Harman’s AKG GHS-1 headset targets gamers
Harman's new AKG GHS-1 headset features a noise-canceling microphone, inline volume control, and lightweight design meant to be worn for hours and hours.
Harmon International is going after gamers with its new AKG GHS-1 gamer headset, designed to deliver first-class immersive audio along with all the trash-talking capability folks could want via a noise-canceling boom microphone. And the on-ear headset is designed with lightweight comfort in mind, so games can play for hours—and hours and hours—without fatigue.
“When you’re in an all-immersive entertainment experience such as gaming, we understand how important high-quality, realistic sound plays in the overall experience,” said Harmon Consumer Division president David Slump, in a statement. “The new GHS-1 headset is designed specifically for the gamer and features our innovative audio engineering built into a distinctive, long-lasting, and intuitive design for the ideal gaming experience.”
The headset features a directional boom microphone technology for coordinating with team-mates or simply mocking the opposition; the headset also features passive noise reduction to seal gamers away from annoying ambient sound and help them become fully immersed in the gaming experience. Gamers will also appreciate an inline volume control and on-off switch that eliminates the hassle of dashing out to PC, console, or game controls to wrangle audio. The headset is also portable, thanks to a 3D-Axis2 folding headband so the headphones can collapse into a size more appropriate to a gear bag. The headset offers a frequency range from 18 Hz to 24KHz, and claims 115db of dynamic sensitivity—if your ears can still detect all that, you probably haven’t been gaming enough.
The AKG GHS-1 gamer headsets are available now for a suggested price of $79.99in three gamer-garish color combinations—black and orange, white and green, and (we’re not making this up) camo and blue.
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One in four college textbooks will be digital in five years
Behemoth backpacks be damned! One report says that textbooks are becoming a thing of the past and e-textbooks are on their way.
Textbooks are the bane of every college kid’s existence: They’re expensive, heavy, half the time you end up using them once, your professors’ insist on going off book, and when all’s said and done and you try to sell them back, you’re gifted with a fraction of what you originally paid. There might be some good news in site for you aching joints and fraying backpack straps. According to Xplana, one in four college textbooks will be digital by 2015.
Xplana is a social learning platform that “redefines ‘social studies’ by allowing you to do all of your studying and social networking in one spot.” It’s a site featuring a bevy of social networking of the education variety, as well as 100,000 free academic resources. Of course, it gets pretty social by integrating your Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking platforms so that whilst you are bettering your career aspirations you can also check out who posted pictures of your from last night’s kegger. That said, Xplana gives students access to site’s they regularly would have to pay a hefty price for, and databases that seem to have endless requirements for registering.
So you might want to take that into consideration when the entirely Web-based site claims that in a mere five years a large percentage of college textbooks will do away with print in favor of digital. But According to Xplana, the rate of colleges turning to e-textbooks makes it look as if sales will grow as much as 80 to 100 percent in the following years, and that by 2015 students will be lugging fewer and fewer tomes with them to class. The report also notes that as these devices increase in quality and affordability, their acceptance in classrooms only seems natural. Print costs and annoyance are not the only factors at play here, either. The popularity of the iPad and saturation of the tablet market in general is winning over college educators and higher ups.
If tablet and e-reader devices were adopted in favor of printed textbooks, students and schools could save on the costs of updating the physical things on a yearly basis. Of course, publishing and printing companies would take a hit. To which we hear the collective snickers of college students shelling out hundreds of dollars on books say “suck it.”
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Cool Gadgets To Help Keep Martians In Shape
Nike+ SportWatch GPS Powered by TomTom$TBA
Runners everywhere are hotly anticipating the April debut of the Nike+ SportWatch GPS Powered by TomTom. This GPS watch in conjunction with the shoe-based Nike+ Sensor lets athletes accurately capture location, route information, distance, pace, calories burned, run history, and heart rate, among other things. After your run, plug into a USB port on your laptop and your run data is instantly transferred to www.nikeplus.com where you can track your progress and trash talk with other Nike+ members. Thanks to its simplified user interface with only three buttons, it’s also easy to operate while your sprinting about the town.
BodyMedia FITTM Mobile$250
The BodyMedia FIT Armband BW is a welcome update to the company’s lineup, adding Bluetooth so users can monitor their health wherever they go. This BodyMedia system includes free apps that let you view your personal dashboard on an iPhone or Android phone. This includes “near” real-time caloric burn and activity data, personalized workout goals based on your desired caloric burn, and the functionality to log your food. The ability to access this info throughout the day no matter where you are allows you to make healthier choices. Via the armband, it even tracks steps taken, sleep duration, and sleep efficiency.
SwiMP3.1G Underwater MP3 Player$150
There is no doubt about it: Music is a great motivator. So what’s a swimmer, snorkeler, or water-aerobics fan do? Check out the SwiMP3.1G, for starters. This waterproof MP3 player uses bone conduction to transfer sound vibrations from your cheekbone to the inner ear, making for a less muffled, more realistic auditory experience than other underwater players.
