Articles Archive for January 2008

Germ-Eliminating Vertical Vacuum
Posted in Electronic Products, Gadgets, Home Decor, Shopping, Technology on 17 January 2008

Vacuum

Believe it or no but the amount of pollutants is undoubtedly more within four boundaries of your residence than open roads. This is due to dusty mites, crumbled skin and a swarm of other awful stuff that adds oil to the ongoing fire of keeping house clean. Considering this surging problem, Hammacher Schlemmer lately unveiled a tool to tune down all the odds involved with a vacuum cleaner, which has a built in UV lighting that scans your flooring while vacuuming.

Priced at $500, this germ-killer erected vacuum comes packed with built-in 35-watt UV-C light to kill 99.9% of dusty viruses floating in the sir including bacteria, mold, flea eggs and other non-wanted materials hidden in carpet. The expertise involved followed the similar process as one used in hospitals to disinfect surgical devices. The UV bulb claims to be in use for continuous 8,000 hours. It also features all typical accessories including a 13′ detachable hose along with dusting brush, enabling you to reach distant corners.

Via CoolestGadgets

Ultra-Luxe Lounger With Midas Feel
Posted in Chair, Designer, Furniture, Home Decor on 16 January 2008

LoungerThis ultra-luxurious Lussedia Chair can stand next to prince’s throne and credit for this goes to its lavish form. This designer chair is a worthy value addition to an array of affluent furniture by Dutch designer Gianni Orsini. The luxury lounger is tailored from leather, silk, and with a touch of 24-carat gold. The bling chair was divulged at the Millionaire Fair scheduled in Amsterdam during 2007 December. Now come the real news. No price tag can be given to this chair as the chair is still a concept.

Lounger

Via InventorSpot

BOB Partington Designs Unique Blood Pen
Posted in News, Writing instruments on 16 January 2008

Blood Pen

Another fountain pen but this one is really frightening. Dubbed as ‘The Blood Pen,’ it makes use of a syringe filled with blood along with the fountain tip to appall spectators and magnetize close by sharks. The infuriating instrument on the flipside is a battery operated knob that pushes down on the nozzle to dole out blood when wanted. As projected the loathsome feather on the back comes as an obstacle before your efforts to make it a weird creation or unlikely a real fountain pen.

Don’t fall for this instantly as this is created by an independent designer BOB Partington (KDU member) and there are apprehensions attached that some organization may fall in place stop people from picking this kinda stuff.

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Via GeeksRSexy

Banksy Wall Sells for $407,000 at eBay Auction
Posted in Art, Auctions on 16 January 2008

Banksy Wall

Long talked about graffiti artist Banksy work on London wall finally fetched 208,100 pounds ($407,000) at a scheduled auction at Ebay against its earlier anticipation of £1,000,000.

This would be merely a metre tall and mostly hides behind a wheelie bin in a narrow Melbourne laneway. The work reflects an artist in traditional attire giving a final touch on the word “BANKSY” spray-tinted in red, was scribbled on a wall on the Portobello Road in the west London district of Notting Hill. It is being said that before putting the work up at eBay, the seller shielded the piece with a plastic-sheet.

Banksy Wall

This artwork invited 69 bids for the mural, enclosed in a Perspex screen, on an peripheral brick wall.

Via Bloomberg

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Amazon Buys JK Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard for £2mn
Posted in Auctions on 16 January 2008

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

News is long awaited auction of JK Rowling’s handwritten tales is being materialized. Amazon lately inked a deal with by signing up J.K. Rowling’s ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’ to its name during an auction at Sotheby’s in London. Amazon dropped £2mn for this book of five wizard fairy tales, hinted in last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. These much-talked out five stories include “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,” “The Fountain of Fair Fortune,” “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart,” “Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump,” and “The Tale of the Three Brothers.”

It takes pride in being the one of the seven handmade copies produced ever. The actual sales generation amounting to £1,950,000 would be donated to the Children’s Voice campaign, a charity co-founded by Ms. Rowling to develop the lives of kids across Europe. The book is a compilation of 157 pages and comes clad in brown Moroccan leather embroidered with five hand-chased hallmarked sterling silver knick-knacks and carved moonstones.

Via Amazon

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KE850: LG Prada Silver Phone Shines in Europe
Posted in Cell Phone, Designer, Gadgets on 16 January 2008

LG Prada

After boasting of gold-bathed accessories, Prada has taken a call to clad its creations in silver before floating them in Europe. The silver edition of the reorganized version will appear with the identical stylish design and touch screen interface.

