Nov 26

Hasselblad’s Ferrari-branded H4D camera: now available for just €21,499

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Now that you’ve wasted precious moments of your life saving $10 here, $8 there and $6.23 in your local Target, how’s about a Black Friday deal that you’ll never forget. Hasselblad’s Ferrari-branded H4D medium format camera, which we saw unveiled earlier this year at Photokina, is now shipping to the affluent, the zany, and the select few that happen to be both. So far as we can tell, this is just an H4D with a Ferrari-approved design scheme, and neither point helps to make this thing anywhere near affordable. A grand total of 499 are being made available today, with each one to run €21,499 ($28,425) + tax. Who knew you’d be buying something today that’s only purchasable via your Centurion card — puts a whole new spin on Black Friday, huh?

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Nov 23

Digital Storm’s liquid-chilled gaming PC includes 4.6GHz Core i7-980X, equally chilling price

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Mmm, overclocking. If you’ve been looking to treat yourself this holiday season, there’s hardly a better way than with a shiny new gaming PC. Better still, a shiny new gaming PC with a liquid-chilled processor… one that just so happens to be warrantied with a 4.6GHz clock speed. Digital Storm’s Hailstorm desktop is now available with a so-called Sub-Zero cooling system, which is described as a series of TEC peltier coolers that work in conjunction with other high-end liquid cooling components to keep Intel’s Core i7-980X from boiling over. On the high-end rig, you’ll also get 6GB of DDR3 memory, a trio of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 (1.5GB) GPUs, a 1200-watt power supply and a bank-breaking $6,903 price tag. Cost-conscious consumers can opt for two lesser systems, with a $4,390 build being equipped with a Core i7-950 and the $3,899 unit creeping by with only a single GTX 460 GPU. But hey, what’s a few grand among friends? Promo vid is after the break.

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Nov 17

Olive’s 2TB O6HD music server makes audiophiles (and designers) swoon

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How exactly does a boutique outfit like Olive match its lowest-end offering yet? Why, by announcing it’s highest-end offering yet merely two months later, of course! Sure enough, Olive has just issued its newest music server (the O6HD) with an eye on affluent audiophiles — ones willing to pay a meager $4,999 for a 2TB unit. Aside from buying what’s likely the most guapo piece of AV equipment we’ve ever seen, that tally also nets you a pair of TI 192khz / 24-bit Burr-Brown PCM1792 modules, “flawless” encoding and decoding of lossless audio, simultaneous stream support, an ultra-quiet 2T AV hard drive, eight layers of noise canceling padding, a TEAC CD-RW drive, gobs of analog and digital outputs, a gigabit Ethernet jack, inbuilt 802.11n WiFi, HDMI out, a USB 2.0 port and a 10.1-inch 800 x 480 color touchpanel. It’s all encased in a fine-grade aluminum shell (passively cooled), leaving you with only one simple decision: silver or black, Sir Godfrey?

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Olive’s 2TB O6HD music server makes audiophiles (and designers) swoon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 03

Lamborghini Spyder handset totally unnecessary, available in Hong Kong

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If you have a Lamborghini, a surfeit of money, and an absence of good taste, have we got the phone for you! Out now in Hong Kong, the Tonino Lamborghini Spyder Series of handsets feature a 2.2-inch display, 3 megapixel camera, 4GB internal storage, 316L-grade stainless steel casing, and — if you shell out a little extra — a crocodile skin back. Sort of makes Vertu look reasonable in comparison, eh? No, we suppose not. Prices start at HK $13,800 (that’s about $1,781 here in the states) and climb upward fairly quickly. Get a closer look after the break.

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Nov 03

Lamborghini Spyder handset totally unneccessary, available in Hong Kong

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If you have a Lamborghini, a surfeit of money, and an absence of good taste, have we got the phone for you! Out now in Hong Kong, the Tonino Lamborghini Spyder Series of handsets feature a 2.2-inch display, 3 megapixel camera, 4GB internal storage, 316L-grade stainless steel casing, and — if you shell out a little extra — a crocodile skin back. Sort of makes Vertu look reasonable in comparison, eh? No, we suppose not. Prices start at HK $13,800 (that’s about $1,781 here in the states) and climb upward fairly quickly. Get a closer look after the break.

