Archive for December, 2009
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
On 18 December 2009 Aston Martin showed to the entire world its coolest newest cars, the V12 Vantage and the DBS. These cars come with a special Carbon Black makeover and both are in a special edition. Inside the cars the customers will be embraced by special made leather and lightweight seats made from Kevlar and Carbon Fiber. The owners of these special cars will have the possibility to enjoy they car on the track for free at Aston Martin’s Performance Driving Course. This opportunity is available only for the customers from Europe and United Kingdom. The owners will enjoy music from the Aston Martin 700w Premium Audio System if they buy the V12 Vantage and if they buy the DBS they will have the Bang & Olufsen Beosound DBS.
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The story behind DBS is that this car was design as Aston Martin’s ultimate GT sport car. It was first launched in 2007 and made from materials like carbon fiber and aluminum. It is the most powerful car ever produced by Aston Martin with its V12 engine that produces 380 kW.
The V12 Vantage was first launched in 2009 and it is a car with amazing performances. It has a V12 engine and a lot of rigidity and strength.
Chevrolet will launch in on 26 of December at the Indianapolis Auto Show the Chevrolet Camaro SS Indianapolis 500. This car is an amazing one, is a 21
st century sports car. The car features White Diamond rally stripes and an Inferno Orange Metallic paint. The design of the car in a 21
st century interpretation of the design of the rally stripes from 1969. The car has 400 horsepower with a V8 engine with a beautiful leather interior that has many Inferno Orange accents. The car will also have unique features like the following: painted on the doors will be the 2010 Indianapolis 500 logo, this logo will be seeing also embroidered on passenger headrest and on driver headrest. This
cool car will have a new front grille, a custom interior light bar and a new safety strobe light system. The car will be very accessible because the starting price will be at $23.000 making it a budget-friendly car. The price doesn’t sacrifice the performances because this car has a lot of luxurious details and a lot of power, as we said above – a 400 horse power engine.
Kia Ingnition Soul is the newest car form Kia and will come in a special edition in 2010. This cool car offers a rally-inspired exterior, prominent wheels and new colors. This car is an urban vehicle with a lot of style and a unique exterior colors. Is one of the safest cars on the market and as many other Kia models demonstrates the ability to evolve in style and safety. It has an athletic looking body, an alloy fuel door and an 18-inch alloy wheels. The car comes with subwoofer, center speakers, speaker lights; external amplifier, steering wheel controls and an iPod connection cable therefore the customers can hear their favorite music at a high quality thanks to this Audio Upgrade Package. Other features like: 5-speed manual transmission, moon roof, fog lights, carpeted floor mats, fender vents, keyless remote entry, privacy glass, colored power side mirrors, body-color door handles make the price of $17.500 very reasonable.
All these features above are standard and if the customers want they can have some additional features like: Bluetooh hands-free connectivity, cruise control, tweeter speakers, dual map lights, dual 12-volt power outlets.
At the safety features, Kia Ingnition Soul has: dual front airbags, curtain airbags, front seat active headrest, ABS – Antilock Brake System, TCS – Traction Control System, ESC – Electronic Stability Control, EBD – Electronic Brake Distribution, TPMS– Tire Pressure Monitoring System, BAS – Brake Assist System, side-impact door beams, rear crumple zone, front crumple zone and impact-absorbing steering column.
BMW Concept ActiveE is a super car, a concept car with powered purely electrically. This car is an electrical vehicle for selected and private users. The aim of this concept car is to test the electric drive in a car that offers to its divers the driving pleasure of a BMW. The concept wants to go beyond urban mobility; therefore this car won’t be a slow one. It provides dynamic acceleration maneuvers, rear-wheel drive, a compartment volume of 200 liters and 4 full-size seats.
This cool car has a synchronous electrical motor with an output of 125kW/170 bhp. A lithium-ion battery will store the electrical energy. The predicted acceleration for this car is less than 9 seconds from 0 to 100km/h. The lithium-ion battery pack will be recharge at a special wall box or at public charging stations by a conventional power outlet. In Europe the car will be fully charged in 3 hours at a high-current power outlet and in America in almost 4.5 hours by a wall box. This new car wants to be the car of the future, easy to drive and efficient.
