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¿No te gusta tu bicicleta actual? Lo entiendo. Probablemente es del Decathlon, de un solo color, triste, gris, sin lucecitas aparte de las puramente legales. ¿Te gustaría convertirte en un rayo nocturno, una espiral de colores en medio de la noche?

Tenemos la solución. Lex es una diminuta pantalla de LEDs en la que se puede programar un mensaje mediante un sencillo programa y una conexión USB en tu ordenador. Cuando hayas programado lo que quieras decir al mundo (en inglés o en carácteres Hiragana, Katakana o Kanji), lo montas en la rueda de tu bici y ya te has convertido en una pequeña y veloz valla publicitaria. Al girar las ruedas, Lex dibuja el mensaje deseado en todo el perímetro de la rueda con una luz brillante.

Lex funciona con una pila AA y promete una duración de 96 horas, durante las cuales os convertiréis en un portento nocturno. Ahora vuestra bici SÍ hace que las cabezas se giren.

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Toshiba Japan has unveiled the new Vardia RD-A301 HD DVD recorder that records on HD-DVD and provides an internal 300GB hard drive for recording HD content. The device is also able to record your HD content on DVD discs. Other features include dual TV tuner analog / digital, an Ethernet port, HDMI out and S-Video. The Toshiba Vardia RD-A301 will be available by mid December in Japan for $870. A Transformers toy is also included in the package as the complimentary gift.

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In order to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Western Digital has pledged to donate an undisclosed amount of cash to the Foundation for each purchase of the Pink Western Digital Passport Portable Drive from now until February 29, 2008. It is currently available for $199.99.

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Epson Stylus Pro 3800 printer has received Italy’s most prestigious recognition for environmental achievement, the 2007 ecohitech award at a ceremony in Milan on 29th October. The printer adopts Epson’s revolutionary UltraChrome K3 Ink with industry leading 8-color pigment technology professional-quality color and black-and-white prints. It also utilities MicroPiezo AMC Print Head technology to produce sharp images at the maximum resolution of 2880 x 1440dpi with variable sized droplets as small as 3.5 picoliters. Other features include Accuphoto HD Screening, high-capacity paper feeder (120 sheets of plain paper), one high speed USB 2.0 and one 10/100 BaseT Ethernet interface for connectivity.

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Marketwatch has reported that Telstra Corp (Australian telecommunications) will launch the Apple iPhone in Australia in 2008. The company spokesman also confirmed that the company is currently testing the phone. Stay tuned for more updates.

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Todos hemos hechos castillos de cartas alguna vez, con mayor o menor fortuna. Aquí tenéis a Bryan Berg uno de los que mejor sabe hacer este tipo de cosas.

De hecho su nombre esta inscrito en el panteón de los “ilustres” al batir el record Guiness de estructuras de cartas con un torre de 4,3 metros. Más tarde se  superaría a sí mismo con otra torre de 8 metros.

En este video se aprecia su trabajo en la construcción del Capitolio de Washington. Fueron necesarias 22.000 cartas, 3 días y un pulso a prueba de bombas.

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Lots of us brought our kids, our nieces and nephews, our parents, and in some cases, our inner child to Microsoft to load up on chocolate.  I think my kids all ended up with several pounds of good-old American chocolate, enough to keep them in a sugar high (or post-sugar coma) until Christmas. 

Happy Halloween! 

Greetings PlayStation Nation!

Like all of you, I’ve been a big fan of our new blog - but until now, I’ve been staying behind the scenes. I’m excited to share my first post here and thought that our new advertising campaign for the PS3 would be of interest to everyone. In fact, the campaign is scheduled to break this weekend in conjunction with the introduction of the new 40GB PS3 here in North America. But as a reward for being some of our most loyal fans, I wanted to get this out to all of you first.

