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New Wanted Trailer Appears

March 6th, 2008 No comments

    Wanted posterThe lat­est trailer for Wanted has hit the web … MySpace, that is. If you are a reg­is­tered MySpace user, go ahead and watch it here. If you don’t, you can either wait a lit­tle longer or you can visit Ain’t It Cool News. The folks from AICN have embed­ded the MySpace trailer on their site. It won’t be long before the lat­est trailer will be avail­able at one of the usual sus­pects. If you don’t know what Wanted is like, be sure to check out the first trailer over at Apple.

    I for one will def­i­nitely love this film and how could I not? Angelina Jolie is like Mrs. Smith on steroids and Mor­gan Free­man radi­ates this awe­some pro­fes­sional cool­ness! That’s a def­i­nite must-see. Unfor­tu­nately, we will have to wait until June 27. Until then the offi­cial site offers some infor­ma­tion and if you’d like to get involved deeper still, there’s always the Fra­ter­nity of Weavers.

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    A Rotat­ing Home Theater

    March 6th, 2008 No comments

      Not too long ago I wrote about the 15 coolest geek-themed home the­aters. I espe­cially liked the Bat­cave because of its sim­ple design that doesn’t com­pro­mise a cer­tain style. Today I dis­cov­ered quite a dis­tinc­tive home the­ater. It has no spe­cial theme – at least I can’t rec­og­nize one – to speak of but it looks really pleas­ant to me. What sets this one apart is the func­tion­al­ity – it sports a rotat­ing floor! At the press of a but­ton the front row of seats rotates 180 degrees to face the sec­ond row, ulti­mately trans­form­ing the home the­ater into some­thing more closely resem­bling a living/party/entertainment room.

      The front row of seats is installed on a round steel frame 16 feet in diam­e­ter. This cir­cle of floor­ing rotates to avoid hav­ing one row behind another – which is a seri­ous party killer – cre­at­ing a more inti­mate atmos­phere. But that’s not enough. There’s a 35-foot walk­way to the home the­ater fea­tur­ing a car­pet with a starfield. And there’s the fanned entry­way that only adds to the style. The doors and the whole the­ater is con­trolled by one remote, ulti­mately plac­ing vis­i­tors under the whim of the wielder of the RTI T2-C remote.

      Theater mode (seats facing screen) Conversation mode (seats facing the second row)

      A full report on this the­ater can be found at Elec­tronic House with full specs and a com­plete gallery. They even have a video I haven’t watched. One thing is sure though: I’d like to own some­thing like that. That’s a great idea and it’s cer­tainly enter­tain­ing and use­ful at the same time.

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