Monday, January 31, 2011
7eleven Thai commercial
now this is a touching one...
Translation of the Thai dialogue (as on Youtube comments)
Today is the last day that our teacher will teach us.
I once jokingly asked if she remembered what each of her students looked like._
She said that she could.
But I didn't believe her then, it was forty years! How could she remember that all.
I don't have an answer if she could remember all of her students. But from what I saw today, every single one of her students remembers her.
Students, bow.
Marie France Bodyline Thailand Ads
Marie France Bodyline is a chain of slimming centres found in the Southeast Asian Region.
Ad's in Thai, but subtitles are there.... So wrong, but yet.. sooo funny!! Thai Ad's are the best!! Those blokes really get creative!!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
u2- live - with or without you
Think that lady might not have showered for awhile after getting to cuddle up with Bono for abit there...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Old Republic - Delayed... Now there's a Shocker!!
Sources speaking with MCV say BioWare's long-awaited space-bound MMORPG dropping this September; will miss projected spring 2011 debut.
A year ago Electronic Arts announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic--BioWare's massively multiplayer online role-playing game take on the esteemed film series--would arrive during the spring 2011 window. However, according to developer sources, the publisher was a bit ambitious with that date.
According to BioWare sources speaking with game business site MCV, the long-awaited PC MMORPG will arrive at an undisclosed date in September. As of press time EA has not responded to GamSpot’s request for comment or clarification on the purported delay.
SW: TOR is currently in testing phase, where BioWare-selected bug-squashers are traversing the game's universe, said to be bigger than every BioWare game released to date…put together.
SW: TOR--which EA will publish solo--takes place approximately 300 years after the events of the original game but some 3,600 years before the events of LucasArts' quintessential films. Players can choose to align themselves with either side of the Force, taking on professions like the Sith warrior and bounty hunter for the Dark Side and the trooper and smuggler for the Galactic Republic.
Property Prices are Ridiculously high?? Check out London's One Hyde Park...
One Hyde Park from Jesus Diaz on Vimeo.
86 Apartments, the most expensive reportedly costs US$225 million. Per Square Meter prices are about US$9.25 Million, how's that for keeping out the Riff raff 'eh?
http://genez.posterous.com emailNostalgia for The Muppet show! Enjoy these clips!
Beaker's version of Ode to Joy
Rockin it like Queen!!
Mahna Mahna...
In the Navy...
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Muppet Movie - The Rainbow Connection
This brings me back memories of yesteryear to a time of innocence... just realised that I'm almost as old as the Movie!! Woah!!
Mary J. Blige, U2 - One
Dedicated to all Buzzers
One love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should.
One life with each other: sisters, brothers.
One life, but we're not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other.
One, one.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Experimenting on Photoshop, tips & comments welcome
More experiments on photoshop.. it was an overcast day as I wandered around Danga Bay, JB. This is just something I shot from Danga Bay facing the Straits of Johor, that's Singapore in the background...
The source file
The Post-processed file from JPG source file.
The Post-processed file from RAW source file (does it look a tad "overcooked")
Motorola Xoom Lands at Best Buy February 17
Motorola Xoom Lands at Best Buy February 17
The Motorola Xoom, the much ballyhooed Honeycomb-equipped tablet that grabbed our eyeballs and wouldn't let go at CES, should be settling into Best Buy store shelves on February 17, according to leaked internal docs seen here.
Price is still not entirely confirmed, but an $800 rumor has been floating around for a while. A bit steep, to be sure, but the promise of a tablet-optimized Android OS in a 10-inch frame—finally!—is certainly appealing now, isn't it? Find a quick review of the insides here if you're still curious.
Guess we'll see when we finally get our hands on this, the first in a long line of tablets set to launch in 2011 [Engadget]
Send an email to Jack Loftus, the author of this post, at jloftus@gizmodo.com.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Porn Stars' Favorite Video Games
I dunno, the one at the end kinda looks alittle like Morgan Webb.. but Morgan might have have larger boobs =p
Dragon Age 2: Dead Space Armor Trailer
DragonAge = Win
EA's attempts to cross polinate sales across titles = FTL!
