Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Gear : Bracelets : Intel MICA
Gear : Bracelets : Intel MICA
We’ve been keeping our eyes on Intel’s MICA, the fashionable smart bracelet designed in partnership with Opening Ceremony and Barneys New York. MICA is probably the most concerted effort yet towards building a wearable just for women, and now we know that it can also be the perfect holiday gift for your high tech fashionista—MICA is officially getting a December release with a $495 price tag.
In addition to confirming the December release, Intel also confirmed the final feature set for the device at their launch event earlier this week. As we knew from before, MICA will function as a standalone device, instead of being a smartphone companion. We heard earlier that AT&T would be the exclusive carrier, and that’s still true, but it fortunately won’t add to your wireless bill. MICA comes with an AT&T SIM card inside, and two years of data service is included with purchase.
With MICA, you’ll get Facebook and Gmail notifications and text messages straight to your wrist. For the latter, implementation is a little awkward because MICA has its own SIM card, so the text messages will have to go to that phone number instead of your regular home phone number. There’s also Yelp and TomTom integration, so you can find places of interest around you and get directions. You can also create a contact list specific to the device.
MICA is definitely fashion accessory first, wearable device second—an approach that has understated merit in the wearable market. It’s a wide bracelet coated with 18k gold and has a curved sapphire glass display, the sort that will also be found on the upcoming Apple Watch. As we heard before, MICA will come in two styles—black water snake skin with inlaid pearls and lapis stones and white water snake skin with inlaid tiger’s eye and obsidian stones.
There won’t be anything in the way of voice or text input, so you’ll be limited to the preset options Intel has on their proprietary wearable software. While that might be a little frustrating, MICA ultimately exists as something meant to be purchased as a bracelet first, with the smart features there as a bonus. It’s an interesting approach to wearables, and we’re curious to see how MICA will be received this holiday season.
MICA will be available in early December in the Opening Ceremony stores in New York and Los Angeles and in Barneys New York stores. If neither of those are anywhere near you, don’t fret—MICA will be available on OpeningCeremony.us and Barneys.com.
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We’ve been keeping our eyes on Intel’s MICA, the fashionable smart bracelet designed in partnership with Opening Ceremony and Barneys New York. MICA is probably the most concerted effort yet towards building a wearable just for women, and now we know that it can also be the perfect holiday gift for your high tech fashionista—MICA is officially getting a December release with a $495 price tag.
In addition to confirming the December release, Intel also confirmed the final feature set for the device at their launch event earlier this week. As we knew from before, MICA will function as a standalone device, instead of being a smartphone companion. We heard earlier that AT&T would be the exclusive carrier, and that’s still true, but it fortunately won’t add to your wireless bill. MICA comes with an AT&T SIM card inside, and two years of data service is included with purchase.
With MICA, you’ll get Facebook and Gmail notifications and text messages straight to your wrist. For the latter, implementation is a little awkward because MICA has its own SIM card, so the text messages will have to go to that phone number instead of your regular home phone number. There’s also Yelp and TomTom integration, so you can find places of interest around you and get directions. You can also create a contact list specific to the device.
MICA is definitely fashion accessory first, wearable device second—an approach that has understated merit in the wearable market. It’s a wide bracelet coated with 18k gold and has a curved sapphire glass display, the sort that will also be found on the upcoming Apple Watch. As we heard before, MICA will come in two styles—black water snake skin with inlaid pearls and lapis stones and white water snake skin with inlaid tiger’s eye and obsidian stones.
There won’t be anything in the way of voice or text input, so you’ll be limited to the preset options Intel has on their proprietary wearable software. While that might be a little frustrating, MICA ultimately exists as something meant to be purchased as a bracelet first, with the smart features there as a bonus. It’s an interesting approach to wearables, and we’re curious to see how MICA will be received this holiday season.
MICA will be available in early December in the Opening Ceremony stores in New York and Los Angeles and in Barneys New York stores. If neither of those are anywhere near you, don’t fret—MICA will be available on OpeningCeremony.us and Barneys.com.
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Gadgets : Mini Power Cardboard Cells
Gadgets : Mini Power Cardboard Cells
From designer Tsung Chih-Hsien comes this 2014 Red Dot Design Award-winning cardboard phone-charging battery. Called Mini Power, these tablet-like batteries are sold in strips and come in configurations of two-, four- or six-hour capacities. Once used, the batteries can be recharged or even recycled at any convenience store that stocks them. Utilizing paper battery technology, Mini Power is perfect for emergency use and for smartphone users who have forgone traditional external batteries for their unwieldy bulk. Although it’s in concept stage at this point, Mini Power stands as a testament to the increasingly creative ways in which external charging technologies are evolving.
