Nike Mid-Autumn Festival Pack - China Only

Nike will be releasing a Mid-Autumn Festival Pack of sneakers consisting of three sneakers, an Air Max 1 Supreme, Blazer Mid and Terminator High. The pack looks to celebrate the Chinese holiday known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The pack of shoes come in Dark Red and Gold as the color inspiration came from mooncake packaging, traditionally the Chinese people will eat mooncakes during the festival. Some additional details on the shoes include various embossed and debossed imagery including the chrysanthemum flower and a hare, both of which are related to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Unfortunately for those of us here in the US, this pack of sneakers is limited to China only, thus your best bet will be ebay.

Apple iPhone 3G VS. Samsung Instinct

Apple's latest iPhone is a winner, adding faster data-network access and GPS-assisted searching and mapping to the slick, innovative platform of its predecessor. Competing phone makers have taken their shots at iPhone's touch-screen design, but haven't made a dent.

That is, until recently.

Samsung's Instinct touch-screen phone, available exclusively from Sprint Nextel, has been flying off store shelves. In fact, Sprint stores have had a hard time keeping up with demand for this cool new phone, which has the unique ability to act on voice commands.

Does the Instinct have the chops to dethrone the iPhone? Watch our video to see how the Instinct and iPhone stack up against each other. (You can also view the video by clicking on the player at right if you have Flash software installed on your computer.)

To see how the iPhone 3G compares with other cell phones, check our Ratings of smart phones (available to subscribers).

—Paul Eng - Consumer Reports

Release Dates : Air Force 1

12/20/2008 Air Force 1 Premium 07
315180-661 Varsity Red/Varsity Red-varsity Royal
$125 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

12/20/2008 Air Force 1 07
315122-011 Black/White-Old Royal
$88 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

12/13/2008 Air Force 1 07
315122-062 Medium Grey/Varsity Red-Black
$88 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

12/13/2008 Women's Air Force 1 Low
318769-101 White/Neutral Grey-Cayman
$85 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

11/29/2008 Air Force 1 Mid Supreme WP
333887-441 Varsity Royal/Varsity Royal-Soft Grey-Blue
$175 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

11/29/2008 Air Force 1 07
315122-006 Black/Black
$88 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

11/29/2008 Women's Air Force 1 High
334031-002 Black/Anthracite-Varsity Purple
$100 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

11/15/2008 Women's Air Force 1 Low
318769-061 Neutral Grey/Berry-White
$85 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

11/08/2008 Air Force 1 Low
315122-121 White/Boulder-Gum-Light Brown
$88 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

11/01/2008 Air Force 1 Low Premium
315180-224 Boulder/Boulder-Light Bone-Black
$125 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

11/01/2008 Women's Air Force 1 Low
315115-006 Black/Stealth-Tour Yellow
$82 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

10/25/2008 Air Force 1 Low Supreme WP
333884-211 Olive Khaki/White-GM Light Brown
$150 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

10/18/2008 Women's Air Force 1 Low
318769-161 Metallic Summit White-Deep Burgundy
$85 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

10/04/2008 Air Force 1 Premium Mid 07
316670-001 Black/Natural Grey-Varsity Royal-Flmng
$135 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

10/04/2008 Air Force 1 07
315122-012 Neutral Grey-White
$88 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

10/04/2008 Women's Air Force 1 High
334031-001 Black/Anthracite-Berry
$100 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

10/04/2008 Air Force 1 07
315122-005 Neutral Grey/Black-University Blue-Flmng
$88

09/13/2008 Air Force 1 07
315122-994 White/White-Pine Green
$85 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com 77 Burnside

09/06/2008 AJF 3
323626-161 White/Fire Red-Cement Grey-Black
$135 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com

09/06/2008 AJF 3
323626-061 Black/Fire Red-Cement Grey-White
$135 Style will be available in the NikeStore.com

RH : Freestyle in the Park - Mass Hysteria pt II

Mass Hysteria show why they are one of the illest crews in Chicago's Hip Hop scene. You may not know the names Gee Field and Mike Trese just yet, but you will soon. And anything they lack in name recognition, they more than make up in skill. Both members show and prove in a double-dosage of RH TV's Freestyle In The Park.

You saw Gee yesterday now Peep Mike Trese below!!!

Read the Interview

Nikon D90 - D-SLR that Records Video

For all you aspiring photographers...

Camcorders, look out! Nikon recently announced its D90, a digital SLR camera that promises to do things that no point-and-shoot digital camera or even non-professional camcorder can.

Nikon says the D90 (Click on the image at right for a closer look) records both high-definition (720p) and standard-definition video using interchangeable lenses, while taking advantage of numerous other SLR benefits, among them low-light sensitivity, fast continuous shooting, and high-capacity batteries. Nikon says the D90 will be available sometime in September and list for $999 (camera body only) or $1,299 (with lens).

A few highlights:

• With a D90, you can shoot videos using many of Nikon's lenses such as its fish-eye and macro lenses, for the same creative control you get with stills. For example, with some lenses, you should be able to reduce the camera's depth of field enough that, when shooting video, the subject stands out because the background is noticeably out of focus.
  
• Because the D90 uses an image sensor very similar to the one found on the Nikon D300 (model information available to subscribers), you should be able to shoot decent quality video or still images in very low light without a flash. The D300 is the only model in our Ratings of digital SLRs (available to subscribers) able to capture, in low-light, images good enough to enlarge, even when set as high as ISO 3200. (Most SLRs can do so only up to ISO 800 or less, our tests found.) It was also one of only three SLRs with excellent overall image quality and dynamic range.
  
• You can shoot stills continuously up to 4.5 frames per second (fps) and both high-definition (1280x720) and standard-definition video at 24 fps. Videos are stored on a flash memory card; you can edit them later on a computer. There's also an HDMI output for playing back high-resolution videos on an HDTV.
  
• Other features include 12.3 megapixels, face detection, scene-recognition, and live-view composition on the LCD when shooting stills.
  

Several dealers are already taking orders online; one lists the release date as September 7. By comparison, a high-performing, high-definition camcorder like the Panasonic HDC-SD9 (available to subscribers) and a typical basic SLR together might run you $1,400 to $1,600 without a lens.

If you're looking for a less-expensive Nikon SLR and you don't need video, consider the 10-megapixel Nikon D80 D-SLR (model information available to subscribers). It's one of the top-rated digital SLR camera models in our recent Ratings of D-SLRs and is available online for as little as $730 (body only).