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About Concept Nokia 888
Agustus 28, 2008, 12:34 pm
Diarsipkan di bawah: Electronic, Life Style, Uncategorized

Nokia 888

Nokia 888

Design Concept

“Form follows you”
A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, simple and carefree. You can change its form according to your needs during the day.

Target

It is targeted to the young consumers who are likely to be active and take place in a lot of different activities.

Why This Target ?

Because they move and change place too much. They do a lot of different things during the day. So that’s what my design offers : to adjust to the moment, the place and the function.

Technologies That Are Used

It uses liquid battery, speech recognition, flexible touch screen, touch sensitive body cover which lets it understand and adjust to the environment. It has a simple programmable body mechanism so that it changes forms in different situations. (lagi…)



Jakarta JavaKINI Magazine Launches a New Club
Agustus 28, 2008, 11:43 am
Diarsipkan di bawah: Uncategorized

Join the editor and columnists of your favourite magazine at Club Azur (Jl. Kemang Raya No. 81, Tel: 021-718 2981) for a whole day of fun and excitement on 23rd February.

Starting with cocktails at 12.00 noon the day continues with a cooking demonstration, a great lunch, afternoon talks, wine tasting and an evening charity dinner with art auction, classical concert, and great speakers.

Lunch and dinner have to be pre-booked but for the rest it’s open all day with free food and drinks on the house. Come and meet the JJK team in person!

Call Dewi on (021)7918 7008 for details today.



Jakarta International Film Festival
Agustus 28, 2008, 11:19 am
Diarsipkan di bawah: New Events
When: 5 – 14 Dec 2008
Where: Jakarta
Cost: Free-Rp20,000
Celebrating the opening of Jakarta International Film Festival 2006. Courtesy of Jakarta International Film Festiv

Celebrating the opening of Jakarta International Film Festival 2006. Courtesy of Jakarta International Film Festiv

Indonesia’s biggest and longest film festival takes place in Jakarta every year with up to 63,000 people joining the action. Don’t miss 300 films from around 30 countries being screened over the ten-day Jakarta International Film Festival.
2008 marks the 10th edition and introduces the JIFFest Journey Exhibition where the festival’s promotional memorabilia from the past nine years is showcased. Other fringe events at the festival include the Indonesian Film Industry Exhibition, Film-Music in Concert (an orchestra performing on stage accompanied by the screening of a classic silent film), and Outdoor Cinema.

Screening venues for this year’s festival are announced on the festival website as soon as the details have been confirmed.



GRID
Agustus 28, 2008, 10:46 am
Diarsipkan di bawah: Game

Grid

Grid

Race Driver: GRID

is the latest addition to the TOCA Touring Car series by Codemasters, published and developed by the same company. It was announced on April 19, 2007, and is available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and PC. The game was released on May 30, 2008 in Europe, June 3, 2008 in North America, and in Australia on June 12, 2008. Despite its release date, as of June 5, 2008, GRID is available in Australia on the Steam digital distribution service.

Gameplay

This game is made by Codemasters, the creators of the TOCA/Race Driver series. GRID is a hybrid between arcade and simulator of mainly tarmac racing that consists of 43 cars. The game features an instant replay feature which allows the player to rewind time by up to 10 seconds. While the instant replay can be used as many times as the player wants, the Flashback feature can only be used a limited number of times, determined by the difficulty setting. A feature similar to what was introduced in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
There are several types of competitions for different cars: GT races, open wheel races, demolition derbies, etc. There are also several tracks from different countries, including Japan, United States and European tracks such as Le Mans and Spa Francorchamps. A track through the streets of Milan is also available.

Technology

Race Driver: GRID uses Codemasters’ own Ego engine, an evolved version of the Neon engine already used in their previous release Colin McRae DIRT. The damage code has been completely rewritten to allow for persistent damage environments.

