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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Ray From Quiksilver

Not exactly new, but interesting limited-edition-model The Ray from Quiksilver declared as the world's first environmentally-friendly hours. Each instance, the total number of 1000 hours, is made by hand from ebony and stainless steel with a "filling" of the material is fully suitable for recycling, with a "copper" clockwork and unconventional design dial. In addition to the above interesting watch and the fact that they have a five-year warranty, which means a much longer service life compared to others.




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Friday, March 19, 2010

Armchair Nest Design By Nina Bruun

Student final year of the Danish School of Design, Dutchwoman Nina Bruun (Nina Bruun) presented its chair Nest. Similar to a subspecies of the graphic chaos that is a chair, apparently was created under the inspiration of the form of bird nests.








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Thursday, March 18, 2010

PocketBook 301 +


Cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine sometimes pays off in the most unexpected areas of the economy. Ukrainian-American company PocketBook entered the top three global sales of electronic books (readers), along with Amazon and Sony. Not so long ago under the brand PocketBook out the new reader: PocketBook 301 +. A relatively low price (11 990 rub.) User gets very thin (8.5 mm) on the date of this class of device with multimedia capabilities.


Electronic ink (eINK), which form the basis of screens of electronic books were invented back in the 90's. But today gadgets for reading became really popular. On the sensations of the author of these lines, now in the public transport on the order of magnitude more people who read books with readers than 5 years ago. This is not surprising: reader on eINK much easier to conventional paper books. It allows a relatively small volume to carry entire libraries. Well, as well as used for the reading PDAs, communicators and smartphones too straining eyes (due to the small size of the screen and blinking images), and quickly discharged.



Reader PocketBook 301 + is equipped with a 6-inch (15 cm diagonal) screen Vizplex with resolution 600x800 pixels. One charge of the battery can provide 8000 flipped (ie a change on the screen, and not by displaying it drains the battery in e-books), so it is safe to say: the book does not continue for one week at no extra charge. Device software is built on the Linux operating system and is characterized by stability, and the number of supported formats will satisfy the most demanding reader. With PocketBook 301 + you can read books in formats: FB2, FB2.ZIP, PDF, DjVu, TXT, HTML, RTF, PRC, EPUB, TCR, CHM, and even DOC (is the maximum to date set). Note full support FB2 format with embedded objects (images, tags, links). Also on the memory card, e-books can upload audio files in MP3, to enjoy music while reading or listening to electronic books. The scheme works with the device is very simple: just plug PocketBook 301 + to your computer through the USB-miniUSB cable and the computer will identify the book as a removable drive.


For sale is an electronic book in four colors: black, gray, pink and light green. And the cost, as already mentioned, lower than the less functional counterparts from Sony or Amazon and is 10 990 rubles.
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Celsius X VI II (Mechanical Mobile Phone)

Celsius X VI II (Celsius X VI II) - a mobile phone luxury, fully furnished hour automatic mechanism. The apparatus consists of 547 mechanical components, assembled by hand. The price of this Product - 275 000 dollars.






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Friday, March 12, 2010

Wally Hermes Yachts - Yacht Island WHY 58x38

Recently, producer Wally Yachts from Monaco and Paris fashion house Hermès presented at the Boat Show in Abu Dhabi project "floating Islands ", codenamed WHY 58 × 38.

Vessel WHY 58x38, stands Wally Hermès Yachts, length 58 meters and a width of 38 meters combines the possibility privacy on a spacious island and the freedom of movement conferred by yacht.
Thus, designers have solved one of the most painful problems billionaires: it's better to buy - a yacht or an island? - Notices correspondent of the British newspaper The Guardian Gebbet Adam (Adam Gabbat).



















At the moment "yacht-island» WHY 58 × 38 only exists in the form of drawings, its approximate price - $ 160 million.
Yacht-island WHY 58 × 38 has three tiers: for owner, guests and the public. The last will accommodate 25-meter swimming pool, movie theater, long beach is 36 meters and more. The developers promise to "unprecedented living space with patio and opening roofs, shutters, said portal Allyachts.ru.
Another important objective of the project WHY is energy saving and environmental protection. Developers promise that compared with conventional ship of that size will be 58X38 annual savings of up to 200 tons of diesel fuel. The area defined on a yacht photovoltaic Thermopanel is 900 sq.m.
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Monday, March 1, 2010

Pottery By Krasznai

Krasznai - a young design studio from Barcelona. All she produces hand-crafted. Her new collection of Arms & Crafts consists of ceramic objects, which fastened the small pens. It looks pretty nice. Average price - $ 50.









Official site: www.krasznai.co.uk
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