Designed by an established manufacturer Copulare, the iCoral is the most expensive and perhaps the ugliest and hopeless iPod dock you would ever like to buy for an outlandish amount of $2,350. This makes me wonder what is that onbe feature that gave courage to its designers ask such a hefty price.

Truly, this ‘real’ artificial coral features USB, S-Video and stereo analog outputs but what’s new? Its cone feet and the anti-echo corals actually add to the authentic two and a half grand value of this ridiculous goose. Good effort by Copulare but given a chance to procure such a useless product by paying such valuable dough, I would choose to make a trip to the island and come back with some fake corals along with real sea shells to beautify my accessible multi-functional iPod wharf.

Via Engadget/ Crave

Now integration of speakers within furniture accessories viz. chairs, bathtubs is a passé’. How about bags with built-in speakers? The idea simply looks elite and to your much surprise is available at the house of Fi-Hi.

Fortunate audiophiles with a nerve for flaunting fashionable belongings can best utilize this opportunity. Equipped with speakers and amplifiers, the musical handbags are inviting eyeballs at the CTIA Wireless 2008. The Fi-Hi bags claims to have a built-in 3-watt water-resistant stereo speaker to listen to your favorite tracks even in absence of headphones. These fashionable bags simply hook up to your iPod, cellphone, MP3/CD player, handheld game or multimedia device and other sundry gadgets with a 3.5mm stereo mini jack. Also, its sustenance on AA batteries gives fluid to the music system for continuous six hours.

The guys at Fi-Hi have’t disclosed the price tag but surely it can be your substitute when party gets over and you feeling high keep on saying ONCE MORE ONCE MORE!

Via Aving

Beamz, the latest laser-based discovery functions on its very connectivity to computer via USB. This gives you an opportunity to play numerous musical devices in an exact Jean Michel Jarre style by flouting the laser beams with hands. This “W” shaped system comes equipped with six laser beams straddling across the two segments; connected via USB and hooked up some amplifiers. The uncomplicated, spontaneous computer interface enables you to choose from the 30 integrated songs available in 19 genres enjoying the harmonizing rhythm track. The beamz annals includes creative works in jazz, bluegrass, classical, hip-hop, reggae, heavy metal and more.

Flouting the laser beams with your hands robotically produces pre-authored pulses, rivulets, riffs or loops of melodic notes from an implausible array of tools across the globe viz. guitars, steel guitar and other sundry strings even cowbell. It is a beautiful feeling when urbane high-fidelity resonance seems to dispense from your fingertips. Standing 19 inches tall, the Beam Music Performance System is available at The Sharper Image for $599.95 (inclusive of software plus USB cable).

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Today I was reading an extensive coverage of 25 million home theaters PC’s to be installed globally by 2013 carried by ehomeupgrade. On first go, we thought the figure is too less until we realized that they are only PC’s and not streaming products. These days there exist gamut of mini-PCs that are used chiefly for media streaming. With surge in advancement happening at CPUs front, devised to use less power and produce less heat, there is a possibility that PCs may dive in to the entertainment segment.

The principal problem for installing a PC in any entertainment center ort device is the noise produced by the integrated fan to cool the PC plus spinning hard drive. At the same time, the attached benefit is of having full-fledged PCs as a main media streamer is its functionality. If you count today then the majority of current generation of media streamers consists of low powered devices running a low mechanical Sigma chip.

Technically speaking, if this noise and power levels of entrenched PCs can be toned down to an evenhanded level then one can expect few more devices into his living room. One major drawback with almost very device is that they don’t have the raw horsepower.

Likewise, our most admired Mvix 760HD is still accessible on using an older Sigma chip and can’t do H.264 for instance. With the concept I have just talked, one can have much more excitement in coming years. One can say year 2008 is going to be the break point for these devices and by come 2010, these devices will be seen floating all over likewise DVD players.

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Musical Furnishings is an entry door to explore the magic of Musical Rumba Series. Musicians, kindly lend all your ears here. And not only musicians but also everyone whose legs start shaking, heartbeat starts beating high and loose control over their senses. It gives you the freedom to design your own personal drum table with exchangeable thumping slots. The availability in four sizes gives you enough variety to choose from respecting your space needs. Whilst the smallest table considers four of the smaller instruments, the largest comprises of 16. The entire collection is hand built by NW Artist Tor Clausen in his Studio in Olympia WA.

The level of flexibility allows each of this table to accept any of the modules. A majority of the modules are single, but the noose is the dimension of two modules (a 1×2 module) and the huge Cajon drum is the range of four modules (a 2×2 module). Now amidst all wood, wood and only wood, what can give a better appeal to the table? It is the darker finish that suffices to invite eyeballs.

All modules are designed using different species of wood in random shades.

2×2 (22?x22?x17?): Smallest of all would cost you $800 plus tax and shipping.

