Acer Star Trek edition notebook

You might recall, Acer has a promotional relationship with Star Trek Into Darkness, including several TV adverts, and a special website, Explore Beyound Limits, with wallpapers and such, to promote the film, and Acer's Iconia tablets and Aspire laptops. It seems Acer did one more tie-in, and produced twenty-five Star Trek branded versions of their new Aspire R7 notebook (which uses a funny hinge to flip the screen about in many different ways). All but one of these laptops, with a Starfleet delta etched into the casing, have vanished to places unknown. That one remaining notebook however, is to be offered for sale, as a charity auction on eBay, starting later this month. Proceeds from the sale will be split between The Mission Continues, and Save the Children.

 

There will also be auctions for Into Darkness posters signed by the cast. The Inquirer also report that some of these auctions, presumably the laptop, will also include Star Trek: The Video Game, and the Into Darkness soundtrack. You can sign up to be notified when the auctions begin, on eBay.

If you missed them before, here (after the jump) are Acer's amusingly odd Into Darkness adverts, featuring laptops in spaaaaace:

Into Darkness round-up

So much Into Darkness stuff popping up all over the place at the moment! Here's a round-up of the latest, starting with a a clip from the film released by AOL:

There's also a new TV trailer TrekMovie has posted, which has some new bits of footage:



Here's a new viral-style trailer as well, released by Yahoo, with Harrison describing Kirk's failures:



Here's what that Mr Harrison had to say:

James Tiberius Kirk. The heart of the Enterprise. The overly-confident leader, fuelled by bravado. Life for him is one big adventure. But he is alone. Born into battle, the heir to legend. What does a man do with such a curse? He fears making the mistake that will get his entire crew killed. And I, I will make sure of it.

Another bit of narration we shall soon be hearing is Alice Eve, reading Alan Dean Foster's novelization of the film. Amazon has now updated its listing for the audiobook version, with a cover. Not so surprisingly it it is a squareish version of the book cover, which uses the first poster image. I wonder if this is actually the final version, it doesn't seem quite squat enough for a CD case, and there's a black bar down one side:

Pre-order: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es, Amazon.it, Amazon.co.jp.

Some other promotional things are starting to appear now: Acer has launched a website, which is cross promoting its Iconia tablets (with a gateway ap??) and Aspire laptops. The site includes wallpapers using promo photos, such as these:

There is also a series of adverts would quite amusingly inter-cuts footage from Into Darkness with laptops flying around dramatically. Here's a playlist of the three so far:



Mazda has also released an advert, which starts with a cool animation of the Enterprise forming out of lines, and then is all about a car... See that after the jump, along with more stills, behind the scenes images, uniforms and more!