• Top movies (according to Sam, so suck it!) of the year

• X-Men: First Class (Best superhero movie)
• Sucker Punch (Best music video of the year)
• Super 8
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Attack the Block (Best “indie” movie)
• The Adventures of Tintin (Best animated movie, best comic book movie)

• Top games of the year

• THE NINTENDO 3DS!!! ZOMG!
• L.A. Noire
• Child of Eden (Acid trip of the year)
• Duke Nukem Forver (yeeaaah…)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure
• Rocksmith
• Battlefield 3
• MW3
• Uncharted 3 (the year of the 3s… Saints Row the Third too, I guess)
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Sam’s WoW replacement)
• Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Tech insight:

• Apple & Steve Jobs

• Tablets & E-Readers

• Life & Death of HP WebOS
• iPad 2
• Android tries to be relavent
• Zoom, Transformer, Sony, Kindle Fire
• E-Reader hit main stream
• Kindle re-release (cheaper, more options)

• Mobile Competition

• Windows phone 7 becomes relavent
• The Fall of RIM
• Continued iPhone dominance
• Conflict
• PSN get hacked
• WikiLeaks
• Everyone is suing everyone
• CarrierIQ

Sean’s Mad Science! -ience -ience -ience:

• Matrix-like knowledge download

• http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/scientists-achieve-matrix-style-subliminal-teaching
• Debate of Human Enhancement
• http://io9.com/5840642/debating-human-enhancement
• Trachea lab grown for patient
• http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-07/using-lab-grown-trachea-surgeons-conduct-worlds-first-synthetic-organ-transplant
• Metal mesh as light as air
• http://io9.com/5859728/breakthrough-this-ultralight-metal-is-made-mostly-of-air
• Royal Society Journals online
• http://royalsociety.org/news/Royal-Society-journal-archive-made-permanently-free-to-access/
• Simpson 3 eyed fish “Blinky” Found
• http://gizmodo.com/5853988/the-simpsons-called-it-three-eyed-fish-caught-outside-a-nuclear-power-plant
• Artificial Cerebellum
• http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/israeli-researchers-build-rat-cyborg-packing-digitally-derived-cerebellum

Behind the Lens:

• Photography – A Year In Review
• Mirrorless, DSLR Video, Comsumer Interchangable Lens Video Cameras, Lytro Camera, Canon and Nikon not inventing new gear, Flooding and Earthquakes, Cellphone and Tablet Technology

• Gear of the Year: Olympus Pen Mini

• http://www.penready.com