Acadia Denali is the first Denali Crossover. This newest car from GMC is a perfect combination of efficiency and space in a great car. The Denali signature includes: the chrome accents, the fender flares, the wooden accents of the car, the body-color, the lighted sill plates and the wood steering wheel. The 2011 Acadia Denali was revealed in Detroit and will go on sale at the end of 2010. The car will be available in all-wheel drive and also in front-wheel drive with eight-passenger or seven-passenger configurations. It has 20 –inch chrome-clad wheels and with 5 different exteriors to choose from: Summit White, Quicksilver, White Diamond Tricot, Red Jewel Tintcoat and Carbon Black. The car provides an exclusive design and a lot of comfort which come with a lot of features like: leather seats, premium acoustics, leather-wrapped steering wheel, head-up display, Bluetooth connectivity, OnStar and many more.
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Technology is advancing more and more every day, the products which last year were on the first stage of the technological advance, today they are already out of date. Every day new technologies appear; new ways of communication between people and those technological developments are making our lives increasingly easier.
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The latest gadget for kids is called SCOPE, this is a highly-technological game for the kids which uses augmented reality. This game present a new way of playing, the game uses things from the real life and transforms them into a game play. The game transforms the toys or the objects from the real world by giving them an augmented reality code which makes the object to become fully interactive. For example, in the image bellow you can see a Lego man transformed in a game character that is choosing a weapon. This is the first step in the future of games developments that is able to give virtual power to an actual object and giving the players new ways to play and explore the games. This game is created by Frantz Lasorne and it is still in a concept stage but we are looking forward to the released date.
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latest gadget for hardcore gamers and for those that want the best from the computer case to the computer itself is Huntkey H403 mid case. This case has a futuristic look and offers to its users a great cooling structure. It has amazing ventilation thanks to its effective cooling system. Dust isn’t good for any electronics, not to mention your computer components and this case comes with an anti-dust mesh design. The anti-dust design makes it easy to maintain and if you don’t have time to clean your computer components this is the case for you. It has a very silent LED fan of 12 cm and with colors like silver and black is it easy to match it with your other electronics.
Pillete is the latest gadget concept of a Bluetooh headset. It is very tiny therefore now one will be able to see it while you are wearing it. This gadget is able to shrink to a pill size if you want to, this feature making it the smallest Bluetooh headset in the world so far. Its small size doesn’t mean compromises in the technology department. It comes with a performance microphone that gives you high voice quality. If you want to turn in on you have to fold it in an L shape and if you want to turn it off you have to make it straight. The only negative feature of this amazing gadget is that different people have different ear canals, so for some people the size of this gadget could be too small and for others could be too big.
The latest gadgets in the home appliances department are the transparent home appliances: a fridge and a washing machine. The appliances are simple, they don’t come with extra or special feature but the thing that makes them different is that you can see through them. Have you ever wondered how your washing machine does the entire washing process? If you did, now you have the possibility to see it. And with a transparent fridge you won’t have to open it to see in there is any beer left, you just have to look at it.
With the new smartphones nowadays everyone is able to see a movie or a video clip on them. But what is you could buy movies especially for your phone without the need of download or the need of converting the file format? This is where the latest gadget in movies comes in; Sony is going to produce movies on a 128 MB MMC card for everyone’s mobile phones. All you need to have is a mobile phone with a slot and a media player. The first movies Sony is going to produce are: Spiderman 2, The Hitch, Charlie’s Angles, Stuart Little and Ghostbusters. You don’t have to worry anymore about your phone’s memory because you will have the movies you want in your pocket.
Lava lamps are very relaxing gadgets and accessories and the latest version of the lava lamp is The Laserpod. This great gadget is working with 3 high-intensive ultraviolet and blue LEDs and 3 electronic lasers. The Laserpod throws the electronic lasers and the LEDs in to a crystal creating memorable, unique and amazing mood lighting. This amazing light will spread all over the room and you can select the lighting effects you want. This gadget can work with any type of optical material: clear plastic, crystal or glass. The gadget has to styles of lighting: supernova with the following colors: green, red, purple, deep blue and bright blue and galaxies with: amber, blue and red. It works directly from the AC adaptor which is included.
Keyboards come is many colors, types and shapes but the following one is a stick. Keystick Keyboard is a latest gadget in keyboards department. This keyboard has the possibility to fold into a stick and it is fully functional. The folding feature makes it easy to carry and it is a part of None Bacteria Project, this means that is safe to use and to share it without getting contaminated with bacteria or other infections. The keyboard connects to the computer wirelessly using a USB receiver. It is not on the market yet, but when it will be it will take over the entire computer market.
