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Tech Oscars Awarded

Posted by samzenpus on from the geek-segregation dept.

prostoalex writes "Skip the tuxedos, cleavages and red carpet. Scientific and technical Oscars are awarded for technical excellence and inventive approaches in the field of movie-making. Satellight-X HMI Softlight, DNF-001 multiband digital audio noise suppressor and Tyler Gyroplatform were among nominees, according to MSNBC."

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  1. Good Deal by dauthur · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I wonder if anything spectacular and super-duper practicality savvy like the Segway has won a scientific award.

  2. Re:What?! by rob_squared · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like the commercial says, "there's always room for clevage." Or is that jello? Or perhaps both...

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  3. What more could a geek want? by FunWithHeadlines · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Lots of tech goodness, awards handed to geeks while praising them, geeks getting to give speeches to other geeks who applaud them, and Scarlett Johansson struggling to pronounce what you do. What more could a geek want?

    Oh, right, having Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman.

  4. Re:Run in fear! by RaguMS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The end of the world is near. Slashdot has linked to MSNBC.

    Perhaps it's not such a bad thing. If MSNBC get Slashdotted, isn't it the DDoS that you've all been wishing for? Either way, hooray for linking to the homepage of 75% of the world's computers.

  5. Disgusting by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone else find it appauling that they can dedicate 4 hours to all the pretty stars, and that they can't include tech oscars in with the other oscars. It's a sad day for society when people only care about looking at pretty faces, and couldn't care less about the technology that makes the movie possible in the first place. Without the technology, we might as well just go to live plays.

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  6. For the complete list of winners. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    http://www.oscars.org/77academyawards/sci-techawar ds/winners.html

  7. Re:No cleavage? You are wrong. by ian+mills · · Score: 2, Insightful
    To be honest, I hadn't realized she had anything significant in that department up until that point.

    Someone hasn't seen Lost in Translation.

  8. Slashdot Awards by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why doesn't slashdot feature such contests with reader votes/ranks? (We can even have a "funny" and "best troll" category :-)

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  9. Re:This isn't an article about the tech oscars by cgenman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's an article about how they couldn't find a blonde capable of understanding the awards she was giving out.

    There's almost nothing on what these advances mean to the industry.

    What, you think the AP could find a reporter capable of understanding the awards that were given out?

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