7 Ways To Control Your Hunger
Breakfast was two strawberry-filled doughnuts. I needed something quick, so I downed the pastries in my car on the way to work. Feeling full and high on sugar, I tackled my inbox with gusto. But by 10am, my gut was grumbling again – and lunch was hours away.
It was nothing like the previous morning, when I made an egg and cheese sandwich on wholewheat toast. Even though that had about 200 fewer calories than my doughnut binge, it kept me full till 1pm. Both breakfasts were satisfying – at the time.
What was the difference? The answer, fellow hungry men, lies in your brain’s dual perceptions of fullness. “Satiation” is the feeling of fullness at the end of a meal. “Satiety”, on the other hand, is a measure of how long it takes before you’re hungry again. Of course, food companies don’t want you to stay satisfied.
Fifteen years ago, Susanna Holt, PhD, an Australian researcher who ranked foods according to their satiety power, approached a number of food companies for funding to continue her work. She’s still waiting: The companies were motivated to decrease thesatiety of their foods – so people would buy more.
Take control. Master satiation and you can keep portion sizes in check. Boost satiety and you can prevent needless snacking. Read on and you’ll be able to fill your gut – and then lose it.
1. Know What (and When) To DrinkThink of your stomach as a balloon. As you eat, it stretches. And once it expands to its maximum capacity, the sensors throughout your digestive system tell your brain’s amygdala that it’s time to stop chowing down – regardless of what you’ve filled your belly with. As nutrition advisor Alan Aragon tells it: “Eating half a roll of toilet paper would make you feel full.”
To stretch your stomach without stuffing it with calories (or paper products), you need water. Aragon recommends drinking a glass 30 minutes before a meal and sipping frequently while eating. Water-rich foods – soups, salad, fruits, and vegetables – will also fill your belly without contributing excessive calories.
2. Fill Up With FibreFibre draws water from your body and the food you’ve eaten, and transports it to your intestinal tract, helping to deliver that meal-ending satiation, according to a 2009 study by researchers at the University of Washington. Fibre may boost satiety, too. Since it passes through the body undigested, fibre slows the absorption of nutrients and makes you feel fuller longer, according to a 2008 study by researchers at the University of Minnesota in the US.
A 2009 study in the Journal Of The American Dietetic Association found that adding 6g of soluble fibre (such as ground flaxseed) to yogurt provided the satiating power of an additional 260 calories. To reap the satiating benefits of fibre, aim for 25g to 35g daily. Refined carbohydrates, on the other hand – like in those doughnuts – are satiety killers. When participants in a 2008 British study drank a high-carb beverage for breakfast, they reported feeling hungrier at lunch than when they drank a beverage high in protein. Here’s why: Too much sugar brings on a rapid spike in insulin, which causes a sugar crash later and triggers a craving for more food.
3. Pack In The ProteinProtein, your muscle-growing fuel, also has the power to raise levels of peptides – synthesised amino acids – in your stomach. “These peptides initiate crosstalk with the brain on a molecular level to send out satiety signals,” says Aragon. He recommends aiming for 20g to 40g of protein at each meal.
4. Savour The FlavoursYour belly is rumbling, and a waiter sets a juicy burger in front of you. Resist the urge to unhinge your jaws and swallow it whole. Thoroughly chewing your food increases what researchers call “oro-sensory factors”, which send satiation signals to your brain, helping you feel full on less food, according to a 2009 study by Dutch researchers.
Study participants who chewed each bite for an extra three seconds ended up consuming less. And skip those meal-replacement shakes and calorie-clogged smoothies from the juice joint.
5. Trick Your Belly FullYou can’t trust your gut. Maybe you’ve heard about the Cornell University study with the trick bowls: People who ate soup from bowls that continuously refilled ate 73 per cent more than those who ate from ordinary bowls. The kicker: They rated themselves as feeling no more full. Scientists call this use of sensory cues to assess fullness “learned satiation”.
