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Now that the number of gadgets is growing, we stand in need of gadgets to look after gadgets… Oh, you’ll understand it better taking a look at that one. This is Belkin Conserve Insight , a power-outlet adapter with a digital display that you can get for $30 to keep tabs on your electric appliances. You connect it to your wall outlet and plug in a device, and the Belkin Conserve Insight tells you how much power it is pumping out, whether in watts, dollars or carbon dioxide. Isn’t it a good idea to know just how much each of your consumer devices is consuming off your bank account? Get in control and get a little richer with this little fellow sticking in your socket.

Last week Sony Ericsson announced the release of three new cell phones, one of which is a compact version of their Xperia series X10. To be expected early this fall, X8, an attempt to reproduce the Xperia X10 possibilities in a smaller and less expensive model, will look just like the X10 mini handset . It will run the latest Android 2.1 Eclair with, presumably, an upgrade possible right upon its release. Curvy and stylish, the X8 will be available in four colors which are marked as pixellated tinge on one end of the handset. It will feature a 3″ screen and a 3.2mega pixel camera for making video. Social network facilities are all there: you get a Facebook application and the Sony Ericsson Timescape user interface providing a real-time stream of the relevant information gleaned from all of your feeds. There is no official word on pricing but according to what the SE blog spills it will come to something like 200 euros (about $248).

HTC’s latest cell phone has been announced for unveiling towards the end of the summer in Europe and Asia. Called Wildfire, it is designed first and foremost as a perfect socializing gadget equipped with the HTC Sense technology. It has pre-set shortcuts to all best-known social networks, a sophisticated address book saving latest messages from your contacts, and the HTC Caller ID with Facebook profile images and birthday reminders. Wildfire is reported to feature a built-in 5MP digital camera with LED flash and autofocus. It offers support for sharing applications through recommendations. The new HTC android will carry a 3.2-inch touch display and will have a standard audio jack and microSD card slot. It will be available in red, black, silver and brown.

Rather unexpected and daring, that one, what? Let’s look into it. Designer Shao Wen came up with a concept device called the DIY Player that you can at your wish turn into – oh, anything, a cell phone , a gaming console , a media player . Wen’s universal player is a base screen to which a number of modules can be attached. You plug in a keyboard to use it as a handset, and as soon as you need a gaming console or a player you just exchange the keyboard for the appropriate console. Of course there are people who will jump at the gadget and people who don’t take to the idea of carrying a handful of keyboards and consoles and going through the endless bother of plugging in and out. These things want trying out to know whether they are really so convenient as they sound. But at the very least when you want to update you can get a new console without chucking the whole handset and buying a newest one.

The Nook Wi-Fi packs all the features of Nook 3G other than 3G access. The price of Nook 3G, which features both 3G and Wi-Fi access, has been reduced to $199. The Nook features a 6" E-Ink display with a color touch screen for navigation. The Nook Wi-Fi lets readers take advantage of in-home and public Wi-Fi hotspots, where they can browse the Web and shop the Barnes & Noble eBookstore of more than one million eBooks, periodicals and other digital content. Barnes & Noble is offering all Nook customers complimentary access to AT&T's entire nationwide Wi-Fi network, including Barnes & Noble bookstores which have previously been available to Nook customers. Nook 3G, Nook Wi-Fi features include: Lend to friends: Share a wide range of eBooks with friends for 14 days using exclusive LendMe technology. All Nook 3G and Nook Wi-Fi customers can also use the included USB cable to connect their device to a PC or Mac to transfer their personal files in ...

