Got those Euros??? Then buy these luxury gadgets

Voila here are my luxury gizmo pick for the day to be owned for the ultimate luxury:

1.Diamond Crypto Smartphone:

                                      
Specs:

This phone is tagged as the costliest phone of the world

• Designed by luxury accessories maker Peter AloissonIt
• Features a cover adorned with 50 diamonds, ten of which are the rare blue ones
• Few sections made in rose gold
• Manufactured by the Moscow-based JSC Ancort Company
• High-resolution color TFT display
• Stores up to 4000 numbers in it’s memory.
• Uses powerful encryption technology to provide special security
• Windows CE operating system

Price
$1.3 Million
2.Magnetic Floating Bed:

                              
Simply awesome although we cannot always find this in our ieka shop, but if you got those bucks, then it can be yours....

Specs:

• Designed by Dutchman Janjaap Ruijssenaars
• Got enough magnets to keep 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds) floating in the air
• To make sure that the bed doesn’t float away, it’s tethered to the walls by four cables

Price
$1.53 million
3.Luvaglio's Luxury Notebook:

Want to flaunt your luxurious note book worth a mill heres the one you should eye on...

Specs:

• 17″ widescreen LED backlit screen
• 128GB SSD and a slot loading Blue-Ray drive
• very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification
• Clients will be able to design their own laptop by visiting Luvaglio’s showrooms at two or three well known upmarket stores, whereby their selection of materials, finishes and accessories will be available to view and a choice selected.

Price

$1 million

4.LG's 71" inch gold plated plasma:

Want something which only few own for your yacht......goahead get the gold plated huge plasma from LG.

Specs:

• is is world’s most expensive Plasma display
• 24K gold casing (4 pounds)
• limited production run of just 1000 units
• 1920 x 1080 resolution
• HDMI, SCART, and a 600W home theater system

Price $132,000
Well ,well was'nt Bill Gates correct in a way when he said "If you are born poor its not your mistake, but if you die like one it will be your mistake"
So watcha lookin at go get those millions in your pocket so you can feast on these luxury life...if not just find and put some online like me ;)


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Kindle DX:Cruise the Bhamas with your library of 4,000 books with Amazon's Original Wireless Reading Device

So,whats the fun if you are a great reader but don't find the right book to read.Cruise the Bahamas with your library of around four thousand books in this 10 ounce reading device by Amazon.After offering such a huge pool of all our favorite books and best sellers online,its a step forward by Amazon to make its very own digital reading device.Trendy in looks,sleek and with great processing speed, flip through your Sydney Sheldon or romance of Mills and Boons  book on the shores of Hawaii or in a tree hut of that rain forest just the book you want suiting your environment and mood..Enjoy the reading experience everywhere you go without flipping pages and uncomfortable reading angle or carrying only those 4 to 5 books in a bag.

Picture Courtesy: Amazon.com

This unique reading device is a power house of features and a huge memory along with great speed.

Here are some of the worthy features of Amazon Kindle:

Its just not the memory or a store house, well its on the web...it has wireless internet service:

• Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, as thin as most magazines
• Lightweight: At 10.2 ounces, lighter than a typical paperback
• Books in Under 60 Seconds: Get books delivered wirelessly in less than 60 seconds; no PC required
• 3G Wireless: 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle; no annual contracts, no monthly fees, and no hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots
• Global Coverage: Enjoy 3G wireless coverage at home or abroad in over 100 countries. 
• Paper-Like Display: Reads like real paper without glare, even in bright sunlight
• Carry Your Library: Holds up to 3,500 books
• Longer Battery Life: Now read for up to 1 week on a single charge with wireless on, a significant improvement from the previous battery life of 4 days 
• Built-In PDF Reader: Your Kindle can now display PDF documents natively. Native PDF support allows you to carry and read all of your personal and professional documents on the go.
• Read-to-Me: With the experimental Text-to-Speech feature, Kindle can read newspapers, magazines, blogs, and books out loud to you, unless the book's rights holder made the feature unavailable
• Free Book Samples: Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy
• Large Selection: Over 390,000 books, including 101 of 112 New York Times® Best Sellers, plus U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and blogs. For non-U.S. customers, content availability and pricing will vary. 
• Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99, unless marked otherwise. When traveling abroad, you can download books wirelessly from the Kindle Store or your Archived Items. U.S. customers will be charged a fee of $1.99 for international downloads. 

