Asus has teamed with electronics maker Bang & Olufsen to create a multimedia system with some pretty unique features.

ASUS NX90 Bang & Olufsen laptop is designed by award winning B&O Chief designer David Lewis.

While at first it looks like a mounted LCD or plasma TV, this is in fact an 18.4-in display notebook computer.

Ergo Italy has launched a new sparkling notebook line, called Fashion Notes.

This luxury notebook is handcrafted and encrusted with 1.444 Swarovski crystals. Designed by Sbranchio, an extravagant Italian artist, Fashion notes combines creativity and high-tech features.

It is smaller than the standard A4 notebook, approximately 22 x 17 cm, and it features a 1.6 GHz  Intel ATOM N270 Processor to provide the functionality you need.

A revolutionary dual screen LCD laptop from Italian design studio V12 could actually be produced by the American firm Estari.

Notebook Estari Canova dual-head, this is the complete name, is a very cool concept, because it can be at the same time Tablet PC, e-book reader, workstation, music mixer and the list could go on.

Canova is exactly this: a pc portable with 2 touch screen display, featuring little hinges for move the notebook as you prefer. Its possibilities are nevertheless attractive.

NEC today announced in Japan it has teamed up with Sanrio (the company behind the Hello Kitty brand) and French fashion designer Courrèges to develop a girls-only notebook for the Japanese market.

Moving away from the obvious looks and concentrating on what lies inside, the notebook is powered by an AMD Athlon QL-60 processor (1.90GHz), a 13.3-inch WXGA screen (1280×800 resolution), a DVD drive, 2GB of main memory and a 160GB hard disk.

The so-called “NEC LaVie G Hello Kitty Courrèges” will be available online and in selected Sanrio shops only. The Nippon-only notebook will be available from October 25 (price: $1,100 without MS Office).

If you’re in the market for a different kind of laptop system – check out the Singulum laptop system.

Each Singulum system is crafted out of a single block of wood and features a keyboard made out of either ivory of 24 carat solid gold (be careful if you select the ivory as many countries including the US have a strict ban on ivory imports).

Now some of their product pictures on their website seem to infer that there’s a single piece of diamond used like a trackpoint pointer..

The European luxury company Munk Bogballe has launched a hand crafted executive workstation that combines simple elegance and the finest quality materials in an unusual design.

Designed for Munk Bogballe by award winning, Danish, former Bang & Olufsen designer, Henrik Sørig Thomsen, as a work tool for accomplished individuals who appreciate and share a passion for aesthetics and quality

The housing is largely made of anodised aluminum and the underside of the workstation is covered with the finest quality of Italian aniline leather.