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A Norman Rockwell painting of Santa Claus perched on a stepladder sold for $2.17 million to an anonymous buyer at Christie's on Thursday according to Newsday.com
The painting, "Extra Good Boys and Girls," is the original of a Saturday Evening Post cover from 1939. It shows Santa going over his book of good boys and girls and planning his Christmas Eve route. A world map is in the background. Santa must be some model to fetch $2.17 million.
If you want to try the ultimate luxury in cigarette smoking, check out the limited edition of Lucky Strike in 18 carat white gold embellished with a diamond and ruby. Designed by El Ultimo Grito and goldsmiths Richard Fox Associates, that retails for $100,000. They’re only being sold in selected European airports. Image and specs via Gush Magazine
I think this may be inspired by the mirror from Disney's Sleeping Beauty. This mirror on the wall can tell you who's the fairest one of all, , if it's via a text or SMS message. This mirror can receive text messages (SMS) from a mobile phone. It can show the message in luminous text running on the mirrors’ surface when one gets close to the mirror.
This is the +336+, designed by Robert Stadler (of the French design group Radi Designers)
Limited edition of 20. For those who can't live without a mirror or those who can't live without receiving their text messages, this tech savvy device is also for the ridiculously rich at the same time, as it runs at $10,000 each from Generate.
I'm renting an apartment right now in the city. It's cramped and neighbors are noisy. I've always wanted my own house so I decided to look around. My ambition led me to start the search but my expensive taste led me to stop. I ended up gazing in envy at this house from Forbes.com Most Expensive Homes 2007
This house at $138 million located in Updown Court, Windlesham, Surrey is bigger than Buckingham Palace. It has 103 rooms with several ballrooms and a garden that's 58 acres. The spiel mentions that it is an idyllic English country home for those flush with cash. The grand entrance is just enchanting. It also has a panic room (just right for the ridiculously rich and paranoid).
The house also boasts an indoor squash court, bowling alley, 50-seat cinema, helipads, space for eight limousines and a heated marble driveway. For more information contact Savills, Beauchamp Estates or Hamptons International.
Last year's TMX Elmo lost to Transformers, and the autobots was made popular by the movie of the same name. Techie toys have ranked higher for boys toys this year, coming second on the boys' wish-list was video games overall and the top 10 also included two games consoles -- the Nintendo, Wii and Microsoft's XBox 360 according to Reuters. Here's the top 10 list for boys:
Transformers (image of Bumblebee $119.95 on Amazon)
According to oll of 7,982 U.S. consumers by the company BIGresearch, Barbie is still rules girls' wish list as reported by reuters.
If you're looking for what a little girl is most likely to want this Christmas, The list is as follows:
Barbie
Bratz
Dolls (generic)
Dora the Explorer
Disney Princess
Disney Hannah Montana
Nintendo Wii
Webkinz
Elmo
American Girl
Barbie has been on the top of this list for 5 years now, followed by Bratz dolls and other generic ones. I guess girls still want to play with dolls. Stereotypical yet true. Newcomers to the girls' list this year were toys involving Disney singing star Hannah Montana, who is currently on a sold-out U.S. tour, and the popular Webkinz animals that come with a special code to give access to Webkinz World online.
The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC) from Delaware, USA aims to design and make available to the public a laptop with a retail price of $100. Their website - laptop.org isn't exactly pushing it to sell, I think it's more of a public service for less privileged children. That's what I get from their mission statement anyway.
Would be quite difficult to set up in that I don't think anyone wants to marginalize the ongoing retail costs for laptop. The design and functionality of this laptop should be at par with its price, not hurting current laptop prices and product lines. So we should expect the $100 laptop to not be as hot as current laptop models and only enough for children's use.
Borat has taken the world by storm, ironically his humber is so satirical it sounds so honest. His adventures are now immortalized in print in his new book. And if you haven't seen the film yet, this product commentary should start you along the right path.
Ideal accompaniment to iPod video - allows you to take your favorite movies and television shows anywhere in wide-screen through a pair of glasses that offers 4 times the resolution and 4 times the pixels (922,000), and it now simulates a 60-inch virtual screen as viewed from 8.5 feet weighing only 60 grams with built in stereo earphones. You can enjoy your favorite films in privacy
The rechargeable lithium battery gives you more than 5 hours of viewing time. Compatible with Apple iPod, DVD players, MP4 players, Zen Vision M, Zen Vision, VCRs, TVs, PlayStation, Xbox, Game Cube, and more.
ezVisionX4 takes the home out of home theater and makes a portable big screen experience. It's like having a portable 60 big screen TV. Comes with all the cables that you need to connect to your video source, DVD player, or iPod video.
This is currently at 58% off on Amazon, the ezGear TH200 X4 - ezVision X4 Video Glasses is available for only $375.36
The Optimus Maximus Keyboard by Art Lebedev Studio allows you to configure your keyword by programming every buttom to reproduce a sequence of symbols and editing the image separately for each lay-out. I just found it cute because it lights up, but apparently it can do more. Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing the function it is currently associated with.
Try their demo. They're currently accepting pre-orders at $1564.37
When the cellular phone first came out, I was very impressed. I was in high school then. It's quite slow here in the third world. But just when I thought technology was moving us so far ahead that we are able to combine a whole lot of things into this tiny device (which as by the way getting smaller and smaller as the years passed).
We managed to fit inside the cell phone - a camera, an MP3 player, different kinds of games and videos, not to mention internet connection (blackberry). Enabling business people (or anyone in fact) to have the world at their finger tips. The cell phone is more than just a medium of communication, it is an organizer, a camera, MP3 or even MP4 player that can fit in your pocket.
But then her comes Yubz with a mobile handset that brings us back to the age of bulk. It's ironic how we arrived at something so retro. But at $44.95, there's nothing cheap about it.
These days everybody owns a laptop. Even my 14-year-old sister carries one around already. Ever noticed though how most laptop blacks come in either black or blue or.... black?
Anyway Skooba solves the no-personality laptop bag problem by launching a "do-it-yourself" DIY case that you can decorate yourself. So your back will be fully personalized, fully customized, one-of-a-kind. Of course if you've got no artistic side to you, you might end up with yet another black one.
Apparently with this case you can use sharpies, paint, markers, glue and even glitter if it is to your liking. You can start with a bare one from eBags at $19.99