Toshiba has announced the world's first dual touchscreen device to run Windows 7. The compact Libretto W100 displays content across two 17.8cm (7") screens. The 7" LCDs offer a display equivalent to a 10.0-inch wide screen. The clamshell case opens like a book or a notebook PC with a virtual haptic keyboard that gives you a feedback as you type. The device features an integrated accelerometer that facilitates intuitive and diverse use - You can simply split content across two screens; turn the Libretto W100 vertically for reading web pages, or bring up the virtual keyboard for more traditional clamshell computing. The Libretto W100 is powered by an Intel Pentium processor U5400 (CULV) at 1.20GHz. It features 2GB memory for perky Windows 7 response, and 62GB SSD storage. It weighs 699g with a standard battery pack that gives 2 hours run time, and 819g with a high-capacity battery pack with 4 hours of juice. The device will be released in Japan in August. ...

Sprint has introduced the USB 250 WWAN Modem from Sierra Wireless to provide broadband access using its 4G WiMAX network with download speeds of 3-6 Mbps. If you are outside the WiMAX network, the modem reverts to 3G using EVDO Rev A, which gives download speeds of 600 kbps-1.4 Mbps. The 180-degree rotating USB Connector features an integrated GPS capability to provide location, navigation and mapping solutions when connected to the Sprint 3G network. The device is equipped with two external antenna ports and separate LED displays that let users know if they are connected to Sprint's 3G or 4G network. It supports Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.5/10.6 The USB 250 comes free with a two year data plan from Sprint.

Motorola has officially announced the DROID X in partnership with Verizon, Google and Adobe. The phone will ship on July 15 and cost $199.99 with a two year data plan. The Android 2.1 device, powered by a 1GHz chipset, was announced on Wednesday, June 23, at a company event. Motorola DROID X . Photo Credit: Motorola Like the recently launched EVO 4G, Droid X features a 4.3" display that is considerably larger than iPhone 4's 3.5" display. However, despite its larger size, the Droid X display features 854 x 480 pixels resolution, as compared to iPhone 4's 960 x 640 pixels. In other words, Droid X's pixel density falls well short of Apple's Retina Display. Droid X features an 8 megapixel camera with twin LED flash. You can capture 720p HD video and share it with friends using an optional HDMI cable or Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) connectivity. DROID X utilizes high performance diversity antennas along with innovative software to im...

If you’re a woman who seriously loves her heels or just any general person with a serious foot fetish, now you can have a pair of speakers to show off your real love in the world. These bright red shoes are sure to attract all sorts of attention, so you’d better be ready to come out of the closet with your foot or shoe loving tendencies. You may think it’s incredibly strange for anyone to create speakers like this, much less have anyone buy them, but there’s something you should know. The speakers are Japanese, nuff said. The USB speakers have an output of 3W x 2ch. Should you be highly interested in getting a pair, they’re not the cheapest USB speakers out there. They cost 4480 Yen or about $55, plus the amount of shipping it costs to get them outside of Japan.

Samsung's iPad competitor, Galaxy Tablet, will reportedly feature an A8 processor at 1.2GHz clock speed, 16 - 48 GB of internal memory with support for a 32 GB external MicroSD card. According to the Vietnamese site, Tinh Te, the Android 2.2 powered device will launched in September and be called, surprisingly enough, Samsung Galaxy Tape. Its 7" display will use Samsung's Super AMOLED technology. The 370g device will feature a 4000 mAh battery and come with an integrated eBook reader. Samsung South Africa first revealed the existence of the Galaxy Tablet on June 3 over its Twitter account, releasing photos of it next to a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone, announced earlier in March. Around the same time The Korea Herald reported that Samsung plans to release three Android powered tablet computers - referred to a sPad - in South Korea. The devices would feature essentially the same internals but differ in their screen sizes. A 7" sPad will hit the marke...

Motorola is reportedly set to announce a new smartphone that will compete with Apple iPhone 4 and HTC EVO 4G. The Android 2.1 device, powered by a 1GHz ARMv7 chipset will be announced at a company event on June 23, one day before the launch of iPhone 4. Like the EVO, Droid X features a 4.3" display that is considerably larger than iPhone 4's 3.5" display. The device has been previewed by Endgadget which reports that the 854x480 FWVGA resolution display of the device is sharp and its capacitive screen responsive to multi-touch. A new version of Motorola Blur serves as the interface, and is reported to be a distinct improvement over the earlier version. Data entry defaults to Swype, which allows you to type without lifting your finger, but there is a multi-touch keyboard like in the iPAD. Droid X features an 8 MP camera that can record video at 720p.