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From designer Tsung Chih-Hsien comes this 2014 Red Dot Design Award-winning cardboard phone-charging battery. Called Mini Power, these tablet-like batteries are sold in strips and come in configurations of two-, four- or six-hour capacities. Once used, the batteries can be recharged or even recycled at any convenience store that stocks them. Utilizing paper battery technology, Mini Power is perfect for emergency use and for smartphone users who have forgone traditional external batteries for their unwieldy bulk. Although it’s in concept stage at this point, Mini Power stands as a testament to the increasingly creative ways in which external charging technologies are evolving.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Videos : Beyoncé : Haunted
Videos : Beyoncé : Haunted
Following the release of two new songs, a video for “7/11,” and the platinum edition of her self-titled album, Beyoncé has released the official music video for “Haunted” along with the rest of the videos from her self-titled visual album. Nearly a year since the release of her surprise album, the project has finally made its way to Spotify, and music videos have now been uploaded to VEVO. If the track sounds familiar it’s because it played in the background of the second official trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey. The intriguing video was directed by Swedish film and music director Jonas Åkerlend, with Todd Tourso as the creative director.
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Following the release of two new songs, a video for “7/11,” and the platinum edition of her self-titled album, Beyoncé has released the official music video for “Haunted” along with the rest of the videos from her self-titled visual album. Nearly a year since the release of her surprise album, the project has finally made its way to Spotify, and music videos have now been uploaded to VEVO. If the track sounds familiar it’s because it played in the background of the second official trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey. The intriguing video was directed by Swedish film and music director Jonas Åkerlend, with Todd Tourso as the creative director.
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Singles : Skrillex : Ragga Bomb ft. Zomboy
Singles : Skrillex : Ragga Bomb ft. Zomboy
Listen To : Skrillex : Ragga Bomb
Skrillex and Zomboy have remixed "Ragga Bomb" and turned it into an even bigger bass tune. The remix will be released on Skrillex's upcoming remix EP, Ragga Bomb v Ease My Mind Remixes. Listen to the remix above!
The Skrillex and Zomboy remix might be surprising to a lot of their fans. Earlier this year, the internet was going crazy over the similarities of Zomboy's track “Terror Squad” and Skrillex's “All is Fair in Love & Brostep." "Terror Squad" was released first, but Skrillex was playing his track as an ID for a long time. Zomboy explained it all in the Facebook post below, and Skrillex stated that it was all love.
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Listen To : Skrillex : Ragga Bomb
Skrillex and Zomboy have remixed "Ragga Bomb" and turned it into an even bigger bass tune. The remix will be released on Skrillex's upcoming remix EP, Ragga Bomb v Ease My Mind Remixes. Listen to the remix above!
The Skrillex and Zomboy remix might be surprising to a lot of their fans. Earlier this year, the internet was going crazy over the similarities of Zomboy's track “Terror Squad” and Skrillex's “All is Fair in Love & Brostep." "Terror Squad" was released first, but Skrillex was playing his track as an ID for a long time. Zomboy explained it all in the Facebook post below, and Skrillex stated that it was all love.
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News : Eminem Quoted by Supreme Court Justice
News : Eminem Quoted by Supreme Court Justice
The high court tackles how to interpret statements made on social media and what constitutes a 'true threat.'
On Monday (Dec. 1), the U.S. Supreme Court delved into modern times by looking at social media, rap music and how to balance an individual's freedom to shoot from the lip with society's interest in protecting against those who would cause fear and disruption. Anyone betting that Eminem would be the rapper to be mentioned today at the high court is a little richer.
The case is Elonis v. United States, featuring a 31-year-old Pennsylvania man named Anthony Elonis who in 2011 was convicted of making threats on Facebook against his estranged wife. For writing stuff like "There's one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you," Elonis got a 44-month prison sentence.
Elonis believes his Facebook posts were misinterpreted, and on appeal, his lawyers have made the argument that his social media postings are stylized as rap music lyrics. As a result, in the months leading up to today's hearing, the nine justices of the high court got an earful about both the history of hip-hop and contemporary modes of communication.
Most directly, the case examines what's a "true threat" for the purposes of criminal prosecution, but given the widespread acceptance that online rants and rap music can often be prone to hyperbole, the coming decision figures to be a landmark First Amendment one that weighs a speaker's intent versus a reader's understanding -- a balancing act that could easily be applied in other legal contexts like an analysis of defamation.
On behalf of Elonis, attorney John Elwood urged the high court to adopt a "specific intent" standard, namely that a jury should examine what his client had in mind with his Internet postings. Meanwhile, the federal government is emphasizing how a "reasonable person" would interpret what Elwood had to say.
In this case, context cuts both ways -- a statement may be less threatening if viewed through the prism of an aspiring rapper who is attempting to boast or more threatening if seen as coming from a guy who lost his wife and kids, got fired from his job, and is broadcasting his thoughts to those close to him.
Chief Justice John Roberts emphasized context throughout the hearing, putting forward the scenario of teenagers in a chat room playing a game. "You don't take what is on the Internet in the abstract and say, 'This person wants to do something horrible,'" said Roberts. "You are familiar with the context."
"That is true," responded Elwood. "But the thing is everyone has a different view of what context matters."
Roberts came back to this point when questioning Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben.
He asked, "If you have a statement made in the style of rap music... is the reasonable person supposed to be someone familiar with that style and the use of what might be viewed as threatening words in connection with that music...?"
Dreeben answered that it depends on whom the speaker is speaking to — that it matters if it's going to a general audience for the purposes of entertainment. The government attorney waived off Robert's concern that lyrics from lots of rap artists might be susceptible to prosecution.
"So how do you start out if you want to be a rap artist?" Roberts then asked. "Your first communication you can't say, I'm an artist, right?"
"I think that you have perfect freedom to engage in rap artistry," responded Dreeben. "What you don't have [is] perfect freedom to do is to make statements that are like the ones in this case where, after the individual receives a protection from abuse order from a court which was based on Facebook posts that his wife took as threatening, he comes out with a post and says fold up that PFA and put it in your pocket, will it stop a bullet? He knows that his wife is reading these posts."
If that's not clear enough, the argument gets a rehash when Roberts quotes Eminem's "'97 Bonnie and Clyde," imagining Slim Shady's dead wife.
"What about the language at pages 54 to 55 of the Petitioner's brief?" asks the chief justice. "You know, 'Dada make a nice bed for mommy at the bottom of the lake,' 'tie a rope around a rock,' this is during the context of a domestic dispute between a husband and wife. 'There goes mama splashing in the water, no more fighting with dad,' you know, all that stuff."
But Eminem was only trying to entertain at a concert, defended Dreeben.
"It wasn't as if [Eminem] stated it to her in private or on a Facebook page after having received a protection from abuse order," said the government lawyer. "It wasn't as if he appropriated a style of rap that wasn't anything that he had been doing previously in the marriage and all of a sudden tried to express violent statements that way."
When it was time for Elwood to give his rebuttal, he argued that the government's position is tantamount to imposing five years of felony liability anytime the understanding of a speaker and listener gets crossed. Elwood said Elonis' adoption of rap wasn't a "recent invention," that his postings included "long and painful-to-read rap which has nothing to do with his wife," and that in response to one Facebook friend, his client posted something like, "I do this for me; it's a therapeutic."
"There is stuff you can point to to show that there was a misunderstanding between the two of them," said Elwood, referring to his client and his client's estranged wife. "And, again, you can imagine a situation where somebody says, 'I'm posting this for entertainment purposes only.'"
Not every justice was buying this.
"Well, this sounds like a roadmap for threatening a spouse and getting away with it," responded Justice Samuel Alito. "You put it in rhyme and you put some stuff about the Internet on it and you say, 'I'm an aspiring rap artist.'"
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The high court tackles how to interpret statements made on social media and what constitutes a 'true threat.'
On Monday (Dec. 1), the U.S. Supreme Court delved into modern times by looking at social media, rap music and how to balance an individual's freedom to shoot from the lip with society's interest in protecting against those who would cause fear and disruption. Anyone betting that Eminem would be the rapper to be mentioned today at the high court is a little richer.
The case is Elonis v. United States, featuring a 31-year-old Pennsylvania man named Anthony Elonis who in 2011 was convicted of making threats on Facebook against his estranged wife. For writing stuff like "There's one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you," Elonis got a 44-month prison sentence.
Elonis believes his Facebook posts were misinterpreted, and on appeal, his lawyers have made the argument that his social media postings are stylized as rap music lyrics. As a result, in the months leading up to today's hearing, the nine justices of the high court got an earful about both the history of hip-hop and contemporary modes of communication.
Most directly, the case examines what's a "true threat" for the purposes of criminal prosecution, but given the widespread acceptance that online rants and rap music can often be prone to hyperbole, the coming decision figures to be a landmark First Amendment one that weighs a speaker's intent versus a reader's understanding -- a balancing act that could easily be applied in other legal contexts like an analysis of defamation.
