It’s not often we get a tip suggesting “you may want to share this ugly camera with SlashGear readers”, but having looked at Leica’s MP Golden Camera Limited Edition [pdf link] we do reckon you should be warned. Created to mark the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, the gaudy Leica is lavishly coated with 24-carat gold and swaddled in Leica Red Box Calf leather; only sixty of them will be produced.
Luxury boat buyers have long had the option to make their vessel into the sea-going equivalent of a Russian nesting doll, with room for various launches, jet-skis, mini-subs and other water-loving accessories. Less common is a garage for a car, but that’s just what Sunseeker International have done to distinguish their Predator 108 Special Edition; they’ve partnered with sportscar manufacturer Caterham Cars to add some land-going transport where usual you’d find a boat.
Remember the Aston Martin Cygnet? The company’s first city-car broke cover back in June, as a sub-£20k (sub-$33k) sop to urban dwellers and environmentalists. Now the company have released the first official shots of the Cygnet, and it’s certainly distinctive.
Someone at Nokia obviously reckons we need an injection of glamour into our lives, Dynasty-style, since the Nokia 6700 Classic Gold Edition is almost painfully glitzy. Basically the standard 6700 Classic with a coating of 18-carat gold, Nokia have also loaded on some matching wallpapers, slotted in a complementary 8GB microSD and thrown a natural leather carrying case and strap into the box.
As vaguely pointless but nonetheless desirable knick-nacks go, the Hermés 8 Day Spiral Boule Clock has to rank pretty high up on the list. A 1kg ball of magnifying-effect optical crystal, white gold and a total of 231 parts, the Spiral Boule is wound by twisting the two halves, while a single button on the base switches it into time-setting mode.
Remember Earthrace, the awesome carbon-fibre and Kevlar trimaran that was designed to take on powerboat speed-trials for round-the-world sailing? In the few years since it debuted the $2.5m bio-diesel boat has been whipping around cracking world records; now it’s going into its next job, acting as a stealthed support vessel for the Sea Shepherd anti-whaling organisation.
If a new phone isn’t on your agenda, but you still fancy splashing some cash in Denmark’s direction, then Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 10 LCD display might satisfy. The 40-inch Full HD 200/240Hz TV uses LED backlighting for picture quality and reduced depth, meaning you can hang the set on a wall as if it were a particularly expensive picture.
Bang & Olufsen have been through a phase of unusually shaped landline phones – the banana-esque BeoCom 2 is a good example – but they’re returning to their slightly more sensible roots with the new BeoCom 5. The dual-line DECT phone works both as a twin landline handset and as a VoIP device, and magnetically docks either onto its charging plinth or onto a portable speakerphone (that also charges the handset).
Premium audio kit manufacturer Paradigm have obviously had enough of subwoofers being the breezeblock-shaped lump unloved in the corner, and have whipped out their SUB 1 and SUB 2 models. Each high-end hexagon slots neatly into the company’s Reference Signature line, and pack six high-excursion drivers – 8-inch in the SUB 1, 10-inch in the SUB 2 – together with more amplification than most people could realistically need.
Samsung and Giorgio Armani are no strangers, and the partnership is back again this year with a second touchscreen handset bearing the designer’s brand. The Samsung Giorgio Armani SPH-W8200 gets a 3.1-inch WVGA AMOLED touchscreen and a slide-out keypad, together with a 5-megapixel camera for snapping catwalk shots.
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