Nike set to bring us Back to the Future

Nike has begun taking the lid of one of the geekest reveals in decades. According to many shoe-geek sites, who have been secretly brought to LA for a big promotional press event tomorrow night.

Why is a pop culture site reporting on shoes you ask? Well let me tell you, nay, let me show you.

That's right, straight from 2015, Doc Brown (and the good folks at Nike's Innovation Kitchen) are bring the coolest set of shoes this side of 1988 to a pair of feet near you. What is the point of all this might you ask? Well I'll leave you with one explanation.. Power-laces.

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Apples and Ice Cream

If you know anything about tech or just really love your smartphone, than this holidays season is going to be a great time for you. Multiple reports out this week are setting the stage for what will be a mobile battlefield for Holiday '11.

Up first is the always elusive next iPhone release. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is this time round adding Sprint to it's ranks along side Ma Bell and Big Red to it's release. This represents a major move for Apple, which makes makes the available on virtually every carrier in the US. Along side the WSJ report is another report, this time from BGR who is sighting an internal Best Buy memo that pegs the first week of October as the iPhone (5/4s/HD) release week. With the big blue store taking pre-orders, supposedly starting on the 1st. Which means we should expect an announcement from Apple sometime between now and then.

Also poised to set the world ablaze is Google, which is set to unleash a new, fourth, version of Android, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. Today out of Dreamforce former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, while delivering the keynote address at the conference basically ousted the release window for Android 4.0, pegging an October/November release window for ICS. This also places the next Nexus release tentatively called the Nexus Prime (or DROID Prime for Verizon's flavor of the device) and made by Samsung into that same release window, with the device premiering with the new software.

So no matter if you prefer apples or ice cream this winter is set to be a great one for smartphone consumers!

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iPad 2 Movie Mount For the Armchair Filmmaker in You

Have you ever wanted to make a movie like the pros? Do you own an iPad 2? Well, those that said yes and are looking to shoot the next great short film (or three) we have a special announcement for you today. The fine folks over at Makayama have announced the imminent arrival of the Movie Mount.

This over the top iPad case can attach to tripods via the conventional screwfitting allowing nice stable shots and ubiquitous pan & tilt, it also caries two hot shoe mounts for shotgun mics, viewfinders and video lights galore. But that's not all, the mount also comes with a nice lense feature that allows for wide-angle and telephoto shots via sliding adaptor that on the fly will switch between the conversion lenses and the built-in. On top of it all Makayama has even thrown in a free app to sweeten the deal.

Now lets talk brass tax, if we can. The company has announced production has started and pre-orders are being taken as of this week. The Movie Mount will not be shipped to your iPad toting door until October though, with a retail price of $69.95. If you're looking for a way to shoot that idea you've always had, and turn it into the next great thing at your local film festival, it's a very small price to ask isn't it?

Makayama PR video below:

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And the Oscar Host Is...

It's not 100% just yet but it's pretty likely that the next host of the Academy Awards will be Eddie Murphy.

It's an interesting choice that I can get behind.

I'm still not sold on this whole putting Brett Ratner in charge of the show thing though.

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Metallica and Lou Reed Album Artwork!

This is equal parts gross and nightmare inducing.

This hotly anticipated collaboration from Metallica and Lou Reed will be available November 1, 2011.

For more info visit http://www.loureedmetallica.com/

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Heads Up LA! Bon Iver In Concert!

Bon Iver is coming to town!

His show on 9/21 at The Shrine may be sold out but you can still get tickets for his show on 9/20 at Gibson Amphitheater!

Head over to LiveNation.com for more details!

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