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tablet is rumored to feature "full phone functionality" like the Dell Streak, with a standard SIM slot and 3G data connectivity. The tablet doesn't have a dedicated earphone; you can either use the built in speaker or blue tooth headphones when making calls. A video posted on YouTube yesterday, which has since been removed, showed the purported device with the phone dialer application. The device was marked P1000 and had four hard buttons at its base. An anonymous Endgadget source that appears credible, confirmed the P1000 designation today. The source also claimed the tablet is as thin as an iPhone (0.37") and features a 3.2 MP camera with an additional front facing camera for video chats. Other features include WiFi and teethering using WiFi or USB. The battery cannot be removed, as with the iPad. A Vietnamese site had earlier reported that the Galaxy Tablet features an A8 processor at 1.2GHz clock speed, 16 GB of intern...

AT&T's will introduce the Samsung Galaxy S on its network under the name of Samsung Captivate in the coming months. The Captivate will be powered by the 1 GHz Samsung Hummingbird Application Processor, based on the 45nm ARM Cortex A8 architecture, and the Android 2.1 operating system. It will feature a 4" Super AMOLED display, six-axis motion sensor and 3D graphics engine and surround-sound audio. It will support 3G data connectivity using 7.2 Mbps High Speed Packet Access (HSPA). Its 5 MP camera will allow you to capture stills as well 720p HD video. It will ship with 16 GB on-board memory that will be expandable up to 32 GB.

Yes, CO2 from your lungs can get this lamp alight, are you really surprised with science as highly developed as it is? You can almost call it a living lamp, for it is powered by algae tucked away in a special chamber. So take a little care to supply it with sufficient sunlight, CO2 and water, and you get an excellent bio-cum-battery lamp . The idea for creating the Latro Lamp sprang up from a recent research carried out at the universities of Yansei and Stanford. It was found that during photosynthesis algae emit tiny electrical currents that can be stored in a battery. So the Latro Lamp accumulates the energy the algae generate during a day out in the sunlight. It is fitted with a light sensor to control the intensity and ensure that the algae are kept properly nourished. Designed by Mike Thompson and displayed at Designboom, it just may be the beginning of a biological revolution in consumer gadgets. At least that’s what Thompson is dreaming about. He is sure that “pl...

An elegant and shining disk, easily fitting into your hand, Genos’s CYCLOPS had been meant to become the keyboard for the GenosTV Cable box, but it eventually evolved into a remote control that can service all the consumer electronic devices imaginable. That includes TVs and most cellphones that can be accessed via Bluetooth. For the time being CYCLOPS lays claim to be the most ergonomically correct universal controller on the market. Small and handy, it can also catch on as a universally-loved wireless keyboard. It appears that a CYCLOPS video game console-compatible version will soon be out as well, so gamers get ready to go Genos! With such sweeping potential, will it chase away most of our present-day controllers and become literally universal?

People who feel uncomfortable without being surrounded by their iPods, cell phones, facilities to get information from flash drives will jump at the prospect of obtaining an Integrated Technology Coffee Table . Designer John Reed went out of the way to see that they are provided with everything necessary – the table has electrical outlets , USB and serial ports, with an iPod dock thrown in. Given internal speakers, here goes your coffee symphony almost right from the cup! Look out, you can forget about your coffee making use of all those inlets and outlets. Furthermore, its appearance with white enamel and translucent acrylic colors along the edges may lend a stylish touch to your living-room.

