Hey Legion! Welcome to the Legion of Leia Podcast episode 19! I wasn’t here for this one since I was out of the country, but my co-hosts Anastasia Washington, Sabina Ibarra were joined by guest Erika Ishii, video game maven, Geek 360 games correspondent, Geek & Sundry Twitch host and geek expert. This week the ladies take on the...
Category - technology
Aaaand I’m totally buying tickets. I have been obsessed with Hatsune Miku ever since my friend Helen sent me a video of the hologram performing “live”. Hatsune Miku is a “virtual pop star,” which is exactly what it sounds like. She’s a computer generated animation, projected digitally, and not real. But, even...
I wwas a guest on Nerd Alert with the very awesome Kim Horcher this week and in this segment, we talked all about Vizio Smart TVs and how their default setting is to track your information and sell it to outside companies. There are loopholes that make them exempt from the law that says you can’t do that. Freaking out now? Hell, I have...
Our friends over at Comicbook.com have discovered something truly amazing: foam lightsabers that light up! Why is this such a big deal? It means you can finally smack your friends around with abandon in the middle of the night without any serious harm! Thanks to this Kickstarter, which has already surpassed it’s $40,000 goal, you can have a...
Okay, this is just plain nerdy and cool and everything I want to wake up to on a Friday morning. Variety let us know that Secret Space Escapes, the new Science Channel show that will bring us straight into Gravity-esque space snafus, is going to come locked and loaded with accompanying VR scenarios for perusal on any of our other...
Just when I thought I’d never have to hear about GamerGate again, BAM! right in the kisser… According to Jezebel, a South by Southwest Interactive panel called “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games” disappeared from the March 2016 schedule. The panelists were told by the event’s organizers that the sudden cancellation...
Yup, writing titles in the first person again! Hey Legion! Are you going to be in LA on Halloween weekend? I’m doing ten, yes, ten panels at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo, including two with the incomparable Stan Lee! I’d love to see you guys! We have a table on the floor (#KO6) this year as well and I have Legion of Leia shirts...
Hey everyone! I’m taking a jet plane down to Nashville Wizard World again this year! I’m so excited to see all of you! If you’re around, definitely come find me and say hello. I love meeting you guys! I’ll be moderating some pretty crazy stuff this year! FRIDAY: ‘STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS’ – WHAT THEY ARE AND WHAT...
Now, only a few days later, the young man- seen in his so-called “perp walk” photo wearing a NASA t-shirt and a heartbroken expression- has been bombarded with expressions of sympathy from the world at large. The President of the United States has issued an invitation for Mohamed to take his clock to The White House, Mark Zuckerberg...
Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo takes place in Los Angeles on Halloween weekend from October 30-November 1. Last night I was a guest on a new show on TheStream.TV, Stan Lee’s Comikaze: All Year Long with hosts Jon Schnepp (The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?), Stephanie Pressman (Geek 360), and guests Chase Conley (Black...