Adidas: TechFashion

While everyone may not agree Adidas’s tweeting shoe is pushing the social networking to be even more fashionable. Adidas is calling it the “future of athlete connectivity” as they prepare for the 2016 Olympics.


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[video] NBA 2K12 Commercial (ft. Michael Jordan, Drake, and Mark Cuban)

Oh yeah, San Francisco pitcher Brian Wilson is in this as well.

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[video] Amazon introduces ‘Kindle Fire’

This is supposed to give some really serious competition to the iPad.

Meet the all-new Kindle Fire—a Kindle for movies, music, apps, games, reading & more. Only $199.

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[video] Fake Apple Stores found in China

I have read that two of these have already closed and expect the rest to follow shortly.

Facebook set to debut Skype Video Calls, New Design

Facebook Rules B*tches.

via Buzzfeed

Mark Zuckerberg announced a new Facebook redesign, without revealing any major details. The focus of the press conference was video calling, through Skype; though, unlike Skype, Facebook users will not require a specific program to utilize the technology, only a plug-in, which they can download whenever someone requests chatting with them:

[video] Google set to debut “Voice Search”

New feature from Google. In a few years this will probably be commonplace. Google is still Evil but they make cool stuff.

Now you can talk instead of type to search on google.com. All you need is Google Chrome 11 or higher and a built-in or attached mic. Learn more about Voice Search at: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/voicesearch.html

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[pics] Dr. Dre releases Beats by Dre ‘DETOX’ Set

Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are geniuses. Fuck releasing an album (Detox)for $ 9.99, we are gonna sell you guys tons of $500 Detox headphones. If you are ready to cop these go here…

Hacker speaks on PBS Tupac and Sony hacks

If you are wondering why hackers are loyal to Wikileaks, its because Julian Assange was a hacker himself as revealed in the documentary about him and how the organization came to be. Anyway time for corporate america and everybody else to realize that these hackers will rip your online presence to shreds if you dare say anything against Wikileaks. Here is some direct words from a hacker concerning their problems with PBS and Sony

via Forbes

“We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed. We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further… perusing,” read a statement that LulzSec posted to Twitter. “Anyway, say hello to the insides of the PBS servers, folks. They best watch where they’re sailing next time.”

[pics]10ft Cube is smallest eco-home in the world

Can’t lie looks comfy. Hit the jump to see the inside.

via Daily Mail

The tiny apartment, which is being showcased at the Edinburgh Science Festival, is designed to be carbon-neutral and is thought to be the smallest eco-home in the world.

Congressman Al Franken fires letter to Jobs about iPhone ‘tracking your every movement’ feature

Are we really surprised that Steve Jobs is Big Brother? Every aspect of this society we are being followed and watched by some evil force so get used to it.

via Arstechnica

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) wants answers. Security researchers today revealed the existence of a file on iPhones and on their computer backups that logs detailed cell phone triangulation data—and has ever since iOS 4 was released last summer. The information is stored unencrypted by default, and is simple to access. That announcement led Franken to fire off a two-page letter (PDF) today, asking nine pointed questions of Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

The letter concludes with a list of questions.

1. Why does Apple collect and compile this location data? Why did Apple choose to initiate tracking this data in its iOS 4 operating system?
2. Does Apple collect and compile this location data for laptops?

[video] State of Facebook

Here is a great and detailed breakdown on the power of Facebook.

 

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[video] iPad 2 ‘We Believe’

Check out this new tv spot for the iPad 2 titled ‘We Believe’.

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[video] Badminton Jedi

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[video] Serena Williams in ‘World’s Sexiest’ Top Spin 4

Wow.

via The Escapist

2K Sports is putting some space between itself and the ad, claiming that it really had nothing at all to do with it. “As part of the process for creating marketing campaigns to support our titles, we pursue a variety of creative avenues,” the company told Joystiq. “This video is not part of the title’s final marketing campaign and its distribution was unauthorized.”

[video] Mario as FIRST PERSON SHOOTER

Absolutely dope in every aspect. The time it took this shows these guys are relentless in their pursuit to do next level sh

via freddiew

Tweet it! http://bit.ly/RTFPMario
Facebook it! http://on.fb.me/fywFpN

What Mario would look like if it was a sweet next-gen first person shooter!

After not touching 3dsMax since the mailboxes in Jedi Assholes, Brandon decided to get his 3d chops back. We’ve been working on this in the background for the last three weeks. Don’t expect full 3d movies on a weekly basis, it took over 60 hours to render this beast out!

