Tag archive: Firefly

As soon as it was announced that David O. Russell had been lured back to write the screenplay and film Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, thus legitimizing the project and giving hope for a movie adapted from a video game that might actually be good, it kicked off a flurry of speculation on who would be taking on the lead role of Nathan Drake. Many names have been bandied about, including that of Nathan Fillion, who is actively campaigning for the… Read More

Multiverse Network, Inc., announced today that it has executed an option with 20th Century Fox to develop a massively multiplayer online game based on the defunct sci-fi television series Firefly. Multiverse plans to hire an independent production team to develop the project, and plans to make it available through the Multiverse Network sometime in 2008. Firefly was a short-lived "space western" Fox television show developed by… Read More

Peripheral and storage device maker Lexar, in conjunction with the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission, has issued a voluntary recall of some 66,000 Lexar FireFly and 1 GB Secure II USB flash drives because the units could overheat and present a risk of burn, fire, or injury. The FireFly drives were sold in red, green, blue, and black housings in capacities ranging from 256 MB to 2 GB; the 1 GB Secure II drive shipped in a silver… Read More

Cingular Wireless and mobile phone company Firefly Mobile yesterday announced the availability of a new phone geared towards kids ages 12 and under. The Firefly phone is priced at $49.99 after a mail-in rebate and contract. The Firefly phone, said Cingular,

The Firefly phone is designed for the smaller hands of kids aged eight to 12 years old. With just five keys instead of a regular dial pad, parents use a PIN to program up to 22 outgoing numbers into the phone, including speed-dial keys for Mom and Dad. The patented phone lights up like a firefly when in use and intermittently when in standby mode. It is about the size of a small pocket calculator and weighs two ounces. The Firefly… Read More

From the company's press release: SmartDisk Corporation this week began shipping its tiny FireFly USB2.0 20GB portable hard drive. About the size of a deck of playing cards, FireFly can store up to 20 hours of high quality video, more than 5,000 MP3 songs or more than 15,000 high-quality digital photographs. FireFly is ideal for a variety of digital video, audio, data backup and multimedia applications used by consumers… Read More

The USB based Firefly was first announced at CES 2004 and has begun shipping this week. It operates on radio frequency, avoiding the need for line-of-sight in controlling your digital audio and video applications. The Firefly comes with Snapstream's Beyond Media Basic, a home-theater front end based on their popular Beyond TV3 home theater PC application. Firefly is compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Media Center edition and is… Read More