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Mary has a long family history of painters, including George Gatlin painter, preservationist and ethnologist who documented the American Indians in the late 1800s. Mary has the gift of conveying, in her impressionistic paintings, the feelings inspired by this low-celling historic paradise she calls a studio. She uses the rich drama of light against dark, complementary colors and varied brush strokes to allure viewers into her canvas.

It’s very likely your girlfriend has at least one fantasy that she’d love to live out and that you – were you to know about it – would be supremely over-excited about. It’s also likely that she is embarrassed to say it out loud, for fear that you’ll laugh at her, think she’s weird or tell Big Dave in the pub. So encourage her: whisper to her to keep her high heels on when she’s getting into bed, tell her how hot she’d look in a certain pair of very slutty stockings… whatever it is that comes into your head, as long as it makes her think, “Brilliant! I can tell this man anything.”

Know your subject intimately

Ensure you’ve done your research before you go buying her a surprise set of sexy underwear. And we don’t just mean checking her bra size – while you’re rooting around in her drawer also take note if she has preferences for G-strings, briefs or French knickers and silk, cotton or lace. They’ll likely be a mix, but if there are no thongs it’s probably because she doesn’t like them, dummy. Armed with full briefing notes, head to Agent Provocateur or online to figleaves.com.

Game of patience

Drag out foreplay for as long as you can. Even if she says she just wants you inside her, make her wait. The frustration and longing will just make her hotter and there’s something to be said for a man who takes time on his foreplay. While we’re certainly not averse to the occasional quickie, a man who can hold off earns our respect and comes across as more powerful. Which we like.

Good vibrations

When you’re using a vibrator on a girl, err on the side of gentleness to start with. There’s nothing worse than a guy just pumping it in and out – we’re far more likely to get off on clitoral vibes anyway, and we can always demand you do it harder and deeper. On the other hand, asking you to slow down doesn’t usually contribute to the rampant atmosphere we’re both after.

Reflective mood

Using mirrors only works if she’s feeling good about herself, so there are some days when you might have to admit defeat on this one. But usually just after her period she’ll be horny and feel slimmer, so adjust the mirrors and watch yourselves having sex. Look especially at your penis slowly penetrating her – it can be a real turn-on for both parties.

Lube for lust

Planning another weekend-long sex marathon? Well don’t make the mistake of buying any old cheap lubricant (we’re sure to need it to prevent soreness, what with you being ‘so big’ and all…). Girls don’t want anything that looks gruesome or might prompt an allergic reaction.

Hunting horn

Every girl has got a secret ‘red button’ somewhere – and we’re not talking about her clit. There will be another area of her body that, when probed, is guaranteed to drive her wild. It might be as simple as kissing her lower back, it might be toe-sucking, hair twisting – the list is endless. But find it and you’ve got a magic key. She may not even know where it is, so get hunting.

Frozen foreplay

Before you leave for work, leave a glass dildo in the fridge. When you get home, blindfold her, tie her to the bed and surprise her by teasing the icy cold appendage all over her skin. Work your way down her body, then alternate sliding the dildo into her with entering her yourself – the contrast of cold sex toy and warm cock will have her senses screaming.

Strap up

If your girlfriend is partial to a spot of girl-on-girl action then the strap-on step shouldn’t be such a big one. Playing with girls can be lovely and soft and the addition of a strap-on takes it from being plain naughty to extremely raunchy. Just let her know how much you’d like to see her in action and curiosity should get the better of her.

Girl guidance

Communication is not always men’s strong point, and sometimes we worry we’re not doing enough to turn you on. So tell us what you like. Be specific. And when we’re doing it right, let us know. See? It really is that simple.

Wagging tongues

Go down on her by an open window. Experimenting with near exhibitionism in a safe environment when you know you might be seen can really turn you both on.

Impolite deposits

This is a particular bugbear of many lasses. If you’re shagging sans rubber – and you’ve come inside us – it’s the height of rudeness to leave us to clear up the mess that ensues. Girls heartily appreciate it when a man politely pops to the bathroom and emerges with some tissues to mop up any drips. There’s nothing less attractive than having to stagger to the toilet, cupping your clam to avoid drips on the carpet. So pass the baby wipes.

Room servicing

A spontaneous weekend away at a luxurious hideaway hotel is still one of the best moves any man can make (check the Mr & Mrs Smith guidebooks and website, mrandmrssmith.com, for suitably sexy establishments). And any additions to that simply increase your chances of having amazing sex: champagne on ice, flowers in the room, chocolates by the bed, a Jacuzzi…

Unexpected sex text

Our friend Stephanie was in the pub with her boyfriend of a year and a group of friends, when he started texting her across the table. The content is incidental – other than the fact it wasn’t something you’d want to send to your parents by mistake – but the public place/ private messaging combo meant she was dragging him home in minutes. And – so she eagerly informs us – they had sex that hadn’t been bettered since the first few weeks of their relationship.