Try this: Dole out a portion of food onto a smaller plate and immediately place the rest in the refrigerator. Once you eat, the visual cue of a clean plate will signal that you’ve had enough – and the leftovers will stay out of sight and out of mind in the fridge.
6. Avoid Distraction At DinnerWhat you’re doing while you eat might be as important as what you’re eating. You’re likely to consume much more food and eat for longer periods of time when you’re distracted by television, music or a computer, according to a 2009 review of studies published in Trends In Food Science And Technology.
Eating while distracted interrupts brain-to-stomach satiation signals, making it harder to monitor your food intake. Also, distraction raises the risk of overeating the wrong types of foods (think popcorn at the movies). The takeaway from all this is simple: When you eat, actually eat. Grab a seat. Focus on your meal. Don’t check your e-mail or watch television. Pay attention to your first plate of food and you might find that you don’t need to go back for seconds.
7. Downsize Your SnacksAs long as you’re eating satiety-inducing nutrients at every meal, you’ll reduce your urge for food between meals, says Aragon. But if your gut’s growling and your next meal is far away, a snack can help prevent you from bulldozing though dinner.Grab food that’s high in protein or fibre, like beef jerky, nuts or cottage cheese, and keep your consumption under 200 calories, says Aragon. That way, you’ll keep gut-gurgling at bay without packing in a mini-meal. Whatever you do, skip the processed snacks that prime your gut for more, more, more. It’s how a doughnut leads to a growling stomach before lunch. And it’s how you can eat all day and never feel full.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
When video gaming turns wicked ‘sick’
When video gaming turns wicked ‘sick’
Researchers who studied young gamers in Singapore found evidence that video game addiction is a serious behavioral problem that is separate from other afflictions. (Credit: iStockphoto)
IOWA STATE (US) — A new study adds to growing evidence that video gaming can become a pathological problem for some young players.
The two-year longitudinal study of 3,034 third through eighth grade students in Singapore found approximately nine percent of gamers to be pathological players according to standards similar to those established by the American Psychiatric Association for diagnosing gambling addiction.
Douglas Gentile, an Iowa State University associate professor of psychology, and five researchers from Singapore and Hong Kong collaborated on the study, which is published in the journal Pediatrics.
The researchers report that the percentage of pathological youth gamers in Singapore is similar to other recent video game addiction studies in other countries, including the United States (8.5 percent), China (10.3 percent), Australia (8.0 percent), Germany (11.9 percent), and Taiwan (7.5 percent).
“We’re starting to see a number of studies from different cultures—in Europe, the U.S., and Asia—and they’re all showing that somewhere around 7 to 11 percent of gamers seem to be having real problems to the point that they’re considered pathological gamers,” says Gentile, who published the first national American study on pathological video game addiction in youths in the May 2009 journal Psychological Science.
“And we define that as damage to actual functioning—their school, social, family, occupational, psychological functioning, etc. To be considered pathological, gamers must be damaging multiple areas of their lives.”
“This study is important because we didn’t know until this research whether some types of children are at greater risk, how long the problem lasts, or whether pathological gaming was a separate problem or simply a symptom of some other problem—such as depression,” says Angeline Khoo, associate professor of psychological studies at the National Institute of Education in Singapore and principal investigator of the overall project.
The researchers gathered data from students attending 12 Singapore schools, including five boys’ schools. The subjects were surveyed annually on their video game play and behavior between 2007 and 2009. Surveys were conducted in classrooms by teachers who had been trained by the research team. The study had a 99 percent response rate.
Using the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a guide to define the addictive condition, the researchers found between 7.6 and 9.9 percent of the student sample could be defined as pathological gamers over the two-year period. Eighty-four percent of those subjects who were first classified as pathological gamers were found to still be classified that way two years later. Yet in that same two-year window, only one percent of the sample became new pathological gamers.
Through their analyses, the researchers conclude that video game addiction is a serious behavioral problem that is separate from other afflictions.