3dsMax, FumeFX, and After Effects were used to make this.

[video] Real-life Tron Lightcycle

This is just plain dope. Check out how it looks at night a couple of minutes into the video. I am totally convinced that the line between movies and real life is totally blurred.

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Ashton Kutcher Twitter Account Hacked

What a week for Twitter?
The network has had the circus that is Charlie Sheen join and get probably a record breaking Twitter followers in 24 hours, and one of their biggest celebrity users Ashton Kutcher’s account was hacked. With this happening if Ashton decides that he will no longer use the site because of this compromise will more big time celebs follow and ditch the service?

The two tweets following the hack were, “Ashton, you’ve been Punk’d. This account is not secure. Dude, where’s my SSL?” and “P.S. This is for those young protesters around the world who deserve not to have their Facebook & Twitter accounts hacked like this. #SSL”

The tweets were posted to his account @aplusk on Wednesday evening and were still on his page as of 8:50 p.m. Eastern Time (screenshot below).

New Macbook Pros

If anyone wants to cop me one of these, let me know.

Apple claims the new machines, which include FaceTime HD cameras with “triple the resolution of the previous generation,” Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5 and i7 processors, and Thunderbolt I/O technology, are “up to twice as fast” as their predecessors.

Obama & Silicon Valley Tech Titans Have Dinner

Wanna know who attended? Go right here

via ABC

Obama chose these 12 titans of technology because “American companies like these have been leading by investing in the creativity and ingenuity of the American people, creating cutting-edge new technologies and promoting new ways to communicate.”

New Press Secretary Jay Carney instead released an email which described the evening as the president’s chance to discuss “his proposals to invest in research and development and expand incentives for companies to grow and hire, along with his goal of doubling exports over five years to support millions of American jobs.”

[video] Facebook Phone Revealed?

Note: Could not embed the Tech Crunch video for some odd reason so this is a silent demo video I found on Youtube.

via Tech Crunch
Along the top are four Facebook buttons: People, Events, Notifications, and Places. The People button shows you the feeds of your closest friends as determined by Facebook’s Open Graph API. It’s like a friends and family circle on a mobile calling plan, except it shows you the feeds of your “top” friends, which you can swipe through. The phone also ingests all the details it can about your Facebook friends into the local address book so you have one unified social address book.

[video] Winklevi Twins continue war against Mark Zuckerberg

I don’t understand these guys at all. Did they not settle and get a whopping $65 million bucks? Classic jocks vs. geeks story that won’t die. Not such a good week for Mark cause besides these two dicks, his stalker is being a major pest as well.

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[video] The Facebook Obsession

CNBC:With more than half a billion users around the world, Facebook has altered our everyday lives for better or worse, and in ways we may not even recognize. Correspondent Lester Holt explores the real story behind the $50 billion dollar social network juggernaut.

 

Infograph: Who Really Owns Facebook?

If you ever wanted to know who owns your favorite social network, Business Insider has provided a detail infograph.

[video] Call of Duty: Black Ops – First Strike Multiplayer Preview

via Planet XBOX 360

Today the first trailer for the upcoming multiplayer downloadable content First Strike, for the biggest-selling game of 2010 – Call of Duty: Black Ops, was released onto the internets and is embedded below for your viewing pleasure in full high-definition.

[video] T-Pain releases new Android “Booty Symphony” App (NSFW)

I guess booty shaking has gone mainstream. Expect this to be purchased by horny teenage boys everywhere.

Check out Booty Symphony, the new app powered by T-Pain’s label Nappy Boy Entertainment.  The app lets users conduct 30-second music videos from “Booty Soundboards” based on songs from the Nappy Boy catalogue including Tay Dizm’s “Point Em Out” and Young Cash’s “I’m a Freak” and “I Support Single Mothers.”

[video]Lady Gaga Announces Polaroid Camera Glasses and Printer at CES

via Gizmodo

The history of science fictional and concept eyewear is littered with ideas stacked on top of a simple basis: that eyes are for seeing.

[pics] Check out 50 Cent’s ‘Sleek Audio’ headphones

Since headphones are selling and the music isn’t, 50 Cent follows Dr. Dre’s brilliant business move by getting involved with Sleek Audio to produce his own line of high end headphones.

 

via Engadget

Sleek — which tickled our ears quite pleasantly with last year’s SA1 — is apparently gearing up to unveil something special here at CES. Mum’s the word on what, exactly, but judging by the image above, we’re assuming it’ll be a pair of high-end wireless (Kleer?) headphones with the backing of 50 Cent.