Ironman Global Trainer GPS Watch$250
Leave it to Ironman to pack everything an athlete could possibly need into a wristwatch. This GPS-enabled Global Trainer displays your pace, speed, distance, and more in real time. In fact, it will even measure location with altitude ascent and descent distance rates, so you know how tough or easy your trail is. Different modes — such as Multisport and Performance — are tailored to your workout. And with a 20-workout memory, this watch isn’t going to forget if you slack off, so best keep moving.
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CTIA rumor: Sprint to launch HTC EVO 3D, EVO View 4G tablet
Rumor is that Sprint plans to unveil two new devices from HTC at its CTIA event this week: The EVO 3D smartphone, and the EVO View 4G tablet.
A wealth of alleged details about Sprint’s upcoming handset lineup has emerged prior to the wireless carrier’s official announcement at the CTIA Wireless 2011 conference, which (pre-)kicks off on Monday, March 21, in Orlando, Florida.
According to a source who spoke with BRG:
The first big unveil for Sprint “most certainly will be” the HTC EVO 3D smartphone, the successor to the EVO 4G. It will run on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with the HTC Sense user interface.
Measuring 4.3-inches, the EVO 3D sports a 960×450 resolution touchscreen with Autostereoscopic 3D display capabilities — the newfangled type that doesn’t require the use of glasses.
The guts of the device, which runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), include a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm 8660 Snapdragon processor and a 1730mAh battery. (The device probably has 1GB of RAM and 4GB of ROM memory, but BRG says its source switched the numbers around when he gave the specs.)
In front the EVO 3D has a 1.3-megapixel camera for video chat. On the back are two 5-megapixel cameras, which enabled users to shoot footage in 3D. It can also output regular ol’ two-dimensional video at 1080p, or 3D video at 720p high-resolution, via an HDMI port. The device will also have access to both YouTube 3D and Blockbuster 3D on-demand apps.
In addition to the EVO 3D, Sprint will allegedly add the HTC EVO View 4G tablet to its roster. The 7-inch device is said to be “much like the HTC Flyer tablet” that debuted at Mobile World Congress 2011. It has a 1024×600 display, aluminum unibody design, and HTC Scribe for optional pen usage.
Like the EVO 3D, the View 4G runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with a HTC Sense UI that’s optimized for tablets. It has a 5MP camera in back and a 1.3MP camera in the front. The phone also has a 4000mAh battery, DLNA and HDMI output.
Outside of the CTIA timeframe, Sprint is said to launch three additional tablets: The Motorola Xoom, and two versions of the BlackBerry Playbook (one Wi-Fi-only, the Wi-Fi/WiMax 4G).
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Biometric wallet is 'virtually indestructible,' opens with your touch
This biometric wallet has a Bluetooth proximity alarm, carbon fiber shell, and fingerprint sensor for maximum security. It will set the rich and paranoid back about $825. Afraid someone might take something out of your wallet? If you have $825 to spend, fear no more. Dunhill is selling what it calls a “Biometric Wallet” that it claims is virtually indestructible and can only be opened with your fingerprint. Scared of someone taking the entire wallet? It can be linked to a mobile phone via Bluetooth and set to sound an alarm if your phone and wallet are separated by more than five meters (15 feet).
This wallet is built to be durable. It has a carbon fiber shell, leather interior, and stainless steel money clip. If only its design matched its top-notch construction. Almost any standard wallet looks slicker than this clamshell.
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NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life
Aliens exist, and we have proof.
That astonishingly awesome claim comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who says he has found conclusive evidence of alien life — fossils of bacteria found in an extremely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites. (There are only nine such meteorites on planet Earth.) Hoover’s findings were published late Friday night in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
“I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth,” Hoover, who has spent more than 10 years studying meteorites around the world, told FoxNews.com in an interview. “This field of study has just barely been touched — because quite frankly, a great many scientist [sic] would say that this is impossible.”
Hoover discovered the fossils by breaking apart the CI1 meteorite, and analyzing the exposed rock with a scanning-electron microscope and a field emission electron-scanning microscope, which allowed him to detect any fossil remains. What he found were fossils of micro-organisms (pictured below), many of which he says are strikingly similar to those found on our own planet (pictured above).
“The exciting thing is that they are in many cases recognizable and can be associated very closely with the generic species here on earth,” said Hoover. Some of the fossils, however, are quite odd. “There are some that are just very strange and don’t look like anything that I’ve been able to identify, and I’ve shown them to many other experts that have also come up stump.”
In order to satisfy the inevitable hoard of buzz-killing skeptics, Hoover’s study and evidence were made available to his peers in the scientific community in advance of the study’s publications, giving them a chance to thoroughly dissect his findings. Comments from those who decided to sift through the evidence will be published online, alongside the study.
“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis,” writes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Dr. Rudy Schild, who serves as the Journal of Cosmology’s editor-in-chief. “No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”
Needless to say, if Hoover’s conclusions are found to be accurate, the implications for human life will be staggering. Here’s hoping that he’s right.
Update: While the Journal of Cosmology says that “no other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting,” some highly respected names in the scientific community are challenging the validity of Cosmology, and the findings of Dr. Hoover.
“[The Journal of Cosmology] isn’t a real science journal at all,” says PZ Meyers in Science Blogs, “but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth.”
So there you have it — this is either reality-altering news, or the work of kooks. Our hearts believe, but our brains are kind of bummed.
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