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Nov 02

ASUS finally ships Lamborghini Eee PC VX6, but mind that gas guzzler tax

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It was introduced way back in June, but it looks as if ASUS has just now gotten its ducks in a row with regard to this speedster. The 12.1-inch Lamborghini Eee PC VX6 is now shipping across the pond, offering an Intel Atom D525 processor, NVIDIA Optimus graphics and Bang & Olufsen audio. It’s available from a host of retailers for £499 ($798), and there’s precisely zero doubt that you’ll be buying one. Because, you know — nothing goes together quite like bargain basement hardware and elitist branding, right? Bonus vid is after the break, if you’re so inclined.

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Oct 31

Gucci’s 3D glasses up the ante with $225 fashion tag

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Perhaps we were being unfair with Oakley’s $150 3D shades — that company, in fact, just didn’t go far enough. Cut to Gucci with “optically correct” Real D frames of its own. No wraparounds, it’s all glass forward, and like we said last time, you’ll be the absolute most fashionable person in a crowded room full of people decidedly not looking in your direction for the entire duration of the glasses’ applicable use. Look for these to hit your local US Gucci boutique — if you have to ask where, it probably wasn’t on your purchase list anyway — for $225. Your move, Louis Vuitton.

Gucci’s 3D glasses up the ante with $225 fashion tag originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 27

Munk Bogballe debuts Classic Bespoke luxury laptop line: $7,000 and way, way up

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With a name like Munk Bogballe, it has to be pricey… right? Right. 2.5 years after launching what’s likely the most expensive MacBook of all time, the aforesaid purveyor of fine, fine mobile computers has introduced its Classic Bespoke collection — at the Millionaire Fair in Moscow, no less. So, what does a base price of €5,200 ($7,180) buy you? A 5.1 pound slab of aluminum, accented with lush leather, a mahogany screen frame, freshwater pearl on / off button and oodles of gold. Oh, and a single line of diamonds, presumably for squeezing out six to ten more frames per second in Portal. You may also expect to get only the latest and greatest when it comes to technology, but you’d be badly mistaken; the standard configuration ships with a Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a paltry 500GB hard drive. If you’re hot for an SSD, ostrich leather or an 18 carat gold power button, that’ll be extra. Not like you really care, Mr. Millionaire.

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Oct 18

Microsoft to spend one billion dollars advertising Kinect and Windows Phone 7

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Microsoft’s serious about making Kinect a success. A $500 million kind of serious. That’s the latest report, courtesy of the New York Post, on the change Steve Ballmer and company intend to drop to make sure that every living and breathing creature in the US knows about the controller-free controller this holiday season. That mirrors earlier analyst estimates placing the Windows Phone 7 marketing budget at a similar figure, which in total would amount to a cool billion dollars in advertising expenditure. We already know Microsoft’s scooped the Old Spice Guy for WP7, but Kinect is getting the extra special carpet bombing treatment with Burger King, Pepsi, YouTube, Nickelodeon, Disney, Glee, Dancing with the Stars, People and InStyle magazines, and even Times Square all having a role to play in spreading the word. Yup, it’s gonna be pretty hard to miss it.

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Oct 05

Ultrasone Edition 10 headphones sound and are expensive: $2,749 for one of only 2010 made

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Hands up if you actually know what ruthenium is. Don’t worry if you don’t, it’s just used as an external plating on these extremely luxurious open-back cans. More familiar expensive materials can be found within, with titanium-plated 40mm drivers, silver-plated copper wires with 99.99 percent purity and kevlar-coated cables, and of course, for that extra special touch, Ethiopian sheepskin earcup pads. That’s skin, not wool, so bear it in mind if you care for the welfare of little fluffy ones. Either way, the Ultrasone Edition 10s do seem like they’ve packed just enough luxury and exclusivity to justify their $2,745 price — only thing we need now is a matching mahogany furniture set, preferably with some endangered species’ heads adorning our walls.

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