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The Oculas Groups’ Ovei (Oh-vee) is a living room in a pod. A very stylish, air conditioned and ridiculously expensive pod.
It’s elegantly designed by Lee McCormack and beautifully engineered by McLaren Applied Technologies. Which makes me wonder why there are no images of the ovei’s interior on the product website. Dammit. I want to see! At least they have…
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January 28th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio design home entertainment media players strange + wonderful technology
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For me luxury items are those that are not only ridiculously expensive but are also very impractical or unnecessary. Personally I think the iPhone is still quite expensive. I think it spreads itself too thin in trying to be too many things at once. On the other hand, its price isn’t that ridiculous for a phone, so it would be…
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January 12th, 2009
stumble it! digg it!
author: lambert v.
filed under: design gadgets hacks + mods mobile tech
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Firmly parked at the intersection of Geek Street and Park Avenue, Gucci has entered the digital age with these modern watches which let your friends know that you’ve truly arrived (or that you’re just independently wealthy).
Part of Gucci’s appropriately named iGucci series, these luxury LCD watches feature a cool round white-on-black display, set behind a sturdy sapphire crystal. The…
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February 22nd, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design timepieces
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At the tip-top of the audiophile market, there’s an elite group of folks who think the best way to listen to music is on a good old-fashioned analog turntable. This record player is for them.
The DaVinciAudio Labs AAS Gabriel turntable bases its unique design on the same process that’s used to cut grooves into masters for vinyl discs. In…
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September 12th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: audio design home entertainment
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Tag Heuer’s elegant Monaco 69 might just looks like a really nice analog watch. But it’s concealing something beneath its surface that makes it stand out from the pack.
The watch has a unique flipping case design that reveals a modern light-on-dark LCD watch on the backside of the analog face. The watch has a slick stainless case, a durable…
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September 9th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: design timepieces
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I’ll start out by telling you that I’ve never been a dweller of the Second Life universe, but then again, I’m too busy living three or four lives in the real world. But for those of you who do take up residence in the insanely popular virtual world, you’ll soon have a way to give your avatar a little more…
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September 3rd, 2007
stumble it! digg it!
author: technabob
filed under: timepieces video games