D0pe Shit For The D0pe Nerd
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Nike Dunk Hi AC Tier Zero
The last two Dunk styles we showed you are nearly impossible to obtain (see Gucci, DQM x Nike Dunk Unreleased Sample). In the same manner, the two subtle colorways of the Nike Dunk Hi AC may be difficult to come across as well. With that said, both colorways will release tomorrow, September 26th, 2009 at select retailers such as Undefeated.
Both pairs will feature a 100% canvas base combined with a white sole. One pair will come in an all-grey colorway, while the other pair owns an all-black color scheme. Is this the best Dunk release of 2009?
Nike Vunk
The Nike Dunk and Air Max 95s are two of Nike’s most popular silhouettes ever. And for the little kids with grown-up sneaker games, Nike is combining the two for these Nike Vunks.
The overall shape, forefoot upper and soles are straight from the Dunk half of this mashup. The Ar Max 95 cues are even more obvious, with the main design feature being the classic layered gradient along the side of the uppers. Multiple shades of grey are used along on the upper, accented with neon lime green, a la the Air Max 95. These are only expected to ever be a Grade School release, so the youngins will be the only ones enjoying these, but if you’re foot is small enough or you’ve got a son or daughter to keep fresh, these are available now at Finish Line for just over $60.
Richard Chai x PRO-Keds
For New York Fashion Week, designer Richard Chai worked with PRO-Keds on this collection, working with a mixture of silhouettes and turning out some interesting designs.
Chai’s an American fashion designer, so of course he brought a high-end style to the classic sneaker label. The low-top keeps it simple, using mostly grey tones and a zipper for securing them, even though they do have lace holes. The high-top also uses grey tones and an off-white patterned print. It also works with a zipper, but features interior padding, as well as matching stripes along the side.
These may be a high little high-fashion for some sneakerheads, but be on the lookout in Spring of 2010 for the complete collection to hit stores.
Suzuki QuadRacer R450 Limited Edition
Put a championship-winning ride in your garage with the Suzuki QuadRacer R450 Limited Edition ($8,200). Recently ridden to the 2008 AMA Pro ATV Championship, the QuadRacer R450 packs a motocross-tested, fuel-injected 450cc four-stroke engine, a new piston oil cooling jet to keep the engine cool and performance at its maximum, a new aluminum rear sub-frame, a more streamlined fuel tank, and a more responsive rear brake pedal, plus a stunning new black livery with black wheels that helps it stand out from the rest of ATV pack.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Ping! the iPhones BBM... kinda
This Ping app by the guy who made PushGmail is a mix between text messaging and instant messaging. What you need to know is that it's free and it's fast.
Ping is designed to look like the SMS app, and behaves much the same way. The messages you send arrive at the recipient's screen instantly—similar to IMs—but also pop up with a Push Notification if you're not actively using the phone.
It's basically free SMS for you to everyone who has an iPhone or iPod Touch (over Wi-Fi) as long as you can convince them to sign up for Ping. Even if you can't, the ones you do switch over might be enough for you to downgrade your SMS plan one notch to save some money.
In the end, this may either be a really useful SMS alternative for iPhones, or a service that's not different enough from SMS or IM that people will use it. It's too early to say.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
SmartScreen iPhone App
'SmartScreen' an application for the iPhone and iPod touch that will allow informational widgets to be placed and used on the lock screen. Widgets are similar to those offered by Apple's 'dashboard' and they follow familiar look and feel. The application will work on all models of iPhone and iPod touch that run OS 3.x. A SmartScreen SDK will be available to everyone in November 2009 but widget developers are being selected to participate in a Beta program
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Courier: First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet
It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we've all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft's astonishing take on the tablet.
