Archive for December 14th, 2007
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
ROCCAT may not be quite as well known as some gaming-centric peripheral makers, but it looks like its doing its best to make its mark with a new line of peripherals, including a gaming mouse and keyboard. Dubbed the ROCCAT Kone, the mouse looks to sport all the features an excessively-demanding gamer would expect, including no less than ten buttons, four removable weights, and a customizable light system with “thousands of colors.” While you apparently won’t get quite as many color options with the ROCCAT Valo keyboard (pictured after the break), you will still at least get illuminated keys (including 41 macro keys), along with 2MB of memory for storing up to five profiles, and even an integrated noise-canceling microphone. Look for it and the mouse to set you back €100 and €70 (or $147 and $103), respectively, when they hit Europe in February, with a matching mousepad also available for €20 (or about $30).
[Via Randomly Accessed, thanks Steve] Continue reading ROCCAT intros new line of gaming peripherals
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
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Kiefer Sutherland is now serving his 48-day sentence stemming from a September DUI arrest. He was scheduled to start his sentence on his birthday December 21 — which is also when ‘24′ begins its Christmas hiatus. However, due to the writers strike, Sutherland decided to begin his sentence early.
Sutherland will perform laundry and kitchen duties and will serve the entire 48 days consecutively.
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Filed under: Game Patches
We’ve given the new Warhawk expansion quite a lot of exposure because, to be frank, we’re excited about it. Now we know exactly when the update will arrive on the European PSN Store and how much it costs, thanks to ThreeSpeech. At only £3.99 the expansion, which includes a new level and a new vehicle, is incredibly affordable and will make a nice Christmas present to the Warhawk community when it releases on December 20th.
[Update: America will also receive the expansion on the 20th as well. It will be priced $7.99.]
[Thanks, Albert M.!]
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Filed under: Industry, Internet, Google (GOOG), Marketing and advertising, Technology
 Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG)’s ambition is to become the dominant advertising network across all mediums globally, which is one high mountain to climb. The company has built up a multibillion-dollar cash pile to help it on its quest, and it is in control of the world’s internet search market as well as the most-used video-sharing site.
It is dabbling in radio, print, and mobile industries heavily as well. The goal: to take a small cut of each advertising transaction or impression throughout all media forms.
If Google is successful, the company could experience growth way beyond the incredible numbers it’s now seeing every quarter. To get there, the company is trying to ensure existing and potential advertising partners know that controlling ad campaigns and directing marketing resources as efficiently as possible would be much easier if there was a central “dashboard” to manage all those ads across all markets and all mediums.
Sure, existing ad agencies promise this already, but with Google’s command of new media advertising, the sales pitch could hold more water here. Google’s North American head of advertising and commerce, Tim Armstrong, recently stated that Google’s presence in the print, radio, and television markets is poised to let ad partners manage ad inventory as perfectly as possible. Armstrong went on to say, “We’re intent on bringing more and more scale to the digital dashboard space … we’re very, very early stage on connecting those businesses. I think this is a two-, three-, five-year product that we’re going to work on.”
Anyone who is not convinced that Google intends to rule the market as its largest cross-platform advertising network, please raise your hand.
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Graceful Ash was back in full swing promoting The Swiss Luxury Watches out here in Mumbai.
Graceful Ash was back in full swing promoting The Swiss Luxury Watches out here in Mumbai.
Dressed up in black and white, which is quite breath taking; she launched the new sports collection at Royal Western Turf Club of India at […]
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Posted by: in Celebrity news
Actress Jessica Alba has revealed that she loved portraying a normal character in the new film ‘Awake’ - because she is tired of playing a superhuman.
The 26-year-old actress said that after two ‘Fantastic Four’ films, she was keen on dumping her lycra costumes and return to be an ordinary person.
“I really liked not having to play a superhero. I didn’t have to do any action scenes; I didn’t have to dance; I didn’t have to scuba dive,” Contacmusic quoted Alba, as saying.
‘Awake,’ a thriller/drama film written and directed by Joby Harold, focuses on the life of a man named Clay, played by Hayden Christensen, who has been cast opposite Alba.
