Hooped Up

Screw voice activated apps! People want cell phones they can control with their mind, the ability to shoot/edit video like a Quentin Tarantino flick and mad techno music — tons and tons of techno music. Clearly Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors is aware of real consumer demands, but folks over at Google who created the Nexus One I guess aren’t exactly ready for what we the people want.

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Derrick Rose is on the cover of this months 3-D issue of FadeAway magazine and hands down, this is the coolest basketball magazine cover I have ever seen in my life to date.

Hats off to the FadeAway creative department!

H/N K1X

You don’t have to be a scientist to figure out that you don’t want to get in the way of a LeBron James dunk, but if you are like John Brenkus and figure out that LeBron generates 700 lbs of force during take off to lift his 250 lbs frame, his arm can move as fast as a Chinook helicopter blade and if he converted his vertical arm movement (54 mph) into a horizontal punch he would be able to hit harder than Mike Tyson in his prime. Basically, never jump in front of this train with a headband if you value your life and limbs.

Using the dunk LeBron James had on Kevin Garnett during Game 4 of the 2008 Cavs vs. Celtics contest as the beaker / poster, see the science behind “The King” crowning KG, after the jump.

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adidas Originals has just launched the first Augmented Reality experience in footwear and if you don’t have them you’ll probably go get them. Not now, but right now.

The adidas Originals AR Game Pack is a set of 5 shoes, each printed with an AR code on the tongue. When you hold the code in front of your webcam, you’ll gain access to a virtual version of the adidas Originals Neighborhood. Each month between February and April, adidas will launch a new interactive game within the Neighborhood and your shoe will be the game controller. OMG!

I so dare you to tell me how this union of video games, kicks and the internet isn’t perfect.

Peep out the line up of kicks here.

When adidas and Star Wars (pre-Jar Jar Binks) hook up to collaborate on a collection, even people from a galaxy far, far away take note. Mostly because adidas is not sold in space — yet.

Set to blow up the scene like the Rebel Alliance blew up the Death Star, this Summer. Adidas and Star Wars have joined both the Force and Dark Side to let you display your outer geek on your feet with Storm Trooper, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Yoda, Hans Solo, and Princess Lela (oh yeah) themed kicks and gear.

Sadly, I haven’t seen anything about a Lando Calrissian or  Chewbacca shoe, but after watching this commercial. I’d still easily let Darth Vader chop off my hand (providing I was given a mechanical replacement) if I could have this entire collection in return.

Peep more of the Intergalactic freshness after the jump.

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Gabriel Dishaw, a junk-metal genius who turns trash into artwork. His most recent pieces were inspired by his love of Nike shoes, as he fashioned five different kicks, including dunks and high tops. Salvaged from computers, typewriters, and metal scraps. When I saw this I had a nerdgasm, because besides basketball. I love art, kicks and for some strange reason building custom computers.

If a ball game breaks out in TRON, everybody will be wearing these guaranteed.

Peep the digital goods after the jump.

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If you have a domain name that shouldn’t be yours — Chis Bosh will find you. Then sue you, then perhaps dunk on you. Okay, maybe not the last one, but definitely the first two.

Bosh won custody of the names after winning a $120,000 (U.S.) award in April 2009 for the violation of his rights under the U.S. Federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in a California federal court.

The ruling came against Luis Zavala and his company Hoopology.com, who had registered the domain www.chrisbosh.com and displayed ads using Bosh’s name to generate revenue without having any association to Bosh.

I’m not a big fan of the CB4 nickname Bosh has, so with the release of this story I’ll table “Domain Santa” or “Domain Hood” as possible other nicknames Bosh can use. Who’s with me?

via Toronto Star

For me when somebody says the beautiful game, I think of basketball first. It’s a game of constant motion and unique characters from every part of the world, and ten different things are going on all at once for 24 seconds at a time until the final buzzer sounds. The people that capture these moments with a camera, paint brush or pencil to me are  just as important as the refs, coaches and fans that give a NBA game life.

For me their are five artist that capture the NBA game and players exceptionally well and are the best basketball artist in the business.

Find out who and see some of their amazing work after the jump.

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Wonder Woman aka Princess Diana is a super hero from Themyscira. Some of her other aliases are Trina, Cassie Ventura, Olivia Munn, Kim Kardashian and Lynda Carter.

Olivia Munn is a model, actor and co-host of Attack of the Show on the G4 network hailing from the state of Oklahoma. She is currently featured in Complex magazine and might possibly be the bestest Princess Leia ever.

She is also a blogger and her comedic stylings can be viewed over at heyolivia.com.