Courier is a real device, and we've heard that it's in the "late prototype" stage of development. It's not a tablet, it's a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They're connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre. Until recently, it was a skunkworks project deep inside Microsoft, only known to the few engineers and executives working on it—Microsoft's brightest, like Entertainment & Devices tech chief and user-experience wizard J. Allard, who's spearheading the project. Currently, Courier appears to be at a stage where Microsoft is developing the user experience and showing design concepts to outside agencies. Microsoft has a history of collaborating with other firms, especially in the E&D division: Zune and Xbox have both gone through similar design processes. (And plans for the Microsoft Store leaked through a third-party agency were confirmed as genuine prototype layouts and concepts.) This video is branded Pioneer Studios, a Microsoft division within E&D that specializes in this kind of work, working with another agency that's a long-time Microsoft collaborator on confidential projects. The Courier user experience presented here is almost the exact opposite of what everyone expects the Apple tablet to be, a kung fu eagle claw to Apple's tiger style. It's complex: Two screens, a mashup of a pen-dominated interface with several types of multitouch finger gestures, and multiple graphically complex themes, modes and applications. (Our favorite UI bit? The hinge doubles as a "pocket" to hold items you want move from one page to another.) Microsoft's tablet heritage is digital ink-oriented, and this interface, while unlike anything we've seen before, clearly draws from that, its work with the Surface touch computer and even the Zune HD.
The Pink Phone Pictures Microsoft Doesn't Want You To See Yet
Project Pink is Microsoft's new phone for regular people. Rumors about the software go back months, but the hardware, and who's making it for Microsoft, has been a mystery. Here are the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure.These phones are going to be made by Sharp, who'll get to share branding with Microsoft. Sharp produced the Sidekick hardware for Danger, who was bought by Microsoft two years ago. (Which is honestly the only reason we can think of why Microsoft stuck with Sharp for the new phones, versus someone like HTC.) Pink will be primarily aimed at the same market as the Sidekick, and branding and identity for it is highly developed, pointing toward a later stage in the development cycle. The hardware design has a younger feeling too: Turtle looks like a chunky child's version of a Palm Pre, while Pure seems like a standard slider, and both are clearly plastic. They have an overall sense of roundedness, with lots of soft angles and circular keys. It's been reported elsewhere that Pink phones will include Zune services, and have its own app store, making it as close to the Zune phone as we may get. We'll see if it's close enough in the coming months, though these are the only facts our source will let us safely publish for now.
iPhone Gets MMS Friday... finally
We've just heard from AT&T that new carrier settings for the iPhone 3G and 3GS will be available "late morning" Pacific Time (which would be early afternoon Eastern) this Friday, September 25, which will finally enable MMS support. Owners will have to tether up to iTunes to grab those settings, so fish out your cable (as if you don't have it permanently attached to your machine already) and make sure you've got some solid time in front of the computer to check for the update over and over (and over) again, alright?
Hangover Cures
Everyone over does it every once in a while, and when you do, Hangover Cures ($10) will be there to help. Weighing in at a short but sweet 62 pages, written by veteran bartender Ben Reed, this guide to the morning after is filled with reviving recipes — including the always helpful bloody mary — expert advice, and cures from around the world.
Samsung Go Netbook
Been itching to try out this whole netbook thing? Do yourself a favor and scoop up a Samsung Go Netbook ($440). Designed by award-winning Japanese artist Naoto Fukasawa, the pebble-like Go offers a host of great features, including a 10.1-inch LED-backlit 1024 x 600 screen, 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 160 GB hard drive, 1 GB of RAM, Intel graphics, Wi-Fi, a 1.3-megapixel integrated webcam, Bluetooth 2.1, 9 hours of battery life, an integrated memory card reader, and more. There are four rubberized colors to choose from, but we're partial to the Orange one.
MINI Coupé Concept
Tempted by the MINI's go-cart handling, but not a fan of its boxy exterior? The MINI Coupé Concept ($TBA) is for you. Ready to accept any of MINI's powerhouse engines, including the 1.6L twin-scroll turbocharged unit from the MINI John Cooper Works, this stylish two-seater pairs a decidedly MINI-like bottom with an aggressively designed upper half, including a swept back windshield, short contrast roof, hidden B-pillars, and more sexy than every other modern MINI combined.
Nokia N900
Looking for an alternative to the iPhone and Android? The Nokia N900 (€500; October 2009) looks like a good bet. Featuring a beefy ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of RAM, OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration, a WVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi, HSPA, full Flash support, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 32GB of storage, and more, the N900 runs the company's new Linux-based Maemo 5 software, offering full-fledged computing power in a pocketable form factor.