Draw the line

Chat-up lines are the work of some sort of cheesy devil. And no matter how ‘clever’ you think yours is, we feel it’s our duty to tell you, it’s not. So don’t even bother trying: just speak to us in normal human words that didn’t come out of a book or from your ‘hilarious’ friend after he’d sunk ten pints.

Gushing display

Female ejaculation – some women love it and can do it with ease, others may find that the area is too sensitive. To find out, first make sure she is really turned on and wet, then insert your third and fourth fingers and hook your fingers towards you until you can feel a slightly rougher area of skin on her front wall. Then using a rhythmic motion slide your fingers back and forth, experimenting with different strokes and speeds to see what she likes. Imagine the speed at which you’d start masturbating yourself, slowly increasing in pace, and if anything slow it down. The more she moans the faster you can go generally. If she does gush, fluid will be released and – though it’s not the same as peeing – just before she ejaculates it helps if she ‘bears down’ to kick start the flow. The first couple of times it may feel a little alien, but with a little perseverance the results can be the most intense orgasms of her life.

Ring ring!

If you’ve never used one, try wearing a cock ring. Your girl will be smiling the entire following day.

Chocolate myth

Contrary to popular male thinking, licking chocolate off various body parts doesn’t do a lot to most women. If we’re doing it to you, we’re thinking, “This would taste better after the sex with a cup of tea.” If you’re doing it to us, we’re more than likely thinking about the sheets and the fact that we’ll have to shower immediately afterwards. We like chocolate. We like sex. Just not necessarily together.

The stroking ban

Refrain from stroking her clitoris with your finger, then you’ll have to fi nd different ways of stimulating it. Two ways we’d recommend are gentle tapping – long build-up but worth the wait – and keeping your hand completely still but with mild downward pressure. The second one won’t last long before she’s jumping on you.

When the bite is right

Here’s a simple, yet very horny, move for us girls: when your man bites your bottom lip and draws it outwards mid kiss. Amazing.

Fragrant investment

Invest in high quality, non-clichéd aftershave: Dolce & Gabbana Pour Homme, Gucci For Men and Essenza di Zegna are all hot, and Issey Miyake will have most women lavishing kisses on your neck. If you turn up on a date smelling amazing, you have bonus points already. But David Beckham’s Intimately Beckham and Lynx don't cut it, baby.

Conducive conditions

A physiological phenomenon exists called “conditioning” where a reflex reaction can be stimulated based on previous experience. Use this to your advantage and condition your lady into being instantly up for it. Try a slow massage with a perfumed oil followed by gentle stimulation and slow deep penetration. Repeat this routine a few times, with small variations on each occasion, and in time she’ll become aroused just by the smell of the oil.

Become a spin doctor

Write down all the cliched moves you’ve ever read about. Then take each one and think of a spin on it. If it’s ‘the cunnilingus alphabet’, do the same thing but very slowly; if it’s sex on the beach, try it on in your back garden late at night; even replace phone sex with text sex (and added pictures). She’s less likely to compare you with her exes and more likely to be surprised and excited by your originality in bed.

Get jiggly with it

If your girlfriend’s game for a spot of secret stimulation, buy her some ‘jiggle balls’. She simply lubes the two smooth orbs and eases them inside her. The small inner weights, similar to Chinese balls, provide gentle vibrations when she moves. Try them first at home and she can describe how turned on she’s getting (hopefully); then you can always take things up a level by suggesting she slip them in before or during an evening out.

Oil-rich sensation

Basic massage oils or baby oil can be super sexy. Ask your girlfriend to give you a long, slow back massage, gradually moving down to your bum and balls. Then see how long you can stay on your front as she slides up and down, gliding her breasts over your back. Ylang-ylang essential oil is recommended for its aphrodisiac properties, or try Agent Provocateur’s aromatic Rose massage oil.

Kick off with compliments

Be careful the first time you talk dirty during sex. Every girl has different tastes, and while some love being crudely insulted, calling others a bitch will just get you a slap. So start off with compliments such as “I love it when you suck my cock like that” or “You taste fantastic”. Then you can move onto ruder stuff as and when…

Toy story

Don’t be shy to buy your girl a sex toy. It saves her the embarrassment of buying it herself and hiding it from you, and saves you from finding out she’s shagging some bloke at work because she’s not getting enough. Keep it relatively simple: avoid anything that’s bigger than you, it’s not about size (honestly, in this case), and go for discreet shapes and packaging. There are plenty of cute shiny buzzy things to keep her out of trouble when you’re away for the weekend without making her feel like a total whore. And she can tell you all about it when you get back.

Pleasure beads

Inserting things up your bum isn’t for everyone, but anal beads can be a massive pleasure-enhancer for blokes. Best introduced while you are insanely horny, add a little lube to ease their passage, then if your girlfriend wanks or sucks you off as she feeds them in, it will help to keep you relaxed. As you are about to climax you, or preferably your girlfriend, pulls the beads out, either in one slow smooth motion or one by one to prolong the sensation.