On behalf of Elonis, attorney John Elwood urged the high court to adopt a "specific intent" standard, namely that a jury should examine what his client had in mind with his Internet postings. Meanwhile, the federal government is emphasizing how a "reasonable person" would interpret what Elwood had to say.
In this case, context cuts both ways -- a statement may be less threatening if viewed through the prism of an aspiring rapper who is attempting to boast or more threatening if seen as coming from a guy who lost his wife and kids, got fired from his job, and is broadcasting his thoughts to those close to him.
Chief Justice John Roberts emphasized context throughout the hearing, putting forward the scenario of teenagers in a chat room playing a game. "You don't take what is on the Internet in the abstract and say, 'This person wants to do something horrible,'" said Roberts. "You are familiar with the context."
"That is true," responded Elwood. "But the thing is everyone has a different view of what context matters."
Roberts came back to this point when questioning Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben.
He asked, "If you have a statement made in the style of rap music... is the reasonable person supposed to be someone familiar with that style and the use of what might be viewed as threatening words in connection with that music...?"
Dreeben answered that it depends on whom the speaker is speaking to — that it matters if it's going to a general audience for the purposes of entertainment. The government attorney waived off Robert's concern that lyrics from lots of rap artists might be susceptible to prosecution.
"So how do you start out if you want to be a rap artist?" Roberts then asked. "Your first communication you can't say, I'm an artist, right?"
"I think that you have perfect freedom to engage in rap artistry," responded Dreeben. "What you don't have [is] perfect freedom to do is to make statements that are like the ones in this case where, after the individual receives a protection from abuse order from a court which was based on Facebook posts that his wife took as threatening, he comes out with a post and says fold up that PFA and put it in your pocket, will it stop a bullet? He knows that his wife is reading these posts."
If that's not clear enough, the argument gets a rehash when Roberts quotes Eminem's "'97 Bonnie and Clyde," imagining Slim Shady's dead wife.
"What about the language at pages 54 to 55 of the Petitioner's brief?" asks the chief justice. "You know, 'Dada make a nice bed for mommy at the bottom of the lake,' 'tie a rope around a rock,' this is during the context of a domestic dispute between a husband and wife. 'There goes mama splashing in the water, no more fighting with dad,' you know, all that stuff."
But Eminem was only trying to entertain at a concert, defended Dreeben.
"It wasn't as if [Eminem] stated it to her in private or on a Facebook page after having received a protection from abuse order," said the government lawyer. "It wasn't as if he appropriated a style of rap that wasn't anything that he had been doing previously in the marriage and all of a sudden tried to express violent statements that way."
When it was time for Elwood to give his rebuttal, he argued that the government's position is tantamount to imposing five years of felony liability anytime the understanding of a speaker and listener gets crossed. Elwood said Elonis' adoption of rap wasn't a "recent invention," that his postings included "long and painful-to-read rap which has nothing to do with his wife," and that in response to one Facebook friend, his client posted something like, "I do this for me; it's a therapeutic."
"There is stuff you can point to to show that there was a misunderstanding between the two of them," said Elwood, referring to his client and his client's estranged wife. "And, again, you can imagine a situation where somebody says, 'I'm posting this for entertainment purposes only.'"
Not every justice was buying this.
"Well, this sounds like a roadmap for threatening a spouse and getting away with it," responded Justice Samuel Alito. "You put it in rhyme and you put some stuff about the Internet on it and you say, 'I'm an aspiring rap artist.'"
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Saturday, November 29, 2014
Clubs : Sweden : Stockholm : Bergmans Stockholm
Clubs : Sweden : Stockjolm : : Bergmans Stockholm
About Bergmans Sthlm
Bergmans, a true VIP-nightclub with an international feel, has redefined Stockholm’s luxury nightlife scene with its launch in November 2012, one block from the famous Royal Dramatic Theater, located in the heart of central Stockholm.
With international nightclub operators and founders Patrik Slettman & Paulo Fagundez, as well as local nightclub owner Ulf von Roth, the trio quickly gave Bergmans a reputation for attracting an exclusively high-end clientele.
Bergmans classic look and intimate layout features 14 VIP tables centered by the DJ booth, facing all of its guests. An outdoor terrace will open this spring and offer an additional bar and several VIP tables.
Swedish celebrities describe the intimate feel at Bergmans as "Its like partying in someones apartment" and proclaim its service as "The best ever offered at a nightclub in Sweden".
When visiting Stockholm, Bergmans nightclub needs to be on your shortlist of places to go.
Contact Bergmans Stockholm
Address Ingmar Bergmans Gata 2, 11434 Stockholm, Sweden | Phone 08-611 68 11
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