2pac lives on – as a hologram anyway

Check out the awesome video that has been doing the rounds online from Coachella festival.

It features a hologram of 2pac performing live alongside Snoop (who is real life)

2pac or Tupac Shakur was shot 7 times in September 1996, and after 7 days in hospital he died on Friday 13th September at 4.03pm. (Notice the use of 7 here allot?)

2pac was signed to Deathrow records and part of the East Coast West Coast violence that plagued hip hop in the mid 90’s.

Could this be the future of live concerts? We’ve already seen a Frank Sinatra show using holograms so this could be the future.
I for one would love to see this as I was unfortunate to have never seen 2pac live.

Who could be next? Elvis?

LMFAO – Shepard’s Bush Empire Beat Rock App Demo

So a few weeks ago Cut The Cap got the chance to see LMFAO perform live in London alongside The Far East Movement at their sold out show.

The show was fantastic and cannot recommend it enough. They covered tracks from their first album ‘Party Rock’ as well as all the current big hits from ‘Sorry for Party Rocking’

Sky Blu was unable to attend due to recent back injuries, leaving Redfoo to hold the stage along with the rest of the party rock crew, and he did a good job.

Naturally I wore my Shufflin T-Shirt along with the signature LMFAO glasses (cause I’m a geek like that)

However the talk of the night was at the end when Redfoo gave us a demo of the Party Rock App that we had talked about here a few months ago.

The app allows you remix on the spot and sync the app wirelessly, making you the soul of the party without having to leave the dancefloor.

No news has surfaced as to when this app will be available, or how much, but one things for sure, we will be ready to shuffle when the app goes on release.

We even managed to record the demo for you (apologies for poor quality, but you get the jist of it)

Until we get more info, please enjoy:

New Lite IPAD

After months of speculation, Apple have just announced the new Lite Ipad.

The new iPad will also feature a retina display with 2048 x 1536 pixels, and 264 pixels for each inch. It will include 44% greater saturation and A5x quad-core graphics.

So as I hurry to ebay to sell my Ipad 2, check out mashable’s breakdown of the new Ipad here

OnLive and the Independent Games Festival Partner Up = Free Games for ALL!

OnLive, the pioneer of on-demand cloud gaming and Gold Sponsor of the 14th Annual Independent Games Festival, is bringing the excitement of the Festival to the masses with a two-week Indie Showcase, hosted in partnership with the IGF. From March 5 to March 11, players everywhere in the US and UK can play an outstanding lineup of 16 current IGF nominees and honorable mentions free through the OnLive® Game Service – frigging AWESOME. Players can then “Like” their favorites on OnLive’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/onlive and they will announce which independent game received the most Likes and which was the most played on March 12, the Monday following the 2012 Independent Games Festival.

As of Monday (sorry for the delay guys!) OnLive will also be placing previously honored IGF games on sale for 75% off, with free instant demos available for all. As is typical with OnLive games, participants can play on demand on nearly any device—PCs, Mac®s, TVs with the OnLive Game System as well as tablets and smartphones – lunchtimes haven’t been the same since we’ve had our wireless controller hooked up to our Mac.

Starting today, 16 of this year’s IGF game nominees and honorable mentions are available for instant play over the OnLive Game Service at http://www.facebook.com/onlive including: Atom Zombie Smasher (Blendo Games), Be Good (DigiPen Institute of Technology), Botanicula (Amanita Design), Dear Esther (The Chinese Room), Dustforce (Hitbox Team), English Country Tune (Stephen Lavelle), Frozen Synapse (Mode 7 Games), FTL (Justin Ma and Matthew Davis), Lume (State of Play Games), Nitronic Rush (DigiPen Institute of Technology), Once Upon a Spacetime (RMIT), POP (Rob Lach), SpaceChem (Zachtronics Industries), To the Moon (Freebird Games), Toren (Swordtales), and WAY (CoCo & Co.). By simply clicking the links next to each game, visitors can test-drive each game free for 30 minutes on nearly any device they own—low- or high-end PCs or Macs, TVs or mobile devices. No discs and no downloads are necessary; only a free OnLive account and an internet connection. Once gamers have identified their favorite titles, they can Like them on http://www.facebook.com/onlive, sharing their preferences instantly with friends.

To find out more about the OnLive Indie Showcase or to participate, visit www.facebook.com/onlive. To find out more about the Independent Games Festival, visit www.igf.com.

