Hollywood 
has produced tons of stellar adaptations. The Godfather was translated beautifully from Mario Puzo’s novel. Driving Miss Daisy hit no speedbumps in its move from stage to screen. The Avengers turned the comic book series into a pop-culture juggernaut.
When it comes to games, though, film studios have yet to find the magic formula. That hasn’t stopped them from trying.
There 
are 246 robots putting together Jeep Wranglers and other vehicles in Toledo, Ohio. And they never shut up.
The robots talk to each other. They talk to the other devices on the assembly room floor. And they give the people overseeing them regular reports about what’s going on.
The 
importance of the color green at John Deere extends far beyond its distinctively hued logo.
Green crops and fields are pretty essential to its business model — and to help farmers ensure they see a lot of green, both when they look out the window and at their bank accounts, the farm equipment giant has launched an IOE-based platform called Field Connect.
It 
might be considered a family game, but Skylanders Trap Team is something of a homewrecker.
My daughter is completely in love with it and gets upset if I play without her, which poses a problem when you happen to review games for a living. My wife is in charge of paying the bills each month; at some point, she’s going to notice the hefty assortment of Toys ‘R’ Us charges on our credit card statement. The “it’s a write off!” excuse might not fly.
While 
we’ve put together a pretty thorough list of the innovators, visionaries and agents of change we expect will have a big impact over the next 25 years, we weren’t content to stop there.
There are plenty of young minds at work who didn’t make our list, because they’re largely unproven, but they’re still doing some pretty amazing things at this early stage in their life.
These teen and preteen superstars—they’re all under age 20—come from diverse backgrounds and focus on widely different fields. But they all stand on the cusp of greatness, and they’re definitely worth keeping an eye on.
While 
we’ve put together a pretty thorough list of the innovators, visionaries and agents of change we expect will have a big impact over the next 25 years, we weren’t content to stop there.
There are plenty of young minds at work that didn’t make our list, because they’re largely unproven, but they’re still doing some pretty amazing things at this early stage in their life.
This collection of teen and preteen superstars—they’re all younger than 20—come from a diverse set of backgrounds and focus on widely different fields. But they all stand on the cusp of greatness … and they’re definitely worth keeping an eye on.
Smart 
devices can only get smarter if the chips powering them get more powerful. And that’s leading to a renewed arms race among microchip manufacturers.
Both Intel and ARM have introduced new processors for integrated devices — from refrigerators to cars — designed to help connected devices generate and transmit data. And both are hoping the technology serves as a building block for a wide variety of applications.
The 
so-called prepper community has a long list of concerns—and for quite some time Ebola has been near the top of it. Experts, though, are split on whether the confirmation that the disease has entered the U.S. will spur a rush in equipment sales.
Even as awareness of doomsdayers grows thanks to a reality series on the National Geographic Channel, sales of supplies like canned food and hand-cranked flashlights had actually begun to level off before Tuesday.
And since Ebola has been on the community’s radar for so long, many people have already stocked up.
Hollywood, 
which has been increasingly leaning on the video game world for story ideas, might be getting a bit desperate.
Threshold Entertainment has announced plans to develop a feature film based on Tetris, the shape matching arcade game that took the world by storm 30 years ago. And while the game itself might have been a bit light on plot, that’s not stopping filmmakers from re-imagining it as a science fiction blockbuster.
No, really!
When 
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers takes the field this weekend, he probably won’t be thinking about the Internet of Everything — but the IOE will certainly be focused on him.
The NFL and Zebra Technologies have teamed up to equip 17 stadiums with “real-time location systems,” a new technology that provides location-based data to fans and coaches, including specific information on players’ acceleration and the distances they cover.
It’s a statistician’s dream, powered by advanced hardware.
Chris Morris: Journalist 