The next cool gadget is a keychain camera form Japan. This very small camera is able to take video capture and simple pictures. It is easy to carry, you can mix it with your keys and so you how you will always a camera with you. With its dimensions of 53×23x19 mm this camera is the small digital camera in the world.
The SQ28m camera has 4 picture taking modes: noise, vivid, monochrome and normal. This pocket camera has 64 MB of flash memory and the battery last 250 shots with a lithium battery that charges via USB port.
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
Houses come in different forms and shapes, luxurious or modest, big or small, but what is the coolest house ever? In the next lines we are going to answer to this question.
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The coolest house ever is the Seashell House from Mexico City. This house has designed the architect Javier Senosiain. This house is fully integrated in nature and as the name says it, it has a seashell form. It was specially made for a young couple who wanted to change their living from a conventional home into an “organic†house. The house is a blend of contemporary art and modern architecture with large and open spaces. At the entrance the house greets you with a very colorful wall made of little glass pieces that creates a lot of bright light in the interior and wonderful game of colors.
The first think you will see in the interior is an impressive green garden with a lot of grass and trees and in the middle a nice and cozy sofa. The vegetation is fully integrated with the house in a harmonic area and the spiral stairs makes you feel like you are floating over the grass.
Beside the grass and the whole vegetation the house is leading it guests through a lot of stone paths which lead to the areas of the house. You really feel like you are in wonderful garden or park when you are walking trough this amazing house.
The seashell idea can be also seen in the bathroom, the place where you are near the water thanks to its wonderful blue titles, sandy walls and the overhead window.
This house is also a safe one; it is earthquake-proof thanks to its “ferrocement constructio†a type of construction that which uses a frame made of steel-reinforced wire that is covered in a very thick 2-inch layer of concrete. The bedroom is also unique, you will not see a lot of furniture, only a king size bed and a small closet which is integrated into the house line.
It is an amazing house to live in, you feel free, you feel like you were living in nature but actually the nature is living in this house and not the other way around.
The next cool house is an underground home from Swiss village, Switzerland. The area where the house is located is full of mountains and trees and if you don’t carefully you will miss it for sure. The house is not fully underground; it has an elliptical and wide opening for a wonderful view of the mountains. The house is made of stone and even a lot of it is underground it has a large outdoor entertaining area which is leading you to the main entrance. The house has another entrance from a barn close to the house that can lead the guest into the house through an underground pathway. The house has enough natural light due to its large opening.
Where is the worst place to construct a house? In the desert, of course! But not if you see the next cool desert house that has its on paradise garden in the middle of Idaho desert. This is a contemporary house with al the appliances and the technology you need to live a pleasant life in it. This modern house has design as a residence home with an art creating studio and a showcase. This house was built from low-maintenance materials like plywood, car-decking and a lot of concrete blocks. The concrete blocks are able to withstand the desert climate: harsh wind and a lot of sun and high temperatures. The paradise garden is protected from the wild landscape and harsh climate by concrete walls. In paradise garden you can see a lot of trees and plants grow big and beautiful without being affected of the high temperatures and the desert wind.
The next cool house is ultra modern and a futuristic one. You can find it in Los Angeles, California and is innovative, beautiful and contemporary. The unique design of this house is hard to describe because it looks like a picture gallery and a creative live-work environment of a painter. The architects used a lot of geometry in this house construction, they played with a lot of shapes and forms and the result was this amazing home. Everything about this house is futurist: the kitchen, the bathroom and the elliptical-shaped living room that is a luxurious lounge by night and a workstation by day. This impressive house couldn’t be complete without a stylized garden, a floating fireplace and a spa area.
Tree houses are great for the kids to play in but also for adults to live in. A cool tree house is in Portland, Oregon which looks like it is floating through the forest. It is not a simple house, is a very modern and contemporary. The main living area sits in the canopy being surrounded of beautiful green leaves and the whole forest. Is a great place to leave in, you don’t have to worry about the noisy neighbors, the pollution and the traffic near the house. You got the whole forest to your self to enjoy.
The glass houses always offer amazing views of the surroundings areas and one the most beautiful views is the one offered by the Hollywood Hills. The house embraces modern and innovative ideas with organics architecture elements, for example glass and wood. The house has a spa-like in every room and you feel like you are in a permanent holiday.
Everyone likes Japanese architecture because is so special and unique. This cool Japanese house is wonderful and weird whit its pyramidal shape. The entire house structure is standing on a glass main floor giving everyone the illusion that the house is floating. Inside the house we find a modern contemporary style that embraces the modern exterior.