Flash your abs

If you’ve got a tight stomach, an ‘Oh I’m just reaching to get something and my T-shirt’s rode up’ is the equivalent of a female hint of cleavage. Play this card at the right stage of the date and we’ll be having distracting thoughts throughout – especially if we glimpse the hint of a rippling six-pack under there.

Know your terms

Don’t reveal your ignorance of women’s underwear and hosiery. You should know the difference between stockings and hold-ups (the former require a suspender belt to hold them up, the latter don’t), a basque and a corset (the former is any tight-fi tting bodice; the latter is boned and specifi cally pulls in the waist and pushes up the bust). That knowledge should also prepare you for when it comes to taking them off, too; sure-handedness in such situations always impresses us.

Don’t be too perfect…

If we arrive at your flat to find your flatmates out, 17 candles lit in every room, and a three-course meal prepared from scratch and to a level Gordon Ramsay couldn’t recreate, we will instantly panic. We will panic that the wine we brought is too cheap for the meal. We will panic that we may have missed a spot when shaving our legs. We will panic that we’re wearing tights and not stockings. We will panic… well, you get the gist.

Flirting up front

We’ve not come over all Silver Ring Thing or anything, we’re simply referring to pre-date flirting. This should be done on e-mail, by text, on Facebook… anything that means by the time you actually meet she feels very comfortable being fl irty around you. And a little bit turned on.

Fornication in French

If you’re both up for watching some genuine porn, opt for the French stuff. This avoids all the toe-curling dialogue, and it tends to look much better – like the participants are actually enjoying themselves, rather than earning money to pay for the ’leccy bill. After extensive research, we can recommend John B Root’s La Candidate and Un Nuit Au Bordello, both superb (dorcelvision.com).

Pay attention to aftercare

We’ve been on the waxing tip for a few years and smooth balls and undercarriage on a man can be very sexy. However, if you don’t give the area a good going over with a daily exfoliating scrub afterwards we’ll have to deal with the unsightly horror of you suffering from ingrowing, and possibly infected, hairs. So don’t neglect the ‘aftercare’ – it puts us right off our game.

Happy slapping

Suedette floggers – a little like a hand held mop in construction but significantly sexier – provide a non painful, slap and tickle strand of S&M. They are more playful than painful, but a good session with these can have you trembling. Bend your partner over a bed or chair so their buttocks are exposed, then start by stroking their cheeks with the tassles. Ask your willing victim to spread their legs so that as you stroke the flogger across their bare arse you lightly touch their pussy or balls. As they relax try a light spank, building the intensity and speed gradually. Then revert back to stroking, alternating between the two, with the odd surprise sharp slap. Putty in your hands.

Spot on

If your better half is likely to think that a bright pink rabbit-eared dildo looks a bit common – which, if she’s a classy type, may well be the case – then shell out for Myla’s Spot (myla.com). This vibrator looks like a cross between an avant-garde mobile phone and a little black ghost and charges from the mains. So you won’t have to make any more embarrassing 2am trips to the garage for “a packet of those massive batteries please…er, for a torch.”

Press here

Contrary to what you’ve seen in porn films, most of us aren’t really into having our backsides demolished in anal sex marathons. However, if you really are arse-fixated, a happy compromise can be reached: pressing fi rmly against the anus but without actually penetrating will stimulate our nerve endings without the shock of ‘intrusion’. It’ll also prove to us that you can be trusted.

And then…

… if she appears to enjoy that little manoeuvre, the next step is to insert one finger very gently into her arse when you think she’s about to come. Many girls, even those who don’t ‘do’ anal, still enjoy a sneaky finger at the point of climax. Not more than just inside to start with and gauge her reaction.

Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me

Kissing is vastly underrated. It shows that a man is sensitive and happy to take his time, which we love, so make sure you pay her at least 15 minutes of pure, unadulterated lip service before moving on. ‘Not kissing’ just reminds us of Pretty Woman.

Swinging lessons

If you’re delving into the realms of online swinging, forget about sites which are free, or don’t require registration as they’re full of spammers and prostitutes. The likes of swingingheaven.co.uk, sdc.com and loungeparties.com are a safe bet. However, beware of posters without photographs on their adverts; they’re usually men masquerading as women or dodgy ‘picture collectors’.

Earth-trembling exercise

A twist on the old girl-on-a-washing machine masturbation cliche is for you to sit on it during the spin cycle and get her to climb aboard. The vibrations of the washer will carry through you and into her; go for a slow screw so she can really feel them.

Three-way break

If you do manage to swing a threesome with two girls, once everything starts properly kicking off, make your excuses and get out of the room for five minutes. This will help the girls get into the swing of things without the feeling that they’re putting on a show for your benefit (that can come later) and the pressure of your bulging eyes burning into their skin.

Softly, softly

If you are cursed with dry skin, throw on baby oil immediately after a shower. It soaks up rapidly on wet skin (thus avoiding the Chippendale effect) and leaves you with a buttery soft body crying out to be touched,

Halt!

