Atlus has revealed that Soul Hackers 2, the upcoming sequel to 1997’s Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers, is getting a slew of DLC that’ll be available from day one. The line-up of extra, paid content includes things like outfit packs, exclusive demons and a “booster item pack”.
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Probably most interesting is that a full, new piece of DLC story content will be sold at launch. Titled The Lost Numbers which Atlus describes as follows:
“Centered around a new Devil Summoner, Nana, you’ll experience this side-story over the course of multiple requests (recommended levels ranging 19-99), which will appear gradually at Club Cretaceous as you progress through the main story.
Your progress in the main story will also unlock a new dungeon: Hachigaya Training Field. In its depths, you will find the most harrowing, punishing boss fight this game can throw at you. If you hunger for the thrill of battle, look no further.”
The Lost Numbers DLC story content comes in at approximately $15 AUD, or you’ll be able to grab the base game and every bit of DLC available for around $145 AUD.
Soul Hackers 2 is being released on August 26, 2022. The cheapest price is at Amazon for $79 with free shipping.
Authorities have issued a warning to keep away from a rare “white” whale calf spotted alongside its mother off the NSW coast.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service said four pairs of mother and calf southern right whales had been seen during winter, including the rare calf that looked white, somewhat resembling the famous humpback Migaloo.
“The calf appears to be white but is actually brindle,” NPWS marine wildlife team project officer Andrew Marshall said in a statement.
Authorities have issued a warning to keep away from a rare southern right whale calf, spotted alongside it’s mother off the southern coast of NSW (Maree Jackson – NPWS Right Whale ID Program)
“Its white areas will darken to gray as it ages — it’s one of around one-in-30 southern right whale calves born with brindle coloring.
“This is a rare event to see a virtually white brindle calf, as southern right whales are mostly very dark, although some have splashes of white called a blaze.”
The mother and her calf were captured on camera via a drone.
“If you look closely at the video you can also see pale gray areas on the mother, who also carries the recessive brindle gene,” Marshall said.
While the duo have sparked a social media frenzy, authorities are reminding people that it’s illegal to approach whales any closer than 300 meters when a calf is present.
Accredited drone volunteer, Maree Jackson used her camera’s 7x optical zoom function from above the legal height to capture the stunning close-ups as the ‘white’ calf surfaced for a breath (Maree Jackson – NPWS Right Whale ID Program)
The restrictions include via boats, surfboards, paddleboards and kayaks, while drones are also legally required to stay at least 100 meters above the animals.
Stunning vision of the mother and calf was captured off the south coast recently by accredited drone volunteer Maree Jackson from the NSW government’s Right Whale ID research program.
Jackson used her camera’s 7x optical zoom function from above the legal height to capture the stunning close-ups as the “white” calf surfaced for a breath while swimming alongside her mother.
“Curious onlookers are reminded to keep back and give the nursing mother and calf space to rest undisturbed,” Marshall said.
“A calf needs up to 300 liters of milk a day to gain the weight needed for the 5000-kilometre swim back down to Antarctic waters in the coming month, so both the mother and calf need to be left alone so they can rest and feel safe.”
Watching cycling on television is an interesting spectacle in the UK, and maybe it’s similar elsewhere around the world.
During the Tour de France coverage on ITV, viewers are inundated with adverts pleading you to give money to sanctuaries housing very sad looking donkeys placed amongst commercials for various end-of-life products and services that remind you in a four-minute break for every 20km of racing that one day you too will slip off your deadly coil and not be able to watch the Tour de France anymore.
On Eurosport this season, we’ve been taken inside the lives of EF Education EasyPost’s riders as they promote Whoop’s wearable technology, the likes of Esteban Chaves, Hugh Carthy and Alex Howes telling us how it helps them recover from injury or balance pro life with having kids. Moreover, data on riders’ heart rates during the race have been broadcast on screen while the stages are ongoing. Newsflash – they’re often quite high.
While also measuring things such as the strain of physical exertion the riders go through in races, as well as calories burned, there is one aspect that is easiest for non-pro muggles to relate to WorldTour riders and that’s sleep.
Whoop informs you of the quality of your sleep, how much you need, and also tracking things like how many times you wake up per night, which will be more than you expect and also make you wonder if you have some sort of sleepwalking problem you don’t know about.
Try and think of something that would make it as hard as possible to get a good night’s sleep. Having a baby? Yep. Having two babies? Sure. What about racing the Tour de France?