Enjoy!

On Test: OnLive Wireless Controller with Tablet and Desktop Gaming

Its fair to say that gaming is as popular as its ever been and with games like Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3 and Call Of Duty continually setting new standards 2012 is looking like another vintage year.

But it’s not just like of Sony and Microsoft enjoying this renascence period oh no there’s a new kid in town and you should be paying attention to… Leading the charge and challenging the big boys is OnLive – the first company to offer a true cloud gaming service. (If this is all new to you then click here to get our lowdown on OnLive).

So what’s new in the world of OnLive? Wireless Gamepads and bluetooth adapters that’s what! Now it means you really can play your game anywhere you want, front room, bedroom, office (and you don’t have to be tapping the screen of your tablet all day long if you have the new Wireless Controller). Simply download the app onto your tablet, laptop or desktop, log in and away you go!

OnLive’s tablet app launched with 25 games, each adapted for use with a touchscreen. The list includes stuff you wouldn’t expect, like LEGO Batman, Assassin’s Creed Revelations, L.A. Noire, and of course, Batman: Arkham City (3 mention already, can you tell this is my favourite game at the moment?!)

I’m not going to lie though thumbs on glass or keyboard and mouse don’t do it for me so thankfully there’s the OnLive Wireless Controller, which looks like a hybrid Xbox 360-PlayStation 3 controller and syncs with the tablet’s OnLive app wirelessly or with the supplied bluetooth adapter and is awesome!

If you want to give it a try, all you need is [the controller], the free OnLive app and an OnLive account… And what do we think? Well if it means we can carry on playing Batman: Arkham City at lunchtime (which it does) then its a double thumbs up!

Great Scott, Hoverboards are finally here

I’ve just received news that Mattel have announced that the iconic hover board from Back to the Future Part II is to be finally released in the real world.

However before we all rush off to café 80’s to celebrate with a Pepsi and play video games with a young Elijah wood. The boards won’t actually hover, however Toy Fair claims that the pink boards are “movie accurate” and that it will “glide on most surfaces”.

Digital spy is reporting that the limited edition item will be available for pre-order from March, and will be shipped in time for the holiday season later this year. A price has yet to be confirmed for the boards.

There were rumours that back in the day the Hoverboards were actually real but parent groups campaigned against them as they believed they were too dangerous. (maybe they are without a funky 80′s soundtrack to skate to)

“Because this is such a high-cost item, there will be a minimum number of orders required to go into production,” Mattel said in a press release. “If we don’t receive the minimum orders, we won’t go into production and customers will not be charged. The price will be announced later this month.”

Looks like they’ve seen how successful the trainers were last year that were auctioned for charity, and want to cash in on the desperate, crazy Back the Future fans (that being me)

Watch this space for more info, or just jump in your Delorean, go forward in time by a month or so and then make your order.

Let’s hope they are affordable and are available in the UK this time.

LMFAO – Million Dollar Beats By Dre Headphones

There’s looking like a million bucks…and then there’s wearing a million bucks

And if you’re LMFAO, your probably doing both at the same time.

LMFAO performed at this years Super Bowl alongside Madonna and sported a very special pair of Beats By Dre Headphones, valued at $1,000,000.

Not sure if you can get them at amazon, but I’m sure there will be replicas by next weekend available at your local market.

Here’s the performance from the 2012 Super Bowl:

Check out the video below about the Graff Diamond Headphones:

This is seriously cool… New NIKE+ FuelBand

Nike the week announced the global launch of the new NIKE+ FuelBand – an innovative wristband that tracks and measures everyday movement to motivate and inspire people to be more active. Activities can now be measured through a new metric called NikeFuel: the more active you are, the more NikeFuel you earn.

Behold... the Nike+ FuelBand

NIKE, Inc. President & CEO Mark Parker unveiled NIKE+ FuelBand at an event in New York attended by seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, Oklahoma City scoring champion and all-star Kevin Durant and 2011 IAAF women’s 100 metres World Champion Carmelita Jeter.

“The NIKE+ FuelBand is a way for Nike to further evolve the exciting possibilities of merging the physical and digital worlds,” said Parker. “Nike has always been about inspiring athletes, and the NIKE+ FuelBand will help motivate them in a simple, fun and intuitive way.”