[pics] Fake Chinese iPhone

Expect to see these on 28th Street, matter fact I will put money up that they are already there. Images courtesy of Dan Frommer, Business Insider

via Business Insider
One of our colleagues just got back from a trip to China, and she brought us back a gift: This fake iPhone 4.

From far away, it looks pretty real — never mind that Apple hasn’t actually started selling the white iPhone 4 yet, because of some manufacturing problems.

Finally: Phone Chargers To Be Standardized In 2011

Yep I have a draw full of old chargers, this is prompting me to finally throw them all away.

via Hot Hard Ware

After all these years of dealing with different chargers and various connections between phones and other devices, some good news is in store.

What exactly is Facebook Messages?

These guys over at The Social Network really seem to have things figured out. They have just figured away to put all your communication needs in one place so you can stay on Facebook on even longer. Check out some great info provided by the guys from Gizmodo

via Gizmodo

What are the difference between Facebook messages and regular email? It incorporates emails, Facebook messages, SMS, other chat clients. Eventually VoIP may also be in play. Instead of having some chats here and some texts there, every time you talk to someone it’ll be come part of a stream of information.

[video] Call of Duty: Black Ops ‘There’s a Soldier in All of Us’ (featuring Kobe Bryant & Jimmy Kimmel)

New dope commercial I just saw while watching the the Indy-Jets game.

Mark Zuckerberg shoots down ‘Facebook Phone’ rumors

Would have been dope but he pretty much deads the rumors here. More below:

via Mashable

“First of all, we’re not a hardware company,” Zuckerberg responded unequivocally to a question from Reuters’s Alexei Oreskovic. “Second of all, our goal is not to sell anything physical; our goal is to make it so that everything can be social.”

[video] The Commuter starring Dev Patel, Pamela Anderson (new film in mobile HD shot with Nokia 8)

Nokia N8 smartphone – http://goo.gl/M157 – Nokia’s highly anticipated short film, ‘The Commuter’ staring Dev Patel, Pamela Anderson, Charles Dance, Ed Westwick and shot entirely in mobile HD on the Nokia N8 smartphone.

Myspace re-invents itself with new ‘MTV styled’ look

via Huff Post

(By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP/Huffington Post) NEW YORK — MySpace, the online social hub that’s been fighting to stay relevant in the age of Facebook and Twitter, is overhauling its image and its website into an entertainment destination for its mostly younger audience.

Judge shuts down file-sharing site Limewire

I guess people still used Limewire but I stopped many years ago when it became infected with viruses and a bunch of crap but it was the sh*t when it first came out. The music industry still dropped the ball on this because they had the first opportunity to use this technology and they balked and basically self destructed and will probably never recover.

via Newser

Newser) – File-sharing site LimeWire has been effectively killed off by a court order. A federal judge has issued an injunction ordering the service to permanently disable its software and to end the sharing of unauthorized music files, the Wall Street Journal reports. The popular site was found liable for copyright infringement on a “massive scale” six months ago.

The Playstation Phone

I guess this is sorta of a big deal because this right now is the number #1 trending topic on Twitter.
via Engadget

It’s hard to believe that what we’re looking at is real — but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you’ve long been waiting for.

[video] RIM releases its answer to the iPad the ‘BlackBerry® PlayBook™’

via US

BlackBerry releases viral for the company’s new tablet-the PlayBook. Described as “the first professional tablet” it features a 7″ LCD display, 1024 x 600 screen resolution, 3 megapixel front-facing camera along with a 5 megapixel rear lens allowing video conferencing, 1GB RAM, 1 GHz dual-core processor gives it groundbreaking speed to enjoy
the Push technology Email, calendar, BBM™, tasks, documents and more.

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[video] Send Autotuned Voicemails w/ ‘I Am T-Pain’ App Update

If would be dope if Jay Z sent one to Beyonce.

via gizmodo

The update is free for people who already own the popular app (which itself is on sale for $1 this weekend), though you’ll have to buy T-Pain credits to leave the 45 second clips (they can be acapella “freestyles” or ditties on top of some non-T-Pain beats).

[video] Future of Screen Technology

Does this look realistic to you guys?

This is the result of the Open Innovation experiment. It is an experience video showing the future of screen technology with stretchable screens, transparent screens and e-ink displays, to name a few.

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[video] New iPod Touch 4G (IPS Screen, Dual Cameras, A4 Chipset) from Apple’s September 1st Live Event

Apple seems to be in over drive when it comes to dropping new products. Here is some info about their new iPod Touch and go here to see the new Apple TV.

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