These “trees”, “bushes” and “garlands” of magically colored lights can easily transform any place that looked ordinary a flick of a switch before into a resplendent and mysterious locus… And all that stuff coming straight from the dumping site. These bizarre Living Pixels Lamps have been knocked together by a group of Hong Kong based designers from recycled materials like old-fashioned and discarded light stands and various bulbs. Recycled banners were cut up and pieced together anew to make lampshades or diffusers. Everything in the lamps is completely eco-friendly . Every item of the Living Pixels is completely unique being constructed of a different set of materials and featuring light diffusion unlike any other lamp of the series. Well, when you switch them off the lamps fade into an utterly common white stand, but all the greater the difference when you turn them on and watch the gasping effect on your guests!

There may have been a couple of incidents in the world history when people walked about with bullets in their heads, and you know what? From now on there’s going to be a lot more of it. Because that’s exactly what everybody who will buy Munito Teknines Nine Millimeter Earphones is going to do. That’s right, the new Munito Teknines are a spitting image of 9mm bullets . Outside the stunning design they can boast 18K gold plating, good sound quality (assumed) and a price tag of $250. Those who are already excited at the idea of drawing their friends’ attention to their new unique headphones will be able to get them in the second half of June.

Here’s what the LG competition for the new cellphone designs brought up as the (possibly) best design for the oncoming generation of handsets – a gadget called Flutter . This winner of the Propmaster’s Choice Award resembles closed-in wings, and the impression is correct, for it opens fanwise to bring out a flexible screen hidden within it from whence you can use the features. If you want just to make a call, you don’t have to flip it open – you’ve got your numerals lined up outside on a shiny standout and a tiny part of the screen visible should you need your display.

What is it you do the first thing in the morning? If you prefer to wake up to an aroma of your first cup of tea (or coffee, for that matter), then this gadget is for you. From now on you will be waking up into a new day with a pleasant beep and the warming feeling that a cup of your favorite beverage is waiting for you to stretch your hand. Teasmade – the first gadget that will take care of your mornings – can be obtained for £59.99 or about $88. Every evening you’ll have to see about charging the teapot with whatever will pick you up better – two teabags, a mix of your own, or instant coffee – and make sure that Teasmade is filled up with cold water. Next morning it will spring to life several minutes before the alarm , get your drink ready and let you know as soon as it has arranged for your comfort.

These days you can always find something that is an accessory and a gadget at the same time, and the idea of wearing USB flash drives on your shirtsleeves as cufflinks is not a bad one, too. This simple arrangement deprives you of a chance to forget or misplace useful information or presentations. Engravable, with functional USB drives, these cufflinks are 2GB each offering you the overall capacity of 4GB. You can get this convenient two-in-one device for the price of $195 for a pair.

Mobiado ’s Classic 712ZAF collection has been augmented by a set of new cellphones done in soft warm colors to make them look as if a drop of summer landed in your purse. Aurora Pink, Sky Blue or Porcelain White will easily match your outfit and look fetching without being garish. The new Mobiado summer classics are made from stainless steel with aluminum elements and sapphire crystal. The handsets ’ functions include quad-band support that makes them usable the world over, a built-in 5MP camera with flash, GPS, a multimedia player. Web access is provided with email support, all displayed on a 2.2-inch screen.

This hardy case is here to promise you full protection for any of your favorite gadgets – iPhone, iPod, MP3 player, handset. It’s called the Eco Extreme All-Terrain Waterproof Speaker Case ; it’s also shockproof and sandproof and guarantees to keep your gadgets clean and shiny through your eventful vacations for the sum of $49.99. And not only gadgets, for the inner compartment can easily store your keys, credit cards, documents and cash, extending its complete protection over them too. The case stands upright well due to a bottom platform, although it will play your music in any position, upright or onside, open or closed. Batteries (not included) guarantee you about 30 hours of continuous music in you stay within the average volume level. There is a pressure release valve that keeps your case watertight and allows it to open easily even at high altitudes. You can carry it in your hands or attach an included carabineer clip and wear it over your shoulder. And you can ...

