The Geek Church

Here’s an interesting piece of tech: a hovering UAV from Cyber Technology. It can shoot video too.

Here’s a new concept tech called the SCOPE with some augmented reality.

This is the KOR-fx, that can make sound from games, movies, and music hit right to the chest.

For those that like to walk while texting should use this Type n Walk iPhone app.

An old Simpsons arcade game is designed for the iPhone from EA.

UPS has a new app for the Blackberry that can do a lot.

PSP now has a digital comic reader. Catch up on the latest stuff there.

Here’s a new iPod dock called the GenevaSound S iPod dock.

There is a new Oppo Android phone that should be released in China.

Is there some sort of Google notebook, or gBook, on the way?

Here’s something that mixes digital magazines with a tablet known as the Mag+. Yes, you have seen it before.

There is rumor that Motorola and AT&T are making a new phone together that will be known as either the Backflip or Enzo.

There is a new phone from MetroPCS and Samsung called the Stunt.

Here’s something that is very fresh: The Transgear TGP-701MG digital photo frame.

Those who have an old version of the iPhone (pre-3GS) should check out this new app that can do some kind of video footage.

Think that the WiiFit can help you with your family fitness? Think again.

NEC has some new projectors, two of them, in fact.

Fans of the Battlestar Galactica series that had its end last Spring should enjoy Caprica, which just made its appearance on Hulu. That’s pretty good, because I do most of TV watching on Hulu anyway.

This two-hour pilot was actually available on DVD months ago. I suppose SyFy wanted the money from diehard BSG fans who just “had to see” the prequel.

I had pretty low expectations for this show, as I do any spin-off. Most spin-offs are just carbon copies of their source material, but Caprica is quite original while staying true to the BSG universe.

I must warn Christian readers that they might be greatly offended at the opening of Caprica, which takes place in a nightclub where anything goes. It turns out the nightclub is not real, but simply a holographic, interactive social network. It makes sense when you see it. Yes, there is a lot of sinful activity there, and the show addresses it. It is by no means gratuitous.

It turns out that Caprica is one of the most thoughtful shows on the air right now. It takes place in an age where scientists are creating artificial life, and they are about to reap the whirlwind of consequences.

It starts when two fathers lose their daughters in a terrorist suicide bombing, and try to bring them back to life as some sort of holographic simulation.

Of course, BSG fans can see that what they are really creating is the Cylons, the somewhat sympathetic villains from BSG.

Considering that the backstory of BSG involved some war with the Cylons that took place forty years before the first episode, we never got a chance to see it. Caprica looks like a chronicle of that war, and it takes place in a science fiction universe that is completely believable.

The technology of Caprica is advanced, but it isn’t as advanced as Star Wars or Star Trek. In fact, it looks rather contemporary, and possibly the result of only on hundred years of advancement.

In short, Caprica is worth watching, worth talking about, and I look forward to where it will go, even though I know the inevitable conclusion.