Nirvana
Ultimate Ears worked with Capitol Records to basically achieve aural nirvana with their In-Ear Reference Monitors ($1,000). The headphones contain three proprietary balanced armature speakers that have been specifically designed for studio use and boasts a consistent, flat frequency response that accurately reproduces every little audiotory detail. Link
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Who needs George Hotz anyway? A USB modchip for the PS3 has emerged from the mists this morning, purporting to allow the dumping of games onto nearby storage — the console’s internal HDD and external drives are both a-ok — as well as the subsequent playing of said games without the need for the original [...]
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We were promised cloud gaming nirvana on June 17, and OnLive has indeed kept to its self-imposed schedule. The new service that allows you to play resource-hungry games via only your browser window has taken its first steps into the real (non-beta) world with an initial catalog of 23 games. It’ll be free for the [...]
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If you’re one of the truly lilliputian proportion of PC gamers who actually bought two of either the GTX 470 or GTX 480 from NVIDIA in the hope of running a tri-monitor 3D gorgefest, we’ve got bad news for ya. If you’re anyone else, enjoy the schadenfreude of knowing that those first guys will have [...]
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Smartphones have been around for years, Google want to coin Superphone and now Citrix and Open Kernel Labs are pushing their idea of the Nirvana phone; if there’s one thing you can say about the mobile segment it’s that it’s never short of a niche or two. Nirvana, say Citrix, is being able to [...]
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Steve Aoki played a free live show on UC Berkeley’s Lower Sproul (put on by UCB’s Superb) this past Wednesday, October 28 to a young and excited crowd that was surprisingly ready to dance/party/jump around/rave (or whatever you want to call it) regardless of the fact that the show began at 5pm outside on a [...]
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Them Crooked Vultures is the new supergroup consisting of Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme on guitar/vocals, Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters/Nirvana fame back at the drum set, and John Paul-Jones of the late great Led Zeppelin doing his thing on bass guitar. It’s a pretty impressive trio if you ask me, and soon [...]
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Yes the full lineup of Temple Of The Dog reunited Tuesday night in L.A. to play “Hunger Strike,” and the high-school-you is flashing back to beautiful young EdVed in the tall grass and shitting its pants. (If the high school you in the now-you, Temple Of The Dog was a supergroup comprising members of Pearl [...]
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