Rev.Gear.Guide - Nokia 7500 Prism

Descriptions: Just when you think those boys over at Nokia has almost exhausted their ideas for fashion sense phone... think again! What happens if you combine a typical Nokia candy bar phone with some..er.. diamondly~ design? Behold ladies and fashion geeks... Nokia 7500 Prism! Recently being launched in China, the main selling point of this phone is none other than the overall diamondly designed appearance. Aside from the keypads, the back cover of the phone also features diamond shaped polygons all over it, from the the flash light to the actual camera lens all encased in diamond shape. The phone is indeed shouting out Prism! in it's overall design. I wonder what's next, maybe they'll have Nokia 8500 Prism.. featuring trapezium shape... and further on... 9600, 10600, etc... they can use all the wacky prism shapes. Triangle, Square.. (hmmm, square is being used), Circle, Octagon, etc.

Key features are typical of mid - high range Nokia phones. Operating on S40 OS, TFT 16M 2 inch color screen, 30MB onboard memory with optional micro SD card for expansion, GPRS, HSCSD, 2 mega-pixel camera with flash, FM radio, build-in handsfree, etc.

Pros: Stylish phone, supports HSCSD, reasonable features included, nice screen, memory expansion available.

Cons: Keypad takes sometime to get used to (perhaps).

Official Url (China): Nokia 7500 Prism

Rev.Anime.Guide - Devil May Cry

June 14th 07, that was when the first episode of Devil May Cry anime aired in Japan. Scheduled for a 12 episode series, the anime of course featured Dante from the Devil May Cry games on PS2 doing what he does best - slaying demons and eating pizzas. The anime series casts includes Trish from the 1st game and Lady from the prequel, though they don't appear in every episode.
(spoilers ahead)

The anime is still airing in Japan and I've only watched 5 episodes so far and for those who'd expect Dante to be the stylish, awesome, cool and sleek demon slaying bad@$$ that he is, you'll be dissapointed.
Somehow the anime doesn't focus so much on the cool moves Dante does
with his sword and .45s. Rather the demons will die after a slash and a
couple shots.
The Anime however, shows the character of Dante and stories about
the people he saved which most people will think is lame and cheesy after playing the games. Hopefully the series will pick up to something better after this, I mean, we all want to watch Dante pull off those demonic skills with his Rebellion sword and, ebony and ivory right? Yeah, we know you do.

Yeah, the official link of the anime web. Every Devil May Cry game or anime in this case seems to have their own logo, see the top of this article for the anime version.

Up up and......omg...

Ever wonder what low budget Superman movies would look like?

Notice that the 'floor' still appears when they're 'flying'...

Man, yo... your Logo is too L.A.R.G.E! He's probably afraid people couldn't recognize him way up there in the sky... yeah, normal people does not have super human vision... oh ya... maybe it's cos we have the other Superman from U.S. too... LOL.... his version has smaller 'S' logo.

Go go! Man of steel~ XD

Rev.Figure.Review - Revoltech #31 - Getter 1 OVA ver.

Intro: Figure we're going to review today is from Kaiyodo's Revoltech series (Kaiyodo). For those who do not know, Revoltech's selling point comes from the 'Revolver' joints which all the figures have. This allows a much more dynamic pose for the figures because of the ratchet like joints resides internally and the revoltech joints lasts longer compared to other conventional joints which tend to wear out after sometime. This Getter #1 figure is molded from OVA (Orignal Video Anime) Change! Getter-Robo series (真（チェンジ!!）ゲッターロボ 世界最後の日).

OBE: (Out of Box Experience) Well, they redesigned the packaging, now the box opens above as oppose to the sides. This way you can keep the little paper wrapper in front of the box intact. Fresh inside the box, Getter sits there in his plastic case, the moment it was taken out and checked, we noticed that the knee has paint chip problem. Well, it is quite noticeable, but not while it's in the box. You have to twist the revoltech joints to reveal it. Too bad, next... tried to twist the elbow. Guess what, the left one turns fine... right joints would not even budge. After some frustrating minutes gone by trying to pry the thing open, we finally come to a conclusion that it might be mis-glued together. A few slice of the side of the joints proofs that we're right. The joint finally moves! Shame of the fellow who glued it in the first place! Other than this, there is no other complaints. It has 2 machine guns with knife attached at the end of the barrel, 2 axes, a few different fists to pose and the all important... display stand! Display stand is not included in all Revoltech figures... only some have them(EVA series particularly do not have them).