Try stopping, mid sex, and staying completely still while inside her. It heightens awareness, sexual tension (in a good way) and focuses you both on the smallest movements, as well as prolonging the ecstasy.

The shopping equation

If your sex life is getting predictable, don’t think a PVC novelty outfit is the answer. Girls love shopping and they love presents, so go shopping with her, spend some time browsing the lingerie, both pick something for her to wear that night. She gets the right size, you pay, she puts out. Simple and highly satisfactory.

No Trappist tendencies

Our friend Lucy recently dated a man who went from chatty and funny when clothed to a complete mute when naked. In an ideal world, she’d have liked a small amount of dirty talk, and she certainly didn’t appreciate the constant fear of exploding into nervous giggles at his silence. We don’t need a John Motson-style commentary, nor do we want to sleep with a monk.

Pharmaceutical warning

While the idea of adding drugs into your sexual experiences appeals to some, be warned of the hazards. If you so much as sniff an ecstasy pill you risk becoming hung like a cashew nut for the rest of the night. Too much weed or booze and you’d be lucky to get, let alone keep, an erection. And Viagra + cocaine = potential heart attack. Even in your 20s.

Play the long game

Being up for sex is entirely dependent upon a girl’s mood. While you might be able to bash one out after emptying the bins, we need to be relaxed and feeling good about ourselves. If you’re in a relationship, it could be as simple as running her a bath while you clear up in the kitchen. She will thank you for your selfl essness and repay you accordingly.

Protect & survive

It is never acceptable to say “I don’t do condoms”. Ever. You will die a lonely, syphilitic man.

Spanking good fun

Spanking can work both ways. It can be horny at the right time, or it can be completely hilarious. The trick is to do it when you’re taking her from behind. The spank must be sharp, hard and quick. No sloppiness here. And please don’t get offended if we laugh – it might be due to the shock – and it doesn’t mean we’re not liking it.

Find a rear-end rhythm

If you’ve persuaded your girl to let you shag her in the ass, don’t celebrate by going at it like a battering ram. However – rather less obviously – going too slowly can be equally painful as it drags the skin too much. What’s needed is a careful balance of speed and power without going too deep. And, of course, lube up to the max, and then some.

Obey orgy etiquette

If you attend a swingers’ party or orgy with a girl, ensure you let her make the running. At least at first, she should be the one pointing out who she likes, instigating conversations and making the first move. Even in seemingly ‘anything goes’ environments there are strict codes of etiquette, and nothing is considered worse form than sex pesty, over-eager men.

Play to our subconscious

As long as it’s not a first date – when we’re looking for any sign of abnormality to tell our friends about in the form of a ‘funny date’ anecdote – feel free to throw in a few subtle references to sexual preferences or experiences. As long as it’s not delivered in a creepy fashion, our psychological reaction (linking you to nakedness) will soon give way to a physiological one (you’re not getting an explanation for that in brackets).

Read the signs

The best way to judge a new girlfriend’s attitude to ‘adult material’ is to rent a regular movie boasting plenty of sex – something like Closer or Secretary – give her a glass of wine, and watch her reactions both during the film and later that night. You will know whether she’s into it or not by the morning, without risking offending or horrifying her. It’ll give you a decent idea of whether moving onto the hardcore is an option.

Morning star

If you’re trying to secure round two (or three, or four) the following morning, you need to be just as careful with your behaviour as when you were in ‘seduction mode’ the night before. So, a cooked breakfast in bed will make her feel unsexy and bloated; fresh orange juice (or Buck’s Fizz) and the Sunday papers will make her feel spoilt and indulgent. And cliches come into play here as well – though you may think a Marvin Gaye soundtrack is exactly what’s called for, a laugh and an ogle at some beautiful bodies on Shipwrecked may be a far superior bonding experience.

Spell it out

A friend of ours once got home to fi nd the magnetic fridge letters that normally spelled out inane messages or daft in-jokes arranged to spell out a very filthy request from her boyfriend. Had he just greeted her with the question verbally when she walked through the door, she would probably have told him she was watching Desperate Housewives and wasn’t in the mood. But seeing the words written down both amused and turned her on. So, two hours later, she was going to sleep after one of the best sixty-niners of her life, apparently.

Share your fantasies

As much as we’d like to be, we’re not mind-readers. So if there’s something you fantasise about doing, just say so. We’re generally up for trying new ideas and will be receptive as long as the suggestion’s presented gently. However, unless you’re indulging in previously established role play, aggressive instructions are pushing the limits.

The finger slide

When you’re gleefully rutting away and we’re properly into it, try carefully sliding your finger in alongside your cock, and gently pushing out to the side. Probably best to use your little finger here as you don’t want to injure us (or get us too used to having something much wider than you inside us).

Power games

When indulging in any serious form of S&M, ensure you agree a pre-arranged ‘safe word’ that signals you have to stop immediately. Importantly, don’t opt for something you might say in the heat of the moment anyway – ‘no!’ ‘stop!’ ‘achtung, schweinhund!’ etc – instead, opt for something completely sexless. Like ‘Jon Gaunt!’, perhaps.

