“Did It Again” is the next single off Shakira’s forthcoming album. If you enjoyed Shakira’s routine in “She Wolf” wait until you see how she moves in bed. The album She Wolf releases November 27.
In much related news, newly-famed rapper Kid Cudi will be featured on the remix to “Did It Again.” Go ahead and look forward to that. Also, keep in mind that this track plus five others are produced by Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes. Another track is produced by Wyclef Jean.
[Via DatNewCudi]
Ryan Leslie is an extremely talented producer-turned-musician. Check out his second album Transition on iTunes. The entire album is written, arranged, produced, and engineered by Leslie.
R.Les is a master of the keyboard and creates genius beats. If you like what you hear, make sure you also take a listen to his self-titled first studio album. Very good stuff.
[Via Wiki]
I wonder if Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie will live up to its video game origins. It’s produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and stars the one-and-only Jake “This ain’t Brokeback Mountain” Gyllenhaal.
[Via sixty4harmony]
The Apple App Store now proudly sells over 100,000 (paid and free) applications. With an offering of oh-so many apps and 2 billion downloads and counting the App Store leads the way in smartphone (and PMP) innovation and functionality.
Congratulations, Apple! (*fart* Sorry, that was my iFart..))
[Via Engadget]
DYIer Steve Hoefer has created quite an interesting device. Upon tapping a correct sequence and rhythm on a door this Arduino board-based device will unlock a dead-bolted door. After artfully smushing together a microcontroller, a piezoelectric speaker, a gear reduction motor, and some PVC pipe Hoefer posted his dramatic results in the video above. Neat, huh?
[Via Engadget]
The Prometheus Device, designed by Everett Bradford.
[Via Gizmodo]
I will let designer Michal Mitek get your tech-heart pumping:
It’s always about the future, and in the future you guys are going to realize the need of doubling up your interior spaces by adding more than one function to a room. Like, you may want your bathroom to double up as a gym when you’re not taking a bath. So how about you get the Roca Active & Relax Bathroom? It’s this luxurious room where the sunken bath is really sunken, invisible till you don’t open up the floorboards. No windows too, instead 3 floor-to-ceiling LCDs giving you the illusion of a panoramic view.
Still not satisfied? How about we give you a bathroom where the screens are connected to the Home PC so that you can watch movies as you laze in the double bathtub, or take a shower in the rainfall! Super sex-citing!
Mhm, I can now check this off as a feature of my future home. I’ll take the lady model, too.
[Via Gizmodo; YankoDesign]
Designed by Sanjay Puri.
The windows are deliberately created in an opaque glass to block out the immediate surroundings & allow the public spaces to have an ambience of their own, whilst allowing natural light. Concrete fins are arranged around the windows offer privacy from the adjacent office buildings whilst also acting as a heat barrier. Through these combined efforts the air conditioning cost is thus reduced by over 25 %.
The spaces are thus defined in complete contextual terms to the site, its surroundings & location and the climate of the city. The punctuated rectilinear volume of the hotel with LED lit circular glass windows renders it dynamic by night while it looks sculptural & creates a strong presence with a unique character.
[Via Gizmodo; WorldArchitectureNews]
Google’s EMEA Engineering Hub in Zurich, Switzerland.
They sure know how to design form, function, work, and play in a relaxed but still professional manner.
[Via Gizmodo; WorldArchitectureNews]
Come November 15 Verizon Wireless customers will be forced to pay $350 to terminate their cell phone contracts if they wish to change phones or leave VZW before the end of their two-year agreement. The early termination fee increases from an already exorbitant $175. Every month that passes, though, the fee decreases by $10. VZ made it clear that this new termination fee only applies to “advanced devices;” it is safe to assume this means all smartphones, including the upcoming Droid by Motorola. Blargh…ETFs were always garbage, but now they are stinky, rotten garbage.
[Via BGR]
Those of you in the market to purchase a netbook, listen up!
So we already know that that netbooks are no longer being forced to ship with Windows 7 Starter Edition; new netbooks give customers the option to have it shipped with Home Premium or above. That said, now there is a different restriction being lifted on netbooks: Intel will allow netbook manufacturers to ship their systems with more than 1GB of RAM. This will allow for much faster and efficient netbooks. The 1.83GHz N470 Intel Atom “Pine Trail” chip will give a boost to netbooks ’round the world come this March.
The lifing of the 1GB RAM restrcition continues to blur the distinction between netbooks and small laptops or ultraportables.
[Via Engadget]
Oh how much I love it when networks decide to give great TV shows a deserved chance at prolonged success. And oh do I hate it when they stab us in the back (read: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Pushing Daisies). Here’s a roundup of some of the great shows that were given “the back nine” and will complete their first seasons with 20+ episodes. (Note: Full season pickups are usually granted to new series; it is assumed that third+ year series will be given full seasons prior to the shows premieres.)
ABC: FlashForward, Modern Family, Castle
FOX: Glee, The Cleveland Show (it’s also been picked up for a second season)
NBC: Community, Parks & Recreation
All shows were granted a full 22 episode season. FlashForward, interestingly, was granted an above-average 25 episodes. Music to my ears if you ask me.
Others I don’t care much for: ABC’s Cougar Town, The Middle; CBS’s Accidentally on Purpose, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Good Wife.
What got cancelled? NBC’s Trauma. I don’t think the man in the helicoptor loves his job anymore.
I will update this space as the remainder of fall TV series are renewed and/or cancelled.
For now, celebrate by krumping along with Community’s Abed and Troy after the break!