I remember the Casio G-Shock being the hippest watch back in high school, and till now it still hold a good memory every time I saw one. Casio has continued in updating their G-Shock family, and the new Casio G-Shock DW6900NB collection is the latest edition to the funky digital watch of the G-Shock family.
The new DW6900NB gives the classic G-Shock DW6900 a much needed revamp with rich metallic finishes and reflective mirrored dials. The Casio G-Shock DW6900NB Mirrored Collection consists of four metallic colorways such as jet black with silver mirrored dial (DW6900NB-1), metallic lime green with a green and purple LCD (DW6900NB-3), metallic eggplant (DW6900NB-4) and crisp white with a black reverse LCD (DW6900NB-7).
All of these timepieces get the usual features like shock resistant, water resistant for up to 200-meter and feature a flash alert, multi-function alarm, a countdown timer, 12/24 hour formats and 1/100th sec. stopwatch function. The Casio DW6900NB-1, DW6900NB-3, DW6900NB-4 and DW6900NB-7 are currently available for $99 each.
Oddly a year after the worldwide debut, Google TV doesn’t seem to have lifted off very well. Not many manufacturers have shipped Google TV products, and the exposure is small. But the Google TV team hasn’t stopped developing it. Now they’ve finally released a version of the official remote app for iOS platform. Yes, Google has decided that you can (finally) control your Google TV with your iPhone.
The interface and features appear to be the same with the Android counterpart with one main difference, and that is the currently the iOS version doesn’t support sharing web pages from mobile to the screen, but everything else like voice search is here and accounted for. It’s good for the team to finally get the long promised app out, although it’s been over one year now.
Samsung has been hard working on churning out lots and lots of 3D TVs and Smart TVs these days. The Korean electronics giant has just announced in their home country the availability of the D6400/D6500 Series 3D TVs.
The Samsung D6400/D6500 Series 3D TVs are available in 40-inch, 46-inch and 55-inch variants, and feature a Clear Motion Rate (CMR) of 480Hz, a Crystal Black Panel, the Hyper-real engine and a smart-real motion picture support to reduce cross-talk and flickering. Both 3D TVs also have the ability to convert 2D content to 3D. Additional specs include Bluetooth 3D glasses support, Smart Hub UI and Samsung’s 3D VOD service.
The Samsung D6400 3D TV series is priced at between 2,400,000 Won ($2,133) to 4,900,000 Won ($4,355), while the Samsung D6500 3D TV series is priced at between 2,600,000 Won ($2,310) to 5,200,000 Won ($4,621). As usual, the lady’s not included, even if you buy both the TVs.
Do you own any hot wheel toys? Ever dream of them becoming real life and racing in some ridiculously scary and dangerous tracks like the toys themselves? Well, Hot Wheels has teamed up with an Amsterdam-based company called Muse Digital to create a 3D commercial that can be projected onto buildings. In this case, Hot Wheels had Muse make them a 3D, computer-generated virtual race between four of its iconic models.
What cool is that the race was projected onto the side of the historic Sydney Customs House. So advanced are the projected 3D graphics that the building appears to get destroyed throughout the course of the race as if the race is real, as familiar orange track bursts through the walls and a number of other calamities follow.
This is a good example that the Internet is awesome. And at times, we wonder besides the usual keyboard warriors and /b/tards, who else actually lurk around the Internet. Last week, a Lexus LS460 owner attempted to re-create the classical 1990 TV commercial of Lexus, where an LS400 is sitting on a dynamometer and making a run up to 145 miles per hour, all while a large pyramid of crystal champagne glasses calmly sits on the hood of the car.
9 days after the disastrous 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit north-east coast of Miyagi, and as we can see international media is spinning the radiation news like a roller-coaster. But here we have a video clip courtesy of ‘rudyvanos’ showing that everyone’s getting on with their lives already, in Tokyo anyway.
By the way, why does their park looks <9000 times better than ours? Not fair! They look exactly like comics and animes.
To some, this might be “common” news, but to others it seems to be a surprise, and good effort, from Apple. Kevin Rose has published a set of emails that he received, and they seem to shed some light on how Apple has helped its employees in Japan during the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake. The account is that of an Apple Store manager somewhere in Tokyo who has been overseeing his store through the disaster.
Just after the earthquake, hundreds of people heaving around Apple Stores in Japan to use the internet connections. Apparently there’s a lack of free Wi-Fi in Japan, making the Apple Stores natural gathering places. Using Skype and FaceTime, victims were able to contact family members and even regroup at the stores.
According to the letters, Apple retail stores in Japan have become a sort of safe haven for lots of Apple employees (both retail and corporate) and their families since the quake hit. Apple Japan has been footing the bill for food, water, supplies and even hotel rooms for those in need, stating that their “safety is most important.” As public transportation systems have been mostly down, Apple has offered to pay for any and all expenses that may occur should an employee attempt to travel back home through alternate means.
At least Apple’s using its huge money reservoir for good use in times like this.
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