ABOUT Matthew Harris
Matthew has been with Geek Insider for several years and is the Managing Editor and 1 half of the Geek Speak podcast & radio show team. He’s a certified Geek that has absorbed a little bit of all sorts of things, especially the odd and just plain WTH kind of stuff. If it’s Geeky, Cheeky, or Downright Freaky, chances are he knows at least a little something about it. He enjoys relaxing at home near Austin, Texas with his new bride and their furbaby horde, and when he’s not editing, writing, or broadcasting, he can usually be found watching movies and vegging in his recliner.
Summer is upon us and that means one thing to geeks like you and me: Blockbuster movies! We’ve been teased… we’ve been tortured.. and we’ve been saving our pocket change because the rest of this year looks to plop many of us in theaters across the country several times a month. And that can get…
I binge. A lot. Movies and shows, that is. Especially on Netflix. And their new reboot of the classic Lost in Space reeled me in weeks ago with their official trailer (below). Don’t worry, there’s not going to be any major spoilers here, I just had to put this together after devouring the entire 12 new…
After my article on Samsung’s Relumino Glasses, I had the opportunity to meet with Jean Helfenstein, co-founder of Black Rainbow. Jean is one of the nicest guys I’ve had a chance to speak with and after checking out their upcoming release of Ghost, which is a complete augmented reality solution, I think he may also be…
Holy smokes am I stoked about this one. Denzel Washington returns July 20 with a sequel to his 2014, The Equalizer. It was just a couple of weeks ago that I rewatched it and went to IMDB in hopes that a sequel was in the works. This past week, Sony Pictures released a trailer that has my…
Over the next few weeks we’re going to take an inside look at the various Marvel series that Netflix has been producing. Since this is the first one, we’re going to start with my personal favorite The Punisher. Now, it’s no secret that I’m a huge superhero fan and comic-geek. I’m the oldest teenage boy…
The rollercoaster market ride for cryptocurrencies doesn’t appear to have slowed down the industry or its prospective entities at all. There are no less than 50 ICOs planned within the next 30ish days and with so many already out there, it can be next to impossible for newcomers to stand out. Especially when it comes…
Okay this just hit my inbox and I had to run over and do a quick update! A few weeks ago I did an article on Venom and at the time, we only had a teaser to go by. Well now Sony has released a full trailer and HOLY CRAP did it get me pumped! It…
The world around us is more than a little F’d up these days but sometimes there are stories that are just beyond the normal F’d-ness. Whether it’s oddball inventions, misused tech, or stupid people doing stupid things, I will attempt to share with you the things that make me go “Ugh!” For this first edition…
Okay we’re back to this once again. I don’t know about you, but this Mandela Effect thing has me questioning so many memories it’s not even funny. Yes, yes! I know all about confabulation and the fallibility of the human memory, but what about the things we have super-strong memories attached to? Like Sesame Street…
I don’t know if the folks over at Samsung intended it or not, but the name for their new vision-enhancing glasses sounds like a wizard’s spell straight from Harry Potter’s world. At first glance, the Relúmĭno glasses don’t look like anything special, just another pair of sunglasses. But when you start looking at the magic…
Alright, everyone has at least heard of Bitcoin but I know that there are a lot of folks out there that don’t have the slightest idea what Bitcoin actually is, what blockchains have to do with it or cryptocurrencies in general. So I wanted to give a brief glimpse at the history of Bitcoin and…
It doesn’t have the big budget of The Avengers or The Dark Knight and there aren’t any Earth-hating Gods or aliens, but 2015’s The Subjects does bring a unique angle to the question “what superpower would you want to have?” When seven people – oh wait… 8 people (ya gotta watch that Phil fellow) – show up…
For many of us, when we hear the term ‘Dark Web’ we immediately call to mind stories of internet hackers selling credit card information, nefarious drug-dealing websites, and/or the occasional video-feed showing a murder or suicide. The anonymous and encrypted nature of the Dark Web allows websites to be hidden from traditional search engines and…
While not much is known in regards to plot in the upcoming Spider-Man spinoff Venom, and so far we only have the teaser trailer to base our excitement on, this is one character that many of us have been waiting for years to see properly embodied. After Spider-Man 3, we were assured time and again that Venom…
Tiangong-1, translated to ‘Heavenly Palace,’ is a 9.4 ton Chinese bus-sized space station that was launched in 2011 and was China’s first space station, but they lost contact with it in 2016. After two failed repair attempts, a ‘technical issue’ caused the spacecraft to fall out of orbit and it began its uncontrolled tumble and…