“Once they become addicted, pathological gamers were more likely to become depressed, have increased social phobias, and increased anxiety. And they received poorer grades in school,” Gentile says. “Therefore, it looks like pathological gaming is not simply a symptom of depression, social phobia or anxiety. In fact, those problems seem to increase as children become more addicted. In addition, when children stopped being addicted, depression, anxiety, and social phobias decreased as well.”
Among this sample, pathological gamers started with an average of 31 hours of play per week, compared with 19 hours per week for those who never became pathological gamers. But Gentile says those thresholds don’t necessarily translate across all cultures, particularly in American children.
“In general, Singaporean children spend more time playing video games than American children,” he says. “In the U.S., we didn’t follow the kids across time, so we don’t know where that threshold is across each culture or if there is a certain amount that is too much. We do know, however, that playing a lot is not the same as being a pathological gamer—the gaming must be causing problems for it to be considered pathological.”
The study was jointly funded by Singapore’s Ministry of Education and the National Institute of Education.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Attempt at Selective Colouring with Photoshop
Sooo I've always wondered how people achieve Selective Colouring, whereby a subject or certain elements in a picture will have color whilst the rest of the pic will be in Black & White.
The process isn't too overly complex, but yet can be time consuming if one is infinitely particular about pixel peeping at >200% resolution. But I must say that it does bring out the subject more to the viewer's attention by taking away background colours which can be distracting from the intended centre of attention/focus.
The Original cropped pic from which I used to achieve the above pic
Captain Slow, not going Slow at all!!
If you follow Top Gear (the original UK series with Clarkson, Hammond & Mays) at all, you'll know Captain Slow is James May's nickname on the show coz, well he's generally the more leisurely of the lot. Well not so in this Video from the series' Season 15 Ep. 5
And he attempts to go over 258mph or 414kmh in this tweaked out Bugatti Veyron Super Sport in Germany on a Road Legal car!! Oh & Stig has a run around the Top Gear track with this beast of a car too!!
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Fight Night Champion: Fight Damage Video
Another Fight Nite Champions Vid... really have me thinking about trying this one out...
Monday, January 17, 2011
'The Resident' Trailer HD
Have you ever felt like someone's watching you, even when you're alone? Maybe you really aren't....
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Jace Hall.. Rapper/Gamer.. check it these Vids..
Didn't know about this one... quite cool especially if you've played WoW at some point in your life.
This is one of his latest... quite cool from a Gamer's perspective...
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Like Realism in your Sports Sims? Check out Fight Night Champions
QUite comprehensive fatigue system they have going on here...
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More for Nicholas Cage fans? 3D and seemingly cheesy? some Nice fancy guns though.. and I'm not even talking about
The Top 10 Inspiring Books For Entrepreneurs
The Top 10 Inspiring Books For Entrepreneurs
By Vivek Krishnan | January 5, 2011
The list of top 10 inspiring books for entrepreneurs. Books are food for the soul and an entrepreneur needs to be careful what he feeds his soul. Here are a list of timeless classics and best-selling books that people across the world have found useful to motivate themselves and grow as entrepreneurs.
How To Get From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be? by Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is best known for his Chicken Soup for the Soul series. In this book, he mentions the 25 Principles of Success – that have been a common thread among the most successful people from all walks of life. This will top the list in Collegefallout’s books for entrepreneurs.
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
“Simplicity is a complex form of sophistication“. The best selling book “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson, M.D. is a simple book and yet, reveals the most profound truths of life. It tells you in a very subtle way and simplistic thoughts, what is the real requirement out of you in life.
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
I am sure that this book would not require an introduction to most of you reading this list. Admittedly, one of the most popular books for a person who aspires to get wealthy. It was first published in 1937 during the Great Depression and it still continues to be among the most best-selling books in the world.
New Ideas from Dead CEOs: Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office by Todd G.Buchholz
New Ideas From Dead CEOs tries to delve deep into the histories of America’s most successful entrepreneurs. Buchholz outlines in rich detail the business practices of CEOs like A.P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of America and Ray Croc, the founder of McDonalds.