Pros: Highly poseable like the rest of the Revoltech series. Nice weapons included and also display stand.

Cons: Paint job problem on the left knee, mis-glued left elbow joint.

Rating: 8/10 (would have given 9 if no paint job problem and mis-glued elbow joint.)

Enjoy the rest of the pics! Go! Getter Robo!

Do The Bartman!!!

This 1990 song from the Simpsons' album titled "The Simpsons' sings the blus" was a number hit all over the place when it was released. Enjoy the music video below, the plot involves Bart rebelling againts the elementary school authority...... as usual. Also, "Do the Bartman" was co-written and produced by Michael Jackson, the King of Pop himself.

Rev.Gear.Guide - Transformers Music Label - Soundwave

Intro: So you think you've seen it all... all the possible Transformers toys there are...Think again! What happens if u merge mp3 player and accessories into the Transformers brand? .... Presenting.. Transformers Music Label toy of course!

First up is the mp3 player... Soundwave will be a perfect fit for it. Soundwave in G1 is an audio cassette player who ejects cassettes that transformed into smaller robots that act as his minions.
Well, in ML (Music Label) the looks remained to be similar of G1, but who wants a cassette player nowadays? It's a mp3 player of course!



Descriptions: Able to transform from mp3 player into robot mode. Mp3 playing capability only plays back mp3 files. No internal memory available but supports micro SD card (up to 1GB). Uses AAA batteries. Toy comes with accessories such as shoulder mounted electric launcher, wave blaster gun, ear phones, fists and spec. card. Price: USD130~.

Available in blue or white color.



Pros: A Soundwave toy that plays music, G1 homage, able to transform and plays music at the same time.

Cons: No internal memory, only supports mini SD card, memory card size only supports up to 1 GB, no rechargeable battery, only supports mp3 files, robot mode fists cannot be stored while in alt mode and must be removed and stored away individually which is a hassle (this includes his gun and shoulder mounted launcher).

What low budget Transformers Movie will be like

Seen the latest Transformers Movie in theaters? Well, anyone of you who wanna shoot 1 live action Transformers movie.. here's a tip... do it yourself. No need fancy CG ... just a little bit of creativity + cardboards...

Transformer Generation 1 vs Movie (2007) Character Comparison #3

After 2 Decepticons, here's Ironhide from the autobots.
The old red nissan van vs GMC Topkick C4500

        
The movie version ironhide is equiped with an energy cannon and missile launcher on his fore arms while the old ironhide has windshield wipers on his chest.
According to Industrial Light & Magic, the 2007 movie Ironhide's guns alone have more pieces than some of the transformers in the film......
 

Rev.Gear.Guide - Sony Walkman NW-A805

Descriptions: Fancy a compact mp3 player which also plays video in the palm of your hand? Sony Walkman NW-A805 has arrived. Featuring simplified user control with minimal face buttons and clear bright 2 inch (QVGA) color display, the new NW-A805 plays MP3, WMA, AAC and of course ATRAC format files and digests MPEG4 & AVC for video files too. Measuring 88mm x 43.8mm x 9.6mm and weighing a mere 53g, it is stylish and compact at the same time. Full charge of battery will provide enough juice to play 30 hours of music and 8 hours for video.

Available in 2, 4 and 8 Gigabytes models.

Pros : Small, Lightweight, clear bright screen, good battery life and comes with quality earphones.

Cons: Management of audio files requires the installation of the clunky SonicStage program.

Official Url: SonyWalkman NW-A805

I'm watching u...

Fancy some paper illusion fun?

Stumbled across this a few years back, I thought I'd post it here to share with all.

Take a look at the video below:


As you can see, the paper dragon illusion looks pretty neat huh? It follows you wherever you see him. Well, almost all directions...

For those who are interested to get one, you can indeed build one yourself.

Click this to download the .pdt file (from www.grand-illusions.com) , print it out and show it to your friends. (you'll need a Acrobat Reader to open the file) Heck, it'll make a pretty nice add on to your desk. : )

The Simpsons

Simpsons fans rejoice. Finally, after 18 years on tv, the movie is coming on July 27th.
As a fan of the simpsons...... let me rephrase that, as a huge fan of the 
simpsons, I finally get to hear Homer with his signature D'oH in the big screen cinema.
Here's the link to the official movie site and for those who've never heard of the simpsons, here's a clip for you which i think is one of the funniest scene ever with Homer and Bart doing a indiana jones parody... This is from season 3 which was 15 years ago and 
no matter how many times i watch it, its still funny as h3ll......



