Which is the most advanced and luxurious super-midsize business jet in the world? It’s Hawker 4000. At least that’s what its maker Hawker Beechcraft believes. Hawker 4000 does have a lot to boast of like its sophisticated composite fuselage, supercritical wing, powerful Pratt & Whitney Canada FADEC-controlled engines and state-of-the-art Honeywell Primus EPIC avionics. Hawker 4000 is the first plane to offer big-jet safety and technology features at a midsized-jet price. But still it is unspeakably expensive for $21...

How, exactly, did the universe begin? What is the cosmos made of and why does it look the way it does? If these are questions that keep coming to your mind with obviously no answers, then the time for all these questions to be answered is here. Welcome the $8.9billion Large Hadron Collider, aka The God Machine, which is very much the answer to all your questions. The biggest and most expensive scientific instrument ever built, was turned on...

Given a choice I would love to switch places with Tyra Banks. Reason being she is stunning, a top model and also tops Forbes' list of the highest-paid women in prime-time TV. Keeping her modelling career on hold and in the interim invading the silver screen with her daytime talk show, “The Tyra Banks Show” has indisputably worked in her favour. She also juggles the roles of a judge and producer on “America’s Next Top Model”. While donning so...

This bit of dope is really fascinating for the ones who have been fervent fans of cars and even more for the ones who love collecting miniatures. Thanks to Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) the pedal cars have lent a hand in reviving the lost art form. The weekend-long, larger-than-life auction kicks off with AACA’s Night at the Museum fundraising gala on October 8th. Eleven pedal cars, designed and built by Steve Pasteiner, PSI, restorer Fran Roxas, Dale...

Vacheron Constantin a name synonymous with class, elegance and luxury watches have gone ahead and introduced a new series of "Les Masques" timepieces which will join the brand's Metiers d'Art watch collection. As the name suggest the 4 watches are heavily inspired from the primordial masks from Mexico, Japan, Gabon, and Papua New Guinea. What also sets them apart is the painstaking creation of each mask which demanded approximately 100 hours. Each masks brings its own feel to the...

All those sworn Star Wars fans can be glued to this article and read on as we have something that may really interest them. This is about Darth Vader, for those who don?t know about him, he is a fictional character in George Lucas' science fiction saga Star Wars and is the primary antagonist. Like the now famous Yoda bronze adorning the Presidio fountain as well as Big Rock Ranch?s garden court entrance, the half-scale Darth Vader bronze is...

Its time for another dope on Dubai and if it?s Dubai it has to be majestic. Italian luxury goods maker Salvatore Ferragamo is to design the interior of penthouses in Dubai as part of an agreement with real estate firm Trident International Holdings. The Florence-based company would design the interior of several luxury penthouses in the 'Pentominium' tower, which is expected to be completed in 2012. Once this feat is achieved it would be titled as the world?s tallest...

Jaeger-LeCoultre have astonished us with their amazing masterpiece-like watches and isn?t that exactly what?s expected from one of the worlds best watch makers? They have gone not one but several notches higher and brought us the Jaeger-LeCoultre Le Lierre Collection. It?s gorgeous, grand and very very green. Though there are chances that a few people with subtle preferences might find it a little over the top and crass, it?s quite a statement for the fashionista and it isn?t bad...

Something must be wrong in the head of Edwina Rogers, the wife of Washington lobbyist Ed Rogers, that’s what most people would think after they learn of her fetish to wrap gifts in not a fancy wrapping paper that people would throw away but something that would be treasured more than the gift itself. She wraps her presents in money. Uncut sheets of real, government-issued, dollar bills. That lady is surely creative and rich too. The wife of Washington...

The tech chair had me very impressed with all gadgets integrated into one. But the competition is building and I’m afraid the tech chair will be losing to the Hi-Can system and with a very big margin too. Italian designer Edoardo Carlino has dreamed up the ultimate in tech luxury by combining most of your complex gadgetry into one neat package. And going by the looks of it, he has arrived in a big way. The Hi-Can system begins...

Seeing a massive yacht on a busy road could have been a sight I would have loved to enjoy in person. But I do pity the drivers who must have pulled their hair and clawed their eyes out of frustration considering the bumper to bumper situation. This slow boat caused lengthy tailbacks on the A12 as it made its way from the East of England to the annual Southampton Boat Show, which starts at the end of this week....

Having loved Barbie all my life I was not only intrigued about knowing what the new Barbie looked like but the fact that she is touted as the most expensive in the world surely had me glued on. The most expensive Barbie doll in the world was introduced in the wonderful Mexico City. It is valued at one million Mexican pesos around $94,800 and includes 318 real diamonds in its design. Barbie dazzles like never before with diamonds all...

Falling in love time and again isn’t easy but Cartier has sworn against that fact. This time I fall in love for the 78th time with the latest iteration of Cartier’s iconic Roadster watch. One of the key reasons behind my falling could well be the fact that this is the first Cartier watch to incorporate wood into the design. The dial of the Cartier Walnut Roadster is made of a highly polished piece of burr walnut wood alike...

Designer Cavalli is brimming with pride and understandably so. He has been immortalised in the form of Cavalli Club built inside the Fairmont Hotel on Sheikh Zaved Road where you will see glam fashion types and dazzling models paying homage. Offering Dubai-dwellers a complete Cavalli lifestyle experience, the 25,000-square-foot club will comprise two floors dripping with Swarovski crystals and featuring stunning black quartz floors. Like everything else in Dubai this space too will be a shopper’s paradise as the...

Jimi Hendrix is to rock as oxygen is to breathing. The American guitarist, singer and songwriter torched the Fender Stratocaster at the end of a London gig in 1967. It has now gone under the hammer for a whopping $495,000. The scorched original was kept by Hendrix’s press officer, whose nephew found it last year. It was bought by music collector Daniel Boucher, 51, who travelled to the auction in Shoreditch, East London, from Boylston, Massachusetts, US. Boucher sure...