Posts Written by Paul Strauss

U-Boat’s Classico U-1001 watch is able to survive depths up to 1,001 meters; it sports a 55mm Grade 2 Titanium case, pressure escape valve, and photo-luminescent blue markers.

We’ve known from the get-go of Yakuza 3’s emphasis on cinematics and storytelling, but this Characters Trailer gives us the low-down on the game’s good, the bad, and the really bad.

It’s been around since 2004, but hat tip to CM for this gem: the Big Bad-Ass Book of Shots is crammed with over 1,400 recipes and 706 pages of shots, shooters, and slammers.

Mixing all caps tweets with pop-culture commentary, DRUNK HULK is surprisingly witty for a green drinkin’ machine: REPORTER WANT BE OBJECTIVE! NEWSPAPER SAY HE KANT!

We’re up to our pointy blue ears in Avatar parodies, but The Midnight Show’s Avatar… with Babies will make you a true Pandora believer … or it’ll make you poop in your pants.

If your eyes don’t glaze over at the mention of T1 lines or Cisco routers, the Universal Network Cable is for you: a rotatable collar lets you choose between five patch cable standards.

This Ascension Trailer for Command & Conquer 4 hints at a surprising and dramatic conclusion to the Tiberian storyline: come to think of it, Kane’s been around for a looong time…

Because even walking carpets need to stay clean: this Star Wars Soap is very likely unofficial, but SoapLane does a remarkable job duplicating the logo into a glycerin bar.

MIT’s Flyfire forms 2D/3D shapes on the “fly”; each pixel is actually a micro helicopter that synchronizes its motion with fellow self-organizing helis to form a swarm of smart pixels.

Forget NASA’s LRO imaging of the Apollo 17 landing site: this Lunar Studio t-shirt is proof enough for Capricorn One fans, moon landing hoax believers, and Elvis followers.

Aspiral Clocks turn timekeeping upside down (and then right side up again): a ball slowly follows an inwardly spiraling path, resetting every 12 hours and starting again at the edge.

A track-friendly version of its supermini, Citroen’s DS3 Racing LE is limited to 1,000 units; it sports a 197 hp/203 lb-ft turbo 1.6L THP engine, chrome/CF touches, and a tweaked suspension.

Splinter Cell: Conviction’s Story trailer is our kind of video: learn why Sam Fisher is pissed off, and then spend the next two minutes learning why you never get Sam Fisher pissed off.

Available 3/1 at 21 Mercer: Nike’s futuristic HTM2 Running Boots slip-on and stay-on; both high and low flavors feature a water-repellent/flexible 4-way upper and rubber toe cap.

Sound gets seen in a big way in the awesome Atlas V launch video above; the SDO rocket breaks the sound barrier (1:50) in the middle of a sun dog, creating a visual sonic boom.

Joby’s camera tripods get even clingier with Gorillapod Magnetic; it keeps the line’s flexible 360 degree arms but also adds three magnetic feet; it’ll hold cameras up to 11.5 ounces.

Bentley’s Continental Supersports goes soft-top with the 2011 Convertible, but it’s all hardcore inside with the same twin-turbo 6.0L W12, good for 621 hp / 590 lb-ft and a 3.9s 0-60.

We wish they were t-shirts, but our geek antennae are still tingling over Chop Shop’s trio of uber-nerdy prints; they include the Nerd Rider, The Craftsman, and The Squid and Robot.

It keeps the G-Lens, body, and 3″LCD, but Sony’s Cyber-shot H55 is a budget version of the HX5V; it replaces the CMOS sensor with a 14.1 MP CCD and 1080p with 720p video recording.

Toltec Studio’s Unreal 3 mod The Ball goes commercial Summer 2010 with 6 hours of gameplay; this trailer shows off the action puzzler which stars (you guessed it) a giant lead ball.

The first 100 pairs are already sold out, but preorder L.L. Bean’s Maine Hunting Shoes for a March delivery; they’re based on an original 1912 boot but updated with a waxed canvas upper.

Brooklyn’s Finest is also Hollywood’s finest, with a cast that includes Richard Gere, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle; it’s about NYPD officers in Brooklyn’s 65th precinct.

And we thought console games were expensive: Dunhill’s Shagreen Games Chest features chess, backgammon, and noughts & crosses wrapped in leather made from male rays.