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12:00PM Nick Broughall | How much would you pay for a new Thinkpad W700 from Lenovo? $3,000? $4,000? $1.1 million? More »
Lenovo – Home Of The Million Dollar Laptop
12:00PM Nick Broughall | How much would you pay for a new Thinkpad W700 from Lenovo? $3,000? $4,000? $1.1 million? More » 
Screens
Bang & Olufsen’s 4-103 BeoVision Plasma Is Alive, Costs More Than 35,000 Big Macs
10:20AM Matt Buchanan | At over $US135,000, Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 103-inch plasma set costs nearly triple Panasonic’s 103-inch baby or just as much as the 150-inch plasma champion of the world. Why? More »
Computers
1:00PM Nick Broughall | Question: Would you spend $30K on a laptop that looks like a handbag? No? What if it had a “Bentley” badge on it? Still no? What if you were a gazillionaire and if by purchasing this laptop you could end war and famine and bring peace and prosperity to the world forever? Still no? And fair enough, I’d say. More »
Bentley Ego Laptop Proves Fugly Is Expensive
1:00PM Nick Broughall | Question: Would you spend $30K on a laptop that looks like a handbag? No? What if it had a “Bentley” badge on it? Still no? What if you were a gazillionaire and if by purchasing this laptop you could end war and famine and bring peace and prosperity to the world forever? Still no? And fair enough, I’d say. More »
Gadgets
1:30PM Nick Broughall | HP doesn’t want you to travel the world for work. They don’t want you to earn enough frequent flyer miles travelling business class to the US so you can enjoy a European holiday at Christmas time without spending a cent of your own money. No, they want you to stay in the office, conducting important international business through their new Halo teleconferencing setup. Especially when the starting price for a single room setup is $153,000, plus monthly ongoing costs of at least $23,000.
The service uses a dedicated fibre-optic network that’s always on and has enough bandwidth for real-time high-definition video streaming. You can connect with multiple locations at the same time, while a HD overhead object camera lets you zoom in and read documents from anther location easily. The main camera automatically adjusts to foster “eye-contact” as well, making it feel like you’re actually just sitting across from the person on the screen.
There’s a variety of setups available, which you can read all about in the press release after the jump. In the meantime, let’s think about what else you could buy for $150,000 if you decided to instead just use the (albeit unreliable and not really HD) Skype for video conferencing… More »
Say Goodbye To Frequent Flyer Miles With The HP Halo
1:30PM Nick Broughall | HP doesn’t want you to travel the world for work. They don’t want you to earn enough frequent flyer miles travelling business class to the US so you can enjoy a European holiday at Christmas time without spending a cent of your own money. No, they want you to stay in the office, conducting important international business through their new Halo teleconferencing setup. Especially when the starting price for a single room setup is $153,000, plus monthly ongoing costs of at least $23,000.
The service uses a dedicated fibre-optic network that’s always on and has enough bandwidth for real-time high-definition video streaming. You can connect with multiple locations at the same time, while a HD overhead object camera lets you zoom in and read documents from anther location easily. The main camera automatically adjusts to foster “eye-contact” as well, making it feel like you’re actually just sitting across from the person on the screen.
There’s a variety of setups available, which you can read all about in the press release after the jump. In the meantime, let’s think about what else you could buy for $150,000 if you decided to instead just use the (albeit unreliable and not really HD) Skype for video conferencing… More »
Toys
Rideable Train Set Will End Your Fairy Tale Christmas
4:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Let me tell you a story about a boy named Timmy. Born to a poor servant woman out of wedlock, Timmy was abandoned at a young age on the steps of a church, his mother hoping he could find a life better than she could provide. He did not. Instead Timmy spent his youth travelling town to town, shining shoes, cutting wood, doing pretty much any labour necessary to afford one meal a day. His life was hard and often felt meaningless. No one loved him, he thought. And unfortunately, he was right. Years passed in this way, until one Christmas morning… More »
Phones
You Are Not Rich, Sophisticated, or Handsome Enough to Own the Tag Heuer Meridiist Phone
3:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Watchmaker Tag Heuer has put up a teaser video for their forthcoming Meridiist phone, and boy is it a slap in the face to everyday Joe Sixpacks like you and me. More »
Peripherals
Furutech Thinks You are Stupid Enough to Buy an $US1800 Power Cable
3:32AM Sean Fallon | You may recognise Furutech as the premier purveyors of all things strange and overpriced. They have a rep to maintain—which is why they are attempting to sell what may be “the Most Sophisticated Power Cord and Connectors in the World” for an absurd price of $US1800. Thanks to their FI-50(R) IEC and FI-50M(R) Piezo Ceramic series connectors, that sum will buy you power so clean, it practically sparkles. You would think that no one would be crazy enough to drop this kind of coin on a cable—but that is where you would be wrong my friend. [Furutech via Boing Boing Gadgets]
Phones
iPhone to Cost US$990 in Russia: Yakov Smirnoff Has New Material
8:00AM Sean Fallon | If you thought this post was going to contain a “in Soviet Russia” joke–think again. Besides, spending a whopping US$990 on an iPhone is hardly a laughing matter. Actually, the price is a bargain compared to the 600,000 or so iPhones that have hit the market through unauthorised sales–but it is still well out of the budget of your average Russian citizen. More »
Home
Freewheeler Speaker Can Be Rolled Around: Yeah, That Makes it Worth US$21,000
11:30AM Sean Fallon | The Freewheeler speaker features a frequency response of 52 – 21,000 Hz, a 112dB output, a built-in FM receiver, a battery life of 8 hours and a wireless range of 656 feet– but I’m having trouble figuring out what makes it worth US$21,000. Is it the fact that it is roughly the size of a Mazda Miata tire (only thicker) and can be rolled around? Because I’ll be dammed if I’m paying that much for something I have to push. Still, 8 morons spent US$1000 bucks on that stupid iPhone app so there is no telling what people will drop big money on. More »
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