Not so great Kayak speakers
By Cheryl | August 20, 2008
As far as I understand a ‘Kayak’ is a small boat but the ‘Kayak Speakers’ as they call them don’t resemble a boat at all still christened like that…any answers?
Any way as they say, what’s in a name? Let’s get ahead with other specs of the speakers from the house of Sonance. With quite a unique design they can be a sure shot attention grabber in a living room. They are designed by the minds at NACSound and boast to offer stereophonic sound from a single speaker with the help of an acoustic reflector suspended in the center. (What’s new?) The speakers churn out 60W of sound with a sensitivity of about 86dB. Talk about placing them and you get the liberty of installing them horizontally or vertically as per your requirements.
Not very great features and a little cool looks seem to les to pay a whopping amount of $2900 for the Kayak features…what do you say?
Via: Gizmodo
Tanning Beds Get Glamorous With Hapro’s Glamour Editions of Luxura X7 and V7
By Cheryl | August 2, 2008
If getting that ‘oh-so-in’ tanned look is on your mind and some crispy moolah is what you are ready to shell out, Hapro’s Glamour Editions of Luxura X7 and V7 tanning beds can be your perfect picks. The uber-cool and utterly stylish tanning beds come embellished with dazzling rhine stones and jazzy violet top lighting, good enough to give a glowing look to the interiors together with your bod.
The lavish tanning bed comes to you in pearly white color and is decked up with some ultra snappy features apart from those droolworthy looks. Talking about the features one can’t afford to miss the biggies from the likes efficient Maxlight tanning lamps available in horizontal X7 and stand-up V7 that give you a glowing gold tan. Want some more? Check out technical excellence summerised in Contour Plus, SoundAround & MyMp3, Smartvoice, Xsens, Qsens and Climax on the horizontal X7…that are some crazy accessories to keep you entertained while your bod is getting the desired glow.
If your jaw is already dripping, you must hold your breath for the the Vertical V7 model that also gives you the option to adjust the body cooling, comes fitted with loud speakers and also seeps in a variety of aroma options with Xsens to make the complete experience holistic and soothing.
Luxury Gadget of the day: Swarovski encrusted LG’s Canvas Crystal X HDTV
By Andrew | June 12, 2008
The way TVs are involving into object de art, it seems the time is no far when instead of watching programmes on TV people will buy TV to watch its beauty and adorn their homes. If Scarlet was not enough a beauty to woo the style lovers, and Canvas was not saving much power, LG has introduced yet another look and you drool kind of dazzling TV in the market. Dazzling because this all new wonder called the Canvas Crystal X HDTV is heavily caked with not 20-30 but 1000 Sworovski crystals.
Talk about the specs and a sexy 47-inch screen meets the eye apart from the other regular features found in an utterly stylish and ultra modern TV of the day. Available in Korea, Canvas Crystal X HDTV is priced at a whopping US$3,194 each. So what? The bargain is still stylish! What say…how about a swarovski clad Scarlet?
Via: Reghardware
Luxury Gadget of the day: Dunhill Bulldog USB Drives
By Andrew | May 30, 2008
The users of the cute little Disney USB drives might now like the Dunhill Bulldog USB keys, but they definitely make a cool style statement for the corporate honcho who doesn’t mind making a pricey pick.
At $350, the Dunhill Bulldog USB Key - made by the well-known luxury company Alfred Dunhill, the stainless steel storage device that shouts luxury only on the price front as it offers nothing when it comes to storage. space. But definitely, if just style, looks and exterior is what you are looking forward to admire, nothing can beat the Dunhill Bulldog drive.
Via: EverythingUSB
Surf Chair Workstation
By Andrew | May 30, 2008
Somebody like me who spends most of the time sitting upright before the workstation definitely deserve something as comfortable and ergonomically designed workstation as the Surf Chair workstation that gives me the perfect posture to work keeping my back in the right shape.
Designed by Kenneth Lylover, the Surf Chair has everything that a geek can only dream of to have a pain free Internet surfing. Conjured particularly keepingin mind the ‘Internet Collection’ of the Scandinavian Furniture Fair the Surf Chair features pillows fixed at various points in the seat and back to ensure a comfy surfing, while the screen is suspended at precisely the right angle in accordance to your back and neck.
The only drawback that I could find was that due to the unavailability of space, the keyboard is supposed to be kept on the lap by the user. No wonders it managed to beg the ‘Best Product’ award in the fair and is worthy enough to be tagged as a luxury gadget for a luxury loving geek.
Via: Bornrich
Giant Keyboard Rug: Walk on to type
By Andrew | May 29, 2008
Yesterday we gave the solution for the small mobile phone keypad with the Mobile Keyboard, and today we are back to rescue those who find even their normal PC keyboard small and wish if it could get be a little big.