What They Don’ Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack
Mark McCormack is the founder of the mammoth sports management company – IMG (International Management Group). In this book, Mark shares with us business inspiration and street-skills that can only be earned through decades in the entrepreneur play-field.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
A very well known personal finance book that talks about the extreme difference in the thought patters of someone who is enroute to be a millionaire and someone who is stuck in a rat race. It is inspirational and definitely worth a read.
Losing my Virginity by Richard Branson
Losing My Virginity autobiography book review of the business book by the Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson. Sir Richard Branson is someone who is hyper-creative and though he maintains a very charming image for the world – nobody moves so ahead in life without some serious skills. He is an inspiration to the new entrepreneur.
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
This awesome book by Guy Kawasaki is definitely a must read for anyone starting a company. This book has advice for you at just about any point in your startup from idea phase, to pitching, to executing. This book is written in the same wise-ass way that Guy Kawasaki usually talks in – you need a copy of this book on your shelf.
Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
Wine connoisseur Gary Vaynerchuk is the author of “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, a step-by-step how-to guide for people to change their passions into profitable businesses.
The 4-hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris
The 4-Hour Workweek is how it’s all about making enough money to be happy (and then spend the rest of your time living your life) instead of making as much money as you can. This book will make you re-think a lot of your assumptions about priorities and life.
Have you read any of these works and how has it influenced your life? Leave a comment below!
Why Music Makes You Happy : Discovery
People love music for much the same reason they're drawn to sex, drugs, gambling and delicious food, according to new research. When you listen to tunes that move you, the study found, your brain releases dopamine, a chemical involved in both motivation and addiction.
Even just anticipating the sounds of a composition like Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" or Phish's "You Enjoy Myself" can get the feel-good chemical flowing, found the study, which was the first to make a concrete link between dopamine release and musical pleasure.
The findings offer a biological explanation for why music has been such a major part of major emotional events in cultures around the world since the beginning of human history. Through music, the study also offers new insights into how the human pleasure system works.
"You're following these tunes and anticipating what's going to come next and whether it's going to confirm or surprise you, and all of these little cognitive nuances are what's giving you this amazing pleasure," said Valorie Salimpoor, a neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal. "The reinforcement or reward happens almost entirely because of dopamine."
"This basically explains why music has been around for so long," she added. "The intense pleasure we get from it is actually biologically reinforcing in the brain, and now here's proof for it."
In a previous study, Salimpoor and colleagues linked music-induced pleasure with a surge in intense emotional arousal, including changes in heart rate, pulse, breathing rate and other measurements. Along with these physical changes, people often report feelings of shivers or chills. When that happens during a listening experience, Salimpoor's group and others have found evidence that blood flows to regions in the brain involved in dopamine release.
To solidify the dopamine link, the researchers recruited eight music-lovers, who brought to the lab samples of music that gave them chills of pleasure. Most picks were classical, with some jazz, rock and popular music mixed in, including Led Zeppelin and Dave Matthews Band. The most popular selection was Barbar's Adagio for Strings.
After 15 minutes of listening, scientists injected participants with a radioactive substance that binds to dopamine receptors. With a machine called a PET scanner, the scientists were then able to see if that substance simply circulated through listeners' blood, which would indicate that they had already released a lot of dopamine, and that the dopamine was tying up all available receptors.
If most of their dopamine receptors were free, on the other hand, the radioactive substance would bind to them.
The technique showed, definitively for the first time, that people's brains released large amounts of dopamine when they listened to music that gave them chills, the researchers reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience. When the same people listened to less moving music the next day, their dopamine receptors remained wide open.
Once the researchers knew for sure that dopamine was behind the pleasure of music, they put participants in an fMRI machine and played the moving music for them again. In this part of the experiment, the scanners showed that the brain pumped out dopamine both during the phase of musical anticipation and at the moment when chills hit in full force. The two surges happened in different areas of the brain.
"It is amazing that we can release dopamine in anticipation of something abstract, complex and not concrete," Salimpoor said. "This is the first study to show that dopamine can be released in response to an aesthetic stimulus."