Jason Kliot, John Penotti and Joana Vicente have produced the film.
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Well, it’s done now. I’m all done with finals for another semester.
No more English department. I’ve decided to drop my minor because I’ve figured out that, while Communications might be seen by some as a slacker’s major, at least it isn’t English. I’ve never seen such a useless crock. So, goodbye, explication and scholarly opinion forming. I’m through with you.
And goodbye Intro to Acting: I know I only took you because you were an interpersonal communication credit that wasn’t public speaking, but I think I came to appreciate you as one of the must frustratingly pointless classes that ever might have been fun.
So, in the spirit of Finals being over, I’d like to impart to some of you some excellent advice to ignore. So: here’s how to survive finals with grace and patience.
1) Don’t wait til last minute.
2) Don’t assume your resources will be easy to find.
3) Never have anything to do with the English department.
4) Seriously, English? You might as well major in factory working.
5) But at least factory workers get paid a lot.
6) And it’s not like the work is too bad anyway.
7) I worked at one all summer, its worth the work.
8 ) This stopped being a list a long time ago.
9) For real: don’t put things off til last minute.
10) Don’t be me.
And with that said, I am looking forward to a nice break from school in which I will return to regularly updating good content.
Here is another cat video, by the way, because I like them, and I like you, and I like combining things I like.
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Filed under: Audio/Video, iPod
Young people attempting to convince the parental units to buy them the latest iPod now have a compelling argument in their arsenal. And adults who would rather buy items with educational value for their children may be pleasantly surprised. It turns out that in addition to playing music and video clips, the iPod may be used to recast and display lectures and visuals from the classroom. The New York Times reports that at least two companies now offer software that aligns recorded auditory information with digital images. In practice, a professor’s words and her PowerPoint slides are linked and then placed on a server from which students may download the lecture.
One advantage of the new software is the ease with which students may search for particular parts of the lecture to review, rather than having to sit through the whole presentation all over again. Every word that appears on the lecture’s accompanying digital images is indexed so that students can search for key words and open the lecture at any juncture. This technology is already in full swing at schools like the University of Central Florida, while others such as Purdue University are testing it out.
We’re guessing that the children might be winning a few bouts with the parents after this news gets out…
From The New York Times (via geeksugar)
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Posted by: in Hollywood news
Filed under: Action, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Images
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I absolutely love this new still photo from The Dark Knight (seen above, courtesy of Comics2Film). Doesn’t look like a shot from the film, but look closer and check out the mask in that guy’s hand. From what I know about the film, I assume that’s Heath Ledger in the picture either before or after he robs a bank in Gotham City as The Joker. And I assume that shot is part of a scene which is also part of the new IMAX footage (which will screen before IMAX prints of I Am Legend). Of course I’m not positive because I skipped an invite to attend a screening of the new IMAX footage last week. As part of the insane Dark Knight promotional nonsense, I was sent a Fed Ex package with a Gotham Times newspaper, a Gotham Times press pass and a note with instructions to show up at a certain IMAX theater in NYC. Since my fat ass was too lazy to travel all the way into the city for seven minutes of footage, I bailed on the invite. Sorry folks.
But when I was trolling around online, I saw that I had received the abbreviated press package. Perez Hilton (of all people) was actually sent a cake — a real cake — and was asked to call a phone number. When he did, a phone inside the actual cake started ringing. And so he had to dig through the cake, uncovering a package buried deep in the middle. That package contained an actual cell phone (I swear, I’m not kidding about this sh*t), and he was asked to call yet another number which gave him instructions on a place to go. I believe that place was a location in Los Angeles where they were also screening the IMAX footage. A f**king cake with a cell phone inside it! I’m still laughing about this. And if you can somehow suffer through Hilton’s awful shtick, you can watch video of the entire thing over here.
Additionally, a couple more photos from the film were just released. After the jump, you can check out a pic of Batman riding his BatPod (via Slashfilm), as well as a pic of Batman on the cover of Cinelive magazine.
Continue reading ‘The Dark Knight’ Update: New Pics, Lots More Promotional Madness
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