We have all understood how cool and elegant the Kindle actually is. It reduces the reliance on paper and makes you a clean and green person. Most importantly, it opens door to a wide selection of books and magazines thanks to the collection on Amazon.

Amazon literally changed the way we perceive “books”. Now, if you are missing the leathery hard bind of old books, here is a cool Case-Mate which recreates the Old English book style with a genuine leather case. It even comes with an LED powered light so that you can read at night easily without having to use a table lamp. The Case-Mate has called their Kindle II case Enlighten. The Enlighten would be available from December onwards.

Unfortunately, it increases the size of the sleek and thin Kindle and might make you feel you are carrying a bulky book from the library. It is a perfect gift for anyone who is expecting a Christmas gift from you. It is still cool and looks good, protects you kindle and the extra weight and baggage can be ignored for a while till they design something sleeker and slimmer.

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I had never wanted a car that looked ordinary and dull. I always wanted something that was out of the ordinary and something that stood out from the rest. At the same, I am very particular about cars that save energy and that which are not gulping down gallons of crude oil.

If this is how you think as well, you might like the concept BMW Lovos (Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity) which has been the work of BMW and Anne Forschner, a student at the German Pforzheim University. The concept comes with scale shaped solar panels that make your car look like a futuristic dinosaur and also see all the reflective solar light and convert that into energy.

The scales can be opened and closed just like fish scales and you could expect the car to look really cool. I would so love to get a piece of this car, only if it is manufactured in real. Most of the times, great cars are never available in the market because most of them end up being just concepts without ever seeing the light of the day. If you would like to drive a car like this, I would say you will have to mod an existing car with solar panels that look like scales.

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If you are the kind of person who is looking for a cool clock to keep you aware of the time during these cold and dark and gloomy months, you must perhaps think about buying this cool Chumby One alarm clock. To say that it is just an alarm clock would be an understatement as it is comes with more than 1200 applications which can be used when it is co0nnected to Internet.

The Chumby One alarm clock costs $100 and this is a big reduction in price when compared to the $200 original Chumby. Thanks to Wi-fi you can check your Twitter account, update your Facebook, and send email and do thousands of things. It even gives you the much needed weather report and snow fall warnings, just in case you plan to set out for a walk during the afternoon.

You could even connect it to an iPod Nano using the USB port. You could also connect to many radio stations such as Pandora and listen to music. While I could go on for pages about all the thousands of things it can do, let me cut it short and say that the Chumby One alarm clock does thousands of things thanks to Internet and 1200 applications specially designed for it. Go and get yours today!

Sometimes you might have gotten tired of cooking in the same old boring cooking pots which get old and rusty after sometime. If you are the kind of person who cannot stand anything that is old and boring, you might as well buy a number of cooking pots just to keep the monotony away.

However, this not only increases the clutter in your kitchen but also takes up a lot of space. What you would need is this cool and fantastic Coral Cooking Pot. The Coral Cooking Pot comes with floral designs which are reminiscent of the 80s. All the would-be Giadas can use the visual indicator of hot the pot is and thanks to which one can either reduce or increase the heat. It comes with thermochromatic spots which look like floral designs.

I am sure if there is no colour left and everything turns red, that means you have burned not just your food, but also the Coral Cooking pot! Take a look at this wonderful video to understand who the magical pot works, and I am sure you would love to get one for yourself. It is a cool product that is a must-have in every kitchen. There is no information about its price or availability.

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Design Boom organized the Green Life Competition in Incheon, Korea in collaboration with 3709 designers from 96 different countries. While there were several cool designs in the competition list, one that caught our fancy and also the one that received about 1171 votes was the “Shelf” designed by Leon Zhu from China.

The Shelf is a device that can be attached to the back of the car and when your car is parked or when there is a lot of sunlight, you could cover your car and protect it from harsh sunlight. Moreover, the Shelf converts the solar energy into usable electricity that can be used to power the Air Conditioner in your car. It can also be used as a rear wing so that you get a lot of stability while driving at breakneck speeds.

It can also provide energy for other devices such as tail light and electronic equipment. I would have loved to get it for myself, but unfortunately it might not be available in the markets as it is not released to the retail market. Thanks to the solar cell board, it is one of the greenest devices around. Just keep your eyes open for a device like this.

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The rider is somewhat a cross between a skateboard and a bicycle. Yet, it is so efficient it could eliminate the need for use of bikes and four-wheelers for short distance travel. The deceptively simple looking cool pulley vehicle allows a person to ride on its board or disconnect the board and be pulled while the person is on skates, skateboard, etc.