Ignore her obvious assets

A large-breasted girl will have endured a lifetime of men staring, pawing and honking at her tits, so make these the last things that you work your way on to. And then act a little surprised by them. By acknowledging her other attributes, you’ll have endeared yourself to her and, probably for the fi rst time, looked beyond her rack yourself. When you have a son, pass on this information, if nothing else.

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As Brangelina’s twins wow the world, Jennifer Aniston couldn’t be happier. She’s found love with John Mayer and will finally get what she’s always wanted — a child!

In the new issue of Star — on newsstands today! — we report that now that Jen is head-over-heels in love, she’s convinced for the first time since her marriage crumbled in 2005 that the time is right for her to finally become a mother.

“She feels so loved,” says the friend. “John has really been doting on her. I mean, the presents, phone calls, romantic dinners — he’s laying it on thick. It all makes Jen feel really important and special.”

The 39-year-old actress feels that after all she has been through watching Brad and Angie’s family grow, she’d love Brad to see photos of her holding her own baby and show him she’s not the self-centered girl he had made her out to be.

“It’s my turn now,” she told a friend.

And Jen believes the rocker is perfect daddy material.

“Jen feels so strongly that John is ‘the one,’ ” says a source. “She knows he can handle being a dad.”

By now, plenty of us have read articles like the recent NY Time lengthy examination of the future of Light Emitting Diodes as low-consumption replacements for incandescent and fluorescent lighting. This article in particular, from last Monday's paper cites a number of indicators, from the famed New Year's Eve Ball in Times Square (pictured) to more pedestrian applications like factory and home lighting.

US fast food chain Chipotle has announced that it's currently installing all LED lighting in its new Minneapolis store, and a spokesman "expects LEDs to be in the overwhelming majority of new restaurants next year." In Detroit, a local bar uses LEDs and claims to light the entire place with the equivalent consumption of two incandescent bulbs (which they quote at "130kW" -- my physics is a little rusty, but I think "130W" might be more correct).

LEDs are enormously appealing to designers for lots of reasons: the aforementioned efficiency, of course, but also their amazing flexibility and longevity.

Fuseproject famously took advantage of the color control LEDs can offer in their Leaf Lamp for Herman Miller, allowing the user to adjust not only brightness but also the warmth of the light, to great effect. The minute points of light LEDs create also offer endless opportunities for clustering, distributing and shaping illumination, a fact that designers like Ingo Maurer have seized upon and run with.

The catch, of course, is price. Philips Lighting plans to introduce its first LED lightbulb replacements for home use this September in the Netherlands, at 69 Euros (US$107) a pop, while Sharp is making a similar move in Japan, with lighting systems ranging from US$420 to US$1856. This makes LEDs, at present, good for two things: high-demand applications where durability and low operating cost makes the investment worthwhile, and consumer lighting for those with deep, deep pockets.

There's a dilemma here for lighting designers: focus on an emerging, low-impact, low-consumption technology that offers candy-store-like creative opportunities, or focus on the technology that most of the world's consumers can actually afford? It's not often that "sustainable design" and "design for the other 90%" are so clearly in opposition, but this would appear to be the case, at least for the time being.

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È un cellulare GSM 900/1800/1900 Mhz dotato del supporto per le reti ad alta velocità UMTS e HSDPA fino ad un massimo di 7,2 Mbps. Ovviamente presente la connettività Bluetooth ed uno slot microSD per l'espansione della memoria.

Il prezzo si dovrebbe aggirare attorno a 450 Euro e l'arrivo nel mercato italiano è imminente in quanto per il momento il dispositivo è stato commercializzato solamente nel Paese del Sol Levante.
Di seguito le caratteristiche complete:

MISURE E DIMENSIONI
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FUNZIONI
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DATI
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Se han unido las grandes empresas, empresas como Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung y Motorola y como sabemos cuando empresas de este tamaño se unen es para darnos buenas sorpresas e inovaciones. En este especifico caso nos traen la Wifi STB la cual nos permitira, entre otras cosas, conectar todos nuestros gadgets de manera simultanea, por ejemplo.

Te encuentras en tu sala de diversion viendo tu Television de 42 pulgadas de plasma y se te antoja ver la pelicula que tienes en tu pc, pero esta en la parte superior de tu casa, simplemente usas la Wifi STB y lo lograras, pero al mismo tiempo quieres sintonizar el DVD del baño (que coños hace un DVD en un baño....pero bueno, supongamos que tienes uno) y copiar la cancion a tu Ipod que se encuentra en la cocina, pero antes debes de codificarlo con tu lap top que esta cercas del refrigerador (wtf), todo esto lo podrias hacer con la Wifi STB sin tener que estar accesando fisicamente a los dispositivos, solo tu PC.

