When Larry and Colleen Halliday got bored with the idea of an ordinary home theatre system they decided to spike it up. They enlisted Doug Charrois with the job and like they say…rest is history. "A few torches, an idol and a little technology helped whip this Indiana Jones-themed room into theater quality." "Larry saw the torches in a store and came up with the idea it would be cool to have a theme of Indiana Jones in the theater...

Endless pools that soak in all your tensions and help you relax; ever thought or fantasized this? Well, thanks to the San Alfonso del Mar resort in Chile, you can live the moment in the World's biggest pool ever, where one lap means a whole 2 Km. The pool is so clean that the manufacturers claim that it uses up to 100 times less chemicals than a normal pool, and traditional filters have been replaced by a "pulse-based disinfections...

Fusion-io's ioDrive Flash Card features 800MB/sec (Read) and 600MB/sec (Write) sustained data transfer rates. This makes its performance at par with DRAM, hence making it a thousand times faster than any existing disk drive. Incase there is no need for that kind of speed then you can always opt for the 80GB, 160GB, or 320GB when the ioDrive is released in the first quarter of 2008....

The 24-carat Gold plated MacBook Pro is finally complete and the credit for this goes to the modders at Computer Chopper. Apart from being a high-end deluxe darling with every square-centimeter finished with Gold, it also has the opulence of a Diamond studded Apple logo. If you like your one to be designed according to your style, the work of plating, painting and etching work will cost you about $1200 to $1500 (Not much for a Mac Book over...

The Interactive Media Wall by Perceptive Pixel is an eight-by-three foot screen that allows you to treat it like a canvas. It allows you to navigate, locate, and manipulate information by touching anywhere on the screen. Tap out a sonata with your fingertips, flip through manuscripts with the swipe of your hand, or crop photos with a pinch; it responds to grand gestures or the lightest touch with finesse. Microsoft’s Surface will be coming out soon to give stiff...

Keeping with its Chocolate trend, LG has introduced the HT972TR Home Theatre system that features an integrated CD/DVD player with a total power of 1000W, distributed in 5 speakers with 155W and a subwoofer with 255 W. The vertical design stands out and the navigation buttons on the LG Chocolate cellphone inspires the touchscreen buttons on the front. The system can handle upscaling of videos to the Full HD 1080p resolution, and comes with both HDMI and USB Plus...

Military Bases are no longer the only places where Space Flights will be landing and taking off. The New Mexico Spaceport Authority recently unveiled the design for the world's first public launching and landing site for space vehicles, Spaceport America. It will be the gateway to space for the Virgin Galactic and the X Prize cup. UK architecture firm Foster + Partners and San Francisco-based engineering shop URS have been working on the project situated in the middle of...

A robot has never been intelligent (don’t count the ones in movies). This advanced animatronic robot can do wonders like carrying on casual conversations, can recognize family members and it can even answer questions as long as they are basic. If you’re wondering where this supernatural intelligence is coming from, then let me tell you. It runs off a robot and uses 30 robotic motors to do the human-like stuff. I guess, it will be best kept in a...

A new discovery, a Faberge egg, which was made for a top-banking dynasty was made lately. The scheduled auction at Chistie’s International’s Russian winter auction in London next month, is expected to fetch up to $18mn(13 million euros) Peter Carl Faberge presented the egg in 1902 to Baron Edouard de Rothschild as an engagement gift. The unique Cockerel on top of the egg decked up with diamonds pops out and flaps its wings after every one hour. It then...

The Ferrari and the Rolls Royce sure is hot, but the Mercedes is evergreen with a million people in this world, dying to get a glimpse of it. To commemorate 10 years of ML production at Tusculoosa, Alabama plant, U.S, the ML 350 Edition 10 is introduced. The production of the ML 320 commenced in September, 2007 and the ML has stepped into it’s second generation. The 10th anniversary SUV, according to Mercedes will feature “ a unique Macadamia,...

A good piece of furniture with an equally good design can touch the sky. Sitting on a bench would never feel better with the Acronym designs’ Swilken Bench, creating a graceful seating surface. The epitome of artistic abundance, this bridge bench inspired by a bridge on a Scottish Gulf course, is made from reclaimed wood and a concrete base....

BainUltra's Temazkal Shower offers more than some hot water and suds to wash away the blues. It's a mini spa by itself. It features aromatherapy that soothes your senses, thermotherapy to stimulate and rejuvenate you and light therapy that revives you. While the aromatherapy and light therapy can be used everyday, the thermotherapy is recommended only a few times a week for 15-20 minutes. The whole experience promises to stimulate metabolism, oxygenate vital organs, revive skin, eliminate toxins, relax muscles...

The high-end Maybach is kind of taking a bow, with 29 of the original 71 stores (in the States) closing down. With news of Rolls Royce and Bentley making record sales, Maybach's sales of around 800 cars since its 2002 launch sticks out like a sore thumb. Most of the Maybach stores also sell Mercedes models and the dealers had to invest over half a million dollars to accommodate the premium label. The goal for last year sales was...

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LED’s are hot and happening with baseball caps and alienwear getting a little bit of them. This LED headlamp out here also has a “Light Head Magnifier” and a magnification of 3.5x, a spare light bulb. But the Shade Blade and the LED baseball cap out there, makes a weird combination. The Betty headlamp from Lupine Lighting systems of Germany produces this high-powered light (as bright as the headlight of a car) costing $1,185. The best thing is it...