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Step Up Your Game with Sony Ultimate Weapon Gaming Headsets

With the right gaming headset, a suppressive fire that’s tearing across the enemy defenses from a fully automatic assault rifle is music to a gamer’s ear. Add some artillery fire and you have yourself an orchestra. Forget shell shock and turn your First Person Shooter game into a fully immersive gaming experience with two new Sony Ultimate Weapon Gaming headsets with unique Sony surround technology. Each has been designed as an answer to different gamers want for their headset.

The first model, the DR-GA500, combines a Dolby Pro Logic IIx decoder with exclusive Sony Virtual Phones Technology (VPT) to create realistic 7.1ch 3D surround effects. The signal processing hardware is enclosed in a compact external unit. The result is an audio so rich in precision and 3D detail that you can easily pinpoint everything from stealthy steps to the location of gunfire. Sneak attack will be a thing of the past, hear your enemies’ footsteps and lock on to their location before they can even make a visual contact.

There’s also a GA-200 model that does without the extra audio processing, but still, both headsets feature 40mm drive units for exceptional sound quality and resonant, living bass and crisp high frequencies. Both also boast a striking and individualistic design that easily sets them apart from the other gaming headsets. The design features durable materials and Sony’s ‘triple enfolding’ design that puts the word “comfort” in comfortable even with prolonged use. The Sony DR-GA500 and GA-200 Ultimate Weapon Gaming headsets also come with a high quality, compact boom microphone to complete the perfect FPS weapon.

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Top 7 Hottest Cars: Geneva Motor Show 2010

The last 80th International Geneva Motor Show was a perfect glimpse of the future of automobile world; and the future looks bright and green. Aside from the lovely motor show booth babes, this event showcased the meanest and the cleanest in the auto world. For those who missed this big event, here’s a quick look of the Top 7 Cars of the 2010 Geneva Motor Show in no particular order.

The first on the list is a spider that can charm even the most fearful arachnophobic – the new Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid, an open two-seater plug-in hybrid sports car with fluid-cooled lithium-ion battery. This predator of the road features a modern slipstream carbon fiber design that can go from 0-100 km/h in well under 3.2 seconds. It can reach maximum speeds up to 320 km/h and ironically consumes only 3L/100km worth of fuel. That roughly translates to 70 grams CO2/km – not bad for a beast running on a powerful V8 engine.

The next car is one of Italy’s’ pride – the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, an aerodynamic five-door hatchback with enough dynamic and comfort features to remind you why you like Italy, pizza and spaghetti. The base model runs on a 1.4-liter MultiAir turbocharged gasoline engine while the higher Cloverleaf models run on a 235 horsepower 1.75-liter turbocharged gasoline engine.

The third car is the Mercedes F800 Style Concept, a spacious five-seater “green” sedan that can run on either Plug-in Hybrid or fuel cell alternative drive system. It’s powered by a 300hp direct injection V6 gasoline engine and a 109hp hybrid module that can run the car on pure electricity for 18 miles.

Next on the list is a brand that can be readily associated with The Transporter. Yes, it is Audi and they have a new car that every transporter would talk about. The Audi A1 features a squat body, small overhangs, four customizable colors for the roof arches, ten body colors, LED and Xenon lights, and a fully customizable interior.

Fifth is the famous Italian stallion with a green makeover. Introducing the Ferrari 599 HY KERS prototype that features Ferrari’s latest regenerative braking technology integrated into seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and installed below the car’s center of gravity. This 40 kilograms KERS system can add over 100 horsepower to the car’s already monstrous V12 engine and can run the car on pure electricity for city driving.

Lotus also grabbed some well deserved attention with its Evora – a 1382 kg 3.5-litre V6 mid-engine sports car that can reach 100km/h in just 5.1 seconds and has top speed 261 km/h. This lightweight sports car only consumes 8.7 L /100km of fuel with carbon emission of mere 205 g/km CO2.

The final car on the list, Koenigsegg Agera, an ageless masterpiece of a sports car sculpted in carbon fibre with aluminum honeycomb and integrated fuel tanks. It is powered by a 4.7 liter V8 engine that can propel this 1290kg beast from 0-100km/h in 3.1 seconds.
There you have it, the Top 7 Cars from the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.

Audi Turns 100: Introducing the Bösendorfer Audi Design Grand Piano

Amazing pianos from Audi? Quite hard to believe, but yes, it’s true!

Who said the Audi Design Studio team is limited to creating automobile designs? Because whoever it was, didn’t know that Audi’s German designers are so creative when it comes to bringing in all sorts of awesome gadgets and stuff just like the Bösendorfer Audi Design Grand Piano.

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Boasting its Batman-black cowl and sleek curves, the Bösendorfer Grand Piano is designed in celebration of Audi’s 100th year since its founding in 1909. The German design team worked closely with the specialists at Vienna’s Bosendorfer workshop to come up with this impressively styled grand piano. Just look at its curvalicious outer skin and aluminum details and you can easily tell that this amazing piano is a product of combined ingenuity of Audi and Bosendorfer teams of young designers.

But the completion of this project was not as easy as designing for Audi’s line of automobiles. The Audi design team didn’t want to mess with the grand piano’s traditional acoustics, so they did all means necessary to keep its masterful shape intact. They even did an in-depth study of the musical instrument and developed an all-embracing concept since they started working on the project. The experience was really hard but it was all worth it for them. Later when they work on car designs, they can look back at that experience and realize that working on other projects aside from car is not that bad after all.

The Bösendorfer Audi Design Grand Piano already made its grand debut last July 16, 2009 in the Audi Forum Ingolstadt. Get one to be a part of German automaker’s centenary! Or check other musical instruments and amazing pianos here.