Hitachi SimpleTough Hard Drive
What good is a portable hard drive if you're afraid to take it anywhere? With the Hitachi SimpleTough Hard Drive ($100-$135), you simply grab your data and go. Featuring a rugged body with grippy rubber sides and a smooth rubber body, the SimpleTough can withstand drops of up to 7 feet and also offers underside lighting and an integrated USB cable, giving you one less thing to remember when packing for your next spy mission.
Palm Pixi
Wish that the Pre was a little more like your old Treo? Your wish has been granted with the Palm Pixi ($TBA; Q4 2009). This candy bar-style phone features a full QWERTY keyboard, the same WebOS that powers the Pre, GPS and an accelerometer, a slightly more squat 2.63-inch, 320x400 display, a 2 megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth 2.1, 8GB of built-in memory, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, and more. Also like it's big brother, it will be available exclusively on Sprint at launch.
Motorola CLIQ
It's been a while since we've seen a pocket-worthy phone come from Moto, but it's been ever longer since it released a phone running Android. The Motorola CLIQ ($TBA; Fall 2009) is actually Moto's first Android device, and it's off to a strong start with a proprietary interface skin called MOTOBLUR that brings all your social networks, contacts, and important news together in one handy little interface. Other features include Wi-Fi, 3G networking, a 3.1-inch touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and video, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, microSD storage, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and more.
Jabra Halo
Whether you're jamming out to music, playing a game, or conducting a business call, the Jabra Halo ($130) has you covered. Sporting Bluetooth 2.0 A2DP, the Halo can connect to two devices at once, and features a foldable design, an included carrying pouch, Zirene Power Bass for audio enhancement, Noise Blackout technology with dual microphones for clearer calls, touch-based controls, a built-in rechargeable battery good for eight hours of talk or listening time, and more.
Bigs Sunflower Seeds... lol this was for Todd
A summertime tradition gets a swift kick to the nether regions with Bigs Sunflower Seeds ($17/12-pack). In addition to bigger, tastier seeds, Bigs offers a variety of well-known flavors, including Frank's Redhot, Vlasic Pickle, Zesty Ranch, and — wait for it — Bacon Salt, making them the ultimate man snack.
kanYe + Gaga = Fame Kills Tour
Fame Kills from kwest on Vimeo.
Im excited for the kanye half... Lady Gaga... not so much lol
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
No Homer - Hip Hop Icons Simpsonized
Following up on the success of Lego Hip Hop Album Covers, Format Presents: No Homer – Hip Hop Icons Simpsonized. The set features Me, Lil Wayne, Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Snoop Dogg, Flava Flav, Eazy E, Andre 3000, Eminem, and Fat Joe alongside iconic O representations for each artist.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Apple's "It's only rock and roll" Event Round up
iPhone Firmware 3.1, iPod Firmware 3.1.1, iPod Touch update and price cut, iPod Nano Refresh (Camera & Slightly bigger screen), iTunes 9 & new shuffle colors.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sick MacBook
With this vinyl decal created by a very crafty Etsy artist, Mac users can rewrite the classic fairy-tale — for a very different kind of happily ever after.
Friday, September 4, 2009
I am T-Pain iPhone App Is Auto-Tuning Genius
Smule, the guys who made Leaf Trombone and Ocarina, just ported Auto-Tune—the software T-Pain and Auto-Tune the news uses to make music gold—onto the iPhone. Holy crap is it awesome.But the fact that you can make your own track, then share it with your friends (or Facebook or Myspace) with just a few clicks is amazing, especially so since it's authentic Antares Auto-Tune technology. As a bonus, you can see the Auto-Tune the News guys with T-Pain allude to the existence of the app in their latest installment:
The Price is $3, and I definitely got $3 worth of fun out of it.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Only Diddy Does It This Big!!!
Leave it to Diddy to sway the masses... The very theatrical trailer to the Angels video off the forth coming album Last Train To Paris... SHIT IS HUGE... LETTTTTTSSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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