You’re riding fast for 150km+ a day, having to travel in a big, slow bus between each day’s starts and finishes, staying in varying qualities of regional French hotel to rest your weary head and legs.
Finally, thanks to the EF Education EasyPost riders wearing Whoops during the Tour Hommes and Femmes, we can find out how they sleep – which after reading that sentence back makes this whole thing sound much creepier than it was ever intended to.
But first, before the sleep stats, let’s find out just what the riders were putting their bodies through when they were awake.
Overall strain is a measurement of your cardiovascular load and the time you spend in various heart rate zones and therefore tells you how hard your heart and body are working. The daily strain you place on your body, which is supposed to inform you when to push yourself and when to rest and to help avoid overtraining, is scored from 0 to 21.
Unsurprisingly, as the women tackled 1,029 kilometers in eight stages of racing with zero rest days, their average strain for the entire race was 20.4. Doesn’t get much harder than that.
Compare this to the men, who never raced more than six consecutive days. Take that middle section of six consecutive days in the second week from July 12-17 and their average strain score was 19.5 but add in the rest day on Monday July 18 in Carcassonne and that average comes down to 18.1.
Now, to the nap stats.
There are a few different measures here. Sleep performance is calculated by comparing how much sleep the rider got on a given night compared to how much sleep they needed.
Sleep need is calculated by the individual’s baseline sleep requirement while factoring in how strenuous their day was and if they have accumulated any sleep debt.
The team’s best Tour de France sleeper, which you will have undoubtedly guessed thanks to the headline above, was Rigoberto Urán who nailed an 86 per cent score, spending on average 8 hours and 44 minutes in bed every day and getting an average of 7 hours and 17 minutes of shut eye every night.
In the graphic below, you can see his sleep performance peak on and around rest days. The worst night of sleep Urán had been after his teammate Magnus Cort won stage 10, getting only 6 hours and 24 minutes. Let’s assume that it was because of the excitement and celebration surrounding the team winning a coveted stage of the Tour and not because he was rooming with the Dane.
While Urán was the best of the eight-man squad, the fact that he needed 9 hours and 5 minutes of sleep per night, on average, and only got 7 hours and 17 minutes goes to show not only the physical exertion the Colombian had to deal with, but accentuates the suffering of his teammates who got even less sleep than this.
The Tour de France Femmes followed the men’s race and the riders of EF Education-Tibco-SVB were much better at getting the required rest.
Magdeleine Vallieres was the team’s best sleeper, spending a whopping 9 hours and 58 minutes in bed on average (what a life), and on average the team got into bed and slept for longer than the men’s squad did.
Vallieres managed a 96 per cent average sleep performance, on three days getting exactly the amount of sleep she needed and only missing out on 16 minutes of shut eye a night.
Insights like this from inside the peloton are rare, and the data helps us all realize what these riders put themselves through when riding the biggest bike races on the planet.
Even before EF Education-EasyPost and Whoop collected all of the data, they must have known Urán was one of the team’s best at being in bed, judging by the photoshoot the team had during the three weeks in France.
Cadbury has just released a new Marvelous Celebrations Birthday Cake Block for $5.
The chocolate block contains a classic Cadbury dairy milk base with milk chocolate crammed with marshmallows, 100s and 1000s, and biscuit pieces.
Cadbury’s decadent new birthday cake chocolate is available in-stores and online at Woolworths.
Cadbury has just released a new Marvelous Celebrations Birthday Cake Block ($5) – which is available in-stores and online at Woolworths Supermarkets
Hundreds of foodies expressed their excitement on an announcement post, with many making immediate plans to purchase the chocolate.
‘This is perfect… it’s right in time for my birthday!’ said one excited man.
‘Looks delicious,’ added another. ‘But this is absolutely the wrong time to go on a diet.’
One of Australia’s favorite popcorn brands is releasing two new limited-edition flavors at Woolworths.
Cobs Natural Popcorn has just introduced ‘Tiramisu’ and ‘Parmesan & Cracked Pepper’ to their wide range of unique flavours.
The sweet and salty treats will be available in-stores and online in the coming weeks for $2.10.
Cobs Natural Popcorn has just introduced ‘Tiramisu’ and ‘Parmesan & Cracked Pepper’ to their wide range of unique flavors
The Tiramisu flavor is described to be extremely decadent with a combination of cream, coffee, and cocoa.
While the new Parmesan and Cracked Pepper is set to join several fan-favorites like the Cheddar Cheese Popcorn and the Cheesy Cheddar oven-baked puffs.
