A numbered copy of The Beatles self-titled album (aka The White Album) has sold for £19,201 (nearly US $30,000) on eBay. An unknown seller out of Linz, Austria sold the album. It is numbered 0000005.
The original numbered 1-4 were given to the individual Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
Designer Richard Hamilton gave the cover numbers as a joke. He liked the irony of a “limited edition” of 5 million. Little did Richard know that 5 million was only a speck out what the album would eventually sell. It has sold 4 times that in the USA alone.
Record Collector magazine has ranked the rare copy No. 1 in its list of the 200 Rarest Records of All Time.
This isn’t a piano you can allow your kids to flounder with! As it is, Schimmel is the brand that is behind its creation; therefore, until your tot becomes an expert pianist, you dare not allow him/her touch it. Dubbed the K213, Schimmel chooses one of the most brittle yet elegant material; glass, to enclose the exterior of the instrument.
The K213 isn’t just elegant for its design as the quality of music it rendered is equally classy. The only place where you would find iron is beneath strings that produce the magical symphony. This piano is definitely not for the space drenched halls but has pride of place in rich homes and gatherings. It just soaks in the party atmosphere while on display.
In order to add that extra bit of shimmer to the dazzlingly opulent parties, it would cost the one an estimated $124,780 to own this glamorous piano.
Jon Kuhn, a leading glass artist, has teamed up with the Bösendorfer to jazz up this musical instrument with his trademark glass work. The Kuhn-Bösendorfer model, sports more than 200 geometric patterns. Each of them is put together with 100-500 pieces of lead crystal glass which comes in varied shapes and sizes.
This classy-glassy edition is as grand as the Swarovski version but still preserve traces of modesty. The “piece of art” will retail for no less than $1.2 Million.
So you want to have the same body as Michael Phelps and you plan to work out ? The problem is swimming on a daily basis can be boring and sometimes you would love to listen to your favorite music while swimming laps… but you never dare not to ask the swimming instructor to turn the music on…
Here is something that you may need: this is Aquabeat, a waterproof MP3 music player, from the famous swimsuit maker, Speedo.
The Speedo player is fully submersible up to a depth of three meters (10 feet) and it floats, which is a very clever idea ^_^ It also features ergonomic buttons that allow ease of use while swimming and comes with Playlist Editing Software that enables quick and easy adding and sorting of music files.
The Speedo Aquabeat has 1GB (up to 500 songs) of internal memory for storage. It weighs only 35 grams and is able to play nine hours of music on one charge. Available in 3 colours, it is priced at about $145.
The soon-to-be-disbanded Police played their final concert ever on August 7 at Madison Square Garden and to celebrate it, the band has donated a complete set of autographed instruments to be auctioned online through eBay.
The auction has been running for the last few weeks, and the band has already raised over $50,000 from the sale of VIP ticket packages to the final show. Beginning August 4, a complete set of The Police’s instruments autographed by the band will be available for bidding.
The set includes 4 instruments that are each available for bidding separately and include Sting’s Signature Bass, Sting’s Sennheiser Microphone and Stand, Andy’s Signature Fender Telecaster, and Stewart’s Tama Star Drum Set.
100% of the proceeds from the auctions will benefit Public Television Rocks!, an initiative formed between NY Public Television stations, Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21. The Police chose to support these stations in recognition of their contributions to art, music, and culture.
Konno Utiyama labs Japan has developed the HRP-2 humanoid robot. The drummer robot belongs to the next generation of robots which have marked the advancement of motor control research. (source)
A numbered copy of The Beatles self-titled album (aka The White Album) has sold for £19,201 (nearly US $30,000) on eBay. An unknown seller out of Linz, Austria sold the album. It is numbered 0000005.
