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If you’re still on the fence about choosing between a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Microsoft wants to help you make your decision. Redmond is taking its next-gen console on a multi-city international tour starting October 1st, putting the system’s launch titles in your hands and throwing parties replete with live music in select Canadian, European and US towns. These events are running right up until the system’s November 22nd launch, and full details — where to find the happenings and when — are but a click away.

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It’s no secret that Nine Inch Nails’ frontman Trent Reznor likes to do things a bit differently. He and long-time art director Rob Sheridan have assembled a crew to make the group’s festival dates this year as visually stunning as the audio promises to be. Along with a slew of other high-tech gadgetry, there’s a Kinect that handles motion tracking with captured movements projected onto a handful of mobile video screens. Alongside thermal and regular ol’ video cameras, live video content is piped on-stage during specific parts of the set — with a hand from the folks at Moment Factory, a multimedia environment studio. Reznor also notes that much of the system is “a bunch of homemade software and hardware effects that they’ve tied together” with the goal of creating a film-like quality to an hour and a half performance. For a 13-minute, behind the scenes look at the prep work, head on past the break.

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The climbing season for Mt. Fuji, a symbol of Japan and the new World Heritage-listed site, officially opened today. Because of its new status, many people expect (and are even a bit concerned) that there will be many more climbers than usual visiting Mt. Fuji this year.

Because today is the first day of the climbing season, we would like to introduce the “Private Mt. Fuji Tour” tour packages planned by major Japanese travel company, JTB. There are 2 kinds of tours:

1) Mt. Fuji Climbing Private Tour (2 Days)

English speaking tour guide will pick you up by car and take you to the “5th station” of Mt. Fuji (the usual starting point for hiking the mountain). Once summiting has been completed, you can enjoy the beautiful sunrise from the top of Mt. Fuji. Then, a hot spring and Kaiseki-style traditional lunch near Lake Kawaguchi/Yamanaka await you.

Price: ¥94,000 or more (depending on the number of people)

2) Mt. Fuji Climbing and “Exploring immense Nature by Walk” Private Tour (4 Days)

This is a very challenging walking tour. The tour begins from Mt. Takao in Tokyo and covers 100km to finish at Mt. Fuji. You can stay at ryokans (Japanese style hotel) and enjoy hot spring and Japanese style food along the way.

Price: ¥248,000 or more (depending on the number of people)

Both are private tours with a dedicated luxurious car and tour guide.

For the average Joe that have managed to stay out of the Apple circle, the Just Mobile brand might not immediately ring a bell, but chances are you would’ve come across one of its peripheral designs at some point. The only problem is unless you knew the company in the first place, you’d easily assume that the aluminum or even plastic knock-offs are just based on generic designs, because there are simply too many of them. It’s no wonder Just Mobile co-founders Nils Gustafsson and Erich Huang take imitations of all forms very personally (especially the ones they and their lawyers see at CES), but fortunately, we were spared from prolonged ranting when we visited the duo’s office in Taichung, Taiwan recently. What we were treated to instead was an insight into how an accessory maker works with Apple and why Just Mobile manufactures exclusively in Taiwan, as well as getting a preview of the upcoming AluRack, HeadStand and AluBase that are due out this month.

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Just Mobile talks about working with Apple and why it manufactures in Taiwan exclusively originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For sci-fi lovers, it’s on. A fan-devised project to restore the Enterprise-D bridge from Star Trek: The Experience is now actively raising cash on Indiegogo with a newly estimated $240,000 target needed to make the dream real. Crowdfunding brings the obligatory perks for larger donations, although they take on a progressively nerdy bent once you get past the t-shirts. It peaks at getting replicas of Captain Kirk’s original chair or an LCARS terminal, and you can even get a romantic evening on the deck with “complete privacy until the next morning” — wink, wink. Outlandish? Maybe, but the project is getting official sponsors and has a shorter-term plan to get Captain Picard’s chair ready for display by October. The whole bridge should be ready by late 2013. If you’d wished Paramount had preserved this piece of The Next Generation history for the ages, you now have your solution.

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Enterprise-D restoration fundraiser goes live: your chance to revive a slice of Star Trek is here originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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