But Cobs is not the only Aussie favorite to release a new and exciting flavour.
The renowned flavor of Oak chocolate has put a twist on the classic Golden Gaytime and giving it a rich chocolate flavour.
The new treat has an indulgent Oak-inspired center dipped in a layer of chocolate and coated in the Golden Gaytime’s famous biscuit pieces.
Oak milk have teamed up with Golden Gaytime to release a new chocolate flavor of the classic Aussie ice cream which is available now in selected stores
Customers can pick up a box of four for $9.90 from IGA, Ritchie’s and Drakes & Romeos from today.
Coles, convenience stores and petrol stations will be stocking the new Oak Gaytime from September.
This isn’t the first time Golden Gaytime has been given a flavor twist with a Coco Pops, Birthday cake and Crunchy Nut variety also available now.
The decadent new treat has an indulgent Oak-inspired center sipped in a layer of chocolate and coated in the Golden Gaytime’s famous biscuit pieces
Golden Gaytime spokesperson Annie Lucchitti said the new ice cream is sure to be a ‘crowd pleaser’.
‘Golden Gaytime Oak brings the iconic elements of Golden Gaytime together with the unmistakable Oak Choc Milk flavor hit. It’s creamy, crumbly, choccy – delicious,’ she said.
The ice cream isn’t the first classic Australian treat to be given a unique twist.
A new Violet Crumble Espresso Martini has launched across Australia, leaving sweet-toothed cocktail fans delighted.
Feminaè Beverage Co. have teamed up with the classic Aussie chocolate to create a decadent boozy treat that is available to purchase now but only until stocks last.
Each box is $79.95 and contains two-liters of ready-to-drink martini as well as a 30g bar of Violet Crumble to be crushed and used as a garnish.
An Aussie cocktail company has teamed up with a classic chocolate to create a Violet Crumble Espresso Martini but foodies better be quick if they want to get a bottle for themselves
The Feminaè X Violet Crumble Espresso Martini is an indulgent blend of cold drip coffee, premium vodka and Australian cream.
The blend is infused with the chocolate, caramel and honeycomb flavors of the famous Violet Crumble.
Perfect as a party-starter or after dinner treat the luxuriously creamy cocktail can be enjoyed straight from the fridge into a martini glass or shaken in a cocktail shaker with ice with a sprinkle or Violet Crumble crumbs.
Feminaè Beverage Co. have teamed up with Violet Crumble to create a decadent boozy treat that is available to purchase for $79.95 now but only until stocks last
The two-litre box makes 24 standards drinks and is available to purchase online from the Feminaè website for a limited time with shipping starting from Monday August 1.
Foodies online have been tagging their friends and expressing their excitement at the unique new collaborative cocktail with one saying it could be their ‘new favourite’.
Feminaè is an Australian owned beverage company that makes unique cocktails from Melbourne including the popular cosmopolitan passionfruit and pavlova and pink grapefruit gin.
Despite a rise in shipping and manufacturing expenses, Nintendo is standing firm on the price of their Switch console, with plans not to raise it to avoid scaring off new customers.
In an interview with NikkeiAsia, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa said that the company wants to “avoid pricing people out” and that it thinks “about pricing in terms of the value of the fun we offer.”
Like many tech companies, Nintendo has been hit hard by the global semiconductor shortage and supply chain crisis. The console, which is now 5 years old, saw a 23 percent decline in sales during the April to June quarter.
The 2017 launch of the console tripled the company’s profits, however Nintendo’s annual net profit is expected to follow the same decline as the console, as the company forecast a 29 percent decline for the fiscal year ending March 2023.
Nintendo has sold over 100 million units of its Switch console range to date, and Furukawa says that its important that the company continue to push their software products to maintain business momentum and demand for the console.
“Our products also include software. Nintendo has sold more than 100 million Switch units so far, and it’s important to maintain the momentum of our overall business.”
Despite the stock shortages and sales decline, Nintendo aims to reach its target of 21 million units sold for the year. While consoles generally slow down around the 5 to 6 year period, Furkawa says that upcoming titles are set to provide a boost in sales.
“Having hit software also gives a boost to hardware. We have a lineup of new games that will allow us to take a crack at meeting our sales forecast, including Splatoon [3] coming out in September and Pokemon [Scarlet and Violet] in November.”
Anne Heche is on life support after suffering a brain injury in a fiery crash a week ago and her survival is not expected, according to a statement from a representative.
