Skyrim – Collectors Edition Announced

 One of the most highly anticipated games of 2011 – The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim has announced that it will be releasing a collectors edition for all of its avid fans. It will be released on the same date as the game (11.11.11) and is available to pre-order now on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. This limited edition of the game includes the following:

 — Alduin Statue: This 30.5 cm statue made of high quality PVC is modelled from actual game files featuring Alduin, the World Eater perched atop one of the many Dragon Walls from the game. The walls are key in the player learning the deadly power of the Dragon language.

 — The Art of Skyrim: This 200 page book is a window into the artistic side to the Skyrim universe. Full colour illustrations, sketches and models are contained within this massive 9 3/8″ x 12 1/8″ book. Characters, creatures, environments and weaponry are showcased along with some exclusive words from some of the big names that made the game.

 — The Making of Skyrim DVD: This disc contains exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage including interviews with the studio team that would make any Elder Scrolls fan sweat.

  This limited edition of the game is available for pre-order now and will retail for $149.99 (US), 149.99 (Euro), £129.99 (UK) and A$ 199,99 (Aus).

Saturday: The Acoustic Immersion Pod ($3,000)

  We all love music – it defines who we are as an individual. Imagine listening to your tunes in comfort, no more on bus seats or train journeys wearing headphones. The award winning Egg Chair merged with some powerful speakers…that’s it, there’s your comfort right there. This merge in beauty is the Acoustic Immersion Pod.

  The ‘immersive’ experiance comes from the chair’s interior, open-cell acoustic foam (the stuff used in professional recording studios) makes sure that the sound is directed and heard by you and you alone while still functioning as a chair. When have you wanted to listen to your music at home but can’t because someone is watching tv? Or you and your room mate battling it out in an epic music war by turning each song up louder until an unrecognisable mess is produced? In my experience anyway, allot!

  The chair is perfect for home entertainment too, the 5 1/4″ 40-watt speakers provide amazing 5.1 surround sound. On-screen explosions are not only heard but felt too, under the seat is a 500-watt subwoofer putting you right into the centre of the action. You will never miss that grenade that was thrown at you, walk straight past enemy footsteps or even mishear that crucial dialogue in the latest block buster.

  Get yours on Hammacher today! They specialise in some really ‘unexpected’ stuff.

Friday: The Superplexus ($30,000)

 Puzzles, infuriating but satisfying at the same time. This particular type of puzzle began as a small and portable 3D sphere whereby the player has to navigate a small ball from one point to another, seems easy huh? well, not when the path is interweaving and covered in obstacles its not.  The dificulty lies in the player having to deal with dimention and gravity shifts, the ball runs on walls that become floors and ramps that become hills. The small ones like on the left is popular amongst kids…

                                                                       …but prepare to meet the perplexus in adulthood!

The Biggun': The Superplex

  Does the puzzle evolve into this like a Pokemon once completed? Close but no, it’s creator spends almost 400hours making a single unit (hence the hefty price tag). The 10x larger Superplex holds the tricky labyrinth that mutates into an additional stainless steel wire pathway making it that much more challenging. Within the almost paradox-like pathways are a series of obstacles including hairpin bends, spirals, stair cases and a sneaky vortex. The wooden path stretched out would run an entire football pitch, plus an added 31 foot. This compacted into a 3 foot wide sphere is a tricky puzzle indeed.

  Watching the video below of the finished product, I just love how it moves on its Gimbal Rings – so smooth! Such a design marvel deserves to go on the list.

  The Superplex is limited to five units only being made and each one comes with a $30,000 cost. You can get one at Hammacher – really, you can!

The original Perplexus:

The finished Superplexus:

Thursday: Road Legal TRON Light Cycle ($55,000)

  The highly popular computer game-like film has finally been brought into the real world – well, it’s iconic Light Cycles anyway; don’t expect to be zapping into your computer screen any time soon. Any TRON fans reading…you may want to hold back on that Ford Focus because you have some money to save!

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  This Light Cycle is an engineering and design marvel, it’s fibre-glass body recreates the sleek flowing and unearthly design. The people at Stone Parker Brothers’ Choppers in Florida wanted to make it as real as possible, from it’s size to it’s design; from the colours to the lights (it needed the lights, hence, Light Cycle).

  The final bike isn’t just talk, oh no, it can walk the walk. Well, run the run. Fast, really fast. The Light Cycle can travel at speeds of up to 120mph thanks to the Suzuki 996cc 4 stroke engine that it houses. The tires have been taken form a truck, modified and used to blend the body and wheels together in it’s flowing design. Oh, and did I mention that it is road legal! But honest…would you travel at high speeds on that when you are sitting in a near horizontal position with your feet at the back wheels?                                                                                                                                                                …..I’m only posing the questions here.

 The company says the bikes are built to order so changing the colour of the lights I’m guessing will be allowed but you must hurry, only five are to be built and I’m sorry to say, four have gone. One bike has been taken up by Disney after seeing the bike’s construction on Youtube. The TRON rejuvenating company are wanting to use it for public displays and events around the world, most probably in their world famous parades.

  The bike making company have definitely stuck to what it’s statement is online, “If you can dream it…we can build it”. My next opinion, the bat mobile (that’s if they can build stuff with four wheels).

  What do you think about it? You think it’s cool?

Price: $55,000

Wednesday: Cabasse La Sphere ($200,000)

Now it is sound’s turn to enter in the expensive list. Meet the Cabasse La Sphere.

Looks pretty nice huh? Yea, but look at the price! $200,000…for that you could get a house or even an awesome pool table (seriously, its an interactive pool table and it looks pretty darn cool).

Buy these 1m 40cm puppies and not only have you got some speakers but Christoph Cabasse the founder’s son, will come to you, say a lil’ thank you and install the system – ahhh there’s your $200,000, its his cost to fly over in his super transformer jet to see you – how kind.

I am no expert in sound so a good £100 set will do me fine, but they’re just extortionate. Their design is pretty cool though, all eyeball shaped speaker sitting on its interweaving stand, a centre piece to any room I’m sure.

Price: $200,000