Los nuevos productos que sean creados por estas firmas (en caso de que se aprueba la Wifi STB) tendran esta tecnologia la cual consiste en un microchip que usa el espectro 5 Ghz y cualquier rango del 3.1 to 10.6 GHz para el UWB

Teoricamente el espectro puede conectar facilmente alrededor de 6 conexiones de 1080 de video HD al mismo tiempo. Las televisiones costaran aproximadamente US $100 mas que las televisiones normales, lo cual no es un precio muy alto para esta tecnologia que se piensa sera desarrollada e implementada dentro de 6 años.

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As a follow up to our previous article “Sharp, Sony & Pioneer Join Forces…” Pioneer has announced additional plans for future production. Pioneer Corp.’s Board of Directors has approved radical changes in their display business through a massive restructuring. After completion of the 2008 model production is complete all plasma display panel production will cease at the Pioneer Plasma Display Corp. and Pioneer Display Products Corp. After termination of in-house production Pioneer will rely on Matsushita Electric industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) for procurement of plasma display panels beginning in summer of 2009. As a result Pioneer’s plasma display technologies will be integrated into the Panasonic product.

In the midst of this carefully choreographed ballet Pioneer has announced the introduction of a new line of KURO plasma displays! To simply quote Pioneer’s promo script the displays boast black levels that are five times deeper than the previous KURO line and are available in both 50” and 60” models. Also included in the new line are various audio options including an auto volume stabilization feature. Most notably is the “Optimum Mode” which simultaneously monitors video and room light conditions and makes adjustments accordingly. At 3.7” inches thick, making it 20% thinner than the previous line.

All of these changes have a far-reaching impact on the fate of the existing Pioneer production facilities. The Pioneer Plasma Display Corp. Shizuoka Plant will live on as an assembly center for display products and also become a product distribution and inspection facility serving the Japanese market. The Display Products Corp. Yamanashi Plant and Plasma Display Corp. Kagoshima Plant are both scheduled to be closed. As mentioned in my earlier article Pioneer’s new LCD TVs will be supplied by Sharp Corp. as early in August 2008 in Europe. As they move forward Pioneer and Sharp will be combining technologies for future LCD TVs for an increasing number of regions. So you may wonder what is the driving force that would lead Pioneer, one of the foremost plasma display manufacturers, to turn its’ display business on its’ head. Well as a result of this plasma hokey pokey Pioneer expects to reduce its display business operating expenses by a meager $143 million in FY2010, ending March 31, 2010 as compared to FY2008.

Your Mum and dad have probably told you a million times about carrying all your valuables in your handbag or in one place and there's a very good reason for that!

The amount of ladies I see and meet in beautifully tailored and fitted suits and yet they don’t have a single usable pocket! Try to distribute your goods about you.

Remember, if your handbag gets snatched your entire life is literally in there. purse, credit cards, keys to your home, probably mobile telephone, which is then a “double whammy” because you’re now unable to make any calls and chances are you have no change because it’s all in your handbag as well.

Worse still, if you do keep everything in your handbag what’s to stop your assailant rushing straight around to your home because you’ll probably have something in there with your address (like a driving licence) and ransacking your home as well, “triple whammy” and then perhaps finding your car keys and taking that as well “quadruple whammy”.

Find a way to distribute your belongings it makes sense.

Finally if there is no way out don’t be hero, simply hand over your bag immediately using strong body language and disengage from the situation forcefully if necessary.

Goods can always be replaced, you can’t!

Last Tuesday, I experienced an emotion that I have never felt in my life.

Its not often that one can say that with certainty. Let me explain. For the last 3 months or so, I have been working on a project that culminated Tuesday. It all started when my Beatles tribute band went to Webster Hall and I was introduced to Lon Ballinger, the club's owner. I eventually asked him if Webster Hall was pursuing a digital media strategy, and we had a long conversation about what that meant. Within a few weeks I found that the task was mine.

Soon after that, I was approached by Shane Savant (who choreographs the club's dance performances and hosts some racy weekly burlesque parties). Shane told that he had met a guy from Sharp who wanted to talk to us about some sort of video sponsorship. Within a few days, I was on the phone with Judah Zeigler, the Associate Vice President of Retail & Consumer Marketing Group and the guy who made Sharp's HD deals with NASCAR, NBC and Major League Baseball. After weeks of negotiations, I managed to swing a deal whereby Sharp would GIVE us 133 HD Screens ranging in sizes of 19 up to 65 inches. This is about $800,000 worth of retail product. In return, we offered a multitude of brand exposure and the use of the entire club, free of charge, one day per year. As soon as Judah heard that part of the offer, he jumped on it. July 15, 2008 was the date of the MLB All Star Game at Yankee Stadium. And Sharp is the official video partner of MLB. And Webster Hall was going to be the site of the only officially sanctioned All Star Game party attended by 1500 people.

Although I had never done anything even remotely like this before, I promised Sharp that the majority of the screens would be installed, cabled, networked and operational by July 15. I put together a great team of people and got cracking. I had my deadline and it was inviolate.

