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Calibur11 and video game developer BioWare have announced that fans of the Mass Effect franchise are now able to pre-order the N7 Vault armor for their console of choice, which will allow them to protect their home consoles in style and use a Commander Shepard style.
The chest piece of the armor is designed to light... |
22 February 2012
05:30 GMT |
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Video game developer Wargaming.net has announced that it will be launching an exclusive edition package for their title World of Tank, which will be offered starting on December 2 on the PC in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Italy, Scandinavia, Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Greece and France.The boxed pack... |
28 November 2011
09:29 GMT |
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With the holidays almost upon us, it is no surprise that any and all IT companies would make haste in delivering as many products as possible, and Thermaltake figured it would provide the market with a new gaming PC case.The product that Thermaltake created is known as the Armor A30 and has “an extremely styli... |
6 December 2010
09:07 GMT |
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Consumers may be more inclined, at present, to think of the iPad and its competitors when speaking about tablets, but purpose-built tablet PCs have existed since long before Apple's product even became publicly known, and the latest of them has just came out from underneath DRS's wing, eager to show the wo... |
12 August 2010
06:51 GMT |
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The Thermaltake Armor A90 PC case was unveiled a little over two months ago and did well in living up to the reputation of the popular Armor Series. Now, the same hardware maker has brought out yet another member for this same line, by the name of Armor A60. This new chassis seeks to preserve, if not raise the standa... |
13 July 2010
10:46 GMT |
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While some companies have no qualms with occasionally rushing a new product to the market, in order to make the best of the growing demand, Thermaltake seems to be taking it a bit more slowly. In fact, the company seems to be quite meticulous when it comes to its products, or, at least, its PC enclosures. The Armor A... |
4 May 2010
03:56 GMT |
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If you are in the least interested in Mass Effect 2, then you must already know that it's based around the idea of picking a number of elite companions in order to take on a powerful enemy that has been kidnapping entire human colonies in the Terminus area of the galaxy.This means making some unsavory choices an... |
4 February 2010
18:11 GMT |
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With an overall dimension of 150 x 85 x 162 mm, Evercool's Armor Hard Drive Cooler was designed to create just the right temperature for the drives to operate properly. Despite what some people may think, HDDs are not like chips. They do not work better if they are supercooled. In order for an HDD to function pr... |
24 November 2009
02:33 GMT |
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A new line of research, focused on the negative effects that explosion-generated blast waves have on the human brain even outside their so-called action radius, may lead to a new generation of improved helmets for soldiers, and also to a reduction in related head injuries. The team of experts investigating the phenom... |
27 August 2009
02:42 GMT |
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While observing the thick wooden hull of old warships, experts at the University of Haifa and the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. became curious as to how exactly a cannonball fired from a regular cannon could have penetrated the ship's defenses. They started asking these questions after examining the hull ... |
21 July 2009
19:01 GMT |
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A new type of vehicle armor developed by the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) is advertised to be among the strongest on Earth today, featuring a revolutionary design and ultra-resistant materials. Super Bainite, the name of the new steel-based armor, has holes in it, which may seem a bit contradictory at first, unt... |
6 January 2009
19:01 GMT |
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By studying the scaled armor of a species of fish that have been swimming through the freshwater pools of Africa for the past 100 million years or so, engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now revealed the secrets to one of the most effective aquatic armors, which could eventually lead to the devel... |
29 July 2008
10:33 GMT |
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When you want to make something as strong and as light as possible, titanium is the way to go. The problem is that titanium purification is a highly expensive process. A new non-melt consolidation process developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory could reduce the cost of titanium parts from powders by up to hal... |
21 May 2008
03:55 GMT |
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Robocop is coming. What you've seen in SF movies featuring invincible heroes can now turn into reality. A Cambridge team has employed nanotechnology to achieve a super-strong body armor for the military and law enforcement. The new material is 5-10 times stronger, tougher and stiffer than what current technology... |
25 October 2007
05:52 GMT |
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In the Mega Man X Collection, Mega Man X must thwart Sigmas army of renegade reploids and their evil plan of destroying the world. Faced with intense challenges, X, his robot partner, Zero and Dr. Light must band together to intercept and prevent the forces that threaten total annihilation. Mega Man X Collection fe... |
19 October 2007
06:35 GMT |
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URBAN CHAOS: Riot Response gives gamers the opportunity to step into the shoes of a real hero. Play as Nick Mason a member of T-Zero, an elite counter-gang unit, putting his life on the line in response to a terrorist threat. Specially trained in all areas of urban combat and armed with the very latest high-tech wea... |
26 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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As evolved as humans are, the dominant species of this world has not evolved much, in terms of man-to-man combat, beyond the stone-throwing ability developed by our ape-like ancestors, around 4 million years ago.And since we still use bullets, a more evolved model of the basic stone, the Pentagon is searching for th... |
21 June 2007
10:29 GMT |
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"One shot, one kill" is the sniper motto, and this can only be accomplished with the help of heavily modified rifles, with hollow wood or fiberglass handles, upgraded trigger mechanisms and high-power optical telescopes.But what is the most powerful sniper rifle in the world? Without a doubt, it's the Barrett M... |
18 June 2007
11:21 GMT |
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Polyethylene is a thermoplastic material made by the chemical industry and heavily used in consumer products, over 60 million tons being produced worldwide every year, in stuff like plastic bags and sandwich boxes.Now, a team of scientists discovered it can also be used to make bulletproof vests, in the form of dens... |
4 June 2007
04:24 GMT |
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What is an armor-piercing bullet? Of course, a bullet that (almost) no armor or bulletproof vest can withstand. And by the way, bulletproof vests don't exist. What you see in the movies are bullet-resistant vests, a more accurate term for modern body armor.The degree of resistance of an armor depends on the mat... |
1 June 2007
11:21 GMT |
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In a world where the threat of terrorism is almost everywhere, the richest and most powerful people need to feel safe when traveling in a car. Civilian armored cars are either factory produced, such as the BMW 7 Series High Security and the armored Audi A6 and A8 cars, or retrofitted versions of series cars.Probably... |
25 May 2007
08:03 GMT |
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Nanotubes have been studied for some time, and there is a great interest in applying their incredible properties in practical applications. They are one-atom thick sheets of graphite (called graphene) rolled up into seamless cylinders with a diameter of the order of a nanometer. A company in the US presented a revol... |
24 May 2007
10:22 GMT |
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The chivalry age is going to be revived, but unlike the medieval knights, the modern ones will wear polymer, not metal, armors. Now, a project conducted by Florida State University researcher Okenwa Okoli, an associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, is going to produce even lighter and effecti... |
23 March 2007
07:38 GMT |
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The basic idea behind body armor hasn't changed very much for the past few thousands years.The main purpose of the armor is to stop weapons or projectiles from penetrating a person's body and to diffuse the weapon's impulse energy, so that the final impact causes little or no damage at all.Although not... |
16 March 2007
11:12 GMT |
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