"Avatar" revamped movie watching experience

In less than twenty days, Hollywood 3D blockbuster "Avatar" has grossed around one-billion US dollars in global theatres. Many audience members have acknowledged that by employing a new generation of special effects, the film has set a benchmark in filmmaking history.

In seventeen days of screenings, "Avatar" has hauled in around 350-million US at North American box offices, with a daily gross of around 20-million. So far, its global box office earnings ranks the film fourth after "Titanic," "Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King," and the third installment of "Pirates of the Caribbean."

The general consensus is that the film is more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling. But "Avatar" reaffirms James Cameron's singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking.

In a 2009 profile in The New Yorker, Cameron claimed that the digital elements of "Avatar" are believable enough that the audience will be unable to tell reality from computer animation.

The film's such an engrossing experience that many Hollywood directors have use the term "pre- and post -Avatar" to mark film history.

The people over at the Japanese watch importer Tokyoflash doesn’t seem to slow down just because they’ve released the Oberon a couple of days ago.

They have already something new and cool cooking. There isn’t much information available for the forthcoming Q version yet. Actually, there isn’t even a release date set yet, but they “expect it will be Jan/Feb 2008″.

Judging from the product photos it looks like we’ll have two different models to choose from; one black and one silver – both with a brushed Gunmetal finish.

Getting a Date

Chocolates

Chocolates are a great noncommittal gift. Everybody loves a sweet treat, and the chocolates have a plethora of tastes, so you’re sure to get rave reviews.

Flowers

While a bouquet of red roses may be a bit overzealous for afirst date, other flowers may send your message perfectly. Do someresearch choose carefully; gardenias denote secret love, orchids arealways lovely, showing beauty and refinement, while yellow roses mean friendship.

New Romance

Heart-Shaped

Pendant An extremely sweet yet extremelywearable heart-shaped pendant available in sterling silver or gold,featuring foreign translations of the word “love” engraved around itsborders.

Hand-Dipped

Strawberries 12 strawberries dipped in various chocolates and toppings, such as swizzles,almonds, minichocolate chips or shredded coconut. Beautifully decoratedand placed in a gold-foiled box lined in black, these look as deliciousas they taste.

Long-Term Relationship

Yellow Gold Bracelet with Heart

This piece of jewelry reminds your girlfriend just how muchyour time with her has meant to you, while also providing her withsomething she’ll be more than happy to sport every day.

The Newlyweds

Jewelry Armoire

A jewelry armoire is a great gift for your new wife andeternal Valentine. It is pretty and feminine, but will last a longtime. Ultimately, it is both a practical and thoughtful gift.

Couple Cooking Classes

Finding cooking classes in your area will indicate your interest in activities together; you’ll build cooperation skills and learn a new art.

Married Long-Term

Three-Stone Earrings

Although gift demands change over the course of your relationship, one thing doesn’t: Jewelry will always melt her heart.Remind her, that after all this time, you love her as much as ever.Surprise her and make her feel extra-special with this gift¡£

Victoria’s Secret Satin Flyaway

Babydoll

Not only is this lingerie a great gift for rejuvenating theromance in a relationship, it’s perfect for women of all shapes andsizes. Sexy, but not over-the-top, this set is hot and sweet¡£

Luxury Spa Trip

Show her that you’re looking out for her by giving her atreatment package from a local spa, or get one for the two of you toexperience together. Either way, you’ll make her feel fresh and sexythis gift is straight from the heart¡£

Tokyoflash has announced yet another stylish timepiece in their steadily growing stream of hard-to-read-but-nice-to-look-at watches.

Galaxy, as this latest model is called, features a “powerful formation of multi-colored light bars, developed using digital tube technology”.

Housed in a sleek, newly designed polished silver case and finished with a custom linked, brushed silver strap with polished detail, this design offers you the chance to wear a fashion statement, unlikely to be seen anywhere else on the planet.

And here’s how you read the time:

The cryptic looking display is deceptively easy to read; one touch of the upper button initiates a programmed animation of light, and then presents the time. Twelve yellow bars represent hours in a clock wise direction, eleven red bars represent groups of five minutes and four green bars show single minutes. Pressing the lower button presents the time immediately.

sWaP is an analog cell phone watch that actually looks like something you could wear without feeling like a complete moron. Here you will get a watch with phone capabilities, not a cell phone with a strap attached to it.

It not only tells the time, but the wearer can pop in their SIM card to transform the watch into a wrist communicator a la Dick Tracy. And there’s more. Built into the strap is a 1.3 megapixel camera, so you can sneakily snap all of those top secret government documents you keep finding left on the pub table – or you could just take pics of your mates.

The memory card slot allows you to insert a T-Flash card to upgrade the already impressive 128MB memory to a whopping 2GB. With all that memory you’ll have no problem storing all your MP3s and you can even watch MP4 movies on the 1.5 TFT colour touch screen. You can access WAP sites, bringing the world wide web to your wrist and the watch is Bluetooth enabled, so if you’re sick of getting tangled up in your hands free kit you can banish the wires forever.

Features
A watch and a mobile phone all rolled into one.
Pop your SIM card into the watch and it’s easy to make and receive calls
1.5 inch TFT colour touch screen.
Includes a hands free kit, Bluetooth headset and a stylus for negotiating the touch screen.
The stylus is stored in a handy slot built in to the watch strap.
No need to buy a new SIM card – simply take it out of your mobile and pop it in the watch.
Receives SMS, MMS and can display recent and missed calls.
Store up to 300 contacts.
Built in alarm clock has 5 different tones to choose from.
Compatible with all networks except 3.
Record audio using the hands-free kit’s mic and use the craftily concealed 1.3 megapixel camera to take pics and record video.
128MB memory can be expanded up to 2GB with a T-Flash card (not included).
Supports MP3, MIDI, WAV, AAC and MP4 files.
Requires 650mAh battery (included).