There has been attempts to produce roll-out OLED displays before, and it certainly looks like the project for the future, when we will be using our cellphones with displays that can be rolled out whenever we need a much larger screen. And now Sony has made a great step in this direction, turning out a 4.1-inch super-thin screen. It boasts a 432 x 240 resolution with unheard-of color and contrast for that sort of screen , although slightly marred by some vertical and horizontal lines that aren’t supposed to be here. It is rolled onto a pencil cylinder, and another wonderful thing about it is that it goes on showing even while you are rolling it in. According to Sony, the screen’s contrast ratio is 1,000:1. With its imperfections and drawbacks, Sony’s new OLED still goes a long way beyond what we had before.

HTC Evo, which went on sale Friday, June 4, ushering in the 4G era in mobile connectivity, broke sales record for Sprint on launch day. While Sprint hasn't released precise figures, it claims that Friday sales of HTC EVO 4G marked the largest quantity of a single phone sold in one day ever for Sprint - the record was previously held by both Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre. The margin by which Evo 4G sales surpassed those of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre was even more impressive with the total number of Evo devices sold on launch day being three times the number of Samsung Instinct and Palm Pre devices sold over their first three days on the market combined. With consumers eager to sample the 4G experience, temporary shortages of the device are being experienced at some of the 22,000 sales locations across the United States, including Sprint retail stores, national retail partners including RadioShack, Best Buy and Walmart, and indirect dealers. Sprint is the only na...

Sprint's HTC Evo hit U.S. retail stores Friday, June 4, ushering in the 4G era of mobile communication. HTC Evo owners are generally delighted with their smartphone, but not as much with the limited coverage of Sprint's 4G network, or the mandatory $10 premium data add-on charge. Powered by the 1GHz Snapdragon processor and Google's Anderoid 2.1 operating system, HTC Evo 4G delivers respectable 4G speeds, according to the New York Times. It comes with a front-facing camera for video chats and an 8-megapixel camera with HD-video-recording capabilities. The Evo, which features a 4.3 inch touch screen with HTC Sense interface, can not only download data at blazingly fast speeds, it can function as a mobile hot-spot that lets you connect up to eight devices. 4G Standard The 4G standard stipulates peak data rates of up to approximately 100 Mbps and flexible channel bandwidth, between 5 and 20 MHz, optionally up to 40 MHz. There are two competing technologies f...

Motorola's Milestone XT720 is a slim (10.9mm), Android 2.1 powered smartphone with a 3.7-inch, 480 x 854 pixel, capacitive touch screen and 8-megapixel camera. It features a xenon flash, the first Android device to do so; 10x digital zoom, and a 720p HD camcorder. Camera features include easy panorama, face detection, multi-shot (six shots in a row), face filter, red eye reduction and camera shake prevention. It comes integrated with a suite of Google mobile applications including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube; as well as Motorola's MOTONAV turn by turn navigation. The 3G phone provides internet access using HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) at peak data transfer rates of up to 10.2 Mbps. Transfer rates with EDGE Class 12, GPRS Class 12, HSUPA fall to 5.7 Mbps Other features include GPS, FM radio, Bluetooth and USB 2.0. The smartphone measures 60.9 x 115.95 x 10.9 millimeters and weighs 160 grams. Its Lithium Ion battery provides upto 4.5 hrs of ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs claimed the iPhone 4 has over a 100 new features during its unveiling at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on June 7. He restricted himself to covering just eight important new features because of the paucity of time. Well, here are the iPhone capabilities that impressed us most. Its sleek design comprising two glass faces held together by a 9.3 mm steel band that, as Steve Jobs put it, makes the smartphone the thinnest on the planet, 24% thinner than the iPhone GS The steel bands running around the device not only provide it structural strength but dovetail as antennas - One for Blue Tooth, Wi-Fi and GPS; and the other for UMTS, GSM A 5 megapixel camera with LED flash that doubles as a spotlight, letting you shoot stills and 720p HD video at 30 frames per second. You can edit the video using an iMovie port available as a $4.99 download from App Store. A 3.5-inch, 960×640 pixel "retina display" screen with a 326 ...

Vaio J packs a 21.5-inch (diagonal), 1920x1080 screen and an Intel Core i3 processor PC with 4GB of memory and 500GB hard disk into a single device, with a stand to boot. A wireless keyboard and mouse that can easily be stored under the unit's display are included. Its slim, stylish and compact design with built-in wireless 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity allows the PC to be easily repositioned anywhere in your home. Its touch-enabled screen puts your PC, multi-media applications, HD movies, photos and other files at your finger-tip. Fitted with an optional Blu-ray Disc optical drive, it lets you enjoy movies in stunning 1080p high definition. "The J Series changes the way consumers interact with their PC enabling them to tap, drag, zoom, rotate and engage with their content and entertainment like never before," said Mike Lucas, senior vice president of the VAIO business at Sony. A built-in webcam with face-tracking technology and microphone let you vi...

A tabular comparison of the specifications of four leading Smartphones in the market today: Samsung Galaxy S, Apple iPhone 4, HTC EVO 4G and Google Nexus.

Motorola consumer division CEO, Sanjay Jha, talked of a 2 GHz, Android smartphone while detailing his company's vision on mobile devices during a conference today. Jha was speaking at the Executives Club of Chicago on Friday, June 11. [via Conceivably Tech] Jha believes Smartphone will start to replace notebooks as productivity tools of choice in corporations within 2 years. Current top-of-the-line smartphones, including Apple's recently launched iPhone 4, feature 1 GHz processors. Motorola's recently launched Droid Incredible also uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor. A 2 GHz processor will ensure smoother video playback and genuine multitasking, as in PCs. Another Motorola executive, who didn't want to be identified, said the new Motorola device will feature an Nvidia Tegra-based graphics processor with full Flash 10.1 hardware acceleration. Like the iPhone 4, it will have a gyroscope, and a matching screen resolution. It will also be capable ...

Samsung South Africa have released photos of an Android based tablet computer featuring a 7" screen called The Galaxy. The released photo shows The Galaxy tablet next to a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone, announced earlier in March. According to The Korea Herald, Samsung plans to release a range of Android based tablet computers - referred to a sPad - in South Korea. The three devices will feature essentially the same internals but differ in their screen sizes. A 7" sPad will hit the market in August, ahead of Apple's iPad launch in the country. It will be followed by an 8" version in October, and finally a 10" version in December. Samsung's strategy of fielding tablets with varying screen sizes appears similar to that of Dell which yesterday announced the launch of its 5" Dell streak tablet in the US in July.

If you’re one of those people that suffers from unusual sleep patterns and you want to get your body back in to check you might be able to do it with this acupuncture sleeping gadget, the Dreamate Sleep Inducer. Dreamate uses accupressure techniques to gently massage the “sleeping golden triangle” on your left wrist. Used 30 minutes before bedtime, you can retune and reset your biological clock and train your body to relax and sleep. See results in as little as a week’s worth of use, with best results after eight weeks. These precise pressure points, when gently massaged, calm the body, lower stress levels, and induce sleep. Unlike addictive sleeping pills that knock you senseless, but offer little improvement in your sleep quality. I’ve no idea how effective this is but it sounds kind of cool. The Dreamate is available from TG for $79.99.

Every single time you want to check your watch to read the time, you have to twist your arm around just to read it. Thankfully someone has finally had the common sense to create a watch that you don’t have to be a contortionist to read. Sure, you could always turn your arm to read the time, but this is so much easier. Of course, the watch looks a little silly with the face slightly angled, but it keeps things interesting. The Slip Watch doesn’t exactly have numbers printed on it, so until you get used to the lack of labeling it might still take a few extra seconds to read the watch. After that though you’ll have the ability to be much more lazy about reading the time. Sadly this doesn’t appear to be a purchasable item. It seems to be purely a concept by the NonLinear Studio.