The next cool house looks like a peace of metal breaking through the sand’s surface. This house is a beach house is located in Australia and it is surrounded by a lot o beaches and sand dunes.
The main idea of the houses construction was the unfolding of an origami piece, this aspect gives the house wonderful and weird angles, movement and fluidity. These are the features that make this house so special. This geometric wonder has an unexpected entry and a lot of internal space.
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Thursday, December 24th, 2009
The coolest mattress is a matter of choice and a matter of what is best for you. On the market you can find many types of mattresses and the best one for you, is the one that allows you to have a good night’s sleep.
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The first type of mattress we are going to talk about is the traditional one. This type of mattress is made of coils put inside of it. This traditional mattresses, also called spring mattresses offer great support thanks to the coils in it. Depending on the coils distribution and their number, these mattresses can be uncomfortable for many of you.
The second type of mattresses is the memory foam mattress. This type of mattress takes the from of your body and then takes the shape of your sleeping position allowing you to have a great, back pain free night’s sleep. This type of mattress is very soft but doesn’t have a lot of support, so if you don’t have any back problems this mattress could be the best choice for you.
If you want a very soft mattress and the memory foam doesn’t have the softness you want, you can try a waterbed mattress. Beside the fact that this type of mattress is very soft is a lot of fun to have. You can find many types of these mattresses and a lot of them give you the feeling of floating in your own bed.
The next type is the air mattresses. These mattresses can be adjusted for a firm or a soft feeling. You can find double air mattresses or simple ones and they are perfect when you have a lot of guests but you don’t have sufficient beds. You can have a good night’s sleep on them by adjusting the amount of air you want in your mattress.
The next type of mattress is similar this memory foam mattress. The difference between them is that the latex mattresses are more expensive and give a better support than the memory foam mattresses.
In the next lines we will give you some examples of the coolest mattresses you can find on the market. Let’s start with the air mattresses. These great is you are planning to go on a camping trip, if you are going to have a lot of guests but not enough beds or you are going to collage.
The Midrise Air Bed Mattress is a cool king-sized with a lot of great features. It has a portable duffle bag and it is waterproof – if you want to take it to camping is perfect. The downside of this mattress is that it deflates slowly but if you can wait this won’t be a problem. The inflating takes a few minutes thanks to its pump which is very fast.
If you took it to camping and if you forgot a couple of pillows that won’t be a problem because the mattress has a “hump†on the end and you can do without the pillows.
Wenzel Insta-Bed Queen is another cool air mattress. It has a powerful pump that is able to inflate the mattress in just 90 seconds. It is very comfortable and perfect for a luxurious night’s sleep. It comes with a unique underside design that allows it to grip the floor so you won’t have to worry about the bed sliding. You will sleep in a firm and a stabile position.
The next cool mattress is a memory foam one. The Rhapture-HD 12†is recommended for those of you that are suffering from any type of chronic pain, back pain or are recovering from any kind of injuries. This mattress is made from very dense memory foam that relieves the pressure from your body while you’re sleeping. This queen-sized memory foam will cost you $1.199 with 20 years of warranty.
The Dutchess Softside Deepfill Waterbed is a cool mattress made from orthopedic foam and soft fiber. It has a silky soft cover for a soft feel and an elegant look. The orthopedic foam and the soft fiber are designed to cushion the sleeper’s body so that she/he gets a good night’s sleep. This nice mattrees can be yours at a price of $599.00.
Body Flotation 143 Plush Top Mattress is a waterbed made from chamber you have to fill with water. Beside of the water, the mattress comes with foam layers for extra comfort and support. You have the possibility to fill each cylinder with as much water as you want and a different amount of water provides a different firmness level. These cylinders are able to reduce head-to-toe motion and side-to-side motion. This mattress is designed to provide proper spinal alignment and proper weight distribution. The sale price for this special mattress is $650.00
The perfect Form 2000 is made to provide firm back support, to adjust to the contour of the sleeper’s body and to give a lot of comfort. Its special design is able to provide perfect body alignment. Thanks to its thermal vinyl bottom the matters will not crack and will stay as new as in the day you bought it. Is comes in different sizes: California King sizes, California Queen and Super Single.