2×4 (22?x38?x17?): This stylishly long 8-module table is priced at $1500 plus tax and shipping.

3×3 (30?x30?x17?): Formed using nine cubic grid, the table is valued at $1600 plus tax and shipping.

4×4 (38?x38?x17?): This gigantic 16-module table is for the born musician who can’t compromise on their desires. It can be yours by shelling out $2900 plus tax and shipping.
Dive in to the video before taking a call, which one you want to reside in your hall room. The best way to make the module selection is via video. The visual is an assorted medley of wood tones right on the surface of the table. The modules are made of diverse genus of wood, and hence will be of arbitrary bloom.

Via Musical Furnishings

Sotheby’s lately sold a Guarneri violin once a lavish possession by the musician Henri Vieuxtemps to a Russian entrepreneur for the maximum auction price ever paid for any musical instrument. Word is around that Maxim Viktorov paid an unrevealed sum, “well in excess” of pre-recorded last auction of the device. The preceding record was inked by a 1708 Stradivarius identified as the Hammer that got sold for $3.54 million at New-York based Christie’s in May 2006.

Whilst the record for a Guarneri was set up during an auction in 1988, when a 1743 specimen from Cremona generated $1,126,088 at Sotheby’s in London. This proud owner of the Guarneri would be adding it to his existing collection of 15 violins. The violin has not been played in public for almost 70 years, but Viktorov assured that the instrument would now be played frequently in public.

Via NYSun

Picture this: You enter into an electronic shop with a mood to pick 1GB iPod for $50-60. But you can’t end up buying the in bearing a price tag of $250-300. Mind you it is still reasonable. Those who have spare money to burn can focus their all eyes on an upcoming auction of iDiamond iPod Shuffle. This bling creation is a part of Apple’s portable music player is decked up with 430 glittering diamonds. These diamonds complement well with the gold-plated controls in the center layered with 18k white and pink gold.

Truly, it’s a bling accessory ahead of one’s thoughts and the iDiamond is all set to go under hammer at a London-based charity auction. The anticipated price to-be generated via this iPod is $40,000 but since it would be a part of charity nature, possibility is it may fetch real wonders.

Via MobileMag

Music is one thing that turns on my senses but at the same time any or every musical instrument cannot touch my inner self. Likewise, I feel thrilled listening to the notes produced from the piano but its bulky look with multiple corners and presence with dull edges kills me. I am sure many of you would share the commonality with me. Three cheers to Professor Luigi Colani, who made efforts and has discovered a workable solution to the painful situation.

The German designer and aerodynamics have inked with popular German piano maker, Schimmel Pianos to design the K 208 Pegasus - an oval piano. This creation with a sophisticated touch on behalf of master designer is being welcomed by all. It goes beyond in terms of its offerings, thereby breaking the monotony of installing ordinary piano structure. The K 208 Pegasus comes packed with built-in piano stool and electricity driven lift apparatus that mutely elevates or lowers the top.

It is equipped with an ergonomically curved keyboard, around 200 strings under a total tension of 176,520 newtons along with a key assembly comprising of 10,000 pieces. This grand piano includes a Sostenuto pedal (middle pedal), a fully-adjustable incorporated black leather upholstered stool allowing expandable dimensions and distance to the keyboard. The abode of this piano in your living reason doesn’t need a reason to celebrate but the instrument is itself is an excuse to drink, wine and dine. Those who are looking for alternatives can eye compiano, walden wood art case piano and Roland’s FR2V accordion.

Via Schimmel

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Screaming “My Violin” is obvious and much-anticipated cry when one happens to fell off the stairs holding an antique 18-century violin priced at $1million. David Gareth, the former model and the present proud owner of the violin was stepping down the stairs after performing at the Barbican Hall, when his leg jerked and he could not maintain balance. As a result, he fell of the concrete stairs turning this pricey musical instrument into pieces. But Gareth is hopeful that the violin can easily be repaired in New York. We also pray that the damage to this violin gets fixed soon otherwise it would result in causing harm to one’s mental stability along with disturbing bank balance. Via LuxuryLaunches

For those who consider themselves to be the connoisseurs of luxury and do not mind appreciating it, here is your New Year feast. Crunching the usage of words and pointing directly to the purpose, here is the ball roll featuring all the world’s most expensive products carried by us during 2007. Clad in diamonds or other precious stones, these blingy accessories come as an invitation to elite gentry to loose weight of their wallet. And the wanted folks happen to buy one to flaunt their class and taste. And here I go:

1) Montblanc and Van Cleef & Arpels Unveils World’s Most Expensive Pen: $7,30,000
2) World’s Most Expensive Autograph by William Shakespeare £2.5mn
3) World’s Most Expensive Zip List
4) World’s Most Expensive Photograph on display in Istanbul $3.3 million
5) World’s Most Expensive Bike Light: $1,185
6) World’s Most Expensive Fruit Basket: $143
7) World’s Most Expensive Private Jet and Executive Jet: $59.9 mn Gulfstream G550
World’s Most Expensive Book: $30.8 mn Codex Leicester
9) World’s Priciest Luncheon
10) World’s Most Expensive Shampoo: £245
11) World’s Most Expensive Marker: $10,500 Gold TRI Marker
12) World’s Most Expensive Fishing Lure for $1 mn
13) $2mn Natalia Sports Luxury Sedan: World’s most expensive Coup
14) World’s Most Luxurious Bags: $261,000–$15,000
15) World’s Most Expensive Tote: $1.63 mn Diamond studded platinum Handbag

16) World’s Overpriced Bikini: $ 30mn
17) World’s Most Expensive Mattress: $60,000
18) World’s Most Expensive Number Plate: $657160
19) World’s Most Expensive Wheel Rims at $1,000,000
20) World’s Most Expensive Baseball Card: $2.8 mn T206 Honus Wagner
21) World’s Most Expensive Cigarettes: £50,000
22) World’s most-expensive mascara for lusty eyes - $589
23) World’s Most Expensive Stool : $1.3 mn
24) World’s Priciest Song: £100
25) World’s Most Private Music Performance: £4 million
26) World’s Most Expensive Actress: $29,000,000
27) World’s Most Expensive Tea: $3,000 per kilo
28) World’s Most Expensive Wine: $150,000
29) World’s Most Expensive Vodka: $1mn per bottle
30) World’s Most Expensive Dessert:$25,000 Frozen Hot Chocolate
31) World’s Most Expensive Ham: $2100 per leg
32) World’s Priciest Mineral Water: £8.50 GBP per ounce
33) World’s Most Expensive Margarita: $51
34) World’s Most Expensive Coffee: $10 per cup
35) World’s Most Expensive Beer: $1,000 per bottle

36) World’s Most Expensive Mansion
37) World’s Costliest Casino: $3.6 billion
38) World’s Most Expensive Hotel Suit: $25,000 per night
39) World’s Most Expensive Suit: $91, 447
40) World’s Most Expensive Wedding Dress: $1.2 mn
41) World’s Most Expensive Cake: $13, 032, 015
42) World’s Most Expensive Ice Cream cone: $1mn
43) World’s Most Expensive Gemstone: $7.98 million
44) World’s Most Expensive Earrings: $8.5 million
45) World’s Most Expensive USB Stick: $ 3,500
46) Worlds’ Most Expensive Turntable: $300,000
47) World’s Most Expensive Stereo System: $8, 60,608
48) World’s Most Expensive Corkscrew: £36,000
49) World’s Most Expensive Christmas Dinner: £400,030 for a table of 10
50) World’s Most Expensive Honey: £42 Per Pot at Harrods
51) Chopard Unveils $25 mn Watch; World’s Most Expensive One
52) World’s Most Expensive Xmas Hamper: £45000 Vivat Bacchus Hamper
53) World’s Most Expensive Perfume: No. 1 Perfume: $215,000 per bottle
54) World’s Most Expensive Car Audio System: $330,000 RA:1K
55) World’s Most Expensive Sari Enters Guinness Record: Rs40 lakh
56) World’s Most Expensive Valentine Card: £4,000
57) World’s Most Expensive Lipstick: $62,000 KissKiss
58) World’s Most Expensive Mango: $34
59) World’s Most Expensive Bike: $273, 200 Ecosse Heretic Titanium
60) Worlds’ Most Expensive Small Camera: $551,151 Rare Leica
61) World’s Most Expensive Mobile Phone - $1.3 million
62) World’s Most Expensive Credit Card: Royal Legend
63) World’s Most Expensive Gift Card: $5 mn Halcyon Dream Card
64) $210,000 White Truffle: World’s Most Expensive Ever?
65) World’s Most Expensive Concert Tickets: $10,385 a Pair

66) World’s Most Expensive Bagel: $1000
67) World’s Most Expensive Remote Control: $55,000 Gold RC1
68) World’s Most Expensive Dessert: $25000
69) World’s Most Expensive Omelet: $100
70) World’s Priciest Mouse: $23,350 Diamond Flower
71) World’s Most Expensive Sandals: $2mn
72) World’s Most Expensive Wedding Bouquet: $125,000
73) US Money Pubs Flaunt World’s Most Expensive Wallpapers
74) World’s Most Expensive Bicycle Wheel: $3 mn Readymade Art
75) World’s Most Expensive Cat: £12,000 Pricey Pussy
76) World’s Most Expensive Rum: £26,000
77) World’s Most Expensive Dog Collar: $1.8 mn
78) $5000 Yu: Most-Expensive Fragrance by Mane
79) World’s Most Expensive Game Boy: $25,000
80) World’s Most Expensive Cheese: $500/lb