Fashionable and outstanding, the EcoSmart Zeta fireplace is not anything if not original. Designed by John Dimopoulos, director of Geoform, Design & Architects Firm in Sydney and the primary architect ever to state EcoSmart Fireplace in Australia, the EcoSmart Zeta fireplace is so-named for the reason that of its elliptical shape and pays homage to its Greek ‘origins’. This EcoSmart Fireplace is bright fusion of timber, leather and stainless steel, the fully portable Zeta sits on a brushed or polished stainless steel swivel base. The plywood body of the EcoSmart Fireplace is fashioned from a high frequency heated aluminum mold into the just the thing coming in elliptical shape. A thin stainless steel firebox inserted in the EcoSmart Fireplace is molded to the internal face of the plywood, and the outer surface of the EcoSmart Fireplace is upholstered in leather. The toughened glass screens that sit either side of the fire of the EcoSmart Fireplace enhance the stunning visual effec...

Samsung South Africa have released photos of an Android based tablet computer featuring a 7" screen called The Galaxy. The released photo shows The Galaxy tablet next to a Samsung Galaxy S smartphone, announced earlier in March. According to The Korea Herald, Samsung plans to release a range of Android based tablet computers - referred to a sPad - in South Korea. The three devices will feature essentially the same internals but differ in their screen sizes. A 7" sPad will hit the market in August, ahead of Apple's iPad launch in the country. It will be followed by an 8" version in October, and finally a 10" version in December. Samsung's strategy of fielding tablets with varying screen sizes appears similar to that of Dell which yesterday announced the launch of its 5" Dell streak tablet in the US in July.

If we were to pick out a gadget that is oftenest combined with a work of art, it will presumably be a cell phone , with more and more people carrying about them unique handsets marked by a truly genius designer touch. Up to the genius notch or not, it’s up to you to decide, but Mobiado did make a noteworthy attempt to place its newest CPT001 concept phone in the ranks of the arty handsets . At least the company tagged it as an “ objet d’art ”. The producers describe their CPT001 as a renaissance concept, the materials – gold, marble and gems – going back to the period. Single-piece marble luxury handset carries letters, figures, buttons and other details made from gold. Solid gold are also the watch crown and a gold skeleton mechanical watch movement. The touchscreen is one large sapphire bearing a beautifully traced heraldic animal. The Mobiado marble wonderthing hasn’t hit the market yet, but it will certainly be something to wait for (and prepare a handsome sum of money, for ...

Acer’s new smartphone, Acer Liquid E Ferrari , targets Ferrari fans, produced as it is with full collaboration from the famous company. Not surprising, it is Ferrari all over, starting with a special case and ending with loads of Ferrari videos, images and wallpapers. The ringtones are also special, sounding the engine revving up. The handset has chrome trim, bright red gloss and the Scuderia Ferrari shield with carbon fiber details decorating the back. Acer Liquid E Ferrari boasts all the latest mobile technologies, a built-in 5MP camera with autofocus, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS. Its Qualcomm 8250 768 MHz and the Android 2.1 Éclair operating system make it a high performance gadget . Features include a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, a card slot, an audio jack, A-GPS, 3G and a fair number of various applications. It allows for 5-hour talk. The new smartphone has just been offered for sale at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, and its price hasn’t appeared online yet.

Versace Unique - the name of a cell phone, which can offer more than a stylish design from this legendary fashion brand. This is a genuine Versace cell phone – it was completely developed by the brand and is very high-tech. Absolutely no minimalism, only luxury at its best – timeless Versace motto, which was fully embodied into the brand’s mobile device. Versace Unique features large touch screen made with sapphire glass, steel body, and leather finishing decorated with embossed brand’s traditional symbol – head of the Gorgon Medusa. For those who prefer catchy luxury the brand offers Versace Unique in gold plated body. Versace Unique is not just a glamorous toy, it is also a very practical gadget . According to its manufacturers the display is scratch-resistant. The phone has 5 megapixels camera, video shooting features, media player with Dolby Mobile system, and 3G.