People must have always asked you to wake up and smell the coffee, and that too in a very nasty manner. Most of us associate smelling coffee with facing the truth and rarely with the drink itself. This time around, here is an amazing coffee machine that lets you start your day and smell the coffee, for all its worth.

Called the “Good News”, the coffee machine comes integrated with a radio and are designed in a bright and flashy manner. They can be used in trendy kitchens and thanks to the high quality of technology that is involved, you sure will be able to gulp down a real good steaming cup of coffee. Thanks to the Iperespresso capsules you could make a real Barista style coffee. You would also not need any other music device in your kitchen, thanks to its music playing abilities.

If only it had robotic technology, and it could walk straight to your bed, and served the coffee in bed it would have been a great gadget. Well, I guess I am expecting too much. The Good News is available in several different colours and you could choose the one that suits your interiors!

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Luxury industry is quite funny, and quite volatile too. Not only the consumers have a wrong idea about what is luxurious, even the manufacturers seem to think that by applying a coat or two of a precious metal, a gadget or a product would become “luxurious”.

Alas, if only things were that easy! Thus, Pentax has also gone wr9ong and unveiled the limited edition K-7 DSLR which is practically the same as the older K-7 DSLR but just comes with a coat of silver. Only a few thousands of these units would be marketed worldwide, and that apparently will make the K-7 DSLR exclusive.

We luxury reviewers would like to remind the manufacturers that cameras do not become luxurious by applying a coat of silver or gold, and what makes a product luxurious is its exclusivity, its quality and the efficiency which it must provide to the extreme levels. If you as a consumer would like to believe this is luxurious, it comes with the usual reinforced glass plate, updated firmware, photo processing software and weatherproof capability. I would advise you to stay away from it.

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Who does not want furniture they can flaunt? LED furniture that lights up the mood of an occasion, home or even an office, is here for you to show off. It’s no longer confined to starry pubs and lounges. Customised Designs now offersLED tables with added features to those of us who are at ease with technology.

The LED table that was used only as bar décor till now, or to display liquor bottles, can be connected to any video device or can be used to run slideshows. It can be used to play games too. The difference with this LED table offered by Customised Designs, is that unlike other glass top tables, it does not attract scratches like acrylic.

It is durable, and allows you to change the top colour depending on your mood. That’s creativity infused in lighting! This is one table you would want around you even if you are not the type who sips ale non-stop. The offering price on the LED table is $1499, besides additional options such as netbook PCs, preloaded visuals, underglow lighting, custom programmed video slideshows for restaurants and bars.

Customised Designs is into making products for liquor bottle displays and illuminated furniture, with white lighting and with colour. The company officials say their LEDs use less energy.

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Valentines anything, is the buzzword for products ranging from the modest to exquisite, from budget to millions. It is not just about those three magical words – I Love You. Companies are busy churning out expensive chocolates, cards, watches, green products, and limited editions of their special products, even services such as dinners and cruise liner rendezvous! Amosu, the mobile phone maker, is not behind.

Amosu has come up with its Pink Limited Editions for women who’d love to receive expensive mobiles as their gifts, and find black a not-so likeable color for their cellphones. Far from being a perishable fancy, Amosu’s Pink Limited Edition cell phones are dressed in color of love, here, pink. Such a relief from blacks and grays! Of course, there is that great need of your being generous enough to dole out the notes, and have them too! You could choose the bright pink Blackberry Bold. Else, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and grab the diamond-studded Blackberry Bold or iPhone in pink.

Pink Bold 9700 is priced at £1000 which translates to $1,600. Bold can be availed for £6,000 or $9,300, while the Pink Iphone with diamonds holds the all-fancy price tag of £14,000 which is, $21,800.
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It’s a very difficult task indeed. Trying to improve perfection! Naah, it’s not flattery but a simple fact that has been experienced by all B&W loyalists (just ask them and you will know). The British speaker manufacturer has impressed us all time and again with its quest for delivering the perfect sound. In fact, one can very well give them the credit for raising the benchmark for speakers.

Also known as Bower & Wilkins, the company has now tried its best to incorporate the precision and clarity of a diamond. And to achieve this, it has taken the aid of a superior strength in the 800 Series tweeter which promises to produce less distortion and a much greater frequency extension and resolution. This is a tad rare considering that most other companies either use cloth or metal dome designs.

All of these 800 Series musical masterpieces have been manufactured in the UK. The speakers come in three kinds of finishes – Rosenut, Cherrywood and Piano Black – with the price ranging between $5K and $24K per pair. It’s gonna cost you an arm and a leg but you will never regret spending all that money.

