Let’s start the second and last chapter dedicated to Portuguese singer Dulce Pontes, in which we pay attention to ten outstanding musical moments (for different reasons) of her discography. Read the rest of this article »

http://www.lectrosonics.com/PressReleases/xsdt/xsdt.htm

the smallest wireless microphone in the world, the XSDT or “eXtra-Super-Damn-Tiny.”(…) with a 1×1mm capsule area, provides an astounding frequency response of 5Hz to 120kHz(…) the XSDT-ALK which uses an alkaline AA battery, providing 38 minutes of operational time; and the XSDT-LITH using a lithium battery providing 1 hour and 15 minute operational time. Due to the permanently installed battery on each unit, the XSDT must be discarded once the battery dies. MSRP for the XSDT-ALK: $499.99, for the XSDT-LITH: $699.99.

Just let me add something: this information was first published last saturday, April 1st- and yes, it´s an April fools joke, albeit a very interesting one.

I was browsing Digg just a few hours ago when I found a piece of news about the microphone. As I usually do I clicked the headline first to see what it was about, which got me to mobilemag.com. I then read the description and decided to write an article on the microphone since I found it quite odd that it was attached to a big battery and that it was so expensive for such a short life span. However, I must admit that by that time I didn´t doubt it was a real product. I just hadn´t taken the time to decypher the acronym (we´re faced with weird acronyms everyday: I know it, you know it, every NAN out there knows it), and though 120 KHz sounded quite excessive (we humans hear on average up to 22KHZ), it backed the statement that the mic was “astounding”. All in all, I thought it was a weird microphone, though surely appealing to Read the rest of this article »

To give advice is almost to give help.

http://www.iceagemovie.com/

The Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighting in their new world: a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits.

I liked Ice Age, the first movie, very much. That´s why I was a bit worried when I watched Ice Age: The Meltdown´s trailer for the first time. There was Scratch, the squirrel, searching again for the unattainable seed, there were the same ol´chaps from the first movie escaping again from an inminent danger… I feared that the forecoming movie was to be a sequel made to make some cash by using and abusing all the things that made the original famous. Now I that I finally saw the movie, I´m happy to Read the rest of this article »

http://www.nbc.com/Medium/

Allison DuBois is probably one of this year´s best fictional characters (the other one may be doctor House, but I run away from hospital plots as much as my cat does from water). Allison travels at daybreak to the sewers of terror, and then, when she wakes up, she finds her husband´s look, a saint in strict sense, still half asleep, her children and the daily chores. The way in which she intertwines the threads of panic and life is amazing, as much as the ability of the scripts to extract credible stories from her incredible powers. The chapters hardly last for 45 minutes, a juice with no spare pulp.