Its engine can gain a speed up to 12 miles per hour and it provides an hour of runtime per charge. To charge the pulley vehicle, you need to remove the battery from the base and plug it into a wall outlet.

The `vehicle’ can be parked in an upright position unlike conventional bicycles and skateboards.  The good part of Cool Rider is its sleek and stylish look despite the extremely functional design for conveyance. You can own the vehicle for $ 1250, which is hardly a fraction of Segway. You pay no sales tax on the trendy bicycle-skater but if you want to ship it, shell out another $ 50. Cool Rider comes with a one year warranty and a 30 day return period. Use it as a fancy toy or that weekend excuse to game it out. It can help you ride to the nearest grocer’s too.

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The Emotion Lab are a group of designers from 3 different continents and 3 different countries: from Mexico, Spain and Australia. They design concepts that seek to provoke emotions and that which are influenced by diverse cultures around the world. Such a stand always commits to the relevance of the design and that is perhaps what makes them really cool.

Their latest offering is the Room Cone which is part of their Inside Urban Collection. It is inspired by the witches’ hats, which communicate with [people around them. These “witches’ hats” tell people to move away, to not step somewhere and to be careful. Sweating with urban energy, the Room Cone can be used an ambient light source and can be installed outdoors or indoors.

It works even in windy conditions and you could use it to hold parties around it. It looks good in the garden, if you asked me and you could talk about how you managed to not step into the manhole thanks to one of those good ol’ Witch Hats. I would say, get one of these if they are available commercially. They look really chic!

Most people use cellphones just for receiving and making calls. It is quite common to see people getting flustered with all the unwanted features which could actually be enjoyed better on the laptop or with a camera. The 31337 (Elite) Net Phone has thus been designed by Shane Crozier and it brings the social networking lifestyle to the real life.

Cutting down on many unwanted features such as camera, speakerphone, music, video and internet functionality, the 31337 adds contacts by linking to sites such as Facebook and Twitter. It takes all the data from there and comes with 2 minimal buttons and 2 dial interface. It also comes with a scrolling interface. Now all I would want in this is texting facility as most people use cellphones to send SMS.

While it is great to see a gadget that comes with minimal features, it would be great to see something that does not strip a gadget off some of the most important features. For example, a cellphone is most importantly used to send text messages. Internet and camera on a cellphone aren’t bad ideas either. Hence, I would say this gadget looks amazing but lacks most features I would want on a cellphone.

Jason Stillman is one of those sculptors who take sculpting to a new level. While many of his works are already on display at many places, he has designed an amazing Kinetic Steel Sculpture titled “The Evolution of Flora”. It is right now installed at Performance Arts Center in downtown Colorado Springs and would be available for purchase for $17,000. This large steel fabricated sculpture stands 10-11 feet tall and measures 5-6 feet in width.

It comes with multiple moving parts and the flowers and the leaves flutter in breeze. Using a stain lacquer called Permalac, it can be used as an indoor or an outdoor sculpture. Just two coatings of this amazing lacquer are enough to withstand even extreme weather conditions for about 10 years. The Evolution of Flora allows the viewer and art enthusiast to appreciate the evolution of plants and flowers which are largely ignored by people.

There have been many sculptures about human and animal development and evolution, but rarely about flora. This sculpture brings the importance of plants to the subject of serious art study. Perhaps it is time to invest money in serious art than on boring luxury products that are featured everyday on hundreds of luxury blogs.

Daggers were usually used by princes in the Orient where there was always a threat to one’s life. Daggers were also used by peasants, the poor and the bandits. However, the royals carried daggers that were studded with diamonds and that which were made of gold and platinum.

While most of these royal weapons are now kept in museums across the world, you might feel the need to protect your life too, in a medieval and ancient way and scare the crap outta people who might annoy you, albeit in a luxurious way. Here is what could be one of the most expensive daggers ever made. The Guardian Angel is an amazing dagger that costs a whopping $36,000.This folding dagger is made of silver, stainless steel and titanium.

It comes carved, machined and anodized and thanks to all the gold plating it stands erect at a hot length of 11 inches. If you do not have a tool to match the size, you could at least carry a dagger that measures 11 inches. Size really matters and when it is an expensive dagger like this, it really should shut people when they start talking about your flimsy size. Give this as a gift to your less endowed man or keep it for yourself as a weapon of self-defence.