Adidas Micropacer (Soles and Stripes)

The adidas Micropacer made news as the first running shoe to contain a ‘mini computer’ way back in 1984. Since then, the Micropacer has held its head high at the Trefoil factory, becoming one of the most popular silhouettes the brand has ever produced. This beauty, courtesy of Germany’s Schuh-You store, encapsulates the ‘Soles and Stripes’ campaign that is running in conjunction with adidas’ 60-year anniversary. Keeping the celebrations banging on, adidas have decided to sell the special striped edition at half the price – so why not buy two pairs!

Nautica’s NMX 400 Gives World Travellers The Time

Set sail with the luxury of five time zones on your wrist. Designed for today’s dynamic world traveller, Nautica Watches introduces the NMX 400 timepiece. Each time zone features a separate window on the dial with a dedicated crown, beautifully integrated into
the sleek round case. The NMX 400 is designed to keep track of every second
on the go.

The bold 58mm titanium case is Nautica’s largest ever and features five separate movements within one watch. An intricately textured dial surrounds a clean, easy-to-read presentation for each time zone. The visual drama is sure to impress any watch enthusiast.

The NMX 400 features a Japanese chronograph movement and four additional two-hand movements with separate time zone indications. Black leather straps integrate seamlessly into the sleek modern classic case and finish the oversized watch with an understated refinement. The unique timepiece is available in either a sporty black version with bright pops of colour or a sophisticated rose gold version.

Philips Blu-Ray SoundBar

The new Blu-Ray SoundBar from Philips is just about the easiest way to set up a home theater with your Blu-Ray system, right out of the box. The system integrates a Blu-Ray player and a DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 sound experience in one device. BD-Live, touch screen controls are included as well as the option for an iPod dock.

Qlocktwo Wall Clock

When somebody asks you for the time, you don’t go saying “the small hand is at the 10 and the big hand is in 6″. You say “it’s half past ten” or something like that. Which is why the Qlocktwo wall clock is such a relevant and cool decor. It says the time, literally, word for word, every five minutes through 110 bright white LEDs behind a letter matrix. The square face isn’t really what a wall clock would look like and that’s the whole point of the clock, it’s more than the ordinary, everyday gadget. Several color combinations are available too in case you feel the need to match the clock to your crib’s motif. ~£800.

Ball boy loses fight with gravity, dignity

During a first-round match at the U.S. Open, a ball boy attempting to look cool while doing his work discovered physics has no sympathy for you, no matter how many balls you have.

At a critical point in Tuesday's match between Andy Murray and Ernests Gulbis, this ball boy tried to catch a runaway ball by hurdling a advertising board on the sidelines. As you can see from the video, his plan worked poorly.

The ball boy was apparently uninjured and is looking forward to spending the rest of his life trying to live down a video that's now plastered across all corners of the internet and on every news outlet's sports-highlight reels.

Boat Shoes Inspired by Run-DMC and Michael Jackson

Boat shoes are not just for preppies anymore. Rockport has teamed up with deejay to the stars DJ Cassidy to create a version of the classic Bridgeport boat shoe that gets inspiration from Run-DMC and Michael Jackson.

DJ Cassidy is often seen wearing the Adidas shelltoe sneakers made famous by Run-DMC in the early eighties. To pay homage to the Hip Hop icons, Cassidy designed a special elastic component under the tongue so that the boat shoe may be worn comfortably without laces.

For the colours of the boat shoe, Cassidy looked to what he considers the greatest outfit of all time – Michael Jackson’s ensemble in the “Billie Jean” video of a black leather suit, red bow tie, pink shirt and pink socks (not sure I’d pick that one as the greatest outfit, but whatever). To celebrate this legendary look, the DJ Cassidy Bridgeport boat shoe is constructed of soft pink perforated leather, a red canvas upper, and a black pinstripe. The shoe also features gold eyelets and a custom pink terry cloth footbed. Yes, preppies would die if they saw this.


In honor of the King Of Pop, Rockport has produced 50 limited edition pairs numbered 1–50 to commemorate each year of his life. The shoe comes packaged in a custom DJ Cassidy shoe box complete with pink tissue paper, red satin bow tie and personalized card from Cassidy detailing his inspirations. Rockport is offering a limited number of pairs for sale at New York’s Blue & Cream beginning this month. I have no idea what they cost, but I can’t imagine it will be cheap.

