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Paris Hilton encountered a marijuana arrest drama in South Africa the day before yesterday. Before she left for the World Cup hosting country, Paris twittered a picture showing her Louis Vuitton Luggage to be brought along, saying “All Packed and Ready for The World Cup! So excited!”.
Paris Hilton and her Louis Vuitton luggage (Picture credit: Paris Hilton/Twitpic)
Lenovo Dual-screen Laptop: W700ds ThinkPad
Lenovo, China's No.1 computer manufacturer, has launched the world's first dual-screen laptop W700ds ThinkPad (pictured above), which is equipped with a slide-out display to the notebook's main 17” screen. It's fantastic, but I will not buy it any time soon, reasons? Read excerpts from Tgdaily's review:
The privilege of owning one of these notebooks comes at a price – in terms of weight, battery life and money.
[W700ds ThinkPad,] packs an additional 2 lbs and weighs about 11 lbs. Add the power adapter and you are at 13 lbs and even that may not be the final word, especially if you are adding a second or third hard drive.
Prices for a W700ds base model start at just under $3700, while a quad-core model with Nvidia’s workstation graphics chip will break the $5000 barrier. Add more memory and max out the storage space and you will see a bottom line that exceeds $6000.
There are plenty of reviews of the W700ds already available on the web and it appears that this system is not exactly as mobile as your average notebook. Not only is it bulky and heavy, its battery time is also well below two hours - if both screens are used. The battery times published in the reviews we have seen range from about 95 to 110 minutes with a standard 9-cell battery.
If you are curious what that second display fits to do? Below are answers:
The main screen offers a resolution of 1920 x 1200, the smaller screen (which can be angled towards the user) 768 x 1280, which is about 40% of the screen real estate of the main display. Realistically, the 768 pixel width is not enough to comfortably browse web pages or to edit text documents, presentations or large spreadsheets. In everyday use, the display may be limited to secondary applications such as instant messaging, video calls or emails.
Image & Source: Lenovo announces dual-screen Thinkpad @ Tgdaily.com
Mukesh Ambani's Billion-Dollar Home picture
The currently-constructing architect in downtown Mumbai will cost around $2 billion and be 550 feet high with 400,000 square feet of interior space when it is finished in January, 2009. The future 27-story Ambani home named Antilla will host nine elevators, six floors of parking, a four-story vertical garden, and three rooftop helicopter landing pads. Undeniably, it will be the world's largest and most expensive home on the planet. Link
Simon Cowell, the reality TV multi-millionaire who is reported to be worth over £100million, was seen zipping around Los Angeles in his $1.2million Bugatti Veyron supercar on 9th March. The luxury sports car is the world's most expensive and fastest street-legal car which has top speed of 408.47 km/h.
The music mogul already owns a fleet of luxury cars, including a Ferrari and a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe.
Life Mel Honey is the world's most expensive honey. Celebrities like Sienna Miller and Kylie Minogue are reportedly its huge fans, according to the London department store.
Without any artificial ingredients, the honey, which is made by bees fed on a special diet including herbs such as Siberian ginseng and echinacea, costs $84 for a pot containing just 120g.
The Israeli product has solely gone on sale at the pharmacy at the upmarket Harrods Department Store. It is supposed to be eaten by the teaspoonful in the morning and at night. Source: SKY; Tags: Life Mel Honey
Beaute de Siecle, the Hennessy's new limited edition cognac which was created to celebrate the 100th birthday of Killian Hennessy, the sixth generation descendant of the company's founder, costs £105,000 (about $210,000 ) a bottle. The most expensive drink in the world are just 100 bottles in existence. Source: Daily mail. #Tags: Hennessy, Beaute de Siecle, killian Hennessy
The diamonds-encrusted, 18-carat gold Bluetooth headset tailored for Motorola's H12 handphone (picture below) is sold for £6250, equivalent to US$12,500. Link via Tracing Gadget
David Rubenstein (picture left, credit: Justin Lane/EPA), who once was a domestic policy advisor to former president Jimmy Carter, is a co-founder of the Washington-based Carlyle Group private equity firm. He was instantly catapulted to the international fame by paying US$21.3m (a compromised price of $30M early estimated) for a 13th-century Magna Carta [wikipedia] auctioned at Sotheby's in New York yesterday December 18. This is the first time a copy of the historical charter has been sold by public auction. Mr. David Rubenstein will remain the 800-year-old law document on public display by loaning to US National Archives.