Last year, we launched the PS3 with a campaign that become known as the “White Room” and we received a strong reaction to those ads for being provocative and demonstrating the PS3’s power. With those technology messages now firmly embedded, we wanted to move beyond the “power” message with a more high-energy, entertainment driven focus for the PS3. The games are here, the price point is now $399 and we wanted to make the news loud and clear. But we need to deliver that in a way that befits the PlayStation brand. And so, beyond the brilliant HD games that the PS3 delivers, you’ll also see a big focus behind the PS3’s Blu-ray movie capability and, for the first time, you’ll see a major focus behind the PLAYSTATION Network (did I mention online gaming is free on PS3??) and the exclusive gaming content available on the PLAYSTATION Store, as well as breakthrough services like Home. As Kim noted in her recent post, with so much brewing inside the PS3, the icons and characters of the PS3 world come to life in the vivid black onyx world of the PS3 and nearly burst out of its seams.

The spots feature some of our recent and highly anticipated first-party titles including Heavenly Sword, Warhawk, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Grand Turismo 5 Prologue, as well as upcoming third-party exclusives such as Haze from Ubisoft and Metal Gear Solid 4 from Konami. I recall seeing some comments on this blog recently lamenting why we weren’t making a bigger deal out of Metal Gear. Well, get ready for a steady diet, because Metal Gear Solid is the mother of all exclusives and we can’t wait for its release. But we’ll also feature other great PS3 games like Burnout Paradise, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008, Assassin’s Creed, Madden NFL 08 and Time Crisis 4 rounding out the genre-defining titles and breadth of a lineup that you can only find on PLAYSTATION 3.

We’re kicking off the campaign in a big way with high-impact: 60 second spots (“Universe of Entertainment”) which feature PS3’s multi-functional capabilities and really kicks off the compelling and addictive nature of this campaign.

The second is our :30 “Only On” spot showcasing some of our gorgeous 1st party titles.

More television spots are still under development and we’ll reveal them as they’re finished.

As we head into November we couldn’t be more excited. We have the 40GB PS3 “officially” launching tomorrow at a price point that will appeal to a wider audience and the 80GB PS3 which is demonstrating phenomenal sales growth since we announced the $499 price point. Add to that the inflow of great games and a PS3 brand campaign — our largest ever behind a hardware platform — and we think it’s going to be a great holiday season for PS3.

And I’d be remiss not to mention the highly-anticipated titles coming in 2008 like Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Grand Theft Auto IV, Killzone 2, SingStar, Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid 4 and of course, Home. And rest assured, we have some secrets and many new games up our sleeves for 2008 as well. We can’t wait to kick it all off!

So, we hope you like the campaign. You guys are our biggest fans and I can tell you all with complete sincerity that we work hard to earn your trust and loyalty every day. Because we know if we can meet your high expectations, you’ll tell your friends and the rest will take care of itself.

Thanks and have fun!

Time for a little reminiscing. Back in the day my friends and I would frequent a particular strip club…. a lot. It had no booze so you could get in at 18. Anyway there was this MC there that looked just like Emmitt Smith and would always start his shtick with the title of this post. It became a chant among us that still pops up from time to time today.

He also used to like advertising said couch dances as “Texas style, Jersey wild” which sounds awesome. Eventually I came to find out that a “Texas style” couch dance is no contact. L-A-M-E.

What does ANY of this have to do with games? Well Rock, Paper, Shotgun recently ran an interview with one half of Old Man Murray, writer of Psychonauts and now writer at Valve Erik Wolpaw. The man is hilarious as always, and it’s probably the best interview I’ve read in quite a long time.

For instance he had this to say when asked about the hardest thing about writing for games:

“At strip clubs, there’s a guy whose job is to talk between the strippers. He tries to do a good job and be entertaining and enthusiastic, but everybody’s just there for the nakedness. That’s a professional writer trick we call an “analogy”. What I really mean is that game writers are the game equivalent of the guy who talks between the nude girls at strip clubs. Nobody cares about what that guy does, and anybody who does care is probably a little maladjusted. So I’d have to say the hardest part of being a game writer is learning all the writing tricks like ‘analogy’.”

He also discusses how cake came to be included in Portal which ends with the most matter of fact statement ever… “someone mentioned that a lot of people like cake.”

Seriously, read the interview.

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