The findings suggest that, like sex and drugs, music may be mildly addictive, said David Huron, a music cognition researcher at Ohio State University, Columbus.
Dopamine is an adaptive reward-inducing molecule that makes animals want to look for food before they're hungry. It's what makes it impossible for some people to pass by the neighborhood bakery without going in to buy a tart. And it provides a rush for heroin addicts when they see blood enter the needle -- before the drug even gets into their veins.
In its groundbreaking combination of techniques, Huron said, the study also offers a new way to study the relationship between dopamine and feelings of motivation, reward and pleasure. Brain scanners are notoriously expensive for scientists and claustrophobic for participants, with no room for people to do things like eat in them.
Music, on the other hand, can be pumped right in to the machine, and scientists can then look at pleasure responses on a note-by-note basis.
"Music is going to be a useful tool in trying to explain all sorts of aspects of pleasure, addiction and maladaptive behaviors," Huron said. "It's a technical tour de force what they've done. I just think it's a really wonderful piece of work."
Harlem Globetrotters... Wished their tours take 'em over here soon!
When I first discovered the Harlem Globetrotter Youtube Channel, I literally stayed up hours into the night watching & reading about them on their website, though I had obviously heard about prior.
Here's their latest promo vid.. hope you get to watch 'em live should they come to a venue near ya!
Ever wondered Cee Lo Green's uncensored
So Anna here decided to pick Cee Lo Green's "F*ck You!" as her final for a college level sign language class. Enjoy!
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The Cursed Crusade: Teaser Trailer
Fancy yourself a Crusader? looks interesting.. but this IS a Trailer.. have to see more gameplay and combat to have a bette grasp if this is work actually playing.
Porsche unveils 918 RSR, the 767hp hybrid!! HAWT Stuff!!
Prius this ain't. Take a gander at Porsche's 918 RSR, which just rolled onto the company's stage at the 2011 North American International Auto Show. It has a 563hp traditional gasoline engine mounted amidships, with a pair of electric motors powering the front wheels that bring the total power up to a whopping 767. The electric motors are not powered by a set of batteries, as in a traditional hybrid, rather they take their power from an inertial flywheel mounted where the passenger seat would be on a road car and spinning at up to 36,000rpm. That's spun up by momentum when the car brakes and, when the driver hits a button, that momentum is converted to give an acceleratory boost.
That's the same setup as the 911 GT3 RSR Hybrid, which ran reasonably successfully last year. Its styling is obviously an extension of the 918 Spyder, with a number of cues taken from the incredibly successful Porsche 917 racer of the early '70s (dig the endplates that look like the 917's iconic fins). At this point Porsche hasn't indicated when this car will make its debut on the track, nor in which classes it will run, but one thing's for clear: this isn't for the road. So, we're a bit disappointed we still haven't any firm details on a production, street 918 -- not that we could have afforded it anyway.
Source:Engadget
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Shows I'm looking to watch now...
Was chatting with someone and these 2 movies came up all of a sudden.. and they look really fun to watch.
The Life Aquatic features an ensemble cast and well, how can it NOT be funny?!?
I've seen the trailer for Idiocracy before, but have never watch the movie... so another one on the "looking to watch" list
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Motorola Xoom WiFi-only version confirmed by Motorola Latin American exec: "
It's not that we expected the Motorola Xoom to forever be tethered to a carrier, but it sounds like we won't be waiting nearly as long as we did for Samsung's WiFi-only Galaxy Tab. Latin America GM Maurizio Angelone has told Infobae that a WiFi-only version does indeed exist and will first arrive in April -- one month before the 3G version will hit the market. The article doesn't specify if those months are specifically for Argentina or if they apply elsewhere as well, but it does sound like it'll be available sooner rather than later.
It's not that we expected the Motorola Xoom to forever be tethered to a carrier, but it sounds like we won't be waiting nearly as long as we did for Samsung's WiFi-only Galaxy Tab. Latin America GM Maurizio Angelone has told Infobae that a WiFi-only version does indeed exist and will first arrive in April -- one month before the 3G version will hit the market. The article doesn't specify if those months are specifically for Argentina or if they apply elsewhere as well, but it does sound like it'll be available sooner rather than later.