This only copy in US which was presented by British WII Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Americas was issued in 1297 by King Edward I, when the Magna Carta formally became part of English law, more than 80 years after it was written. It is one of only 17 in existence and the only one in private ownership.
Source: Guardian; Link to more backgrounds on the write-up of Magna Carta. #Tags: David Rubenstein, magna carta, sotheby's auction, freedom, human rights, lawsuit, constitution
Big Boi shows his diamond sneakers (picture by Wireimage/Getty)
Hip-hop singer Antwan Patton, aka Big Boi, was presented an exclusive pair of diamond encrusted Nike So Cal 1's valued at $50,000 by two businessmen on Prriya and Chintans Couture boutique November 27. The costly sneakers were studded with 11 carats. Click here for more information. Tags:
Alexander Amosu
, ringtone mogul and maker of various golden branded mobile phones and iPods, has built 10 of Nokia N95s , each with 325 diamonds covering its 18-karat white gold surface. Every diamond-coated phone is sold at £12,000 or $24000, together with a year of free concierge service and a limited-edition number. Link
China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social pollution. But some a jewelery shop in the country's Shenyang City is still more than happy to promote their 'full handmade' gold bras and underwears.
If you are a die-hard Hello Kitty fan and don't mind the amount of around 4900USD too much, you can buy those golden playing cards on Sanrio Online shop since the coming October 3. The introduction of luxurious cards on Pink Tentacle:
Each of the 54 cards (2 jokers included) measures 58 x 89 mm and is made from 0.73 gram of 99.99% pure gold
. Pressed to a thickness of 7 microns with precision rolling technology developed by the Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, the cards are sealed in a protective laminate printed with colorful designs that depict Hello Kitty in royal dress.
Warning on Uber-Review is worthy of your consideration when doing your purchase:
Not appropriate for poker night with your buddies. May result in robbery and / or severe beating.
Don't believe this Audi A8 is in the silver color, but it is made from SILVER. When noticing those Muslims guys in the pictures, you possibly already knew the luxury car must be owned by some a oil-rich Sheikh of Dubai. Not like Saudi Prince Waleed's the 38th car--a diamonds-studded SL-Class 550 Mercedes Benz which is worth US$4,800,000, the price of the Audi A8 here is not known as the email sent in by our friend CSH didn't mention it.
' latest creations are ankle-threatening, ludicrous, impractical and overpriced (£270~330 per pair). Link
was seen on the website of Fabre Minerals, Europe's first Internet mineral dealer since 1996.
Experts at LifeGem UK a company that specializes in creating diamonds using extracted carbon from human or pet remains has done something unrepentantly--they produced a sparkling blue diamond using tiny amounts of carbon extracted from 10 strands of the brown hair of great composer Ludwig van Beethoven
, which came from a collection of famous hair collected at the University Archives in Connecticut, USA. It is the first time a celebrity or historical figure has been turned into a diamond. By being auctioned on eBay , the precious 0.56 carat diamond is expected to sell for £500,000 or US$1,000,000 that will be channeled to the various children's charities.
Update: Aside from the one above, there will be two more Beethoven hair diamonds, but they will not be sold or auctioned elsewhere.
The second diamond belongs to John Reznikoff, provider of the Beethoven hair sample, and the final diamond will be kept by LifeGem to start the LifeGem chain of fame.
Sources: Beethoven's hair turned into £500k diamond @ Telegraph.co.uk & Xinhua
Bling H2O, billed as the Cristal of Waters, is sold at $55 a bottle at a New York "water bar" of Diane Felicissimo, a self-professed water connoisseur.
Source: BPP Bling: Water at $55 a Bottle @ NPR
