Tacky. Temporary and Obsolete. They could quite be some words to describe foldable furniture that is so synonymous with outdoor furniture, that people often sidestep it over their other indoor treasures. French Luxury house Hermes that is known for its foldable indoor and outdoor furniture has just emerged with an ultra luxury update on its Hermes Crocodile Pippa folding chair. It is a folding seat that does not look outdoor, is stylishly elegant and yet comfortable.

Its classy design and limited edition features make it look the pride of a living room, for it is finished in matte black crocodile skin. The chair’s structure is made of ebony finish maple and nickel plated hardware. Pippa chair’s design was originally inspired by Jean Michel Frank and Paul Dupre-Lafont designs of 40s and 50s.

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How many times did you fumble on a trip outside your city, for not knowing a language? Or wished you knew the directions to a place without having to ask many when you forgot your travel guide?

Ectaco iTRAVL, a sleek and neat little gadget will make you want to travel and have fun, without jitters. With iTRAVL, you cannot get lost in an alien city, for its in-built Language Teacher teaches you the language of that place much before you could set foot there. It can understand and answer your queries with its native speaker narration ability, instantly – something you could be in dire need of at hotels, shops, restaurants, or even on the streets while are asking for directions.

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Gadgets and gadget-cases are more men’s objects of affection. Not this one. If you have not bought your sweetheart her love jewel yet and want to still give her the best, go in for the latest offer by Element Case. On the offer cards is its Limited Edition Valentine’s Liquid case that suits the classic iPhone and iPhone 3G perfectly. It is pink. A typically girlish color, yet graceful. Pinks and reds have somehow turned out to be Valentine specials.

The design is tastefully feminine. It is chic, yet not over-the-top in look. That does not make it any less sturdy. The strong case protects your phone on all sides. And secures it, firmly! With an Orion Grey and a Frost semi-clear flip lid and the flip lids having personalized heart designs where you could add your special message for your love, you could laser-etch Valentine words and let them stand out. Element Case is taking pre-orders for the restricted series case.

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Love it, hate it, but the truth is you cannot ignore it! We are talking about the £1,060 worth pair of denims being sold under the Balmain tag that has create ripples among the fashion world and critics. Everyone’s asking, of the pair is worth the big price tag?

Designer Christophe Decarnin is up defending his creation’s price saying that the expert workmanship gone into its construction has no match. Well, let’s give it to Decarnin there for these white jeans have a lot of attention paid to detail. In fact, the spirit of motorcycle leathers has been captured pretty well here. We like the bold metal zips on the pockets and the ankles of the skinny legs. In other words, they definitely ‘look’ like designer jeans.

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There were a lot of pictures going around on the net with people claiming them to be real pictures of the new Porsche phone. Ending all those rumours now, Porsche Design has finally released an official statement along with pictures of the P’9522.

Crafted following the Porsche design philosophy, the P’9522 is has an aluminium casing and a scratch-resistant sheet of glass over the top. Apart from the simplistic and elegant design, the phone would also impress the eco-conscious amongst us with its low-power consuming touch screen. The 2.8” touch screen AMOLED display has high brightness levels. The P’9522 has a GPS receiver, fingerprint sensor and built-in 5MP digi-cam with video recording and autofocus. Other specifications include the usual range of functions available in most phones these days: MP3 player, stereo speaker, FM radio and Wi-Fi connectivity.

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Gresso derives to come up with zanily beautiful designs on all its creations. Sometimes, the designs tend to be too zany or mild to impress and other times they nail it. This time, Gresso will definitely turn heads.

Gresso’s Pandora collection of USB Flash Drives releases a boxful of luxury gadgets. Gresso claims the flash drives from the collection are luxury devices. With a memory capacity of 64GB, it is definitely luxury. The Pandora collection has two versions: Black and Red. The body of the Black version is made from 200 year old African Blackwood with 18k gold. A diamond with an LED emitting blue radiance from beneath blings it up further. The Red version takes its name from the ruby which takes the place of the diamond.

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Edox watches are known famously as watches that do not just tell the time, but dazzle you with their brilliant design and also their expensiveness. Edox watches are not for just anyone, these are luxury personified.

From the Edox Proud Heritage collection comes the Edox Koenigsegg Limited Edition. Made in collaboration with Koenigsegg car Production Company, this limited edition is sure to race off the shelves in no time at all. Made from titanium stainless steel, the watch is studded with diamonds over the case and also as hour markers. The watch face displays date apart from the hour, minute and seconds dials. A tachymeter scale is also included to help calculate speed. The titanium stainless steel case is scratch resistant and has glare proof crystal on both sides. Water resistant upo 165ft of water, this black leathered luxury watch can sit pretty on your wrist when you go on that cruise and decide to go diving.

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The things that we require the most are never around when we truly need them. Usually it is because they may be too huge to carry around in our pocket. This is especially true in the case of gadgets.

The ScanU is an extremely useful gadget. A scanner small enough to carry with you anywhere you go, the ScanU is designed by Ashish Chaudhary. The ScanU is built with three units, having specific functions. The central unit is the biggest and this holds the roll out OLED screen which shows the controls. The second unit is the rechargeable battery for the scanner and the third unit hosts a storage unit; both of these units have USB interfaces. It is the roll out screen which provides illumination and captures the data.

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The idea of talking to my wrist always fascinated me, not because me wrist talks back to me but because in the movies spyware always seem to revolve around the wrist. This new gadget would allow you to fulfil that fantasy and make you feel as important as a spy.

The Speak To Me Bracelet Cell phone oscillates between functioning as a cell phone and a watch. The modular design of the STM cell phone also allows it to be worn like a bracelet around your wrist. The phone has a touch screen but can also work by voice recognition. The phone has scroll function to skip through the offered applications and a built in camera. Accepting or rejecting a call becomes can be done using the appropriate colour lines at the sides of the screen. Chic and extremely stylish, the phone is still at the conceptual stage.

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It is our fascination with death, perhaps, that makes us view everything from the eye of destruction. Like connection cheese cake with Frankenstein, we make gross associations that appear almost insane in retrospect.

The Paillard Bolex H8 Military gun is a weapon that you wouldn’t want to choose when you are in danger, because instead of shooting bullets this gun can only shoot videos. With a camera attached, the gun was apparently made for a Vietnam War reporter. The rare gun would definitely have placed the reporter in more trouble instead of helping him out of a dangerous situation. The camera attached has 5x lenses so you would be able to shoot some pretty good pics with this little weapon.

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