Word is around that this specific one will feature a realistic QWERTY keyboard interface to insert text effortlessly. It also features ordinary 2-mega pixel camera, media player and document viewer. You can also admire the silver leather case and earphones complemented with this silvered Prada. Fingers crossed, all these accessories would soon hit in 18 European countries viz. England, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

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Transport Pod Bed: Elite Cosseting
Posted in Designer, Gadgets, Home Decor on 16 January 2008

Transport Pod Bed

Those who crib over their habit of taking a fag break nth times to break the monotony of work can now take a long breath. Also, you can now strict to your New Year resolution of ‘say no to cigarettes.’ This can be made possible by installing Transport Pod Bed in your ambience. The innovative mind behind this concept is of designer Alberto Frias, who keeps no limitation before his artistic creations. The stylish pod bed comes with built-in set of Anthony Gallo‘s four-inch Nucleus Micro speakers and 240-watt MPS subwoofer.

It creates a corporeal light, sound and space environment and its temperature-controlled waterbed surface has a potential to play a fanatical LED light show. Furthermore, it can be incorporated in with your iPod, PC, or other source that offers you a timely leisure. It flaunts a lustrous white peripheral finish and a toning matte white interior finish. This hand-made transport pod bed is available in two sizes and measures 6 into 8 feet in diameter. Valued at $16,000, this luxurious yet elite accessory has a potential to take you to a trance. Get one now; this is all I can suggest.

Via BornRich

$350,000 Antique Brooch Studded with Diamonds and Natural Pearl
Posted in Designer, Diamond, Fashion, Gold, Jewelry, Luxury, Pearl on 16 January 2008

Antique Brooch

If your lady is bored of your way of expressing love for her by gifting chocolates, fragrances and sundry soft toys, then its time to switch to new things. Jewelry! And that too bathed in diamonds! What else does she needs? Try the $350,000 unique brooch stuffed with diamonds with a topping of a natural pearl. This purposeful piece of jewelry is set to bring revolution in the fashion industry. Fashion freaks can pick one matching with the shade of their attire. Mind you your attitude is well reflected through the clothing you carry. It features diamonds embedded with a 17 millimeter natural pearl in silver on gold.

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Chopard $351,000 Diamond Brooch
Posted in Crystals, Designer, Diamond, Fashion, Jewelry, Luxury, Luxury Brands on 15 January 2008

Diamond Brooch

With only days away to enter the month of February, I cannot stop asking my fiancée to get me the most precious jewelry creation at the occasion of cupid day. And also I am ready to listen to his excuse of saying “Sweetheart, every day is a valentine day for us.” But ladies, don’t let yourself swayed by this sentimental thought. It’s time to encash your love…phew….

And mind you now we can help our men do away with the confusion of what to buy? Chopard would be unveiling its stunning diamond brooch in February. The brooch claims to be made up of titanium, spinel, conch pearl and diamonds. It is a perfect blend of glamour and femininity in a single package. Flaunting a price tag of $351,000, surely it demands enough fortune of the men.

Via Luxist

MacBook Air: World’s Thinnest Laptop Fits in Manila Envelope
Posted in Computer, Electronic Products, Gadgets on 15 January 2008

MacBook Air

News is Steve Jobs minds cannot be at rest. He keeps on delivering productions that makes us say: What! When! How! Following the custom of producing unique creations, Apple today has made up to headlines by unveiling the world’s thinnest laptop named the MacBook Air at the MacWorld 2008.

This ultra-portable laptop measures 0.16 to 0.76 inches and weighs 3.0 pounds. Your jaw may fall to imagine the sleekness of this laptop. To my utter-surprise, the laptop can fit into a manila envelope easily. It features a 13.3-inch widescreen LED display with built-in iSight, Intel Core 2 Duo processors running at 1.6 GHz or 1.8 Ghz, a multi-touch trackpad, black LED backlit keyboard, ambient light sensor, micro-DVI port, charming latch closing apparatus, 1.8″ hard drive in archetypal 80 GB form or elective 64 GB solidstate drive, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth 2.1/EDR, 5 hour battery life, possible external SuperDrive and 2 GB memory.

MacBook Air

It also boasts of eco-friendly interior machinery like entirely aluminum casing, mercury and lead free body. It seems Al Gore will be taking one to fly in his private jet. The Air is definitely going to be a revolution in the industry of laptop designs. It would be available for shipping within two weeks from now but its pre-ordering is on at $1799.

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Via ABC News/ GearPatrol

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