At first, the organisers of the Shanghai Motor Show probably thought Porsche was joking when they suggested holding a press conference for their Panamera sedan on the 94th floor of an office building. They weren’t.
Porsche has kicked out mobile phones before: but none so capable as the upcoming P’9522. It’s a butch but sweetly-minimal design flip phone, with a rotating screen, and it’s just got its FCC pass so it should be on the way here soon. Among its many features, it sadly lacks 3G connectivity, but the rest—including on-board GPS—almost make up for that.
You’d have to really enjoy Gran Turismo to go out and buy the Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel for PS3 and PC. Not that it’s a bad product – from the specs it looks like a pretty impressive gaming wheel. The 300mm wheel has got all the bells and whistles, from adjustable force feedback to wireless pedals and two gearsticks (sequential and 6+1 speed H-pattern).
But alongside it’s leather trimmings and Porsche badges comes a Porsche-like pricetag of $500. That’s almost as much as the cost of a PS3, and double the price of other gaming wheels that do a similar job (although admittedly they lack some of the finer features.) Still, I’m sure some of you are excited by the idea of driving your virtual Porsche with a “Porsche” branded wheel, so know that you can pick this up from Dick Smith Powerhouse, The Gamesmen or Techbuy.
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Can you imagine all the little Eton brothers and sisters sitting around the dinner table, when in walks the Eton P’9120? Its speakers and remote are different…not like mummy or daddy’s at all. Awwwwkward. Anyway, the Eton P’9120 is a Porsche-designed Eton iPod dock packing an alarm clock and XM satellite radio antenna. And its remote, for some strange reason, includes a flashlight as well. Going for US$600, the P’9120 is not quite as beautiful as the real thing, but as an entry, entry level Porsche, it’ll do. Besides, if you don’t adopt this poor Eton radio, daddy might figure things out. [Eton via DVICE]
If you feel like you need an extra boost for your office chair races and/or ego, be prepared to pay up as much as US$15,000 for one of these RaceChairs, featuring original seats from Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati cars. Leather, carbon fibre, aluminium, every single element except a cup holder? For shame. Ray Wert demands his Ford Taurus office chair now! galleryPost('racechairs', 5, '');
The Porsche SLI-Machine is a PC with dual NVIDIA SLI cards and liquid refrigeration inside the chromed rim of a Porsche Cayenne wheel. It was one of the most popular entries in the NVIDIA-sponsored SLI-Machine modding contest, recently organized by russian publication Top Mods. And yes, we know, it’s absolutely stupid. Everyone knows that wheel PCs should be done from Ford Mustang wheels for maximum speed and cool factor, not a bloody pimped up Volkswagen SUV. [Gizmodo Spain]
If it weren’t for my obnobvious headline, you’d all be wondering what the hell this is. Just 15 of these Champagne tower chillers, with room for a dozen magnums in individual, lit drawers, have been designed for Veuve Cliquot by Porsche Design. Want to see what it looks like open?
It’s not hard to find items with the Porsche logo on them lately – heck, we’re thinking that soon you’ll even be able to find Porsche dildos. If you’d like to have just one thing with a Porsche logo on it in your household, this little bobsled for your kids might just qualify. It costs $US115, and that’s a whole lot less than the car, or even the Porsche >> mobile phone . It doesn’t look half bad, either. [Porsche Design, via GeekAlerts]