Designed to be worn throughout the day, the ergonomic, user-friendly NIKE+ FuelBand uses accelerometry to provide information about different activities through movement of the wrist via a LED dot matrix display. Four metrics are available: Time, Calories, Steps and NikeFuel. Unlike calorie counts, which vary based on someone’s gender and body type, NikeFuel is a normalized score that awards equal points for the same activity regardless of physical makeup.

Users set a daily goal of how active they want to be, and how much NikeFuel they want to achieve. The NIKE+ FuelBand displays a series of 20 LED lights that go from red-to-green as the user gets closer to their goal. The FuelBand syncs with the Nike+ website through a built-in USB, or wirelessly through Bluetooth to a free iPhone app, to record activity and track progress every day. The app interface also provides encouragement and motivation as goals are achieved.

Armstrong said, “What’s great about the idea of NikeFuel and the FuelBand is the way it provides real information and numbers to show how much people are doing all day, every day. That’s what will get people challenging themselves to do more and better their own scores. It’s a tool to get people more active.”

“NikeFuel means everyone can get recognition for activities they do,” said Durant. “It provides a scoreboard for your day and gets everyone moving.”

Jeter said, “You don’t have to be an elite athlete to appreciate how NikeFuel can motivate you. It’s an easy way to get credit for activities and compare how you do with others, even if you take part in different sports.

The Nike+ FuelBand will be available in the UK from the 1^st May, RRP £139 (GBP).

The only thing left to say is WE WANT ONE. Fact.

OnLive Console-class Gaming to be Integrated into All Google TV Devices

OMG – things just got interesting!

OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of instant-play videogames and instant-action cloud computing, announced today that Google will be integrating the revolutionary OnLive cloud gaming service as a standard feature of the Google TV platform on all devices from all manufacturers. OnLive brings to Google TV users instant on-demand gameplay from a rapidly growing library of the latest high-performance console-class titles, as well exclusive social features such as worldwide massive spectating and Brag Clip® videos with full group voice and text chat. The OnLive Viewer, enabling OnLive social features, is available immediately on all Google TV devices currently in the market and is compatible with standard Google TV remote controls as well as the OnLive Wireless Controller and standard USB game controllers. Full OnLive gameplay is coming soon to all current and future Google TV devices, including TVs, Blu-ray players and Media Streamers, making Google TV the first integrated TV platform with console-class gameplay capability, and bringing OnLive capability to most major TV manufacturers.

OnLive instant on-demand gameplay of about 200 console-quality titles, including top-tier recent releases, such as Saint’s Row: The Third and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, is being demonstrated on the VIZIO VAP430 Stream Player with OnLive’s Wireless Controller in Las Vegas during the CES show this week. Simultaneously, OnLive is demonstrating soon-to-be-released full OnLive gameplay capability on current Google TV devices. Over 50 game publishers, including virtually every top console publisher, is supporting the OnLive game platform.

The OnLive Game Service is currently available on TVs, via Google TV or the OnLive MicroConsole, PCs, Mac®, tablets and smartphones, and soon will be available on Blu-ray players, media streamers and set-top boxes. The just-announced OnLive Desktop service, delivering a seamless, full-featured, media-rich PC desktop with full collaboration capability, is based on the same patented OnLive instant-action cloud computing technology, and will also be available on Google TV as well as all of the above platforms, enabling business presentations, sharing of family of videos and photos, as well as other media-rich PC applications.

“OnLive integration into Google TV is a huge leap forward for videogames,” said Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder and CEO. “Consumers have come to expect instant gratification with music, movies and video. Now, with OnLive, players in the US and soon in the UK can just as easily stream the highest-quality games to their Google TV devices for play instantly on demand, without discs or downloads.”

Samsung Smart TV – CES 2012

CES 2012 in Las Vegas is underway and Samsung have unveiled Smart TV With the new TV you will be able to ‘listen, see and do’ what you want, without ever touching a remote control.

Looks like we are moving closer to Back to the Future 2 when Marty Mcfly Junior is channel surfing by using voice only. Good times!

With the new TV you will be able to interact using voice, gestures and face. The face recognition seamlessly logs in each family member to their own Smart Hub profile. You will see your apps. Your family members will see theirs. That’s just a taste of what is possible with our Smart Interaction technology.

What’s more, we will open our APIs to developers so they can unleash their creativity and build apps that use motion control, voice control and face recognition.

This is what we think is going to be the next big step in TV’s. Imagine being able to flick through TV without putting your cigar down?

Check out the video here: