Ego's Bentley laptop

This Bentley laptop from Ego is hand built, with authentic Bentley cross-over hand stitching along with color schemes that match Bentley's style.

The inside metal reflects the paint job on the outside, while the outer leather is taken right from the seats. The metal carry handle even takes inspiration from the car's door handles.

Specs include Microsoft Vista, a 64-bit processor, and a 160GB hard drive. There are also 12 direct access keys. Available for sale later this summer at Selfridges for about £10,000 ($20,000).

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The Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin iPod dock

High-end speaker producer Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) has recently launched what has to be one of the most stylish iPod docks on the market – The Zeppelin.

It combines outstanding digital sound quality with an exterior that is a piece of art in its own right. It is intelligently designed with ergonomic thought and beautiful, 360 degree, visual appeal.
It includes 5-inch subwoofer, four speakers and an amp that can pump out 100 watts of power.

Designed for the latest generation of iPods and the Iphone3G, the system is also compatible with previous generations of the product and other MP3 and MP4 players.

The Zeppelin was also recently awarded “Best Consumer Audio Product” at the 2008 MacWorld awards : It provides some of the best audio quality you re going to find in this category.
Price : $599


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the 60.5-megapixel P 65+ digital back and camera system

For the past few years the highest sensor resolution available was 39 Megapixels, and for many this was regarded as more than enough (your camera phones have usually a 5 megapixel resolution, at most, and anyway an 8 megapixel digicams is far enough to take great pics)

But Phase One has just announced the 60.5-megapixel P 65+ digital back and camera system. That means images with 8,984 x 6,732 pixels resolution which equals 180MB!

Using Sensor+ CCD technology, the cam can give professional photographers higher sensitivity and expanded dynamic range (12.5 f-stops when most cameras go up to 8) as well as 20 percent more live capture area (as compared with 39 megapixel or 50 megapixel 48mm-by-36mm chips currently available or announced) available with coverage of 53.9mm by 40.4mm, enabling full viewfinder coverage and no need for lens magnification.

It will cost a lot : the P 65+ digital back will start at $39,900 and the P 65+ camera system will start at $41,990 - they both will be available by the end of the year

Via Bornrich / luminous-landscape

Louis Vuitton iPhone cases

Usually, where there are extremely coveted gadget, there are always extremely expensive luxury cases for them ! You think iPhone is expensive ? so what about spending another 2 iPhones to protect it?

Anyways Louis Vuitton thought that there is a market for the kind of folks who can afford it and so they have released a set of four cases for the iPhone: Monogram Canvas, Taiga Leather, Epi Leather and Alligator Skin.

Available only in Louis Vuitton’s Manhattan store, prices begin at $225 from the monogram canvas style to $1,120 for the alligator case.

But all of the cases are pretty inconvenient, because you've got to pull the iPhone all the way out to actually use it.

The Alice Chess Set pieces magically turn transparent

Inspired by the Lewis Carroll's novel ‘Alice through the Looking Glass,' designer Yasmin Sethi developed a chess set that features pieces that "magically turn transparent" when they touch the board.
(In ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ by Lewis Carroll, Alice falls through a mirror and on the other side of the mirror, she becomes a piece in a game of chess.)

The pieces of this chess set are each contained in a cylinder that turns opaque when they're removed from the board hiding the identity of the piece. However, when you put them back down in one of the squares, the pieces turn transparent again and reveal their true identity.

The effect works thanks to a board made out of a glass material with embedded LEDs (LightPoints) and chess pieces made from clear glass with the negative shape of a traditional, delicate Staunton chess piece enclosed within it. Placing the chess piece on the board completes a circuit that illuminates the negative shapes, making them visible. (source : gizmodo)

The idea is to show that chess pieces have no value unless they're in play.

This product was designed in response to a brief set by Schott UK Ltd. for Final year students of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

Macbook Air Case by Orbino

Orbino, makers of Italian premium technology cases, announced today that it has launched Aria, an extraordinary case for the MacBook Air made out of pure aircraft grade aluminum and premium leather.

Aria, a super-slim, play through case with a modular pocket system, is handmade in Orbino's Italian workshop. The case sports a sculpted anodized aluminum frame and the finest vegetable tanned Tuscan leathers.

Orbino's Aria case is available in five luxury colors: Black, Brown, Deep Red, and Orange. Orbino will also offer custom options including custom anodized aluminum colors and finishes, limited edition luxury skins such as genuine Crocodile, Snakeskin, and Ostrich.

The Aria for the MacBook Air can be purchased from Orbino's online store. Prices start at US$529

$100,000 Ovei Pod

At $100,000, the Ovei Pod offers you an enclosed space to watch, play and relax according to its makers.

Unveiled at CEDIA EXPO 2008 in the UK, designed by Lee McCormack and engineered by Mclaren Applied Technologies, each capsule is bespoke and hand crafted to client specifications.

Users will be able to set it up with any kit they want from a PS3 to Xbox to media server as well as choosing the colour and interior.

Via pocket-lint

Peugeot Electric Wine Opener

Leave it to the French to devise an elegant, ultrafast method for opening a single bottle of wine or an entire case ^_^

Peugeot’s cordless wine opener removes corks in a matter of seconds. Just position the compact, lightweight opener over the bottle and press a button: the precision corkscrew effortlessly extracts and releases the cork.

The stainless steel wine opener uncorks bottles in seconds with only a press of a button. It's rechargeable, fits any size bottle, and works with natural and synthetic corks.

A nice gift for any wine connoisseur! It can be yours for $120 on Williams-Sonoma.

Dalumi brings bling to electronics

The Dalumi Group has partnered with electronics giants LG and Ricoh to launch a luxury lifestyle accessory collection that includes a diamond-studded camera and a diamond-encrusted memory stick.

The Luxury Diamond Camera is a Ricoh Caplio R5 featuring more than 200 high-quality diamonds mounted on white gold. The diamonds are set in a sleek three-circle design that surrounds the camera lens. The LG Disk on Key is made up of diamonds from Dalumi mounted in white gold.

The Luxury Diamond Camera comes for $25,000, and the LG Disk on Key is valued at $10,000. The camera and flash drive will be shown at luxury goods exhibitions around the world and will be auctioned at the end of the year.

The Chanel Fly-fishing Rod

For many years now Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel have been producing some of the world's most preposterous and overpriced sporting goods.

First there was the Chanel snowboard with trompe l'oeil "quilting"; then $2,5000 Chanel skis. More recently the fashion house has produced a Chanel's $12,000 bike, a pink Chanel tennis racket complete with tennis balls and a Chanel boomerang.

And now, here is the luxurious fly-fishing rod from the latest Chanel sports collection, priced at just under $20,000. It seems to be a Karl Lagerfeld’s personal tribute to Coco Chanel and her love of the relaxing sport !

For a mere £9,170 the ponciest angler on the planet can kit himself out with a Chanel rod and a set of meticulously tied, monochrome Chanel flies, complete with the famous "double C" logo on the gossamer wings, presented in a rather fetching, quilted black leather box.

Source : guardian / nymag / bornrich

Sony HT-IS100 Bravia theatre micro system

Sony's HT-IS100 Bravia Theatre Micro System has gotten a US launch where it will be available in July for around $700.

One big box and five "incredibly" small speakers - the system has three 1080p HDMI inputs with repeater functionality and support for eight channels of uncompressed audio. It’s hard to believe, but the satellite speakers are scarcely as big as a strawberry.

The 5.1 channel system, with 450 watts of power, includes a subwoofer with integrated 32-bit S-Master digital amplifier, Sony's S-AIR technology and the ability to add optional wireless rear surround speakers and multi-room wireless speakers.

The system also features Digital Media Port, Digital Cinema Auto Calibration, BRAVIA Sync, Dialogue Audio Enhancer and Portable Audio Enhancer - all Sony in-house tech that promises amazing performance.

The system claims to sacrifice nothing in the way of sound and everything in the way of cumbersome space-gobbling size.

Source : pocket-lint

The Grohe Wireless digital shower

Imagine how wonderful life would be, if every morning you could simply press a button and a warm and inviting shower would be waiting for you when you reached your bathroom. Few of us can deny that at some point we've dreamt of such a luxury !

This Grohtherm wireless shower can be switched on and off from any room in the house, allowing you to step out of bed and straight into a shower already running at the exact temperature you require.

The remote system can be programmed for each member of the family or for different times of the day (if you want a cold shower to wake you in the morning and a warm one to relax at night).

The remote wirelessly connects to a concealed base unit, which uses your settings to adjust and mix the water to your setting. When the ideal setting is found, a visible or audible signal will highlight this. There's also a split-second response if the water flow changes, adjusting the flow to the right temperature accordingly.

The wireless shower system costs around - £720 ($1,450) and is available on bargainplumbingshop

Montblanc Skeleton 333

The Montblanc Skeleton 333 is a tribute, true to the last detail, to this first-ever skeletonised fountain pen made by Montblanc almost 10 years ago. To celebrate the 75th birthday of the “Meisterstück”, or “Masterpiece”, in 1999, Montblanc’s master craftsmen created the first fountain pen in history to use this delicate technique: the Montblanc Meisterstück 149, which caused a sensation all around the world.

The highly sophisticated art of skeletonising, a precise craft by which parts of the barrel of a writing instrument are exposed, transforms it into a transparent work of art.

The transparent, platinum-plated barrel artistically reveals the delicate workings of this much sought-after collectors’ item down to the last detail.
The cap is decorated by a Montblanc star in shimmering mother-of-pearl, and the rhodium-plated 18-karat gold nib captures the eye with its delicate hand engravings.

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With a capacity of 1GB, the dunhill Bulldog USB key is a new addition to the range of Bulldog items they offer.

Exclusively designed for dunhill, the stainless steel key features a Bulldog on the front, and dunhill London branding on the reverse.

But there is no other special functions or abilities, yet for some reason it will run you $350 usd.. Not sure that rich people will feel the need to spend $350 extra for an item that anyone else would pick up for dirt cheap…

Source : gadgetsblog / ohgizmo

Veuve Clicquot Vertical Limit Giveaway

Champagne house Veuve Clicquot launched Vertical Limit by Porsche Design Studio, a stainless steel cellar tower of superb design. Measuring over six feet tall, it holds 12 magnums of Clicquot's most prized vintages and only 15 were made worldwide.

Each Vertical Limit is fully handmade and each of the 12 vintages are housed in its own compartment with the temperature set at a constant 12 degrees celsius—ideal for tasting and the same climate as the Veuve Clicquot cellars in Reims, France. Each cellar containing the 12 vintages is approximately $70,000.

Read the interview of Roland Heiler, Managing Director of Porsche Design, on coolhunting

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Pong Dinner Table

this Pong Dinner Table is holding a great reverence to all gadget lovers and is paying a tribute to the video game that revolutionized the gaming industry long back.

Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer, this Corian table has been embedded with 2,400 LED lights along with a couple of trackpads, giving this 1972 Atari game a modern update.

The prince hasn’t been unveiled yet but it definitely won't be cheap.

Via Cubeme / Ubergizmo

Champagne tong and stopper set by G.Lorenz

G.Lorenzi, the only still family-owned shop on Milan’s famous Via Montenapoleone, is perhaps the most civilised retail space in Europe.

This Lorenzi special edition set, contained in a ‘Chancellor of the Exchequer budget’ red calf leather case, comprises a chrome plate cast steel tong with hand-turned Makassar ebony handles polished with bees wax and a chrome plate brass stopper turned from a solid bar with a Makassar ebony top.

A ball-bearing connection between the stopper rings makes for a satisfyingly smooth action. Reputed to keep champagne unimpeachably fizzy.

Created exclusively for 20ltd.com, this piece is limited to only 30 editions and is retailed at $520usd.

Wenger Heritage Swiss Army Knife

Wenger is releasing limited edition replicas of their original Swiss Army Knife complete with hand rubbed wood handles and the original knife's implements. Limited to 1893 pieces (the year Wenger started making knives) each heritage soldier's knife is serialized and will be hand made and hand polished in Switzerland.

It comes with the original technical drawings in both French and German as they were found in the Wenger archives. This knife is due to come out September of 2008, retailed at $500 usd.

Source : oregonknifeshop

Veuve Clicquot : Concept Night-Clubber

Baptiste Mathieu, a French design student has designed this concept called Veuve Clicquot Night Clubber at the occasion of the talent show "Les espoirs de la création 2008"

It consists of a luminous glass and a bottle that allows every consumer to experience the festive opening of its bottle. The champagne bottle features double cap for blocking the stopper.
The leather trim imparts the luxury feel and polished aluminium treatment is also given to accentuate the design. The package also features LED embedded in the metallic part of the glass. And, leather that surrounds the glass is punctured by a multitude of holes, champagne will be informed and be reflected through these holes to give a dimension to the preciousness of the champagne.

The product is still in concept stage but the price is valued at approximately $400.

Related article : Veuve Clicquot Globalight

Via Bornrich / tendancehightech

Combined Gold Toothpick, Earwax Spoon May Fetch $100,000

In this photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, a tiny solid gold combination toothpick and earwax scoop is displayed inside a clam shell Monday, May 19, 2008, in Key West, Fla.

A Blue Water Ventures salvage diver recovered the artifact Sunday, May 18, about 40 miles west of Key West during a search for remains of the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita that shipwrecked in a 1622 hurricane.

According to archaeologists, the 3-inch-long grooming tool is more than 385 years old and was probably worn on a gold chain. Estimated value could exceed $100,000

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