Key points:
Anne Heche was taken to hospital after her car smashed into a Los Angeles house on August 5
She suffered a severe brain injury and is not expected to survive
Representatives say she is being kept on life support for possible organ donation
The actor — who is in a coma and in critical condition — is being kept on life support for possible organ donation, according to the statement released Thursday night on behalf of her family and friends.
Heche — who’s been hospitalized at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital north of Los Angeles — suffered a “severe anoxic brain injury,” the statement said.
Such an injury is caused by a sustained lack of oxygen to the brain.
“She is not expected to survive,” the statement said.
“It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable.”
On the morning of August 5, Heche’s car smashed into a house in a neighborhood in west Los Angeles and a fire erupted, with the car embedded inside the home.
Earlier on Thursday, local time, police said they were investigating Heche for driving under the influence.
Detectives with a search warrant took a sample of her blood and found narcotics in her system, LAPD spokesperson Officer Jeff Lee said.
Toxicology tests — which can take weeks to complete — must be performed to identify the drugs more clearly and to differentiate them from any medication she may have been given for treatment at the hospital.
Evidence is still being gathered from the crash, police said, and they would present a case to prosecutors if it is warranted when the investigation is complete.
A representative for Heche declined comment on the investigation.
Anne Heche (right) had a high-profile relationship with Ellen Degeneres in the late 1990s. (AFP: Hector Mata)
On Tuesday, Heche spokesperson Heather Duffy Boylston said her client had been in a coma since after the accident, with burns that required surgery and lung injuries that required the use of a ventilator to breathe.
“Anne had a huge heart and touched everyone she met with her generous spirit. More than her extraordinary talent, she saw spreading kindness and joy as her life’s work — especially moving the needle for acceptance of who you love,” Thursday’s statement said.
“She will be remembered for her courageous honesty and dearly missed for her light.”
Heche, 53, was among the most-prominent film stars in Hollywood in the late 1990s, playing opposite actors including Johnny Depp (Donnie Brasco) and Harrison Ford (Six Days, Seven Nights).
Her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000 heightened her fame and brought immense public scrutiny.
In a 2001 memoir, she discussed her lifelong struggles with mental health.
She recently had recurring roles on the TV series Chicago PD and All Rise and, in 2020, was a contestant on Dancing With the Stars.
In an article published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfacesresearchers have presented an infrared (IR)-based highly flexible soft optoelectronic sensor with pigmented cladding that is efficient in multimodal sensing.
Compared with optoelectronic sensors based on the visible spectrum, this novel method makes the sensor more suitable for low-powered devices as the IR-spectrum signal allows it to operate with a fraction of the power than what would have been initially used.
The reliability of soft optoelectronic sensors that can perform multimodal sensing makes them a desirable option for applications involving strain sensors. However, the constant electrical power input required to transmit the light signal through the core of these strain sensors is a drawback that results in excessive power consumption for low-powered devices. The present work demonstrates that utilizing an IR-spectrum signal for signal propagation can effectively counter the problem.
The soft optoelectronic sensors were highly resilient due to using pigmented elastomers as the fiber optics or waveguides cladding. These strain sensors were installed into a soft robotics gripper that could control its contact force despite severe extrinsic disturbances.
Improving the Performance of Soft Robotics
Soft robotics has promoted tremendous interest in creating devices that can interact safely with humans and the environment. However, since these devices are incredibly deformable, much work has been put into designing stretchable and soft strain sensors to assess the deformation effectively.
The optoelectronic sensors employ numerous operating theories and are ideally reliable, precise, resistant to interfering noise sources, and suitable for low-powered devices. However, physical and non-physical disruptions occurring in the environment where these soft strain sensors are operated can impact their measurements. Therefore, research on reducing the impact of environmental disturbances on soft optoelectronic strain sensors is crucial to make them appropriate for practical applications.
The waveguides in fiber optics typically consist of two components: a core that directs light and cladding that shields the core from interference. A cladded fiber that can detect excessive strains of up to 300% can be manufactured by carefully choosing the materials for the core and cladding and co-extrusion of both the materials. Such optical linear strain sensors are frequently used for sensing the deformation of linear actuators such as the McKibben actuators.
The soft optoelectronic sensors were made robust for sensing operations by the IR resilient pigments utilized in fiber optics for the cladding material of the waveguides. These pigments also helped block the optical penetration of IR and visible light.
The researchers proposed a viable production process for the pigmented soft waveguides in fiber optics and investigated their optical properties for multimodal deformation sensing.
