TechnoMarine, the company best known for creating watches inspired by the life aquatic, has a new source for timepiece inspiration: Auto Racing.

Their new KRA line of chronographs features a multitude of hands and dials to supply all the important info and each of the six versions are made from materials you'd normally find on a Formula One car - stainless steel, PVD, carbon fiber, and a whole lot of rubber.

$725
www.technomarine.com

I had this buddy back in college. His "sure fire" method for picking up girls was to ask the one he wanted if he could drink a beer out of her shoe. Amazingly, most of them said yes. Whether it was out of morbid curiosity, a strange sense of flattery, or simply to see some poor bastard choke down a mixture of beer and foot funk. But he always ended up with her. A lot of the time with her beer soaked shoes abandoned next to his bed.

I'm not sure if drinking out of a glass Beer Boot from Bier Boot Haus would have had the same effect, but it definitely would have saved him from the Hoof and Mouth disease he likely contracted. And, trust me, the glass version is a helluva lot more fun to drink out of.

If you've seen the movie Beerfest, you know all about "Das Boot", which has become the adopted name of what Germans call "Bierstiefels". If you haven't seen it, lemme give you a quick rundown on the tradition: It is thought to have started back in World War I, when German soldiers would drink beer out of a leather boot that was passed around before battle. ...More

Public guitar playing was once the exclusive domain of acoustic guitars. Long-haired tree-huggers playing Kumbaya outside a coffee shop. Some wanna-be Romeo serenading his girl in the park. Now guys who pick an electric axe can rock out outside. Without lugging heavy amps, or needing to plug into a power outlet.

Roland's new micro-CUBE amp has many of the features of their larger Cube amp, squeezed into a compact package weighing less than 8 pounds.

They've included seven amp modes from their Composite Object Sound Modeling (COSM), that give you the some of the same sound models as their full size amps. No need to pack pedals either. There are six DSP effects including tremelo and phaser, with a separate control for reverb and delay. And a built in tuning fork feature lets you make sure you're not off-key.

A carrying strap makes the Micro-CUBE truly portable and six AA batteries will let you jam in the fresh air for about 20 hours. Or until someone calls the cops.

Comes in Black, Red and White
About $125
www.roland.com

When it comes to the sensation of being immersed in the virtual world of a video game, the bigger the screen, the better. If your home screen is lacking in the size department, throw on a pair of Vuzix's new iWear AV920-C virtual video goggles, fresh off the assembly line and ready for action.

Their twin high-resolution 640x480 LCD displays mimic a 62-inch flat screen viewed from nine feet away (about the width of the average living room), and they work with the Xbox360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii and other popular gaming consoles.

The AV920-C is also 3D enabled for
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