made the worst ones be like tech is gonna go out and see a movie about a Disney ride yeah that way I think you're gonna miss out on some really you think they're taking the chance yeah when why not if someone I I want to see that movie don't get me wrong like i like i said i'm a fan you know man like they read they made some pretty cool Lone Ranger comics recently they were kind of like mature and whatever and it was really good to john kasay did art really good art um but I just I don't know I look at that I'm like I don't know if that's going to capture the imagination of the utes right today also the Western thing has the cowboy western thing has done well in these different areas like red dead redemption for gaming sure or even like trying to the defense of the big hit movie with that just was out recently won again young guns not younger true grit yeah like when I feel a trooper yeah I get it cuz it's from the 20 years ago um that's really hard to watch do it came on TV recently I'm like oh I remember loving this and like oh my god it's really horrible is it really it's like it that 80's Western think of me in the 90s anyways bowels going to say like the TV series like there's the new one that's like the the railroad magnate was just like rules with an iron fist it's like the guy who's from Star Trek next generation playing in anyways and then there's dead was this like that whole deadwood series Deadwood yeah that will put aren't those things that appeal more to older audiences yes right um and this I I guess and if older audiences can take this film and lift it and make their money back great I just feel like I don't know how much kids are gonna be into westerns but it may be you know I don't know how much kids are going to be in the pirates he likes I think hooking Johnny Depp into it's a good thing cuz if you loved him as a pirate you'll love him as Tonto you'll know how his e60 whatever America hearing about pirate with a dead bird on his head right yes um okay cool what happens i don't know i don't know like like you said about John Carter I feel like there's they have to be careful with this move they have to show from the get-go Lone Ranger this is cool kids like I felt like the the marketing for cowboys and aliens really did a disservice not showing the coolness of it but just showing like the Western I feel like I should have it should have been more of a bait and switch type of thing because if you watched a movie it's actually really well written uh there's you know they're great character development and stuff like that character depth are in this ends but it's kind of slow it's kind of a slow movie it's not a all out action all the time but it's interesting the whole time it's compelling the whole time but I felt like the the trailers in the marketing for the movie didn't you really really get to show that and then when people see the name like I remember even in theater and when I saw the trailer and people saw the name and that just punch a laughter and I don't think they gave audiences too much credit like yes call Cowboys and Aliens but that's where that we don't mean that as a joke that's just the name of it I don't you know as yeah you can't you can't figure it out immediately if it supposed to be camping or cool or like knowingly ya happy what was like a cool in spite of this game name is knowingly campy we get that we have a family because we get that work we are in on the joke of the name but the movie is actually well done in serious you know so he comes from too much sides out of up alice is good this is where the true geekery comes out yeah I like it also there's been a new trailer for transformers 4 i outweigh is that not transfer mode it's battleship it's a new battleship trailer you guys seen this but we should play it we should plan because I like this direct I like Peter Berg he did a hancock he did um the other movie with Jason Bateman and Gene Wolfe yes a Teen Wolf 25 years ago it was a it was a war film oh man was it gets just when Jay come play guys it was awesome no one side no it was awesome had like the most visceral last action scene at the minimal views it was all so anyway I like the director he did he's doing battleship so let's check out the trailer sir you may want to come take a look at this where did we find it just fished him right out of the water warning red weapons tight when everything loaded the debris field from that is gonna cover the entire hemisphere it's still unclear exactly what it was that hit Hong Kong why didn't he just kill us off the hell are you doin to us those sims could do this what do you think 50 can do or 500,000 we're looking at listings what are your orders we're not going down without a fight dad now that is how you make a freaking action trailer okay that's how you get audiences hey remember that thing you like last year well this is pretty much that um with a new coat of paint paint on it it is like it takes the best of Michael Bay trailers right and like Titanic um and just like oh and put through a pretty girl face in there Rihanna and like everyone's gonna go I bet this movie makes tons of money because of its like like that just that very transformers derivative look it has and the trailer is like the scrimmage the building cuts that have just like in the trailer in transformers it's the same thing come on I mean with that is smart marketing man that's I don't know like I want to see that movie now like I had no interest and see that movie and only like transformers but something says you know this is just like a better transformers because well Peter Berg I like him but I bet I bet everyone dies I that though that will not happen ah no they don't want that to happen I just feel like like someone saw transformers like a Milton Bradley executive right who's gonna do a new spin-off of battleship the game but now with like alien ships on one side yeah right that guy and a recruitment officer from the Navy sat down there like you know what we need we need one we need more we create our own transformers take place on the see if we can sell video game or not video games a board game what do you see the beginning says from Hasbro makers of transformers like not the movie but the toys remember the toys it's the same company it's all like just she just communicator don't worry we'll take care of you will give your explosion right you're transforming robots will give you got enough money just cut a Chechen IOM and don't tell make the building split in half for exactly we have those libraries way that that's a building split in half we are we got ya you don't I and I usually love those kind of movies to it what is it about it that's turning you off is this it might be Rihanna huh oh come on I don't know i just it I don't know that was for a navy recruitment purposes really you know they're like look you stuck on a ship with Rihanna I'm trying to know why maybe chicks look just like this yeah um dizzy no maybe it's because it does feel like another Transformers movie yeah so you're you're saying that then your title Transformers movies I I'm trying to attach on me yeah these twos but some reason only shoes anyway that movie I was talked about before with that Peter Berg directed call the kingdom pretty awesome movie action movie with Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper engine learner I do hope that this sparks a trend for more movies tied into board games though that'd be pretty great like Ouija the booth yeah Candyland operation operation we gotta go in like like an ants in the pants there's this giant robot and say transform we gotta take him out now without a fight okay great well hopefully we'll be able to talk about that next week right yes fingers will be back join us and you can email us still at krave at cnet com and you can check out the Cray blog at this thing down here too and that's it that's all you have to do that's all we ask you it's easy let make it hard no all right sign us out Admiral Ackbar your truck don't leave the bar cash you