The researchers also characterized the power consumption of IR- and visible-based waveguides in fiber optics and studied the impact of noise interferences on pigmented and non-pigmented soft waveguides.
The current paper also introduced a soft pneumatic gripper with implanted IR-based pigmented soft waveguide in fiber optics for its resilience to outside interference and grasping applications.
Fabricating and Enhancing the Resilience of the Optoelectronic Sensor
The existing soft optoelectronic sensors were made of an optical waveguide in fiber optics, a photodiode (PDE), and a light-emitting diode (LED). However, in the current work, the visible spectrum PDE and LED were substituted with IR-based ones to reduce power consumption, making them suitable for low-powered devices. The working principle of soft optoelectronic sensors requires the PDE and LED to be constantly active to detect variations in the flowing optical signal.
The energy requirement problem in soft robotics was resolved using longer wavelength signals with lesser energy expenditure, such as IR wavelengths. Using an IR signal instead of a visible wavelength signal affected the resilience of the sensor as IR-based spectrum light can flow through diverse mediums, such as the cladding of the sensor, more effortlessly than visible light.
The researchers built an IR-based soft optoelectronic sensor suitable for low-powered devices. The sensor was protected from interference effects and was resilient to infrared and visible spectrum disturbances.
Aside from the sun, there are relatively few external IR optical sources in the environment that can disturb a single IR-based soft optoelectronic sensor. However, multiple IR-based strain sensors working in proximity interfered with each other as each signal leaked from the cladding and created cross-interference between each sensor. Therefore, the researchers added black silicone pigments to the cladding of the soft waveguides in the fiber optics.
They also developed a soft robotics pneumatic gripper using IR-based resilient, soft optoelectronic strain sensors for measuring the contact force of the fingers. Each finger consisted of a PneuNet actuator with rigid reinforcements onto which hybrid optical fibers were fixed. These hybrid optical fibers consist of rigid fibers connected to a soft core.
The soft robotics gripper was highly responsive to external optical disturbances. The suggested resilient and sensorized IR-based soft robotics pneumatic gripper grasped various objects and measured and controlled its grasping force. The soft robotics gripper could follow the desired reference command even in the presence of an external IR source acting as a disturbance.
IR-Based Soft Optoelectronic Sensors and the Way Ahead
The paper primarily focused on introducing pigments to the cladding of soft optoelectronic sensors, enhancing their resilience and ability to prevent optical interferences. As a result, the researchers produced soft and stretchable optoelectronic sensors that were robust, efficient in multimodal sensing, and suitable for low-powered devices.
The visible spectrum-based LED and PDE employed in previous soft optoelectronic sensors resulted in significant power consumption due to their constant operation.
The researchers substituted the visible spectrum PDE and LED with IR-based ones, which resulted in the sensor using only a tiny fraction of the power of a comparable visible spectrum sensor.
The cladding of the soft waveguide in fiber optics was coated with black silicone pigments to make the sensor extraordinarily robust and suitable for low-powered devices. The silicone made the cladding highly resistant to interferences by preventing the external and internal IR signals from passing through the cladding.
The sensors proposed in the present paper were integrated into a soft robotics gripper that could sense contact force.
The gripper controlled the contact force despite extrinsic IR optical disturbances.
The soft optoelectronic strain sensor is a promising candidate for various applications due to its low power requirements and remarkable resilience.
Reference
J. Babar and R. Hugo. (2022) Low-Powered and Resilient IR-Based Pigmented Soft Optoelectronic Sensors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.2c07318
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One day on from the birth of his first child, radio host Kyle Sandilands has given his co-host Jackie O her first look at her new godson.
And the heartwarming moment played out live on-air, as Sandilands brought cameras inside the hospital to see how his fiance Tegan Kynaston and their newborn son Otto were both doing.
Sandilands told listeners he didn’t cry during the birth, but that it was “an overwhelming feeling,” particularly as Tegan had a cesarean section, which “petrified” him.
“They put up a sheet, and then I could see (her) intestines,” he said.
Sandilands then wheeled baby Otto into view, the newborn looking peaceful as he slept in a cot.
Also making a brief appearance on camera: Kyle’s Tegan, dressed in a black silk gown and up and walking just a day after her C-section birth.
“Oh my god, she looks fabulous,” said Jackie O.
“I said, it looks like you’ve had a baby on Day of Our Lives,” Kyle said.
Kyle, a first-time dad at 51, was beaming with pride as he told his longtime co-host about his plans for fatherhood.
“You are going to give Otto the life you always wanted. The chandeliers, the gold crib, and everything gold,” said Jackie O.
