The Silliness of Santa Claus Exposed in Hilarious Animation
Has the idea of Santa flying across the globe with the help of eight reindeer ever felt stupid to you? Eion Duffy agrees as he made this hilarious animated holiday card, to show what Saint Nick would be like in real-life.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review (Spoiler-free)
It’s rare a film comes along that fans are so excited to see, they take pictures of a blank screen to document the time they sat in a cinema. That’s the power of Star Wars and with The Force Awakens, is this the film we’re looking for?
Project Resurgence: The Future of New Rising Media
In September, I wrote about the death and rebirth of New Rising Media as a name to put on my freelance social media marketing word. Contrary to what was written, this will not happen, so I’m here to explain why and share plans for 2016 with you.
5 Things I Learnt about WWE House Shows from the NXT UK Tour
WWE NXT came to Nottingham recently, so I grabbed a ticket and went to check it out. This was my first ever house show, and it really wasn't what you expect from watching it on TV. If you're also a first-timer planning to go, take these five lessons I learnt about WWE house shows.
New Rising Media and Neo-Entity presents Hotline Love Actually
It's Christmas, and the usual tradition is to repetitively watch Die Hard and Love Actually! With that in mind, we and Neo-Entity have got together and prepared a present for you that answers a simple question: What if Love Actually was set in 2015?
High-Tech Smart Glove Translates Sign Language Into Text And Speech
A student from Goldsmiths, University of London has created a 'smart glove' that can translate sign language into text and speech. Designer and media artist Hadeel Ayoub has begun working on upgrading this to real-time translation, but this development is an amazing start.
New Rising Media Is Dead. Long Live Neo-Entity
So as you may have noticed, I haven’t been posting much from New Rising Media lately, and have linked you to a website called Neo-Entity. This site is the re-invention of us and our purpose that I’d love to talk to you about now, on the fourth Birthday of this brand.
What happens if you give a GoPro to a Jedi? Magic happens.
As a reader of this website, chances are you've dreamed of being a Jedi at some point in your life. The over-the-top lightsaber battles, repelling stormtrooper blaster fire, using the force to take out your foes. It's all one amazing pipe dream, but YouTuber Bill Parker has created this great creative video of a Jedi strapping a GoPro to himself and fighting the Empire in the desert.
Robots learn to solve problems faster by playing Minecraft
Minecraft is great for teaching young gamers key skills like problem solving and creativity, but it's not just humans who can learn a something from it. Researchers have used the computer game to teach robots these same skills in a faster, more efficient way.
Russia warns your next selfie could be your last in a new bizarre campaign
Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched a new public health program to reduce the amount of deaths and injuries caused by people taking selfies.
We're looking for new writers to join New Rising Media
Interested in writing about what's new and fascinating in technology, science, social media, movies, music or games, to an audience of a million people? We'd love to hear from you!
Allison Road is the spiritual successor to P.T., and it's utterly terrifying
Anybody who is just as disappointed as me at the cancellation of Silent Hills will be happy to see a Allison Road, the spiritual successor to P.T. I will warn you though, prepare to be scared every time you pass a terraced house.
British inventor builds a DIY Iron Man suit to stand inside a fireworks display
British inventor Colin Furze really likes superheroes, to the point where he's build a budget Iron Man suit to withstand a storm of fireworks.
Someone just found a rare Nintendo Playstation console prototype
Someone on Reddit has shared pictures of what looks like the prototype of the SNES-CD, a cancelled collaboration between Sony and Nintendo to bring a CD-ROM attachment to your Super Nintendo.
Teletext lives! Pages from Ceefax have been resurrected
Remember Ceefax? It was Britain's version of the internet before anybody really used it. Well now the service has been brought back to life, and you don't even need to wait until the early hours of the morning to get to it. Introducing pagesfromceefax.net.
How are memories created? Study by University of Leicester and UCLA finds out
While we've figured out many aspects of human life through scientific endeavour, one of the most fascinating is still one shrouded in mystery: how does human memory work? How do we create unforgettable episodes of time in our mind, which we are reminded of at certain locations or with certain people?
You'll be able to buy a jetpack next year
Yes you did read that right. The decades old pipedream is true. The Martin Jetpack, created in New Zealand and first flew in 2008, will be available for sale in the second half of 2016.
Apple Music review: a solid streaming service with an identity crisis
So Apple Music has launched in over 100 countries today to a fanfare of excitement. On paper it seems like the streaming service everybody has been waiting for for years (or have given up waiting for in favour of Spotify). With the added perks of an whole music solution including global radio and a social element for exclusive content from your favourite artists, it seems to be a metaphorical slam dunk.
Life and death through the eyes of an iPhone is dizzy and depressing
On average, you pick up your smartphone to complete tasks 221 times a day. For things from checking Facebook in the morning, sending Snapchats during work meetings to express boredom, to taking pictures of your food for Instagram and far too many selfies, it pretty much goes everywhere and does everything with you. While completing these tasks is a great experience for you, how do you think your iPhone feels about it?