Electronic hacker..err ..designer Maurin Donneaud brings to you the Giant Keyboard Rug, which is so big that instead of your fingers your feet need to take charge to type in with this 20ft long keyboard.
You just need to roll it out on the floor and let your feet do the typing on this larger than life keys. How Maurin made this one was by punching hundreds of holes to make keys so that the conductive switches under the fabric work as pressure from your feet fall on it.
Built by electronics hacker Maurin Donneaud, the huge keyboard rug rolls out onto the floor, and lets your type with your socks on. In order to make the larger-than-life keys work, Maurin had to punch hundreds of individual holes under each letter to ensure that the conductive switches beneath the fabric would trigger when walked on.
Via: Hackaday
Pacer Suit: now shake a leg to make music
By Andrew | May 29, 2008
Usually we have seen people grooving to the music, but the pacer suit flips the convention and comes to fore as a gizmo that produces music at the hint of your movements. All you need to do is wear the suit loaded with sensors and integrated speakers, which send out tones corresponding to the movements of the wearer.
Now, if you eye at listening to music that your shaking is producing just wear the headphone that comes along and get the taste.
Again a futuristic concept, we doubt as to which will be the usage this piece of wearable technology will be put to. Ah!…here comes something, how about musicians dancing away on the stage to mak some good music for people to groove upon.
Via: Engadget
Luxury Gadget of the day: White Diamond Collection from Gresso
By Andrew | May 28, 2008
The latest pricey addition into the Russian brand Gresso’s ultra lavish brigade of cell phones is the White Diamonds collection. With two new phones called the Gresso White Diamonds and Gresso Royal White Diamonds, the cell phone brand has touch newer levels of lavishness in the cell phone market.
The phones are not so great at technology with features like a tri-band GSM support, a 65K color TFT display QVGA resolution, a microSD memory card slot and a 2 megapixel camera and run on Windows Mobile 6 Standard. But when it comes to design it is simple bathed in utmost luxury that comes to fore with the hand-assembled body panels made out of 200-year old African blackwood, keyboards which have a base plate made of titanium and stainless steel battery cover with a magnetic lock plus leather high-lighted with gold decoration.
That’s not where the luxe story of the phone end. The display of the phone is caked with 42K sapphire crystal glass, while the keys are made out of 18K gold and last but not the least, the laser cut numbers in Roman style work as cherry on the cake.
Talk about the price and the Gresso Royal White Diamonds emerges as the more expensive one, with all the 23 keys encrusted with a total of 2.53K of white diamonds giving it a utterly pricey tag of $52,000 approximately. No wonders this one will be a limited edition with only 200 units hitting the market.
If that’s a little too much, then the Gresso White Diamond handset seems to be a reasonable deal at $14,000 at least in comparison with the other. features only navigation keys encrusted with white diamonds. And, it will sell for 9,000 euros i.e. approx. $14,000.
Via: Elitechoice
Yamaha Disklavier Piano: Most technologically advanced musical instrument
By Andrew | May 28, 2008
Here’s a treat for the musical souls, particularly for those who enjoy making music more than listening to it. Today we bring to you the Yamaha Disklavier Piano, which is being touted as the most advanced piano ever seen. Now, why they tag it like this?
Answer lies in its features that include Wi-Fi to download MIDI files on so that it can play back songs, option to record you performances completely in style and sync with vocals and other instruments. Apart from this, it stores all the files in the hard drive of the piano which you can easily transport to your PC via USB and if the music is actually good you can burn out a CD and enjoy it wherever you want.
Now, to take the music to the next level of innovation the Yamaha Disklavier Piano can be connected to the TV so that you can see all the lyrics and graphics on your screen. There’s more to the musical wonder. The piano can also download songs from the internet and play for you together with pressing the right key at the right musical note. Now, that’s called smart music!
Speakers embedded in wallpaper: Concept on the verge of becoming reality
By Andrew | May 27, 2008
For those who have always been worried about the walls which had ears have something more to worry about for ‘walls that can talk’ are finally here. This is again a concept which once materialize will turn all your walls into speakers bloating out your favourite music. This one is going to be the most challenging innovation in the world of speakers leaving behind the shell series speakers or the Ferrari inspired speakers.
Now materials scientist Michael Yu at Johns Hopkins University has come up with this new material which will allow piezoelectric sound devices to be fixed precisely any where inside the most inaccessible places.
Piezoelectric devices are found in microphones and speakers that move in response to voltage, or create voltage from movement.
Earlier found only inside very heavy, brittle materials the polymer with piezoelectic properties will be used as a coating that will be flexible enough to create speakers under your wall paper. Not just this, the new material will also open up possibilities to make innovative inventions like foldable speakers and more.
Via: Newscientist