Remember, July 27th!

Want an iPhone but can't afford it? What do you do?

Want the cool new iPhone but can't afford to buy one? USD599 for the 8Gig version, check this out...













IPhone vs WoolPhone


Links taken from link.

Which is the smartest bird?

The answer may/ may not surprise you but get this... ravens/crows are among the smartest of all bird species in the world.

Tested and observed by scientists, ravens (see pic on the left) are the smartest birds whether in the wild or lab. E.g. of their intelligent behavior is that these birds are seen to drop hard to crack nuts into the road and waiting for incoming cars to smash them open. Other shows that the bird buried up to 30 thousands seeds to be kept for winter and able to find/ recover back up to 90% of them back. Impressive huh?

I remember as a child, I saw this educational video on the TV, it shows that a raven is trying to drink from a bottle of water, but the water resides deep inside the container. what it does was it searched for small pebbles/ rocks and threw them into the bottle, it did this until the water level was high enough for it to sink its beak into the mouth to reach the water inside. Pretty smart I guess, but I never thought that only ravens can do this. I thought they simply pick a bird. ha ha.

Jim Carey Karate lesson

We all know how dangerous today's society can get, people are picking up various self defense lesson to better serve them when the time arises.

Well, have a look at this funny video where the comedian Jim Carey shows us the 'correct' way to defense against an armed robbery (must be performed correctly for it to work) ... LOLs

P/S: Thanks Shirlene for the video...

Mobile Phones/ PDA making us dumb?

Research shows that in today's society where mobile phones and PDAs are becoming life's necessity and can really make some of us become.. well.. dumb.

According to the statistics, people needs to remember tonnes of passwords, pins, bank accounts no., etc. to get by their daily lives. Most people (in fact more than half of the 3000 people surveyed) just rely on a single password for almost every application they use.

It seems that we're relying on technology to help us remembers things such as passwords, dates, appointments, schedules... so much that we kinda let our brain takes the back seat.

Professor Ian Robertson, a neuropsychology expert based at Trinity College Dublin who carried out the study, said: "But the less you use of your memory, the poorer it becomes. This may be reflected in the survey findings which show that the over 50s who grew up committing more to memory report better performance in many areas than those under 30 who are heavily reliant on technology to act as their day to day aide memoir."

So is it time to re-train our brains to memorize stuffs? or play any brain stimulating games perhaps?

Transformers Generation 1 vs Movie (2007) character comparison #2

Here's the next look at Decepticon Bonecrusher from the movie.

I remembered I used to have the G1 bonecrusher which can merge with all other 5 more constructicons to form Devastator - a meaner, larger Decepticons robot.

G1 alt form - bulldozer

2007 movie alt form - buffalo armored vehicle (at first I tot this was a made up vehicle just for the movie, a simple google it shows that the armored vehicle manufactured by US is effective at countering IED - (improvised explosive device)) see link

Bonecrusher G1 vs Bonecrusher (2007 movie)

All these reviews brings back lots of nostalgic moments... :) how I miss my G1 toys.

Image taken from Hasbro toys

Transformers Generation 1 vs Movie (2007) character comparison #1

Transformers movie 2007 (http://www.transformersmovie.com) which hits cinema worldwide just recently has different characters design compared to their G1 counterpart.

Here we'll take a look at some of the characters comparison. First up, Decepticon's Starscream! The robot jet fighter who likes to betray their leader - Megatron in numerous attemps.

Starscream's alternate mode is the American jet F-15 in his G1 form whereas he's the updated version of F-22 fighter in this latest movie.














G1 Starscream vs 2007 Starscream

I dunno but his robot form looks kinda weird, like some sort of bug like creatures from mars... but I think the reason is to make him more menacing, just like the rest of the Decepticons.


by KitKeat

Human Tetris

All of you probably played Tetris before.. but human Tetris? Only the Japanese can think of such thing! hahahaha...

by KitKeat

OWNED

Saw this clip back a few years ago. This is suppose to be the final round for the EVO tournament 2004. The video saids it all, simply Awsome... just watch the video.

The birth of Revolution Gears!

Finally, a blog for all to see!
It took us roughly 2 hours for lots of naming ideas but we finally nailed it!
Welcome all, this shall be a day to remember. : ) njoy~