Archive for October, 2008
10.26.08
Posted in Unique at 7:20 am by Princess
An assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Babak Parviz, created contact lenses that contain electronic circuits. He’s also going to add microLEDs so that the lenses will be able to display things on them. This would be one of the tiniest personal displays ever made.
While a prototype has been created it is months away from being powered up. The current ideas for powering it up are via radio waves and miniature antennas attached to the lenses or by using solar cells.
Parviz hopes that his invention will be able to be useful in a variety of ways including computing, gaming and medical applications.
He left off one critical use that these contact lenses would be great for, namely becoming an international super-spy.
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10.24.08
Posted in Gadgets, Unique at 7:19 am by Princess
You might already know Dance Dance Revolution types of game, and you might also know that you can get a dance mat for this game. But if you play using this fun gadget, your fingers will dance the floor table. The USB Dance Mat(GBP 10; about $20) for your fingers, it is small that you can play it at your office table. Plug it into a USB port and select the style of game; hit the start button and begin to dance on the arrows as they illuminate – before you now it, you’ll be pulling some serious shapes, as if on a real dance floor. You can also wear a cut-out disco diva finger puppet, dress up your fingers.
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10.18.08
Posted in Luxuries at 7:19 am by Luxor
Gresso’s Avantgarde Collection luxury phones with black diamonds was sold for 30000 Euros, limited to only 50 people in the world. Now, here comes the latest luxurious White Diamonds Collection from the Russian based mobile phone manufacturer. The new collection includes two new mobiles called Gresso White Diamonds and Gresso Royal White Diamonds. The new White Diamonds Collection features inherit hand-assembled body panels made out of 200-year old African blackwood, keyboards with base plate made of titanium and stainless steel battery cover with a magnetic lock plus leather and gold decoration. Besides, the new phones feature displays covered by 42K sapphire crystal glass, keys made out of 18K gold and as a signature feature – all the numbers on the keypad are laser-cut in Roman style. The Gresso Royal White Diamonds is the more expensive one of the two and will be available in limited edition of 200 units only. All of its 23 gold keys are crowned with a total of 2.53K of white diamonds.
If you think that its technology takes a backseat, you must rethink again. Beneath their respective hoods lie Windows Mobile 6, a 2-megapixel camera, tri-band GSM support, and a microSD memory slot.
This luxury collection will be priced at 33000 euros (approx. $52,000_
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10.13.08
Posted in Luxuries at 7:29 pm by Luxor
I’ll have to admit that I’m not really good at playing chess. Well, I just don’t like to think which step I’d choose. Anyway, Chess which was invented thousands of years ago is a wonderful board game! A lot of people consider it to be the ‘king’ of board games, and up till now it still attracts people from all over the world, regardless of their age. In the past chess was mainly played by courtiers; nowadays everybody may enjoy this privilege. For the players of today, Bonhams has managed to collect some incredibly important pieces to be sold. It was scheduled to be sold in London and dedicated to the world of Chess and Board Games, Chess sets from almost every continent will be offered for sale. The rarest and the priciest of the lot is the ivory inlaid Backgammon and Chess Board from Northern Italy (dated to circa 1500). Estimated at £8,000-12,000 ($16,000 – 24,000), this set might have been a game for an aristocratic personality belonging to Italian Renaissance.
Moving east wards, it’s the fine quality Chinese Export Gaming Table from Canton, circa 1830, that is mounted on a tripod base. Quoted for £4,000-6,000 and expertly carved with dragons’ heads, the figures move on lacquered and gilt chess board that is richly inlaid with mother of pearl.
An 18th century Islamic ivory chess set, stained red and green and decorated with gilding, contains abstract pieces as the Koran forbids figures to be reproduced. I’m sure some Sheik from Middle East won’t bat an eyelid before picking it up for just £4,000-6,000.
Rightly said, Chess is undeniably making a luxurious comeback.
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10.05.08
Posted in Unique at 3:20 pm by Princess
Now I’m normally not the one to crib about the price of stuff and actually my friends tell me that I’m so bad at shopping and bargaining that most of my friends complain about the deals that I strike. But this on the face of it is an absolute rip-off and nothing more than that. Even if this is decomposable and eco-friendly it does not really make a dime’s difference when you charge as much as this Shit bag does. It is pretty useful when you have a bad stomach in the outdoors but you will have a stomach upset even when buying.
The Shit Box is a cardboard toilet made specifically for outdoor use. But, if your water gets cut off because you didn’t pay the bill, I can vouch it works inside as well. It costs about $31, which the company claims is “an honest price”, and is obviously a bold-faced lie. There is no way I’m buying something at $31 and then shit in it and throw it away. Look, it might be a very clean, green and safe idea but it really is another example of how people are ripping off customers in the name of ‘green solution’.
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