Posts Written by Paul Strauss

Command & Conquer 4 shows off its three-class system in this Class Warfare trailer; both GDI and NOD players can respawn as offense, defense, or support without losing their units.

adidas Originals slightly blings-out its Superstar Tracktop with the Sty TT SS C.O.; the jacket sports a two-way zip, logo, and 3-stripes in gold, slash pockets, and black polyester fabric.

Make Rock Band and Guitar Hero sessions more realistic with Omega’s GM-1 System, which hooks up to a real drum set via a MIDI or accessory cable; it also includes 2-3 cymbal triggers.

It’s no DSLR, but you won’t mind with FujiFilm’s FinePix HS10 superzoom: it features 30x optical zoom, 1080p video, a 3″ tilting LCD, triple image stabilization, and 1000 fps movie capture.

Metro 2033’s numerous baddies (both human and not-so-human) make themselves known in this Journey Into the Unknown trailer; the post apocalyptic shooter arrives 3/16/2010.

Go from 8-bit to 180 degrees with these Heat Changing Arcade Mugs; the empty playing fields and skies will be brimming with ghosts and invaders after you pour a hot cup of joe.

All the world’s a stage and you’re forced to be a player in BattleBlock Theater; aka “Game 3”, it’s The Behemoth’s third Xbox Live Arcade game after Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers.

Rugged yet loaded, Olympus’ 14 MP Stylus Tough 8010 offers 720p HD video and a 5x wide-angle optical zoom lens; it’s also water resistant to 33 feet and can survive a 6.6 foot drop.

Uploaded two days before Apple’s iPad unveiling, this Chrome OS Tablet UI may be a warning shot across Cupertino’s bow; it’s purely conceptual, but it’s also made by a Google employee.

Media speculation about black holes swallowing the earth is pure pseudoscience, but this press conference reveals that there are other dimensions to the Large Hadron Collider’s Secret.

Part of Sony Ericsson’s eco-friendly Greenheart line, the Aspen is the first smartphone with WinMo 6.5.3 and features a full QWERTY, 2.4″ touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, and 3.2 MP camera.

Carried by every Alinghi team member, Wenger’s Alinghi SU1 is an 11-in-1 multitool made just for yachting that includes a grippy rubber inlay, Marlin spike, and awl with sewing eye.

Earthy, mature, and military, these Urban Haze Air Jordan 1 Retro His are dressed in olive leather and suede with plenty of perfed panels, yellow Jumpman logo, and sharp white midsoles.

They’re currently sold out, but we can’t wait to conduct cubicle combat with Cardnetic’s Penny Shooter; the business card-sized shooter has a fold-up magazine that holds up to 10 pennies.

Rock your workspace garage-band style with CB2’s industrial-styled Trig File Cabinet; it sports high-gloss powdercoated sheet steel with stainless grips and casters with front-drive brakes.

Left 4 Dead fans, eat your hearts (and brains) out: A.D. is a CG animated zombie flick with a jaw-dropping, bad-ass style we can’t get enough of; it’s directed by Ben Hibon of Codehunters fame.

The Old West-style leather label isn’t just for looks; 1860s Genuine American Vodka is made in Wisconsin with 100% American grain that’s distilled five times and filtered with Mesquite charcoal.

This Queen of the Black Marsh trailer for Dragon Age: Origins: Awakenings may be short, but it fills us in on the tesla-fied dragon; it ain’t no Disney Electrical Parade, that’s for sure.

Now available for preorder: Creative’s World of Warcraft Headsets feature THX sound, swappable Alliance/Horde lenses, and a detachable mic; they come in USB or wireless flavors.

A multi-function dial isn’t novel, but rarely is it as classy as Montblanc’s Metamorphosis; pulling a side lever transforms it from watch to chronograph via a sequence of wings and rising discs.

Spore meets Transformers with Verbatim’s Media Monster Championship; it not only lets you build your own flash drive/SD card gladiator but enter them in duels to the (digital) death.

Wacom’s Intuos line goes Bluetooth with the Intuos4 Wireless pen tablet; it works up to 33 feet away and offers a 40 square inch work area, Generation 2 Grip Pen, and touch ring.

This Ong Bak 3 trailer is light on plot but is a heavy-hitter both in terms of action and a few fan-tusk-tic costars; Tony Jaa will be all fists, feet, and fury when he arrives in Thai theaters in April.