40 hours before game time, only 3 screens had been hung. Most of the cabling was laid, but there were thousands of feet of it all over the place. The $140,000 box that controls all of the signals had arrived, but it was unconnected and untested. And we were yet to build the "spectacular giant video wall consisting of nine 65 inch screens" that I had promised. Sound stressful?

10 hours before the game, the cabling was essentially complete. But many TV's had to still be hung. We still had not received the delivery of 15 portable stands that would house many of the biggest screens.The HD signal in the building looked crappy. Worst of all, we simply could not get the giant video screen to scale properly (we wanted to put all nine screens in a giant rectangle and broadcast a single huge image of the game). By noon, the decision was made to abandon the giant wall and use an amazing 15,000 lumen HD projector instead. In the end, I figured this would be fine, since it allowed me to take the nine screens I was going to allocate to the wall and disperse them throughout the club. We would build the wall for another even, I hoped.

2 hours before the game, things seemed to be relatively on track, with one major unanticipated problem. Though we had beautiful HD everywhere, and things LOOKED amazing, for some reason that no one could pin down, we were unable to get the audio portion of the game to pipe through our million dollar sound system. My guys promised me that this would be solved by the first pitch. I, in turn, promised Sharp and MLB that there would be sound for the game. I am apparently very good at saying something I don't believe with a straight face.

At 7:30, an hour before the game's scheduled start, the doors opened and people poured in. The place looked great. HD video was everywhere. There was no issue about the audio yet, because until the game actually started at 8:32, the plan was always to play music throughout. But the fact was we still did not have audio.

At 8 pm, I saw John Loughlin, my head video technician running down the street outside the club. He had not slept in about 100 hours. "Where are you running, dude" I asked. "Radio Shack is a block away" he babbled. "I need a wireless transmitter that will enable me to send a signal from the Magenta Box in the basement up to the crow's nest in the Grand Ballroom. That will make the audio work." "Are you sure?", I asked. "It's a ghetto solution, but it SHOULD work" he said. Hardly convincing. This is gonna be ugly.

At 8:20, it became clear that John's idea was not going to work. Something to do with signal polarity and sound impedance I think. But our lighting technician, Jake, had an idea. We could hard wire a cable directly from the basement to the sound system. But this would entail cutting some of the existing cable on both ends and soldering, on each end, a new connection that looks like the plastic end of an ethernet cable. Each connection would require perfectly soldering 9 wires. And it had to be done on both ends of the cable and it had to be done in 12 minutes.

At 8:30, Jake had finished soldering his end of the cable and Jake and John were carefully applying electrician's tape to the basement end of the cable, which had just been soldered as well. "How much time do we have till the game starts?" they asked. "About 3 minutes", I said. By this time my head was in my hands, my heart was in my throat, I was palpitating and I could barely breathe. After all of this work, the game was going to start and there would be no sound. Within seconds, people were going to ask us to turn down the music and turn on the game and we would have to tell the people from Sharp, the people from MLB, the executives from Pepsi and Budweiser and the 1500 guests that we had no sound for the game. This would ruin everything that was good about this installation. And all the blame would fall on me.

About a minute before game time, John and Jake announced that they were ready to plug in the basement end of the cable. Things could simply not have been more stressful. Everyone was on the verge of melting down. John and Jake were in communication by walkie talkie with our people upstairs. They plugged in their end of the cable and listened. I was in the basement, sitting across from them. I knew that if the news was good form the walkie talkies, they would start high-fiving one another. But there was no high-fiving. Instead, I saw John and Jake drop everything and literally RUN out the door and upstairs. Apparently, though there was no game audio in the Grand Ballroom, there WAS a moment of loud static when they connected the cable. This meant that a signal had been transmitted, but that something was not right about it. We all ran upstairs and John and Jake examined the problem. By this time, we were literally moments from the start of the game. Already, people were a little curious as to why we did not turn the sound up during Sheryl Crow's singing of the national anthem, during the first pitch ceremony involving George Steinbrenner, or during the player introductions.

John and Jake figured the problem had to be that one of the connections was improperly grounded. They fiddled with the ground connections and....like some sonic apparition... the beautiful, glorious, mellifluous, crystal clear voices of the FOX Sports commentators came pouring through the speakers EXACTLY FIVE SECONDS BEFORE THE FIRST PITCH WAS THROWN.

Once I realized that I was actually hearing the game, I knew that the rest of the night was going to be amazing, no matter what else happened. I made my way downstairs to the center of the action and sat on one of the couches. I looked around. Everyone was having a great time. TV's were everywhere. The place looked like something out of a fairy tale. Not like a sports bar, but more like someone's giant, beautiful, 40,000 square foot living room. There was free beer, courtesy of Bud. There were hot dogs and peanuts and popcorn and apple pie and pulled pork sandwiches. And there was the MLB All Star Game on 50 giant Aquos screens. It was exactly what I had dreamed up in my head.

