Journey with IGN on a quick adventure through the Halo universe and rediscover (or for you newbies, discover) the Halo story from Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3. This is all in preperation for Halo 3: ODST which releases this week on Xbox 360. Go ahead; get caught up, preorder a copy, and PREPARE TO DROP.
[Via IGN]
We’ve already seen the BL-40 (or the New Chocolate) in pictures, videos, and even groped with a hands-on. Now it’s time for its younger brother to flex its muscles. Enter the BL20 (also dubbed the New Chocolate); it features a slide-out keypad with “hidden touch navigation keys,” a convenient widget hotkey,” and a 5-megapixel camera with flash. Check out the BL20 in all its Chocolate-y glory in the over-dramaticized video above.
[Via Engadget]
This HP-branded Envy laptop wears the Dr. Dre Beats logo proud. It is the first in a series of products Dre and HP have in the pipeline for music-oriented consumers looking for solid sound at an affordable price. This limited edition Envy 15 features a 15-inch screen and comes in at 1-inches thin and 5.18-pounds. It will include a ‘future’ Core i7 processor and will have the capacity for 16GB of RAM and two solid state drives. Although official specs are limited for now, expect the Beats-inspired Envy 15 to cost at least $1,799, as its counterpart (the standard Envy) costs that much. I will keep my ear to the ground and watch for updates on this and other Beats-branded machines. The time for a revolution in better sound quality is now, right Dre?
[Via Engadget; Tom’s Hardware]
Gaga’s performance, which involves only her voice and a piano, is actually quite good.
Remember the announcement of the new Heartbeats by Lady Gaga headphones I reported on last week? Well, if you were at all intrigued by the new headphones in the Dr. Dre Beats lineup, be sure to check out the Heartbeats Daily Giveaway on Facebook. “To celebrate the launch [of Heartbeats], Beats by Dr. Dre is giving away a pair of Heartbeats every day for 30 days, so enter..for your chance to win.” Good luck, ladies (and guys, I guess).
Thanks, Aaron.
Oh, there’s nothing to doubt here. IT’S MEGAN FOX.
Remember that video I posted a while back? Yeah, that one. Esquire shot Megan Fox’s cover shoot with a RED One video camera rather than a digital camera. This allows for extreme detail and produces amazing results for stills. Photographer Greg Williams is shooting the sequel with “the first-ever Red One camera outfitted with the Epic 5K Mysterium-X Sensor.” And if you thought the first video/photo shot was blazing hot, you haven’t seen anything yet. This upgraded RED One camera shoots at four-times HD!
For now, peek at the gallery below for two exclusive stills from the photo shoot. Check back here for the full video and Esquire‘s official announcement of Sexiest Woman Alive this October. Chyeah!
[Via Esquire]
Pioneer ups the ante with the new CDJ-2000 CDJ system. It features a “WQVGA 6.1-inch full-color 480 x 234 LCD panel,” among other great new additions. According to Pioneer, the CDJ-2000 will be available in November for a pricey but deserved $2,150. Check after the break for an official tour of the product.
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The Music Chocolate, designed by Michi Jjung, is an ottman that features a connection for an MP3 player and an integrated sound system, built-in speakers and all. Gizmodo puts it most approproately: it “massages your feet with beats.” There’s even a Chaiselong version for those who’d rather recline. Check it out in the gallery below.
The Energy Aware Clock shows you the time (obviously) and your energy use by way of cool visualziations on its front display. This concept device somehow wireless connects to your power meter and shows in real-time your energy consumption fluxuate with blue spikes. Although the idea itself is interesting and could work, I feel it may cause more energy consumption, at least initially, because who won’t want to show off the awesome blue visualizations, right?
The clock is created by Swedish designers Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, and Sara Llstedt Hjelm and will be shown off at Design September Brussels 2009.
Created by London design firm, Berg.
“The film Nearness explores interacting without touching. With RFID [radio frequency identification] it’s proximity that matters, and actual contact isn’t necessary. Much of Timo’s work in the Touch project addresses the fictions and speculations in the technology. Here we play with the problems of invisibility and the magic of being close.”
With RFID technologies being tested in upcoming products today, be prepared to be introduced to its useful and (what will become) practical means of “interacting without touching” in the near future.
[Via Gizmodo]
The Lexus LF-Ch concept car sports headrest mounts for iPhones.
According to the press release:
“The LF-Ch has four sport seats that feature trim lighting along the cushion’s edge for cabin illumination. Rear passengers can enjoy headrest-mounted iPhone® docking capability for audio and video entertainment. In addition, the LF-Ch has storage in the rear seat armrests for small items such as iPods®, PDAs and cell phones.”
Very cool indeed.
Created by Dubai-based post-production house Rolling Thunder.
[Via Gizmodo]
Enter the follow-up doodle in the series of alien-related Google doodles. First it was the UFO-inspired doodle that searched for “unexplained phenomena.” Now there is a crop-circle inspired doodle that searches for the keyword “crop circle.” The first doodle’s image file name was “Go_gle.” This image’s file name is “Goog_e.” First the “o” was abducted, now the “l” is missing. What this means no one knows. On it’s Twitter page Google posted the following coordinates: 51.327629, -0.5616088. Followers figured out that these specific coordinates reveal a location in the UK, a town called Horsell in Surrey, England, to be exact. Interestingly this area is infamous for it’s prominent role in H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds;” it is the town where the aliens first land in the novel.
So, what does this all mean? Unfortunately there are no solid answers…again. Some theories include: Wells’ 143rd birthday falls on September 21; “It’s almost certainly a viral marketing campaign teasing people ahead of some launch in a week or two” (via UK Guardian); and my favorite–Google has been taken over by aliens from an unknown planet. Just like before, all there is to do now is to continue theorizing and wait for the next doodle or a possible explanation from Google itself.