Hasta La Gadget!

‘Tis true — we don’t often write about massage chairs here, but throw in some gadget connectivity and they’ll have our attention, just like this AcuTouch 9500. Discovered by Zedomax, this luxurious furniture from Human Touch claims to be the world’s first iOS device-controlled massage chair, meaning you can choose and store your desired routines and intensity — via the free HT-Connect app — on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Just to give you more bang for the buck, there are also downloadable massage programs that are individually customized by doctors and sport stars — most of which you’ve probably never heard of. The price? No info yet, so you’ll just have to keep popping into your local massage parlour until later this year. Demo video after the break.

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Last week we blogged about the summer bar in Ginza for Asahi Super Dry that lets you pour your own glass of below zero beer. Having walked past over the weekend I can assure you that it is very popular and people are queuing on the sidewalk for a chance to get inside.

If beer’s not your drink of choice, though, you might want to try the Moet et Chandon champagne bar in Marunouchi — and dressed in a style that really fits the Japanese summer.

The Yukata Champagne Bar is, as the name implies, a special concept bar for people in summer kimono. Located inside Cafe Garb and only open until August 22, you can enjoy a glass of Moet surrounded by yukata-clad staff or in a private room. Customers who really enter into the mood of the place and come themselves in yukata apparently also get “original Moet presents”.

The consumer base around the plush Marunouchi area will surely be no strangers to luxury beverages like champagne and this campaign is essentially encouraging a bit of seasonal cosplay when drinking. However, we can certainly see it being a hit with office workers and couples looking to unwind in style.

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iPhone 4 Diamond Edition: white, unlocked, and $20k originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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From the front it looks like any other iPhone 4, but flip it around and a glint might catch your eye — that’s the doing of Russian technology tailor Gresso, who’s embedded Swarovski crystals and an 18-karat golden Apple logo in a sheet of African Blackwood attached to the device. As usual, one wonders why anyone would bother, but honestly we can’t complain — the design is worlds more tasteful than the solid gold and diamond-encrusted contraptions we’re used to seeing. Expect the dainty dillantante to arrive in December at a surprisingly reasonable $3,500, or $3,000 for the male-targeted version at right. Of course, if you’ve got that kind of money to spend, you want one now, right? Good news: the iPhone 3GS gets the same luxurious treatment — and price — in July.

[Thanks, Bob]

Gresso gussies up iPhone 4 with rare wooden veneer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can’t say we’ve ever heard of Novero before today, but after watching the undoubtedly mesmerizing homescreen loop linked there in the source, we can safely say we’ll never (ever) forget about ’em. From what we can gather, this company specializes in overpriced jewelry, and given that Bluetooth headset use is rising stratospherically, seeing a new necklace-slash-BT headset hit the market just makes perfect sense. All sarcasm aside, the new Victoria line actually is fairly edgy, and if the light hits you right, it’s actually palatable. The collection consists of the Victoria Lapis, Pearl, Stripes, Wave and Victor, all of which purportedly boast the same innards but different exteriors. Specifications are unsurprisingly hard to come by, but considering some of the more blinged out models are priced at around $120,000, it’s not likely to matter. Video’s past the break, richy.

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Novero’s Bluetooth headset doubles as neckwear, savings destroyer originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 May 2010 10:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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