Tegan went into labor midway through Thursday’s episode of The Kyle and Jackie O Showforcing Kyle off-air as he made a desperate dash to the hospital to be by her side.
“I think I might have to leave the show… and go to the hospital,” he said.
“Oh, it’s time!” said his elated co-host.
“Calm down, we don’t want the kid coming too soon,” he said. “Guys, I’m so sorry. I feel very unprepared. I’ve got to run … I feel like I’m abandoning you, but I’m there for my child.”
A short time later came the happy news: All had gone well and Kyle and Tegan were now proud parents to baby Otto.
Speaking on-air today, Sandilands revealed the couple had organized an at-home nurse to stay with them when the new family leaves hospital.
And that house is a sprawling Bellevue Hill mansion that Sandilands paid a whopping $13.8m for in June.
The family’s new home features five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a two-car garage, a plunge pool, spacious wine cellar, and lift access to all four of its spacious levels.
Kyle and Tegan announced they were expecting back in February – the same month they had an extravagant gender reveal party on a yacht in Sydney Harbour, where they announced they were having a boy.
No More Robots has announced Soccer Storyan “open-world RPG about solving puzzles and saving the world.”
Set to launch later this year, Soccer Story will task players with solving puzzles and saving the world with their football.
An open-world RPG, Soccer Story‘s 15 plus hour runtime will involve a mix of quests, side-missions, and events; along with a four-player local multiplayer match mode.
As for the game’s plot, No More Robots has shared the following:
“It’s been a year since The Calamity tore apart the very foundations of soccer as we know it. Since then, Soccer Inc. has made dang well sure that not a soul has been allowed to even look at a soccer ball, let alone kick it. It’s a real Messi situation, no doubt.”
Soccer Story. Credit: No More Robots.
No More Robots add that after a “magical football” chooses the player, they are tasked with “saving the future of sport, and bringing harmony to the world once more” – a mission that will involve doing battle against rival teams including “literal sharks , toddlers, old-age pensioners and ninjas.”
Soccer Story will be available on PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Google Stadia when it launches in 2022. The game will also be available on Xbox Game Pass, as one of “half a dozen” games that No More Robots director Mike Rose says will arrive on the subscription-based service over the next 12 months.
Earlier in the year, Rose told NME that putting No More Robots’ titles on Game pass “makes them sell so much more,” and refuted concerns surrounding the service.
“That’s the thing that gets me the most in all of this, people making out like that is what’s harming the industry,” said Rose. “When really, it’s dinosaurs, not realizing that things are moving on. And if you don’t get on the train, you can’t then complain when it’s passed you by.”
In other news, Microsoft has alleged that Sony pays developers to keep them from making games available on Xbox Game Pass.
There’s more than one fashion plate in this famous family.
While appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” music and style icon Madonna revealed her son David Banda, 16, is already out-dressing her, The NY Post reported.
“He can put on any outfit and look swag as you know what,” she told Fallon on Wednesday night.
“It’s really irritating. He wears my clothes and looks better in them. He can even wear a dress and look butch.”
The “Material Girl” wasn’t joking. Back in May, the mother-son duo matched in Adidas outfits at the WBA World Lightweight Championship at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Banda, who’s known for his gender-fluid fashion choices, stole the show in a bright red three-stripe dress from Adidas’ collaboration with Gucci. The teen paired the eye-catching look with a pair of yellow sunglasses, layered silver jewelery and black sneakers.
But David inherited more from his mother than just her fashion sense.
The “Like a Virgin” singer went on to tell Fallon that her son, whom she adopted in 2006, is working on music of his own.
“He’s going to end up being one of your guests,” the 63-year-old gushed about Banda, saying he has “everything” needed to be a star.
Fallon agreed with the Queen of Pop, saying, “He’s got ‘it.’ He’s got magic. He’s funny, he’s charming, he’s athletic, he’s a good-looking dude.” During the same interview, the hit maker revealed the moment she believed her career was “over with” after accidentally flashing the crowd during her performance of “Like a Virgin” at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards in 1984.
According to Madge, after her stiletto slipped off onstage, she dived to grab it — accidentally flipping up her dress and exposing her backside to the audience.
“Those were the days when you shouldn’t show your butt to have a career,” the singer joked. “Now it’s the opposite.”
Although her reps thought her career would crash after the incident, the superstar went on to become one of the best-selling female artists of all time.
This article was originally published by The NY Post and was reproduced here with permission.