Motorola Xoom WiFi-only version confirmed by Motorola Latin American exec originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:22:00 EDT.
HDR Pics by Trey Ratcliff. Be Prepared to be Blown Away!!
Just discovered Trey Ratcliff's stunning HDR pics. Trey is photographer behind StuckInCustoms.com which is ranked amongst the top travel photography on the internet and holds the distinction of being the first photographer to ever have a HDR picture to be on display in the Smithsonian.
Forth of July over Lake Austin
When Fireworks explode inside a storm cloud
SkyBar in Traders Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Another shot from Skybar
Moonlight over Everest
Hong Kong from the Peak
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Star Wars: A New Hope
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Can be purchased at http://www.mondotees.com/ all by Tyler Stout
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Could This Be the Perfect Portable Gaming PC?
Perhaps the most innovative bit of gaming tech at this year's Consumer Electronics Show is a palm-sized, touch-screen gaming PC that comes packed with a keyboard that can transform on the fly.
But Razer isn't even sure they're going to be able to sell the Switchblade micro laptop.
Robert Krakoff, president of the computer accessory company, tells Kotaku that a lot is still up in the air about the slick prototype that's garnering a lot of buzz at this week's Vegas show.
Razer hasn't settled on the system specs of the Intel Atom chip laptop, or the price, or if they'll be able to solve a heat issue they're running into.
If the hurdles can be overcome, the device looks like it could be the perfect traveling companion for the PC gamer on the go.
The device, about the size of a small hardback when folded up, opens to show a 7-inch touchscreen and a smallish keyboard. The keys on the keyboard can all change on the fly to show anything from a standard text English-language keyboard to gaming icons to anything picture a modder whats to slap into a key.
Instead of relying on an expensive array of tiny LCD screens built into each button, the Switchblade has a second 7-inch LCD located under the keyboard buttons. The LCD can show a different picture for each button, which is projected up into the surface of the button, delivering the same effect as the mini-LCD approach.
Krakoff said they haven't decided yet if the device will be upgradable or have fixed system specs, but judging by the complexity of the design, I suspect it will shipped with a fixed chipset and memory. We know it will have an Atom CPU, perhaps in the 2Ghz range, but we don't know how much memory yet.
Krakoff added that the device will have USB ports for a mouse, if someone wants to use one to game with. It will likely also have Bluetooth support, WiFi and perhaps built-in mobile broadband support.
It also seems that Krakoff wants to make sure the Razer device has significant support within the gaming industry before they launch it. I asked if there was potential for the device, which runs on Windows 7 and has a custom user interface, to be branded. For instance, could there be a World of Warcraft or Blizzard Switchblade in the future, or perhaps a Switchblade that comes preloaded with Valve's game-download service Steam.
Krakoff says they haven't cut any deals yet, but that they're showing it around.
Valve's Gabe Newell seems extremely impressed with the devices potential, he said. The famed developer wanted to know if the device really worked, if it was doable.
Krakoff says that they're shooting for a system that will be able to play most games when it hits, but likely not something as high end as the latest Crysis.
Another significant question is how much Razer will sell the device for. Krakoff wouldn't say, but with Netbooks hovering in the sub-$500 range, I'd think the Switchblade would have to be in there too.
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Stunning Pictures Only a Gamer's Eye Could Have Captured
Stunning Pictures Only a Gamer's Eye Could Have Captured
Trey Ratcliff runs the most popular travel photo blogs in the world, he is also the first person to have an HDR picture hang in the Smithsonian. His photos may feel familiar to gamers, perhaps because Ratcliff himself is one.
This short video shows off just a few of Ratcliff's amazing, stunning images, each of which seem deeply influenced by the culture and aesthetic of gaming.
Make sure to check out his site to see more.
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Trey Ratcliff runs the most popular travel photo blogs in the world, he is also the first person to have an Seriously awesomeness!
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