Boat Shoes Inspired by Run-DMC and Michael Jackson

Def Jam Rapstar

It’s not just about the music, but the lifestyle… Def Jam Rapstar delivers a true, unique hip-hop experience that allows players to take on the role of a rapstar. You will feel like a star emcee on stage, and you will see your star power and status be determined by your talent and skills. Def Jam Rapstar is about perfecting your flow so you can rhyme and sing along with the greatest hip-hop tracks. Def Jam Rapstar will create opportunities where it’s also about developing all new rhymes, sharing your creativity and expressing yourself to the wider community and the world.



Key Features

• Def Jam Rapstar is the first and true hip-hop music game of its kind
• Glamorous and sleek look and feel of game interface that helps to immerse players into the hip-hop lifestyle
• Def Jam Rapstar leverages 30 years of hip-hop and provides players a vault of tracks from all eras and music labels
• Def Jam Rapstar will feature tracks from the biggest rap stars in hip-hop: US and worldwide
• Incorporates pitch recognition and speech/phoneme recognition technology to asses a player’s tune, timing and accuracy. Also features improved and optimized speech recognition to accurately determine what the player is saying, even in a noisy room, and provide live feedback of the player’s performance
• Using the Xbox Live Vision Camera and PlayStation Eye, Def Jam Rapstar puts players in the game and delivers the experience of being a real life rapstar. The player’s image is separated from the background at the start of each performance so that after the song, performances can be viewed and edited using various lighting, sound, and green screen effects to simulate a real studio, stage or impromptu performance
• A fully integrated online community allows players to upload their rap videos directly from the console to DefJamRapstar.com. Players can share their videos with the world to gain global recognition and even become a real life Def Jam star! The experience is one of self-expression and self-promotion
• Free Style modes allow the player to rap and sing their own lyrics over pre-created “scratch” instrumental tracks
• Two Players Local; More with Pass The Mic and other modes
• Multiplayer Battle and Co-op Modes let players perform together as crews. In battle mode, players alternate rhyming lyrics round robin style, competing for the highest score. In Co-op mode, both players sing and rap together to achieve the highest scores on each level

As seen at GamesCom, Def Jam Rapstar will cater to a global audience by spotlighting tracks from popular artists from around the world as hip-hop has become a global phenomena and reaching millions of fans.

The new screenshots show off updates to the sleek in-game elements, as well as giving a glimpse at its cutting edge community features as player’s rep their territories and take the battle online.

Shattering Door

Remember that scene in A Series of Unfortunate Events, where a witchy Meryl Streep is terrified of a door knob ’shattering into a thousand pieces’? Imagine what she’d be like if she happened upon Argentinian artist, Leandro Erlich’s eye-popping ‘Shattering Door’. She’d not be dancing on the bed to ABBA songs, that’s for sure. Wrong film? Maybe. Still, Erlich’s work might look like a health and safety officer’s worst nightmare but, trust us, no-one was harmed during their creation. Not even the poor souls trapped in the ‘Smoking Room’ (It’s a room. That smokes), those caught underneath the surface of the ‘Swimming Pool’, or seemingly caught between this life and the next, in the ghostly ‘Cabinet Du Psy’.

Leandro Erlich makes installations which play with our concept of what’s real, which way’s up, and what’s on the other side of the mirror. He’ll allow us to enter a space, move around it, touch it and inhabit it, yet still feel utterly lost. He says “reality is something we are dealt… but the final product of reality is a matter of major construction made by us.” In other words, it’s not what’s out there. It’s what’s inside that counts. No matter how strange and otherwordly his dreamlike creations, it’s how our minds interpret these set pieces – that’s where the magic begins…

Adidas ZX700 Boat – Grey Suede

Available now for pre-order and going for $122 is this pair of Adidas ZX700 Boat shoes. This particular version sports an aluminum-coloured upper constructed from suede, along with yellow accents on the heel panel. The toebox sports a moccasin style, while the upper sits a top a white midsole. Look for them now for pre-order.