If you are bored of World’s most-expensive stereo system, High-tech Acoustics Voyager or Retirement Theater, then we have something haute on the platter i.e. Goldmund’s Media Room, whose price range starts from $300,000.

Can you bear the presence of a team of installers’ fitting home theater in your personal room? At least I cannot. Swiss manufacturer has lately unveiled the striking Media room that comes packed with 128 speakers along with an identical amp for each speaker and a controller.

Goldmund installers’ access to its composite acoustic modeling program, called Proteus offers a surround-sound theatrical experience to your interiors irrespective of the size, design of the room. Well, projector and screen may demand some extra cost.

Via Gizmodo

An eight-by-three foot screen viz. Media touch wall (aka Interactive Media Wall) by Perceptive Pixel owned by Jeff Han is a replica of a canvas. It gives you the freedom to steer, trace, and maneuver information by pin-pointing anywhere and everywhere on the monitor.

Feel the symphony via your fingers, spin through script with the filch of your hand nad you can also crop photos with a pinch as it reacts to majestic signals and even the slightest touch with grace. Soon, we can have Microsoft’s Surface to beat this wall with a slight difference of cost. Well Folks, this Interactive Media Wall is available for sale at Nieman Marcus for $100,000.

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Wilson Rothman from Gizmodo has peeped into a multi million dollar tech-palace in New York. The penthouse is packed with gadgets and gizmos and it is tech-riven to an extent that the inhabitants even sneeze in a techy style.

The impressive sight of apartment is like a big Apple governed by the Intel’s computing power. Calling all geeks, this penthouse doesn’t come at an easy price and demands $8.5 million.

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Picture this: You are enjoying the evening sailing with your friends and the very presence of the plugged device drives your necessity of charging your mobiles, MP3 players, digital cameras and laptops, thereby disturbing your mood. Is their any alternative to this?

Yes, now there is one. With the latest appealing Iqua headset, you can charge the batteries of your gadgets while sunbathing. Unveiled by Iqua at Barcelona’s 3GSM, the BHS-603 SUN is the world’s first solar-powered Bluetooth headset that aims at saving energy and time. The built-in solar cells are available in the Iqua Vogue wireless headset, the Chameleon, and the Snake2.

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My buddy approached me and said he is planning to buy a 23 feet long Ferrari. I made the pun of his plans by saying it must be a long laminated painting. But who knew I will become the butt of my own “witticism”.

Yah! He was talking about the 23 feet long roadster with 3.6 liter V8, 400bhp that is expected to hit the UK market this month at the European Limousine and Chauffeur Show. The formation and the production of this peerless limo is done by limo boss Dan Cowley; who is the blessed owner of the astounding ten-wheeled Terminator (Europe’s longest stretch Hummer).

The huge Ferrari limo is designed from a Ferrari 360 Modena chopped in half and prolonged by 9.5ft with a segment of carbon fiber that is hand-built. It can accommodate eight people and speeds with 0 to 60mph in less than six seconds with a top race of 170mph.

The inside of the Ferrari is no less than a five-star deluxe hotel. It features a 10-inch flat screen monitor that can broadcast images from cameras located on the exteriors. To make you feel at home, the Ferrari also comes packed with a six speaker surround sound system and DVD system fitted inside it.

Breaking the Guinness records of “The fastest Limousine and the Longest Ferrari,” this elite Ferrari is fabricated at an expenditure of £200,000.For more information visit limoshow.co.uk.

Via Born Rich

What would you call a combination of an iPod and uncountable diamonds caking it right from one corner to the other and all four sides…not just this the bling doesn’t end here it reaches till the last tip of the head phone?

I would call it the height of useless luxury or another way to flaunt your dripping and spilling riches! This musical piece of luxury is the creation of dear Norwegians, who are all set to sell it for 248,000 Norwegian Kroner (40,000 USD). PHEW!! So all those who are usually all ears for such a richie rich piece of bling have another thing to drool on!

Via: LaptopLogic

With the upcoming new gadgets or updated version of the old models, one cannot overshadow the beauty of age-old and conventional. To exemplify this, today we have a Bell & Howell model 2709 motion picture camera available for the auction on 25 July 2007. Mind you, this is not an ordinary camera as it has an established reputation of personal movie camera used for Charlie Chaplin for the screening of his numerous classic films.

All set to invite all eyeballs, Samantha Ryan, Christie’s saleroom assistant poses with the camera. The expected amount generated out of its sales is $140,000 - $180,000.

So, are you planning to buy one? Well, if you cannot afford to grab it then at least respect this camera by visiting the Christie’s auction hall for window-shopping only.

This technology-driven piece called PHOTON, a solar panel system is designed for those who love technology to the extent that now they desire to wear technology.

The great mind behind this portable device is of architect Kari Sivonen. The manufacturing of the product is done by Clothing+, an established Finnish company having a maintained portfolio in delivering rational clothing. But this invention has hit the market a bit late for the mountaineers who are already there and are regretting the technology drawbacks that doesn’t allow them to charge there dead batteries of phone and camera.

PHOTON is displayed at the SAUMA, a travelers’ exhibition by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. A single stroll at the exhibition will put you across numerous (more than 20) innovative and modern designs from Finland.

Venue: Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum
Date: Till 28 August, 2007

From LA, the exhibition will move to Helsinki and Paris in 2008.

Radiators are not a basic necessity anymore…with so many technological and designer advancements creeping up in the industry, they are metamorphosing into the accessory for a luxury lifestyle. The MHS Neo belongs to this very breed of luxury radiators.

Apart from being a functional accessory this one is also a plush add on to your interiors with its polishes stainless steel face that doubles up as a mirror. What makes this one a hot pick is the understated glow that it emits from the concealed neon light, to create a dramatic ambience in your living area and making it all the more warm and cozy.
Specs:
Diameter = 700mm
Output = 800 watts
Price: £1,405.42
Via: Lussorian

Technology is getting cooler every day. Every new day makes the mobile phones all the more chic and denser when it comes to features and functions. The latest in the league of these lavishly featured devices is the Connect, designed by James Zhang. Connect is a chic and flexible device that’s capable of metamorphosing into various forms depending upon the application you fit it into.

The OLED touch screen technology gels with the E-paper to help this device in transforming from a mobile phone to computer and from multimedia player to watch all this happens not only at the virtual level but also in its physical appearance.

All you need to do is just press a one of the six Mode Keys and you can choose a particular function without getting lost.

If all this was not enough to make Connect a hot property and add to it the applications like the badge and the necklace and you have a device that’s much more than personal productivity, and creates a scene apt enough for physical interaction between individuals. Sounds interesting!!

Via: Yankodesign