Instead of getting a gold watch to match your designer vehicle, you can now go for a gold plated Car to set off your watch. There is no match for the extravagant gold Smart Fortwo that may hit the roads soon. Lately Brock Alloy Wheels has displayed its gold plated Benz Smart tuning-car during Tuning World Bodensee 2007. This customized car is no different then its plain-Jane version except for its Golden exterior. Smart Fortwo is a car that...

With time mobile phones have improved in every aspect from plain VGA to 5 Megapixel cameras, screens supporting 256 colors are a thing of the past and now we have screens with 16 million colors, onboard memory has been pegged from a few megabytes to gigabytes now, however the only thing stagnated is the FM radio. From Mainland China comes the Super Radio Phone, it looks like a normal candy-bar phone but flip it over and you have a...

Mattel is out with updated goodies for the not-so-little-girls. Labeled as the unparalleled, hybrid play experience that blends fashion, music and an online virtual world. We are talking about the Barbie Girls online world and the subsequent release of anMP3 player. The online world will allow girls to create their own virtual character, design their own "room," shop at the mall, play games, hang out and chat live with other girls. And when the Barbie Girl MP3 player is...

Had Prince Victor Emmanuel used a secure cellphone he could have saved himself the embarrassment and arrest regarding the allegations of providing prostitutes and dealing in illegal slot machines. Similarly Luciano Moggi (of the soccer game-fixing scandal fame) and Vice President Piero Fassino of the Democratic Left party (and his comments on a sensitive bank takeover) were nailed due to their negligent use of the mobile phone. A number of Italian politicians, businessmen, soccer players and coaches, showgirls and actors...

I totally believe in color therapy and maybe adding that dash of color to my consoles will make me lucky enough to win my games. Therapies aside, ColorWare is the place to send in your drab PS3, Wii or Xbox360 consoles and change them into a swanky new color. The three-step procedure involves filling out a form, choosing a color and sending in your piece. In less than ten days they will ship you your shiny new consol back....

Good-looking digital photo frames with equally good specs are hard to come by. Pretty soon there will be a strong contender for this slot. The Ality PF-T80R Digital Photo Frame from Mustek has 800 x 600 resolution, with an aspect ration of 4:3. Though the internal memory is 256MB, its expandable memory supports MMC / SD/ CF / MS / MS Pro. It sports an 8" Active Matrix TFT screen that features Touch Buttons. The Mirror Surface on the...

Here is a concept that has changed into a great design. The folks at Nanjing OIOI Design Inc, were asked to create a functional and unique web cam that would appeal to students and youth. It should incorporate realizable technology that should be easy to develop. With these criteria kept in mind, the Bubble head Web Cam was born. Its flexible body incorporates a LED clock that shows the time even when the camera is not in use. The...

If cell phones and music players can get a chic facelift then why not for the behind-the-scene gadgets like the USB flash drives too? Well, PQI has unveiled a new generation of USB flash drives for the fashion conscious users. This hottest Intelligent Drive i810 is just what you’ve been hunting for. Its Intelligent Stick Interface is fully compliant with USB 1.1 / 2.0, Windows Vista, XP, 2000, ME, and Mac 10.1. Moreover you can be care free as...

If you thought that you were done with shopping for ladies, then think again mister; Mother's Day is round the bend! Don't get all flustered; you can get her the Sansa C250 digital audio player that is available in yummy pink and red colors. Its out in 1GB or 2GB and has a 1.4-inch color display for 'showing album art and JPEG thumbnails', an FM tuner, radio recording function, voice recorder, USB 2.0, a microSD expansion slot, and a...

An old name to reckon with, Brionvega has been on the scene since 1945 making TVs and radios. Some of their designs have found prominence at museums and stores. Their Cuboglass style is still available to date. V12 Design designed their latest concept the Alpha TV. Giving it a total retro look is the curved chrome and the cool orange color scheme. The chunky metal vintage-style remote control adds to the style....

Call it a two-in-one combo, but nothing can take away the fact that Haier Elegance is a brilliant phone for music lovers. It's a Tri-Band GSM plus MP3 player that is so compact; it could pass off as a lipstick case. The finishing of gun metal-mercury mirrored surface can put some fine looking black pearls to shame. It also features FM Stereo tuner, Stereo BlueTooth Transmitter, Voice Recorder and full color OLED display with some delightful 3-D graphics. The...

One of my fav Nick characters is SpongeBob, so when I came across it's USB concept I could not resist putting up the post. The Russian-designed SpongeBob USB Drive looks like the character; that is till the memory fills up. Once the memory is full Sponge Bob transforms to a Blowfish. What will really be interesting is the moment when Bob metamorphosis to a fish. Does he pop and bursts into his new avatar? Or does it happen slowly...

Motorola has gone ga-ga over Hong Kong, first there was the Motorola KRZR Gold specially made from Hong Kong and now we have the MOTOROKR E6 Jay Chou edition. The phone has orange edges and is engraved with the Jay Chou logo a musical heart throb in South Asia. The Rokr comes bundled with a Eric So Jay Chou action figure, Chou's lanyard, exclusive pouch and a 1GB SD card preloaded with Jay Chou's ringtone and wallpapers. The MOTOROKR...

After laptops, monitors, a few cellphones and other gizmos, the Sony Ericsson K800i gets the Ferarri makeover. The K800i is available since a year now, it packs in a 3.2 Megapixel camera, Dual Mode GSM/GPRS/UMTS connectivity and Bluetooth. The phone might be preloaded with exclusive Ferrari wallpapers, ringtones, screensavers and so on. There is no information on when the phone will be available and how much will it cost. (More images after the jump)...

Ok here is a gadget which is practically useless except for the cool factor, this German shify knob has an LCD which displays what cog your transmission is residing.The gear has to be programmed first as you need to assign gear numbers to depending on your car's specific position. The LCD has an auto dimmer and is available in red and blue for $170....