Star Trek inspired Warp HMS Automatic Swiss Luxury Watch

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The AK Geneve HMS Automatic Warp is inspired in many ways by Star Trek. Designer Arny Kapshitzer is indeed a huge Star Trek fan, which is clearly reflected in the watch design and in the name of the watch: Warp HMS Automatic.

The unique case design uses a total of 34 screws and combined with the complicated cut glass already hints at sophisticated watch making.
Located eccentrically towards the right of the dial, a cut-away metal piece reveals the jumping hours and minutes on two superimposed discs. The seconds are displayed at 3 o'clock on a cylinder linked directly to the crown. 9 o'clock forms the tail of the spaceship. Read more

Posted on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Tiny Earth Trek Projector

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Korean Earth Trek offers a tiny projector the company claims is the world's smallest projector.

The Earth Trek 90-805R Micro Projector measures 105x58x25mm, and weighs 160g. Read more

Posted on Mon, 26 May 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Gadget Video: Bluetrek Bizz Bluetooth Headset with SD Card

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The Bluetrek Bizz Bluetooth headset is the world's first Bluetooth headset with integrated SD Card reader.

Bluetrek managed to combine a nice looking Bluetooth headset and a Micro-SD USB-card reader. If you remove the back-end of the headset, a micro-SD slot will show, allowing you to insert an SD-Card up to 8 GB.
See the video here. Read more

Posted on Sun, 25 May 2008 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Star Trek Actor to wed after Gay Marriage Ruling

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By Iain Blair

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor George Takei, best known for playing Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," says he plans to wed his longtime partner now that the California Supreme Court has overturned a state ban on gay marriage.
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Posted on Mon, 19 May 2008 23:01:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sean Penn leading Biodiesel Trek across America

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By Leslie Simmons

INDIO, California (Hollywood Reporter) - Sean Penn is fighting the war in Iraq, poverty, homelessness and saving the environment, all from a bus.
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Posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:10:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Perry's latest Enterprise - ''Trek'' trainer

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By Carly Mayberry

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Madea" filmmaker Tyler Perry will head the Starfleet Academy in the "Star Trek" feature that has been shooting since November.

Perry joins an ensemble that includes Chris Pine (Capt. Kirk), Karl Urban (Bones), Zoe Saldana (Uhura), Anton Yelchin (Chekov), John Cho (Sulu), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Bruce Greenwood (Capt. Pike), and Simon Pegg (Scotty). Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Toshiba & CBS Team Up for Star Trek Special

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Toshiba and CBS Home Entertainment announced today that Star Trek: The Original Series is now available. The original series’ first season has been re-mastered and is available in a boxed set on HD DVD/DVD format combo discs.

Part of the promotion allows buyers of any Toshiba HD DVD player and the Star Trek boxed set to get a free Star Trek phaser universal remote control with a retail value of $69.99. Read more

Posted on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:35:16 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Lowepro Rolling CompuTrekker Plus AW Notebook Bag Review

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Today we are looking at the Lowepro Rolling CompuTrekker Plus AW notebook and camera bag. This bag has tons of storage space and will keep your notebook and digital cameras safe.

The bag can be used as a rolling carry on style bag or tuck away straps can be quickly attached to make the bag into a backpack. If you need lots of space for your computer and other gear, this is the bag to look at. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:23:39 CST | by Shane McGlaun

First Star Trek Captain resurrected for Feature

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By Borys Kit and Carly Mayberry

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Bruce Greenwood has been cast as Christopher Pike, the Starship Enterprise's first captain, in director J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" feature. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 Nov 2007 01:10:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Cho and Pegg board ''Star Trek'' Feature

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By Borys Kit

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Korean-born actor John Cho of "Harold & Kumar" fame has been cast as Sulu in the new "Star Trek" feature, playing a role immortalized by Japanese-American actor George Takei. Read more

Posted on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:17:53 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

J.J. Abrams Star Trek Film Looks to Cast New Kirk

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Fans of Star Trek are probably already aware that J.J Abrams, the dude behind Alias, is preparing a new big screen Trek movie. Rumors are coming in that J.J. may be looking at Mike Vogel to play Capitan Kirk in the film.

