Bricks or stones, glass or wood, bamboo or cloth, iron or cement or even ice……we have always learnt and also taught our kids about different types of dwellings. But at this age I’m still learning about newer forms of houses like this Ceramic House from China. Although it’s named as the Ceramic house, it’s not wholly constructed from it. The landlord, Zhang Lianzhi, has clad it with 400,000,000 pieces of porcelain, 16000 pieces of antique ceramic, 300 white-marble carvings,...

Now this concept of a TV on a kitchen appliance is not too new. We have seen LCDs on refrigerators since some time now. But having a screen on your microwave is hard to gulp down. May be not for some but I certainly cannot watch a my fav soap or movie on my microwave door while it cooks my chicken too. However recently at IFA in Berlin, the Holland Electro Wave TV made its first appearance. The Wave...

Saks Fifth Avenue is up for a dignified cause apart from just selling fashion and beauty products. Mercedes-Benz is presenting an exclusive Sahara Beige and Black leather interior to create the C350 Special Edition for Saks Fifth Avenue's Key To The Cure - a women's cancer initiative developed in partnership with the Entertainment Industry Foundation's (EIF) Women's Cancer Research Fund. The Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) will donate $1million to Saks through the sale of 1000 exclusive C-Class vehicles scheduled to...

Here’s a wild set of luggage for bold travelers from Neiman Marcus. When you wanna travel with style then consider this Cape Town Luggage Collection by Terrida that comprises of Tote, Trolley, Duffel, Briefcase. The wild print of brown and cream giraffe-print hair-calf teamed with bold splash of hot pink leather trim. Make heads turn with envy as you move about the long queues at the airport. Jump over for details on measurements of each of this stylish kit...

Retro, modern, rocking, gorgeous, sophisticated are only few of the describing words that my fingers can type when they hit the keyboard after my eyes had a treat at images of Loit Eagle Neo-Retro CD Player. We would love to write more facts about this piece-of-art audio system from Art Lebedev but alas nothing is revealed. Loit from Singapore aims at delivering the best possible high fidelity audio from compact disc media. I’m dead sure that it is gonna...

Would one more ticket improve our odds? Is there a better set of numbers to play? Why do hotel maids and ditch-diggers always seem to win? Do these thoughts hound you when you here some lucky skunk wining a jackpot worth millions. Some expert said that if you're playing because you think you're gonna get rich, then don't play. Now that’s gibberish. We all buy Lottery tickets to become rich, don’t we? Even as statistics show that you’ll have...

It’s not quite usual to see an adult driving a tri-cycle opps I meant a three-wheeler vehicle. Bridging the gap between a bike and a car is this Triketec V2 Roadster. As the name suggests, the vehicle is powered by a turbocharged inline three-cylinder engine, has independent suspension at the rear, along with traction control and ABS braking. It has 92 hp engine and weighs 1,227 pounds of weight. Now there are many like me who will have tons...

Now don’t gimme this look “who is Pavarotti?” I’m sure you are a hermit if you are not aware of the most beloved and celebrated tenor from Italy Luciano Pavarotti. But I’m certainly Sorry to know that he is no more. Aged 71, he died on 6th September at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time. It wasn’t a sudden death as he was ailing with pancreatic cancer last year. Instantly recognizable from his charcoal black...

Hold on your future holiday plans……as 2008 is touted as "The Year of the Spaceship." Well its not that you can go on an out-of-this-world journey in 2008, but the construction for the world’s first Spaceport will begin then. The design project for the terminal and hangar facilities at the New Mexico-based Spaceport America was announced on September 4, 2007. And the winning proposal came from the design and architectural team of U.K.-based Foster & Partners and U.S.-based URS...

Only the sumptuous gamers or those who have scarified all the other luxuries in life for gaming mania can afford this latest gaming PC from HP. Christened as Blackbird 002, HP has just announced this dynamic gaming machine. The machine looks cool with its all black design with ridges carved into its aluminum case. The box is also perched as if it were on top of a giant silver Blackbird’s foot. That foot can support 800 pounds of weight...

If you are tired of the clutter and need a place (that looks elegant too) to put things, then you must get this Vita Horizontal Dresser. These kind of large chests and cabinets have been a part of Oriental furniture designs for hundreds of years. Add a touch of this oriental culture to your room as well get more organized with your stuff. The dresser is built using challenging mitered dovetail joints and double-fluted tenons. Half-blind dovetails join the...

Charisma of Gold in jewelry, watches, accessories, gadgets, art-pieces is acceptable. But lingerie made of gold is jarring. Last month we did post a bikini made of diamonds only and now its time to show you all a Bra made of pure Gold studded with diamonds. About 630 g of gold and 7.5 karats of diamonds have gone in to the making for this dazzling undergarment. Currently on display in Beijing, it took 2,000 hours to make this inimitable...

Don’t get caught off guard! Just last weekend we posted the Klipsch Palladium Floorstander speakers. Following in its footsteps, we bring to you the Snell Acoustics' new flagship tower loudspeaker that is priced at almost double of that Klipsch flagship model. However it’s got more to it too. It delivers the dynamic range and soundstage of a best-in-class type two-channel experience. The Reference Tower A7 Loudspeaker is the first in Snell’s “Illusion Series”. The D’Appolito Array uses dual 5.25-inch...

If you are stuck in the middle of nowhere and are completely lost on the directions then what do you do? Obviously you can try out on your car navigation device but as usual most of them don't measure up to those from sites like Yahoo and Google. This one is for those who drive Mercedes-Benz! All you got to do is ask your pal or spouse at home/office to search for a destination online, and then send it...

If you are a music junkie and seek to hear the best from the rest then here is a Burmester 061 CD player from Germany. The Burmester 061 sports a milled aluminum chassis with a top-loading 10mm thick tray and features a Philips CD 2 Pro direct drive with a modified servomechanism. It is loaded with an advanced D/A converter technology with switchable un-sampling rates of 96 and 192 kHz. The unit sports RCA and Toslink input and output,...