Well the Milliondollarhomepage conceived by the 20 year old minipreneur has not gone offline but is starting to make its presence felt in the real world as well. In case you just woke up the site is a visual bombardment of advertising pixels on one page. The idea has earned its creator over a million dollars in advertising sales. Now the concept has been applied to a building developed by the Sandberg Institute (Netherlands). With big sponsors like Google,...

VW UK has decided to cash in on "Mass customisation" and allows customers to design their own Beetle. Designing your dream car is very simple, and will remind you of playing Need for Speed Underground. Users can choose between four different vinyl stickers, which decorate the exterior of the Beetle and provide each vehicle with style and distinctiveness. You can also add a personal touch by mixing colors. The campaign is targeted at women with the catch that you...

While the folks at Apple haven’t thought of incorporating Bluetooth in iPods, the leaders in Bluetooth stereo headsets, Jabra, has taken care of that. Jabra has unveiled A125s Adaptor for iPod which is the perfect way for Bluetooth enabling an iPod so you can enjoy music wirelessly via Bluetooth stereo headset or headphones. The small adapter connects to the slot on your iPod and the real feat is that the adapter is compatible with almost all iPod and nano versions....

This has to be the most exciting keyboard after the Optimus Organic LED keyboard. The Microsoft Ultimate keyboard is wireless, rechargable and backlit. The swanky keyboard has a matted black finish and a sleek design with authentic metal accents. It offers smart recharging which lets users power-up both the mouse and keyboard in one easy-to-use place. With ambient backlighting the light is adjusted based on the room's lighting conditions. It features intelligent proximity sensing which turns on the backlighting...

Sanrio Company Ltd creators of the world famous Hello Kitty along with Mitsukoshi have announced the sale of a limited edition hand made Hello Kitty Electric guitar made by American co Fender. The black colored guitar has a sparkling face of Hello Kitty and the words "Hello Kitty" on the finger board. Earlier two limited edition guitars were sold in Japan but this one has made across the Pacific where Hello Kitty has the biggest fan base....

All the multimedia phones and smart-phones from Nokia will now be pre-loaded with popular Yahoo applications, enabling consumers to have access to a range of popular services including messenger, e-mail, search, connections, photos, ringtones and games. Yahoo's mobile application 'Yahoo Go' will be free for buyers of Nokia N series phones and Series 60 smart-phones with customers only paying charges for accessing the web from their phone. The new 'Yahoo! Go' service provides a desktop-like interface on the mobile. Existing...

Another interesting product from Computex 2006 held at Taipei. The Garfield MP3 player is a bit bigger than the Tamagotchi and fits easily in your palm. The DAP depicts the face of the laziest cat in the world and sports a color display. Though specifications are not known the display seems to be of low resolution capable of displaying 256 or 4096 colors. The player has basic controls like Play / Stop, Change track and volume control. Other details...

Konica Minolta Japan has unveiled the world's brightest Organic EL backlight which has a brightness of 1,000 cd/m2. The backlight will be used in mobile phones and other portable devices so the display can be viewed clearly even under bright light. No word from Konica Minolta as to when the technology will be commercialized....

Motorola in conjuction with leading fashion house Dolce and Gabbana announced a new version of the device in luxurious gold and silver early this month. Here we have shots of the exclusive from its Taiwan launch party. As seen in the above picture you get a host of accessories from Dolce and Gabanna starting with a gold colored carrying case, fashionable lanyard, cloth to clean your precious investment and gold colored D&G labelled Motorola HS-850 Bluetooth headset. The handset...

With the Fifa 2006 World Cup running in Germany footie fever is at its max in Europe. Here we have a German fan who has modified his Lamborghini and its LSD doors to accomodate the German Flag. Needless to say it is the ultimate world cup gadget. With the first quarter finals today, Germany takes on Argentina and if things go the German way we will surely see this Lambo zipping the streets of Germany....

There is still some time before you can have a Hydrogen Fuel Cell powered car in your garage but you can get an experience of things to come with the H-Racer a fuel cell car. The car does not require any batteries and has its own on-board hydrogen storage system. You also get a miniature hydrogen station which comes with a solar panel, just fill water and place it under the sun and using electrolysis it converts water into...

Taiwan based Kouwell showcased the KW−7292 fingerprint disk at the Computex. The external hard disk has a fingerprint sensor so that your confidential data remains safe even if the hard drive gets stolen. Specific folders can be encrypted which can be accessed only after the fingerprint authentication. Moreover, data stored in a PC and fingerprint disk can be synchronized via user settings and e−mails in an Outlook Express mailbox can be sent or received from the fingerprint disk via mobile...

Sony has launched the super tiny Micro Vault Mini USB drives in the Korean market. Measuring just 1.45cm x 3cm x 2.7mm the drives are available in a variety of fruit inspired colors. The drives are available in 256MB, 512MB, 1GB and 2GB capacities....

This week at LuxuryLaunches: we went for a ride in Swarovski Encrusted SUV and checked out the panoramic Holman House front onto Pacific clinging to the edge of a cliff. The Diamond Sofa- jeweled furniture is sure to catch an eye of the flashy kinds. Flamboyant Paris Hilton flaunts Swarovski Crystal T-Mobile Sidekick 3. The wine is sure to chill enough in the Liebherr Side-By-Side Refrigerator with a wine cabinet while we chilled out on Cabana Islander- floating island...

Taiwan-based Asuka Semiconductor has announced the ARA K-60 which the company claims is the worlds smallest digital TV. The ARA K-60 is equipped with a 3-inch low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) TFT-LCD panel display (960×240 pixels) and a built-in telescopic antenna. A Lithium Polymer battery provides around 3 hours of DTV broadcast reception. The ARA K-60 is fully compliant with DVB-T standards and can therefore receive Digital TV and radio broadcasts. The ARA K-60 can also operate as a set-top box (STB),...