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ASTON MARTIN & MOBIADO ‘LUXURY’ PHONE
Aston Martin and luxury mobile phone maker Mobiado have announced that they have teamed up to produce a collection of luxury mobile handsets.
Their first concept phone is called CTP002. It is basically one big, transparent sapphire glass with two titanium edges on the left and right.
This phone shares a special connection with the Aston Martin. It functions as a key that automatically unlocks the doors as owners approach the vehicle.
FourSquare will show your current location as well as the location of your friends and nearby venues all integrated on a GPS map of the Aston Martin car display.
Better control over safety deployments like airbag sequence, timing and seatbelt stiffening will be achieved with the accelerometer data being passed from the CPT002 to the car.
Cameras in the vehicle may also be set to update FaceBook and Twitter with pictures, videos or information of passing cities and landmarks.
The Mobiado CTP002 concept will be shown off at BaselWorld, the world watch and jewelry show in Switzerland.
AESIR COPENHAGEN x YVES BéHAR PHONE
In collaboration with designer Yves Béhar, Copenhagen-based Aesir is releasing a headset design with both visual appeal and functional tactility.
“In an age when the industry seems to think that phones aren’t for speaking anymore, I wanted to focus on the idea of voice, clarity and simplicity.
The central tenet behind the Yves Béhar is to literally craft the visual details, craft the functional tactility, and craft the user interface.
The Yves Béhar champions the idea of craftsmanship in an age that’s obsessed with more and making last year’s products obsolete. Instead we propose better and long-lasting as our starting criteria.”
Two designs of the Yves Béhar will be available: One in 18k gold (€42,000) and another in 316L stainless steel (€7,250).
Both will also feature wraparound ceramic uppers and a sapphire crystal lens. The phone will first be available in Europe this summer and the rest of the world this Fall.
Via Acquiremag
GRESSO iPHONE 4 BLACK DIAMONDS FOR LADY
Luxury phone maker Gresso has unveiled the new iPhone 4 Black Diamonds for Lady, in the case of the 200-year-old African Blackwood, combined with black and white diamonds, platinum and 18K rose gold.
The buttons on the panel feature 2-carats worth of black diamonds and an inside frame made of 18-carat rose gold with white diamonds.
The iPhone 4’s back panel has been decked out with black diamonds in 6 carats, in combination with 13 carats of stunning white diamonds.
The edging has been done with black diamonds. The Gresso iPhone 4 Black Diamonds for Lady is available online or with the official Gresso dealers. So far price is not known, but the version without diamonds is $10,000.
JOBS UNVEILS APPLE’S iPAD 2
Apple‘s ailing chief executive Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at a company event here on Wednesday to unveil a new version of the iPad that is thinner, lighter and features video cameras.
“We’ve been working on this product quite awhile and I just didn’t want to miss a great day,” said Jobs, who appeared gaunt but energetic.
The new iPad 2 features front- and rear-facing video cameras to enable video chat and is thinner than the previous version.
It weighs 1.3 pounds, down from 1.5 pounds, and will come in black and white models.
“2010 turned out to be the year of the iPad,” said Jobs, who was dressed in his trademark black turtleneck and blue jeans.
“We sold almost 15 million iPads in 2010 from April to December,” Jobs said. “It generated a little shy of 10 billion dollars in revenue for Apple. We’ve never had a product that got off to that fast a start,” he said. “We have 90 percent of the market.”
“Our competitors were just flummoxed,” he continued. “They went back to their drawing boards, tore up their designs.”
Jobs, 56, went on indefinite medical leave on January 17, turning over day-to-day operations at Apple to chief operating officer Tim Cook.
Jobs underwent an operation for pancreatic cancer in 2004 and received a liver transplant in early 2009.
Jobs also announced that major publisher Random House would be making electronic books available for Apple’s iBook store.
BENTLEY iPAD x iPHONE x BLACKBERRY LEATHER CASES
Bentley and its luxury leather partner Ettinger have devised a range of modern must-have personal accessories to be launched at this year’s Geneva Motor Show.
Inspired by the Beluga and Hotspur interior trim colours of the Bentley Continental Supersports, the capsule collection of leather items in black and red leather with contrast stitching includes keyrings and iPad, iPhone and Blackberry cases.
The collections include everything from purses and wallets, passport cases, luggage labels and portfolios, as well as the iconic Bentley key case.
2ND GENERATION iPAD IN PRODUCTION
Apple has started production of a thinner, more powerful version of its popular iPad tablet computers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The second-generation iPad will have more memory and a front-facing camera for capabilities such as a Face Time video-conferencing feature on Apple iPhone 4.
Cupertino, California-based Apple said that it sold nearly 15 million iPads in the eight months after the tablet computers were introduced in April of last year.
FRANCK MULLER iPHONE 4 CASE
Swiss luxury watch maker Franck Muller has designed a special case for the iPhone, which is now available for pre-order in Japan for a whopping $1,270.
The cases will be sold as a limited edition, with Japanese iPhone provider SoftBank offering a total of 6 different models that will be produced 500 times each.
Via Crunchgear - SoftBank will start shipping the cases in April.
LECICA M9 “TITAN” AUDI
Designed by the Walter de’Silva, the man behind the curves of Audi A5, the Leica M9 “Titan” Audi comes in pure titanium and bold Audi leather.
Available at a cost of 22 000 euros, only 500 cameras have been produced and the piece is yet a collector very thought after by Leica and Audi lifestyle ‘afficionados’.
LADY GAGA UNVEILS HER “POLAROID” LINE
One year after being named Polaroid’s creative director, Lady Gaga unveiled three new products on the first day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The three new products include a set of sunglasses that doubles as a digital camera, a portable wireless printer for Bluetooth mobile phones and the new updated Polaroid instant camera.
The stylish GL20 Camera Glasses sport a camera and 1.5-inch OLED screens that capture and display images and video, also allowing wearers to show them on the outer screen/lenses.
The shades include a USB key in the earpiece to transfer images onto a computer for uploading to the internet.
The wireless ink-free printer, the GL10 Instant Mobile Printer, sends photos taken with mobile phones with Bluetooth.
A 15-ounce device can produce up to 40 Polaroid prints in less than a minute colorizing crystals and link to PCs via a USB port. It will be available in May for $149.99, according to Polaroid.
Also, a new version of the GL30 Instant Digital Camera, a printer-enabled device that evokes Polaroid’s instant camera glory days.
The 12-megapixel shooter can hold 10 3×4-inch prints and features a swiveling LCD screen for viewing pics before printing.Polaroid instant camera lets users save photos digitally as well as an inkless printout called Zinc.
Lady Gaga demonstrated the three prototypes, expected to be available for sale in 2011, some later in the year for the holiday season.
The performer, who is a Creative Director for Polaroid, was brought into the company as it rebranded itself for a digital age with a new line of inventions.
VIZIO LAUNCHES 65-INCH 3D LED x LCD x HDTV
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