The Duo-Cell Hydraulic Water Mattress provides a great support, construction for firm and design. It is made from one sheet of formulated vinyl that gives it a leak-free structure and a lot of strength. It has 32 hydraulic chambers that are able to absorb energy and the isolate, giving you about 99% “wave†reduction. With 10 years warranty this cool water mattress is perfect for those with lumber region problems.
We can’t say which mattress is the best or the coolest one because it is a matter of feeling and choice and a perfect mattress has to give you a perfect night’s sleep.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
You need to find something cool, fun and special for your friend’s birthday but you are short on cash and you don’t know what to buy? We will help you find a lot of cool cheap gadgets that make the perfect funny gift for everyone.
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The Digital Coin Counting Money Jar is the ideal present is for friend keeps his extra money in a jar. They also make great promo products. With this cool gadget you will help him/her to count the extra change. This cool jar is able to count the change you put in it and to store it. This way you will know exactly how much change you have. The gadget has a LCD display on it and you can view how much money you have in it. The Digital Coin Counting Money Jar will cost you only $25.99 from Amazon.
Gadgets are great for adults, but what about the kids? They need special attention too and with the Christmas approaching we need to think what type of gifts Santa will bring. Kids like to hide from us the change of the money we give to them, but they should hide them in a safe place. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is the perfect hiding place for their money. This
cool gadget measures 28cm tall. The money will be deposit in the gadget thanks to its rear slot and if you want to retrieve them you have to pull of its head. This gadget is cheap, only $22.00 from Firebox.
Giraffes are gentle creatures and if your kid likes them you can buy her/him the next
cool cheap gadget for Christmas. On the outside this Gentle Giraffe is very soft and provides a nice feeling when you touch it and on the inside it has a removable, small audio player. This audio player is able to stimulate your kid’s mind by providing her/him 4 sound of the natural world: Relax is the sound mode when the Gentle Giraffe takes your kid in a journey through the Serengeti plains; Play is the sound mode when your kid can hear the rhythm of a native tribal music; Sleep is the sound mode when your kid can sleep very quick surrounded by the sound of a waterfall; Calm is the sound mode that can relax your child providing him/her a great sound of stream making its way trough rocks. The toys come with a timer function that allows you to turn if off after 45 or 23 minutes. The buttons and the speakers are on the giraffe’s back. You can find this great gadget at firebox for 29.99 pounds.
Eve Clock is the next
cool cheap gadget. As the name says it, the gadget has a pair of eyes that replace the hands of a normal clock when is indicating time. The left eye will indicate the hour and the right eye will indicate the minutes. It is a great gadget and a cool desktop clock that makes a nice present for the loves ones. The clock works with one battery per eye. You can buy it from Firebox at 19.99 pounds.
The Water-Powered Can Clock is a nice gadget for only $16 from Green Stamp. This clock is an eco-friendly one. It doesn’t use batteries; the only thing it needs to work is water. All you have to do is to fill and refill it with water to keep the clock going. One fill will last between 6-12 months. The function and the price make this clock a great gift for those who want to save what is left of this planet and start using eco -friendly products.
A great gift for holidays and an alternative for the mobile phone is the next cool gadget, the Walkie Talkie Watches. This gadget is perfect to keep in touch with everyone at the Christmas party and to make sure that no one gets left behind. It is easy to keep in touch with everybody with its 5km range. These watches allow you to select multiple channels therefore you can have your own channel without interfering with others. This gadget is activated by voice so you don’t have to look for buttons. These Walkie Talkie Watches come with 2 charging adaptors and 2 earpieces if you don’t want anyone to hear what you are speaking. This cool gadget is 49.99 pounds from iwantoneofthose.com.
Fridge magnets and notes on the fridge are products of the past, we present you the future: Digital Video Memo. This great gadget gives to the possibility to record a message for about 30 minutes and then put in on the fridge for everyone to see it and hear it. It is an easy operation, just press the record button, look into the camera and say whatever you want. It has a 1.5 inch LED screen that helps you transmit your message in a clean screen quality. It has a built-in battery that can be recharge at the USB port. This
cool gadget is great if you want to tell the kids this Christmas to look under the tree to see what Santa Clouse brought them. It costs 29.99 pounds but is not available in USA.
The next cheap gadget is for those of you that like their barbecue meet just perfect. The Digital BBQ Tongs has special sensor that are able to detect and indicate the meat’s temperature. The tongs will actually tell you when the meat is done and you can choose from seven types of meat. This cool gadget comes with 3 AAA baterries and can be yours for $40 at Taylor Gifts site.
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