At that moment, I felt the enormity of what I had managed to pull off. From the very beginning. Making the deal with Sharp. Convincing the owners of Webster Hall to spend nearly $200,000 to install everything. Figuring out how to finance the project. Putting the technical team in place. Dealing with at least 3 separate occasions during which the owners told me to cancel the project and I had to talk them off of the ledge. Firing our cable installer a week before the event. "Borrowing" our cable signal from the bar next door. All of it.

I sat there, and I experienced an emotion that I had never felt in my life. Total, complete, utter, pure, overwhelming relief. It was so powerful a feeling that I just sat there, among hundreds of people, all having a great time, and bawled my eyes out for about 10 minutes. I could not care less that people were looking at me. This was a moment that was mine and mine alone and no one who did not live it could understand what I was feeling. In fact, I actually enjoyed it. It was like some cathartic wave coming over me, washing away all of the hellish mania that had literally consumed me for the past month.

After that, I walked out the door and took a cab over to my health club where I had one of the best showers I can ever recall. I changed my clothes, turned around and took a cab back to the club. I walked in at about 9:45. Rejuvenated, happy and normal.

Well not exactly normal. After all, I was still the madman who took all this on in the first place.

La normativa CEE che certifica i caschi per motociclette
non prevede di stilare una classifica comparativa dei prodotti,
ma determina solo se un prodotto ha superato o no il test di ammissione.
Se poi un casco ottiene solo la sufficenza
o passa con ottimi voti non ci è dato di saperlo.

Gli Inglese ci pensano per primi e uno attraverso SHARP
ha provato per noi i migliori caschi in commercio
effettuando dei test anche molto diversi da quelli CEE,
ed ha stilato una classifica dei risultati ottenuti.

Per gli ingegneri della SHARP non ha molto rilevanza il test di penetrazione
tanto sventolato da alcuni produttori poichè è risultato poco frequente
che un oggetto sfondasse un casco.
Tutte le prove si sono concentrate sui test di urto a differenti velocità,
causato da una scivolata che fa impattare il casco in più punti.

Al temine di questa classifica i risultati non sono scontati
e SEMISCONOSCIUTI da 100€ sono risultati più sicuri di BLASONATI da 900€

Qui di seguito la classifica Sharp 
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Those products, and others to be released later this year will not necessarily be compatible with those made in the future according to the WHDI standard, but the backing of major manufacturers gives Amimon -- and its technology -- a boost. That's important, because WHDI is up against a number of other wireless HD transmission standards, including Wireless HD, ultra-wideband and even Wi-Fi. WHDI SIG members Sony and Samsung are also members of the Wireless HD standard hoping to use 60GHz.

Noam Geri, Amimon's co-founder and VP of marketing, explains that many of these competing technologies fail because they either can't offer uncompressed HD or because, rather than being able to blanket the entire home, they only offer point-to-point wireless transmission. I admit that Geri's propaganda gets seductive when he starts talking about how a DVD player containing a WHDI chip could transmit HD video to a TV in a different room. With Motorola as both an investor and a member of the SIG, Geri points out that this might one day work for set-top boxes as well.

Having a dedicated network for video that works like Wi-Fi would be awesome not only because I could directly transfer data from my camera or camcorder to my TV, but also because I could then use one PC or set-top box to stream video content around the home. But that's a problem for the cable providers and ISPs -- at least here in the U.S.

There are plenty of companies trying to get digital content to the TV, either through separate hardware or direct streaming. Having a WHDI chip in a PC and TV means you could wirelessly stream Hulu content to your TV, but it will look like crap because it's not designed to appear on a 42-inch screen. We can blame that on a lack of fiber to the home as well as the massive amounts of bandwidth it would take to stream HD content to a TV.

Geri, however, remains undeterred. He envisions a future for web video in which viewers have the option of a low-resolution image or TV-quality image, much like web sites used to have alternate pages for dial-up and broadband. Even if this glorious utopia comes to fruition, there's still the matter of the ISP. Bandwidth caps will interfere and the cable guys will fight tooth and nail to keep their role as the content gatekeepers.

I'm actually pretty skeptical that we'll even see these chips in boxes sold to U.S. cable companies anytime soon. Which means that not only will I still need multiple cable boxes around my home, but WHDI looks a lot less compelling. DVD players are cheap enough that I don't mind having multiple ones around my home, and I don't have this huge need to see it wirelessly connected to my TV.

Eric also told me this joke:

"I broke my G string while I was fingering A minor."

....O__O. Never heard that one before, either.

Released by Sharp in 1987, the X68000 was another attempt to break into the Japanese home computer scene. It was much more powerful than the established competition presented by the PC88 and MSX series. In fact, its hardware was comparable to the arcade units of the time which had a predictable result - it was the champion of arcade conversions, hosting arcade classics from the kings like Capcom, Konami and Namco. Unfortunately, there weren't a great deal of original games for it except for an awesome Castlevania installment (released here for PlayStation).

As was often the case in the 1980s, machines with high graphical capabilities were of little use to most business and many homes, meaning the X68K was a popular alternative, but not a big boy. The last model was released in 1993 before the line succumbed to the all-powerful Windows 95 craze.