KEF’s limited edition $130K MUON speakers

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Another treat for the uber-rich audiophiles! British manufacturer KEF has now dropped limited edition Ross Lovegrove-designed MUON speakers, of which just one-hundred pairs will be made. The MUON has been carved from super-formed aluminum and malleable sheets of heated aluminum that bless it with an inimitable shape. The 7-feet tall beautifully crafted four-way speaker system are technically quite sound with the powerful bass drivers, upper mid-range and treble. They have managed to double the available volume proficiently by adsorbing air molecules by activated carbon, thanks to the Acoustic Compliance Enhancement (ACE) technology. Hey, you know very well that such high quality, such a beautifully designed set of speakers won?t come cheap. Yes, they are priced at $130,000 per pair. Check out the other luxury speakers too.

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The Trekstor MovieStation Stores Movies, Playsback In HD

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By David Ponce

Having recently purchased a 37 inch HDTV, I’m in the market for the best way to bring higher definition content to it. I’m about to buy the Ziova CS-505, but now that I’ve seen the TrekStor MovieStation, I’m reconsidering. It’s basically just a hard drive, with media player hardware thrown in. You plug it into your PC and fill the drive up with whatever video content you’ve got, then plug it to your TV and watch it. It handles a variety of formats (MPEG-1 (VCD), MPEG-2 (SVCD, KVCD, DVD), IFO, VOB, DivX3, DivX5, XviD), and it can upscale them up to 1080i. Sadly there is no HDMI output, so you have to use component cables and either Digital optic (Toslink), analog stereo (Cinch) audio connection. And it’s not networkable, so you have to shuttle back and forth between TV and PC. The drive comes in sizes ranging from 250GB up to 500GB, and prices $300 and $400.

Of course, this device alone is inferior to the Ziova CS-505 (which does all this, and more, but streaming over your network), but I own an Xbox 360. Used in conjunction with the MovieStation, I may just be able to cover all my bases (since the Xbox 360 upscales DVDs over the VGA connection). Well… except for true HD content, but that’s easily solved with the inexpensive HD-DVD drive for the 360.

If anyone wants to suggest a better hardware combination, let’s hear it in the comments.

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$18K Z-Box freestanding bedroom for lofts

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Making the best usage of the available space at homes is not everyone?s cup-of-tea. Primarily designed for a loft lacking a place for a proper bedroom, the architect Dan Hisel’s Z-Box is a 12 foot squared, steel-framed and freestanding 10-feet tall box made especially to fit small places. Lined with douglas fir wood, the Z-Box features a sleeping area, night tables, clothes closet, lamps, and shelves backlit with windows. The translucent polycarbonate exterior wall holds a bookshelf, and a small dog bed.

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The Z-Box gives answer to the two of the main questions of the owners of newly renovated wide-open loft; where are we going to sleep? Where are we going to put all this stuff? The basics idea is to create another room inside a room thereby dividing the area in two. I know you loved the idea but remember, the Z-Box costs $18K.

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Download Of The Day – Bluetooth Texter

Are you ever sitting at your computer and suddenly realize you want to send someone a text message and then realize your cell phone is hidden in your purse in the other room? The Bluetooth Texter widget allows Mac users with Bluetooth set ups to connect to their Bluetooth phone and and send SMS messages.
All you have to do is activate your Dashboard, enter your message in the widget, select a phone number and hit send. The phone numbers in the widget’s drop-down list come straight from your Addressbook. The phone selection list contains your favorite paired Bluetooth phones. You can download it from Happymaking Games.

I found something comparable for PC users,

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Sleek Alert: Samsung SLIQ Cell Phone

The concept SLIQ Phone by Samsung is all about sleek. It features a touch interface (think iPhone) which eliminates the conventional keypad making the overall usage experience a highly tactile one. It has a wide LCD screen that supposedly maximizes visual impact, allowing the user to benefit from several key features of the phone, including the 2 megapixel camera featuring Schneider-Kreuznach lens, video player and document viewer capacity.

The phone is amazingly thin (reportedly 10 mm), but it still touts an MP3 player and a music multitasking function for messaging. It also has an external memory slot, allowing the user to increase memory capacity for images, music and film clips. For an additional image,

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PC World Exposes The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks

Ever get the e-mail about that lost relative that’s died and left you a fortune, only you have to share your banking number with someone in West Africa? What about the e-mail promising a cash payout from Bill Gates if you forward an e-mail to a bagillion of your friends? Online pranks and shams are all too familiar to those of us that live on the web, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t delightfully funny or painfully jarring. This month’s PC World has put together a list of the The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks and I for one, took a little trip down memory lane. Highlights include:

  • The Accidental Tourist (2001) – Quite possibly the most famous hoax picture ever, this gruesome idea of a joke traveled around the Web and made a grand tour of e-mail inboxes everywhere soon after the tragedy of September 11. It depicts a tourist standing on the observation deck of one of the World Trade Center towers, unknowingly posing for a picture as an American Airlines plane approaches in the background.
  • Sick Kid Needs Your Help (1989) – This gem had its roots in reality. It all began in 1989, when nine-year-old cancer patient Craig Shergold thought of a way to achieve his dream of getting into the Guinness Book of World Records. Craig asked people to send greeting cards, and boy, did they. By 1991, 33 million greeting cards had been sent, far surpassing the prior record.
  • Bill Gates Money Giveaway (1997) – “Dear Internet Subscriber,” the e-mail starts. “The Government of the United States is quietly pushing through legislation that will affect your use of the Internet.” It goes on to reveal that “Bill 602P” will authorize the U.S. Postal Service to assess a charge of five cents for every e-mail sent.

    • For the complete list of web Tom Foolery, check out PC World.

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