It can be Kindle or Kindle DX, the latest one from the Kindle family..with a bigger screen display a lot better than just the Kindle, there will be free membership to read books on amazon with no contracts or fees.Shopping books could never have gone better .Well don't start thinking that it would be a straining experience, not at all ....its just like reading a book page with no back light.Make and choose the fonts,resize the fonts enjoy reading as many days with no much battery charging hassles.Download books in less than 60 seconds on kindle from amazon.When your hands and eyes are busy, Kindle reads it for you with text speech function.Theres more to it have a look at the video below.

The Breath Checker: Fix the bad breath overcome the embarassment

Well good food comes with a lot of bad breath if not taken care of well.Mouth wash does nothing better than eliminating the odor for a while and so does our routine mints and gums...But sometimes even after we feel that our mouth is free of any bad smell...the others around us will have a different story to tell!!! Yea it disperses and others can feel real bad about it not wanting to talk to you next time....so instead of shooing away your clients,office buddies,bosses and of course love interests make use of the techy Breath checker which is reliable enough to do good and comes with a cool price tag of just 32 Canadian Dollars

Manufactured by Tanita ltd., evaluates the smell of your breath on a scale of 1 to 6. The icon that looks like a child's face will change facial expressions from smiley to crying. It works with 2 AAA batteries for about a year, and its portable size lets you carry it in your pocket. You can check your breath not only after eating, but also before meetings to keep from giving a bad impression.

Image Courtesy:Sympatico.ca

Make the new year resolution come true:Quit smoking without quitting cigerette!

lol, I know it sounds wiered "QUIT smoking WITHOUT QUITTING cigarette" there will be an exclamatory impression on your face right now as to well now how in the name of heaven is that possible, how can some one quit smoking without leaving the cigerette??? Ahaa...we are in the age of innovation people , where there is nothing impossible.

The Japanese inventions have always been a thing of creativity and curiosity for the audiences when it comes to information and technology.Here is a scoop on what they call is "Electronic Cigarette" for those who want to quit smoking but still have the satisfaction of smoking that smoke out.Try the new electronic cigarette to avoid burning a hole in your only pair of lungs..

Its an old statement when we advice the smokers to quit smoking .All they say is "oh yes i definitely I will" and the day never comes.It has never been easy but with technology, it becomes manageable.

Quitting smoking is not easy but many products are available to support you during the long severance process. One product from Japan is called MISMO, manufactured by Sosu Company Limited. It's an electric cigarette that generates pseudo smoke with water vapour, which contains vitamin C and coenzyme. First, you detach the empty cartridge and charge the battery for 10 hours. When it's fully charged, the LED light on the battery charger will change from red to green. Next, exchange the empty cartridge with the flavour cartridge that came with it. That's it. When you inhale, a refreshing steam comes into your mouth and fills it with the flavour of your choice: mint or grapefruit. The flavour is subtle, not too strong, so it will not bother people around you. Each cartridge will last for about 300 inhalations. Since it gives you the feeling of inhaling smoke into your lungs, it might ease the psychological desire for smoking (having something to do). The water vapour and the red LED light, acting as pseudo smoke and fire, may offer you some visual satisfaction.

According to the WHO (World Health Organization), smoking is the second leading cause of human death. The Japanese Ministry of Welfare reported that about 12% of people die because of their regular smoking habit. However, the Japanese government does not spend any money to change this situation. Compare this to the traffic safety budget of $17 billion (USD). The only person who can take care of your health is you.

Ref :- sync.sympatico.ca/Wasabi/Articles/Electric_cigarette.htm

The morph concept by Nokia : Future nanotechnology enabled nokia products

Well may be in future you will be able to fold your nokia phone in any shape and size you want!Yes nanotechnology will offer great benefits to the communication technologies as well,Nokia is the company which is researching this concept for its future phones.

Have a look at the future of nanotechnology enabled cell phones:

Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:

• Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live
• Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving
• Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension
• Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge
• Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices

In addition to the advances above, the integrated electronics shown in the Morph concept could cost less and include more functionality in a much smaller space, even as interfaces are simplified and usability is enhanced. All of these new capabilities will unleash new applications and services that will allow us to communicate and interact in unprecedented ways.

Flexible & Changing Design

Nanotechnology enables materials and components that are flexible, stretchable, transparent and remarkably strong. Fibril proteins are woven into a three dimensional mesh that reinforces thin elastic structures. Using the same principle behind spider silk, this elasticity enables the device to literally change shapes and configure itself to adapt to the task at hand.

A folded design would fit easily in a pocket and could lend itself ergonomically to being used as a traditional handset. An unfolded larger design could display more detailed information, and incorporate input devices such as keyboards and touch pads.

Even integrated electronics, from interconnects to sensors, could share these flexible properties. Further, utilization of biodegradable materials might make production and recycling of devices easier and ecologically friendly.

Self-Cleaning

Nanotechnology also can be leveraged to create self-cleaning surfaces on mobile devices, ultimately reducing corrosion, wear and improving longevity. Nanostructured surfaces, such as “Nanoflowers” naturally repel water, dirt, and even fingerprints utilizing effects also seen in natural systems.

Advanced Power Sources

Nanotechnology holds out the possibility that the surface of a device will become a natural source of energy via a covering of “Nanograss” structures that harvest solar power. At the same time new high energy density storage materials allow batteries to become smaller and thinner, while also quicker to recharge and able to endure more charging cycles.

Sensing The Environment

Nanosensors would empower users to examine the environment around them in completely new ways, from analyzing air pollution, to gaining insight into bio-chemical traces and processes. New capabilities might be as complex as helping us monitor evolving conditions in the quality of our surroundings, or as simple as knowing if the fruit we are about to enjoy should be washed before we eat it. Our ability to tune into our environment in these ways can help us make key decisions that guide our daily actions and ultimately can enhance our health.

Source:http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept

Green phones by Sony Ericsson

Here are some green phones (well not green color) but these phones are environmental friendly made of recycled plastic and devoid of all the harmful materials and hazardous chemicals.Sony Ericsson's Elm and Hazel (yes these are the names of new phones ;) will be out in the market soon.Scheduled to be out in second quarter of 2010.The Hazel and Elm also feature a Walk Mate eco application, a green calculator and a low power consumption charger (called EP300 GreenHeart).

The Sony Ericsson Elm resembles a chocolate bar and have a curvaceous base.It will be available starting the first quarter of 2010, in two color versions (Metal Black and Pearly Rose).

Here are some worthy specs about Sony Ericsson ElmL

• 2.2 inch QVGA display
•  HSDPA connectivity
•  Wi-Fi
•  GPS,
• Google Maps
• 10 days free weather forecast with Accuweather”
• clear voice and intelligent volume adaptation”
• social networking integration (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter)
• push email
• 5MP autofocus camera with Led flash
•  280MB of internal memory
•  MicroSD card support.

Phewwww!!!! looks like a power house .....guys am gona get my hands on it the moment it comes in....waitingg
Next comes in like Sony Ericsson Hazel:

This one is a slider phone, with all the features of Elm available except that the main difference is that its QVGA display is bigger – 2.6 inches. The phone  will be available from Q2 2010, in Superior Black and Passionate Rouge.

Hold on theres more to Elm and Hazel , both are splash resistant.Quite a phone both are !.They also sport the Stereo Portable Handsfree HPM-60J (also part of the GreenHeart family of products).

Keep your eyes open fellas...

Sony Ericsson's Android phone

Hi to all the Sony Ericsson's fans out there, theres a good news for you guys.A whole line of phones will be introduced for the Indian customers by Sony Ericsson.These days we can see the new phones in Indian markets in just few weeks unlike the earlier times when we had to wait for few months , for our favourites to arrive in the Indian market.

Xperia X3: Possibly the first Sony Ericsson Android phone

The status is still not announced.But the specs are out.Here are some  of the important ones:

• 4-inch touchscreen
• 800 x 400 pixel display
• 8MP Camera with LED Flash, Auto Focus, 8X digital zoom
• Video Recording at VGA resolution (640×480)
• 3.5mm headset jack
• MicroSD expandable
• Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, AGPS
• Quadband GSM/GPRS – 850/900/1800/1900MHz

CSE January 2010:Adam, the touch screen tablet

Android interface,Pixel Qui display: The new touch screen tablet which looks much smaller than others but does much bigger things than others.

So,what exactly is Adam? To quote one of its creator's:"It is a smartpad, small enough to be carried anywhere and big enough to do anything.It is a brainchild of Notion Ink, a Hyderabad start-up launched by seven Indians (six IITians and an MBA graduate), who left lucrative careers to realise their dream of designing a next-gen device at an affordable price. And if the 67 patents filed for the product in various categories are any indication, they have come a long way.

Weighing,770 grams, the 0.6-inch thick, 10.1-inch scratch-resistant touch screen device comes loaded with features that are likely to impress Eve.

Pixel Qi Display

The device will be among the first to feature Pixel Qi display, a low-cost, power-saving screen that can operate in three modes. Besides the LCD mode, it can run in a low-power, basic colour trans-reflective mode and a very low-power, sunlight-readable e-paper mode that mounts no pressure on the eye. The screen comes with fingerprint-resistant oleophobic (oil repelling) and anti-glare coating.
“We are the only ones to use Pixel Qi screens for Tablet technology. It consumes one-tenth of the battery compared with conventional LCDs,” says Rohan Shravan, founder, and director, Creatives, Notion Ink.

Tegra system-on-chip

The company reckons that the integral Lithium-ion battery will hold good up to 48 hours standby,eight hours of high definition video playback or 16 hours of Internet surfing  over WiFi.At its heart will be NVIDIA's powerful,yet energy-saving,eight-core Tegra system-on-chip,which will drive the system at astonishing speeds while ensuring battery longevity.

Android interface

“We wanted to adopt an OS which would make our device ‘talk’ to any other device. And we chose Google’s Android,” says Rohit Rathi, another co-founder.But, Android’s interface would appear stretched on the smartpad’s screen as it was originally designed for mobile phones, and this issue will have to be resolved.Notion Ink is talking to telecom providers (in India and the U.S.) to test the device for connectivity issues on delivery of the first batch of 60 Adams.

Best price

The best part: price. Notion Ink promises it will be Rs.15,000 when it is out in the U.S., European and Indian markets in June next year.“We collaborated with the best in the industry to provide days of computing,” says Sachin Ralhan, another co-founder.

The device will almost be entirely manufactured in Taiwan. TPK Touch Solutions (Xiamen) Inc. has been roped in for touch screens, and talks are on with major Original Device Manufacturers (ODMs) for the final product.

Squeezed into Adam are water, ambient light and proximity sensors, accelerometer, assisted GPS, digital compass, built-in speakers and microphone. However, it will be loaded only with Flash memory (16 or 32 GB) augmented by Secure Digital (SD) card support.

It will have three interfaces: the touch screen, an on-screen virtual keyboard and a track pad located behind the screen, allowing users to manoeuvre the cursor from the front or the rear. A rotatable three megapixel camera at the top can effortlessly take pictures or videos within a 180 degree angle.

The developers were assisted by the National Institute of Design (Research and Development campus, Bangalore) in elements of next generation operating system (OS), user interfaces, usability issues and product concepts. For starters, Adam will support gesture control, thanks to the Android user interface.

Carry your projector in your pocket

Toshiba's micro front projectors

The pocket projector from toshiba offers:

• The projector is so small that you can conviniently carry it along with your black berry in the pocket anywhere.
• You can connect it to the iphone for displaying vedios,cell phones or any other devices.
• It also has its own speakers. With a DOP chip of 0.17,amazing size.
• 10 lumen 
• Half vga for resolution
• Father light weight
• Competitive and affordable device
• Another pico toshiba projector also offers a Pc free presentation, make it jpeg ,put it in the usb and insert it in the projector no need to carry a laptop.

So the future CEOs,Managers or anybody who wants a presentation anywhere.....go grab a tini mini pico Toshiba projector for all that mobility,flexibilty,style and a no mess projection,

Powermat Wirelessly Powered Kitchen of the Future

Go wireless in your kitchen in future with all those gadgets working for your food :

So do you get put off by those wires lying there on the kitchen counter top of yours while you whisk your eggs,make an espresso,some guava juice for your health?? well yes we all do all this stuff on daily basis in our kitchen with a food processor,a coffee maker,a kitchenette mixer....and more of them with lots of wires,inlets.....some times you may even get an electric shock if you accidentaly  spill that yogurt near the power inlet...whoa its quite a messy place ...the kitchens are'nt they...

Lets go wireless with all those kitchen gadgets in future...no wires,no inlets,no fear of getting an electric shock when you spill something.Yes it will be soon a reality,check out the Powermat technology exhibited in CSE 2009.

Well it works this way:

Theres the power mat technology embedded in the kitchen counter top and all the kitchen appliences hava receiver technology embedded inside them.The counter top has several contact points .If you place any kitchen appliances on the power contact point, you can operate it  absolutely without any wires or cords.There is this small LED indicator with which you can easily know where is the contact point on the powermat.

Powermat technology on kitchen counter top:

So now it can be a food processor,a kitchenette mixer,a blender,whisker,grinder,even a blackberry or a laptop....you just have to place these devices on the powermat and you have all the power to run all of them without any wires...

That's not it you can mess around spill anything on the power mat and no worries!!!

Check out the CES 2009,Power mat technology below:

Kitchens of the Future

Welcome to the future kitchens of tomorrow!

So, most of us try to think and imagine how a future kitchen will look like and what all surprises will it have in the form of innovation.I say they will be more intelligent with their own brain (ofcourse the computer) they will think for everything rather than we thinking for anything when we enter our kitchen in the morning.

For me its very exciting when I think of the kitchens to exist in another five years time.For now when I operate my very intelligent voice operated ,sixth sense oriented washing machine,I can clearly figure out what the future of kitchen gadgets will bring with  for us.When am doing my laundry ,I dont feel that its a machine doing it for me but instead a maid.It responses to all my actions, takes the water and detergent just the amount required after sensing the type and quantity of cloths I put......so its all about inserting that brain inside the machines which think for us rather than ourselves.

Heres a look at the future kitchen with a central processing ,computer which takes care of everything in your kitchen from the food products to the refrigerator just like a mother who keeps a watch on its babies.No resource wasted,things accomplished in record time.

Nuclear Batteries: Fix the frustration , have your mobile phone and laptop batteries run for a month

The 2010 attraction will be the Nuclear Batteries, being developed at the university of Missouri:

When you ask a tech savvy youngster that what does he or she does most of the time during the day with their gizmos, pat comes the reply with a sigh " oh well we charge our laptops,handhelds,ipods,mobile phones and blah blah blah".

Take a breadth, soon you will no more waste your time and efforts in charging those one thousand electronic goofies of yours, entangling the wires,getting confused between multiple chargers.It will be a whole month where you will get to forget those nasty chargers which always keep looking at you to charge the electronics.

The Nuclear batteries does all the wonders:

Resembling the batteries of the medical pacemakers, named the nuclear batteries will be improvising the age old concept of "long lasting batteries", it will be a whole new revoloution in the world of mobile gadgets.Normally the makers of the electronic devices use smaller displays which are not very bright to avoid the draining energy from the batteries.With nuclear batteries there wont be such worry.This will be done by using the liquid semiconductor rather than the usual solid semiconductors.But the new nuclear battery would bring a solution based on a liquid semiconductor (rather than a solid semiconductor) that will produce a much longer lifetime for the battery. The reason is the solid semiconductors are attacked constantly by some radioactive elements used by other types of batteries, while the liquid semiconductor is quite resistant  to these attacks.Its the size of a penny and provides much more power than their treditional genre for it has a superior capacity.

Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri says  that the radioisotope battery “can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries”. That is to say, it provides no less than a million times more charge than any “normal” battery.

Size matters when it comes to batteries these days due to the mobile technology devices.The size and thickness of a penny has to be worked up on to make it real small and practical for all those tiny wireless devices

Japan High Tech Exhibition 2009

Hola people, herez a byte from Japan High Tech Exhibit 2009.

Have a look at the jaw dropping technologies in electronics from the land of innovation,Tokyo, Japan...

MuRata girl , a bicycle and unicycle rider robot girl

The head turner of the exhibit was the MuRata girl , a robot which can ride a bicycle and a unicycle.It has several positioning ,motion and shock control sensors attached to its body, the robot can even detect the obstacles while balancing all by itself , MuRata manufacturing hopes to incorporate its robotic skills in several

electronic gadgets and cars.

The 3D-Floating Vision  without the traditional and uncomfy 3D eye glasses by Pioneer !

The next big thing in television technology by pioneer company which specializes in car stereos,plasma television and home theater systems has turned alot of heads.With its three dimensional display and 3D floating vision, will be capable of reflecting all kind of floating images that can be seen without 3D eye glasses

using this technology a user can physically scoop coupons from a television screen in their cell phone and receive the information at the same time.

 Hit  your phone at the plasma in a Pizza Hut and get their coupons in your phone next time :

Toshiyoki Andoh, the floating dimensions director says that they have placed infrared censor around  the floating images that detects the cell phone when it hits the image on the televesion screen, sends out an imaged information from a computer via wireless lan and thats how coupons can be received on the cell phones...

Cool technology ehhh when you next time visit Mc.Donald's, or Pizza Hut or Domino's.....expect a plasma television installed at the counter where you can get their coupons in your phone right away by just hitting your cell phone against the plasma screen , so that you don't have the hassle of carrying or forgetting those paper coupons when you go out for a pepperoni next time......

wo wo wo be gentle before u end up paying for that broken plasma screen and your goofy ;)))))

Adios fellas

The CSE 2009 Wonder Gadgets

The CSE 2009 showcased one of the most innovative and eye catching gizmos.I could not stop myself from getting attracted to every one of them displayed.Heres a feast of some amazing product pics and videos of some CSE 2009 gadgets.Cheers!!!

The show stopper at CSE 2009

Real View 360 degree 3D Scanner

Well sometimes I play with my existing HP 3030 scanner,apart from scanning my usual stuff like pictures,news paper articles,book pages ,I also like to scan my jewellery to show it to my friends on internet and get their comments.Infact, I also have my first valentine rose scanned which was given to me by my better half ;)....But I always got disappointed that there is no 3D feature in my scanner.I can only get the flat images.So what about my other stuff like porcelain pottery or a china cup which I desperately want my friends to see it in real???? :(

But whoahhh now in future may be I can proudly show off my  ruby gold wine glass  which I picked from  the famous Murano glass Venice! that really sounds something to me....ahaa its quite possi with the Real View 360 degree 3D scanner i saw at CSE.

Here Real-View 3D demonstrated their entry level 3D scanner, the RealView 360 3D.I heard that Real View is looking at a great deal with e-bay...well well looks like we would soon be able to see any product in a 3D image which definitely would give us a real view feel,with an animated 3D GIF on e-bay I would shop a whole lota world.Marketing products online with a real view touch to delight and satisfy the customers , I dont think it can get any better. The price:less than 500$.