Portable version

Firebrand Games, the developers of Race Driver: Create and Race, are developing the game for the Nintendo DS. The game will have 20 circuits, with 25 cars. The game will also included a “Track Design” utility from Create and Race which will allow players to create their own custom circuits and side-road billboards. The portable version will launch in early August.

Demo

On May 8th, 2008, a demo was released on the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace. The following day, a PC version was released (which uses Securom for DRM). The demo lets players try two game modes: racing and drifting.
The Demo also features a competition (challenge) to win a BMW 3 series for European based gamers and a chance to win a Ford Mustang for U.S. based players. The competitions for Europeans ended on May 31 at midnight, BST, and for U.S. gamers on May 25, 2008 midnight, ET.

PC system requirements

  • Windows XP/Vista. (If running Windows Vista, SP1 is recommended)
  • DirectX 9.0c
  • Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66Ghz or Athlon X2 3800+
  • 2GB RAM.
  • Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 or Radeon HD 3800 series
  • Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Sound Card.
  • Dual Layer Compatible DVD-ROM Drive
  • 12.5 GB Hard Drive Space

Supported Graphics Cards

ATI Radeon X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950, HD2600, HD2900, HD3850, HD3870, HD4850, HD4870

NVIDIA Geforce 6800, 7100, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950, 8500, 8600, 8800, 9600, 9800

Laptop versions of these cards may work but are not supported…

The demo also has the two competition tracks available for an online racing experience; it allows up to 12 players to compete online.

The demo has been downloaded by over one million people on the three platforms it is available for.



Final Fantasy XIII Comes to The Mobile Platform, and We Have Impressions of Square’s Debut Trailer for The Game.
Agustus 26, 2008, 12:55 pm
Diarsipkan di bawah: Game

Agito

Agito

TOKYO-Square Enix showed off a remarkably dense CGI trailer for its upcoming mobile game, Final Fantasy XIII Agito. That’s right, a CGI trailer for a mobile game. Although the game may never see the light of day in the US, Square Enix is certainly throwing a good amount of resources behind it in Japan, as evidenced by its showing today in the Closed Mega Theater at Squeenix’s booth at TGS, where it was sandwiched between trailers for Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII: Versus.

The three Final Fantasy XIII games all apparently tell tales set in different worlds, so it’s difficult to tell how the story told in this trailer will tie in with the other Nova Crystallis games. At first, we see a large amount of wreckage floating in shallow water, underneath a blackened sky. After a few moments, the camera zooms in on the word “Agito” emblazoned on the side of a metal scrap. It’s unclear whether the wreckage is that of a ship or of a city, and whether or not Agito refers to a construction or a place.

Off in the distance, beyond the wreckage, a white city is seen, shining atop a large green mountain. After a series of zooms, the camera resolves on a large cathedral at the top of a hill, which is surrounded by red-robed acolytes. After the camera focuses in on one of them, a blonde-haired boy, he turns around to view the courtyard. Although it was fully populated moments before, his view reveals it to be void of anyone but him.

After he heads inside, he stumbles across a large, floating crystal, suspended above a structure that appears to make it levitate. After activating the device with his thumbprint, the structure starts to glow bright red, and the crystal follows suit. The thumbprint machine then spits out five cards, which the boy spreads out and examines; apparently it’s some sort of fortune-telling device. Unfortunately, before he can do anything more but frown at what’s revealed, the clock atop the cathedral strikes noon, which in turn triggers the explosion of the crystal.

The crystal apparently contained power beyond its small size would indicate, as the entire island is quickly shattered by the explosion, resulting in a towering inferno. Despite the destruction, the last moments of the cutscene return to the cathedral’s innards, where the boy is lying unconscious but apparently unharmed. A few screenshots of the game float by the camera’s view, imprinted on the cards the boy was holding earlier. The last image of the trailer shows a close-up of the boy, who’s lying on the floor as his cell phone rings.

Although precious little of the actual gameplay of FFXIII: Agito was shown in the trailer, we’re still intrigued by the dramatic events of the cinema. As more details are revealed about the game, including news of a possible US release….