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There are some good things too about living through a global economic recession. We are talking about low costs of quality products up on the market. This has been a major move on the part of the manufacturers to improve sales. So, now that you might not wanna hang out too often at your favorite pub due to a tight monthly budget, we think you can always enjoy your favorite music from the comfort of your own home.

You have Danish makers Davone RITHM loudspeakers to thank for that. Yep, they have decided to cut the cost price of their cool new speakers that are 27 inches tall and have an elegance to match the high quality of sound it produces. A high resolution coaxial loudepaker driver has been used in here.

All the techie specs have been combined pretty smoothly with the pressure-formed wood cabinetry to ensure you get a powerful, precise and balanced music. On top of all that, the speakers also give a very controlled and tuneful bass in low frequency settings. The original price was $5,595 a pair and now you can get the same set for $3,995. One more thing, the other two color options – Oak and Black- have been discontinued so you can get only the walnut finishing.

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Sleek is always in as far as the modern way of life goes. There is no time and space for clutter. In fact, those who used to proudly show off their homes over stuffed with artefacts from all over the world do not necessarily win any envious glances nowadays. People want clean, simple and beautiful spaces to breath in. And where does this apply most than your own home, or can we take the liberty of saying the bathroom.

Yep, the only refuge in the world known to mankind can now be given a new avatar thanks to Lucedentro and its all new bathroom top that promises to be a real deserving addition to your already well chosen hardware and the contemprary design. We hear that this one is a sandwich glass fabrication with the top bearing a photo-luminescent PVC film in between the glasses. The latter is able to accumulate daylight and gives it back through three gorgeous colors – Aqua-marina, Yellow green and Ocean blue.

So, this one is easy on the power consumption as the sun’s energy is resued in a very smart manner. A magical thing is the new bathroom top from Lucedentro. Our only fear is that you might just not want to leave the bathroom at all!

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Have you always wanted to own a private helicopter  but we let down by its carbon emissions or even the ever rising fuel costs? We might have just the option you were always looking for. This one likes to go by the name of E430. It’s a prototype of an electric aircraft that was introduced by Yuneec International, which is a British company currently working in China.

We hear that the organisation has great aspirations. It has full plans to mass produce the aircraft for the global market and have it readily delivered by 2011.

The aircraft will be a two seater with fuel costs as low as $2 oer hour. Even the maintainance costs are going to be significantly low when compared to that of a piston aircraft. All you have to do is plug in to recharge. So that means you don’t have to deal with messy gasoline or oil. The price range is around big figures, the likes of $89K. A great way to travel this one will bring about a huge change- that of traveling silently with the least minimum emissions. It has extra long wings to provide plenty of lift for flights that might last up to two and a half hours between charges.

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In our eternal pursuit of modern living enabled by gadgets, we all tend to hook ourselves up to our laptops, mobiles and other such devices.

With Evoline Port lounge that has two main sockets, two Ethernet ports to power your device proper, you can stay tuned to the internet just where you want to, at the coffee table. Or simply hook up at the socket for a business presentation.

The socket port is made of sturdy aluminium while its composite covers come in three shades – silver, black and stainless steel. The port lounge is priced at £900 which is approximately $ 1,470. And sure has the ability to hide away ugly looking wires that spread out over your living area, workstations, or coffee places.

In future, you may probably have classic and rustic looking tables sporting such plug sockets.

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The days of creating and maintaining the old photo albums are long gone and the traditional albums are now being fast replaced by digital photo albums. However, for many of us, it becomes a really tiresome task to take each image from our old albums, then scan them to a computer and finally make a transfer to the digital albums. However, the all new digital photo frame from Hammacher Schlemmer has been designed specifically to preserve out golden memories with absolute ease. The device has an in built scanner, that allows the users to simply put their images in the scanner and rest the machine will take care of.

The photo frame/scanner effortlessly converts the old conventional printed images to digital forms with an astounding color depth of 300-dpi in JPG format. The all new digital photo frame/scanner has been provided with a 1GB storage capacity, meaning that the device can easily store upto 3,000 images and the 8 inch LCD screen on the photo frame provides a viewing resolution of 800 x 600 in thumbnails, full-screen size and including slide shows. There is also the option of running MP3 tracks along with the slide shows along with a picture calendar, clock and supports MPEG video playback. The Hammacher Schlemmer photo frame/scanner can be purchased from their website and is available for $199.95.