Sci Fi is reporting that the rumor is unconfirmed at this time. Vogel is in the Abrams film code-named Cloverfield scheduled to launch in January. Read more

Posted on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:36:33 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Star Trek enlists Saldana in Uhura Role

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By Borys Kit

LOS ANGELES (Hollywwod Reporter) - Filmmaker J.J. Abrams is slowly bringing his crew together for the 11th film in the "Star Trek" movie series.
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Posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:04:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

TrekStor DataStation duo 1TB Review

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Our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the TrekStor DataStation duo with 1TB configuration.

Quote from the review: "TrekStor, a respected hard drive and MP3 player manufacturer from southwest Germany, recently announced their DataStation duo w.u. 1 terabyte USB 2.0 hard drive. Read more

Posted on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Heroes Villain playing Spock in Star Trek Movie

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By Borys Kit

SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) - Zachary Quinto, best known for playing the villainous Sylar in "Heroes," will don a pair of pointy ears to play Mr. Spock in the newest installment of the Star Trek feature franchise. Read more

Posted on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:32:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Get Your Own Star Trek Apartment for a bit under $200,000

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If you think you are a serious Trekkie, you haven’t seen anything yet. Tony Alleyne has turned his apartment into a replica of Voyager from the series Star Trek Voyager. The lights in the home, HVAC system and more are controlled from panels that look just like the starship in the series.

Tony stands and says computer, lights at 100% and the lights adjust. It’s really cool in a seriously geeky way. All the controls in the home use authentic sound effects from the show as well. Read more

Posted on Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:15:16 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Star Trek Phaser Remote is Geekalicious

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True geeks, especially those into Star Trek aren’t satisfied with a mortal remote, even one as cool at the Harmony 890, no they need something more well, something more geeky. The hard core Trekkie out there who already owns the Star Trek Voice Operated Dimmer can now own perhaps the coolest of all Star Trek gadgets, the phaser remote.

Not only does the remote look very similar to the original Star Trek phaser, it even has licensed sounds from the original series from Paramount Pictures. When you press the buttons to change channels you get real sounds from Star Trek. Read more

Posted on Thu, 1 Mar 2007 16:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

New Star Trek XI Movie in 2008

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Paramount officially announces a new Star Trek movie to be released Christmas of 2008.

J.J. Abrams, director of Mission: Impossible III will be directing Star Trek XI.

The 11th Star Trek movie, which reportedly will be a prequel revolving around a young James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, has been written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.

The 10 Star Trek movies have grossed in excess of $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
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Posted on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:46:37 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Star Trek Voice Operated Dimmer, a Geeks Clapper

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Somewhere out there a Trekkie geek is about to burst a blood vessel. If you like the convenience of a device like the Clapper, but the Clapper just isn’t quite geeky enough for you how about a Star Trek Voice Operated dimmer?

Plug this thing in between your lamp and the out let and you can dim the lights in your room via voice commands straight from the bridge of the Enterprise. Alas it doesn’t appear to recognize anything with the word tachyon in it but you can say “Computer lights to 50%” and have them dim to 50%. Read more

Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

P!nk Trekstor Player

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German music player maker Trekstor signs singer Pink (P!nk) for a special edition mp3 player. This player has the color pink of course.

This slim music player features a color display, FM tuner, video player, voice recorder and a 10 hour battery life.
Measurements of this slim DAP are 37x80x9mm. Read more

Posted on Thu, 2 Nov 2006 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Star Trek Digitally Remastered On TV Starting Tomorrow

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Star Trek - Boldly Go. Again.

CBS Paramount Domestic Television is releasing digitally remastered episodes of Star Trek featuring new special effects and music.
The Star Trek episodes will begin airing on the more than 200 stations that own the rights to the weekend broadcast syndication window starting September 16th. See this schedule to find out when digital Captain Kirk is on your TV. Read more

Posted on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Trekstor Vibez 15GB MP3 Player

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German Trekstor announced a new small mp3 player featuring a 1inch HDD with either 8GB or 15GB.

The Trekstor Vibez measures 105x50x18mm and has an organic shape. In German you call this a 'Handschmeichler'.

Other features include MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG and FLAC files support, 20 hour battery life, 176 x 132 px color TFT screen and photo viewer. Read more

Posted on Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr