For attending a nature’s call, we all make efforts to install the personality toilets starting from designer, geeky and gilded one. But what about those installed at public places and are in clear juxtaposition to one reached at eBay, demanding a whooping sum of $89,000 each. The sophisticated public toilet features graffiti, impact-resistant stalls, programmed doors, faucets, dryers, soap dispensers, and also an integrated emergency 9-1-1 button. It is the result of initiative taken by Seattle officials to set right their gaffe (that’s what they feel) of having spent $5 million of city’s cash on self-cleaning community toilets around 5 years ago.

Neighbors disclose that these communal facilities are inviting drug users and prostitutes. Five of these cost-effective German-made structures are all set to undergo auction at eBay with a starting bid of $89,000 each, which undoubtedly is a constipated sum. Another nine days left to ink this neat deal.

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Having carved snakes on cell phones, Jeweler Boucheron is now showing an admiration for frogs on watches. The limited edition Boucheron Bestiaire timepieces are produced in counted eight-pieces and come slapped with 18K white gold. Measuring 42mm, the watch is water resistant to 50 meters bearing a white mother-of-pearl dial with the movement of a manual-wind Tourbillon well defined by 17 jewels. Available in two editions, one with 282 rubies, sapphires and multicolored tsavorites (weighing 7.7 carats), and other with 195 rubies, sapphires and multicolored tsavorites (weighing 3.3 carats.), it is a complete form of luxury that you can ever flaunt via a timepiece.
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It seems Philips has realized the fondness its dear customers have developed for robot USB drives. And with a quality to deliver products offering an edge, Philips this time has offered a bliny flavor. Whilst Philips unveiled heart-shaped bejeweled USB drives at CES 2008 and today is ready to offer robot USB drives with a Swarovski tinge. If owning that black version of 2GB Robot Naughty Raymond makes you feel incomplete then go ahead to embrace the shiny edition of USB Happy Laura. Donned in white, the gleaming crystals cover the body and face of USB drive. Hey, did I tell you the cute girly bot even has crimson lips!

Priced at $238, the 2GB capacity Happy Laura is anticipated to hit the European market. Well, the glitzy casing may seem too much if you compare it with standard USB drives but Philips’ Active Crystal collection would turn out to be a blessing for rich robot loving gals.
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Owning 8.1 megapixel digicams or capturing beauty via 5 megapixel camera phones is no big deal. But the demand of the hour is to pay a deserving amount of respect to the revolutionary creations produced by big boys. The case in point is the world’s first ever full-frame 60.5 megapixel Medium Format camera system by Phase One. The P 65+ enables you efficiently capture imagery with 8,984 x 6,732 pixels resolution or 180MB, 8-bit RGB files. The accessibility to Sensor+ CCD technology allows higher sensitivity, extended lively range (12.5 f-stops against standard models that go up to eight) plus 20% more live incarcerate area (in juxtaposition to 39 megapixel or 50 megapixel 48mm-by-36mm chips presently accessible or publicized) presented with exposure of 53.9mm by 40.4mm to professional photographers.

It doesn’t reflect the need for lens magnification, hence enabling full viewfinder exposure. But don’t develop hopes of availing this luxury at standard price as extraordinary offerings demand fat sum. With price range of P 65+ digital back starting from $39,900 and the P 65+ camera system retailed at $41,990, word is around that it would hit the market by Q4 of running year.

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Three cheers to these simulators or rather our gaming spirit that has given manufacturers enough reason to devise one. If you are tired of taking a ride over racing simulators or airplane simulator and even golf simulator fails to interest you then its time to revamp your gaming room and populate it with latest exciting stuff. Alright….which game do you prefer to play to kill your stress? Tennis, Baseball, Bowling or enjoy fishing? Well, I am not organizing a gaming tournament but just dropped in to feature the simulators available across al diverse categories’. Thanks to VST! Priced at $6,500, each simulator is designed maintain the thrill of the game.

The VST Tennis Simulator is developed to allow players hit back strokes and volleys with the same timing as in a real life Tennis Match detailing eight diverse characters to choose from with assorted skills counting serving, volleying and controlling shots. The entire package includes a high-end PC, Pro Projector System with Projection Screen plus four courts i.e. British Grass, French Clay, American Hard Court and Australian Hard Court

The VST Baseball Simulator was devised following the philosophy of simulating the entire baseball experience and not restricting it to hit a ball or throw a pitch. The game lobby can accommodate up to eight-players to start off playing the tournament against a team selected.

The VST Bowling Simulator takes bowling fun to an altogether different level. Here your speed and direction of roll influences the point where the ball finally strikes and hence brings smile to your face. It is open to entertain up to eight-gamers in one go. Its customized nature enables you create your own bowler.

For enjoying the live fishing action, just stay in touch with the VST Fishing Simulator. Offering you a feel similar to that of standing out on the lake whilst staying indoors, it is a real fun to identify your bet and shed any way you like – overhand, from the side or underhand. You are free feel to use any of the 12 lures available and follow bass fishing techniques i.e. “reeling in and stopping” until you notice what works for you. Each of the five-tournaments has three difficulty levels for each site. Are you ready to grab the goal for the highest combined weight of the three largest fish? For completing each level, you must grade in the top three for the competition, across all five fishing locations. The screen offers a clear vision of the direction of lure hallway, fish location (including depth), lure depth, time left, and the joint total weight of fish that you wedged.

After a stressful day at work, what one looks forward to undergo a spa experience or an opulence shower? The mind comes at peace the minute warm water absorbs all your stress. But possibility is most of the times we tend to feel drowsy, which is when it is not advisable to jump onto a bath tub. Or the substitute is you have a guard deputed right next to the bathtub who will hold you straight in the tub so that you are secured even if dozed off. But overshadowing the possibility of keeping the guard, here stands Neptune Reclining Bath Lift that holds you upright even after releasing you into a relaxed laid back pose.

Against ordinary reclining bath lifts, this one offers a colossal legroom and is damn flexible. The sucker-release handle cautions you from being soaked off in dirty water whilst the suction pads offer a perfect fit. But following the golden rule, even this model of luxury doesn’t comes cheap and hence demands $1049.






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Jeff Burnette has been experimenting with hot glass now for almost 30 years. And the featured above Glass Rayguns is the result of his efforts. Jeff, a serious sci-fi fan has developed the designer masterpieces that can be blown. With the transparent shade on the pipe and clear glass gathered on its apex, the piece once blown up takes a different appeal altogether. Once the pieces, blowpipe undergoes a 15-hour cycle of cooling, the next process to be followed is to send it for silvering. The Raygun is a no less than a bubble with a translucent color within. The silvering is the result of the silver nitrate, ammonia, and distilled water assorted and dispensed into the unbolted end of the cannon.

The silver brushwood within the piece looks like a mirror. And at last the machined stainless steel is chemically attached to the piece.
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If the thought of flying high in an aircraft produces oogles in your kids belly then its time to shun his fear by bringing home aircraft shaped accessories, enabling him to be in touch with them on day-today basis. One such designer yet functional product is the USB Aircraft Mouse. Representing the extreme of geek chic, the decorative item would befit well your study or office desk. The look and feel of the mouse resembles that of an airplane with a USB interface.

Weighing 90 grams, it offers 800 DPI resolution and sports a plug and play, and an LED light up once inserted into a USB port. Priced at $17 from Gadget4Tell, the USB Aircraft Mouse is available in variety of shades i.e. red, orange, green, white, and black.
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Designed particularly for divers and also non-swimmers, the 250W Balamar Sea Scooter aims at addressing a new meaning to the interesting activity of riding on or within water. It can be seen as a weapon for the feeble swimmers or learners’ thereby strengthening them to crack through the flow of water. Available in appealing blue shade, the scooter features 250 watt (enabling you ride at 5 Mph in water) and offers you a ball investigating submarine bionetwork and nautical life up to 82 Feet/25 meters.

The easy accessibility of this marine scooter is due to its impermeable robust lightweight synthetic outer shell whilst its 12V battery offers you to enjoy scoot for continuous 1.5 hours on a single battery charge.

Selfridges in association with Asahi beer has unveiled the world’s first personalized robotic barman that has a potential to serve you with a drink within two-minutes of taking the order, hence saving your 13- minutes. Called ‘Mr Asahi,’ it is developed using Robotics and Animatronics, and essentially is expert in serving ice-cold beer as half pints within de-cap bottles of beer. Mr Asahi’s simulation technology is accessible upon a condensed air feature that is monitored and synchronized through its numerous valves and electrical switching mechanisms connected to a PC.

They say 200 man hours were invested by a pool of eight-engineer to create such a product with robotic bar keeping skills. Weighing a quarter of a ton, it always offers a smiling face and responds patiently to the customers’ needs.

After making its manifestation in this week, the Mickey Metal functional caricature is reserved to move on for a national sampling tour with a schedule appended here.
· Manchester: 10-14 July
· Nottingham: 18-19 July
· Edinburgh: 24-26 July
· Glasgow: 25 July
· Newcastle: 1-3 August
· Birmingham: 6-7 September
· Leeds: 10-13 September
· Birmingham: 18-20 September
After an exhaustive oration, I suggest you to run through the video and applause his skills.

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