Paris Hilton encountered a marijuana arrest drama in South Africa the day before yesterday. Before she left for the World Cup hosting country, Paris twittered a picture showing her Louis Vuitton Luggage to be brought along, saying “All Packed and Ready for The World Cup! So excited!”.
Paris Hilton and her Louis Vuitton luggage (Picture credit: Paris Hilton/Twitpic)
Lenovo Dual-screen Laptop: W700ds ThinkPad
Lenovo, China's No.1 computer manufacturer, has launched the world's first dual-screen laptop W700ds ThinkPad (pictured above), which is equipped with a slide-out display to the notebook's main 17” screen. It's fantastic, but I will not buy it any time soon, reasons? Read excerpts from Tgdaily's review:
The privilege of owning one of these notebooks comes at a price – in terms of weight, battery life and money.
[W700ds ThinkPad,] packs an additional 2 lbs and weighs about 11 lbs. Add the power adapter and you are at 13 lbs and even that may not be the final word, especially if you are adding a second or third hard drive.
Prices for a W700ds base model start at just under $3700, while a quad-core model with Nvidia’s workstation graphics chip will break the $5000 barrier. Add more memory and max out the storage space and you will see a bottom line that exceeds $6000.
There are plenty of reviews of the W700ds already available on the web and it appears that this system is not exactly as mobile as your average notebook. Not only is it bulky and heavy, its battery time is also well below two hours - if both screens are used. The battery times published in the reviews we have seen range from about 95 to 110 minutes with a standard 9-cell battery.
If you are curious what that second display fits to do? Below are answers:
The main screen offers a resolution of 1920 x 1200, the smaller screen (which can be angled towards the user) 768 x 1280, which is about 40% of the screen real estate of the main display. Realistically, the 768 pixel width is not enough to comfortably browse web pages or to edit text documents, presentations or large spreadsheets. In everyday use, the display may be limited to secondary applications such as instant messaging, video calls or emails.
Image & Source: Lenovo announces dual-screen Thinkpad @ Tgdaily.com
Mukesh Ambani's Billion-Dollar Home picture
The currently-constructing architect in downtown Mumbai will cost around $2 billion and be 550 feet high with 400,000 square feet of interior space when it is finished in January, 2009. The future 27-story Ambani home named Antilla will host nine elevators, six floors of parking, a four-story vertical garden, and three rooftop helicopter landing pads. Undeniably, it will be the world's largest and most expensive home on the planet. Link
Simon Cowell, the reality TV multi-millionaire who is reported to be worth over £100million, was seen zipping around Los Angeles in his $1.2million Bugatti Veyron supercar on 9th March. The luxury sports car is the world's most expensive and fastest street-legal car which has top speed of 408.47 km/h.
The music mogul already owns a fleet of luxury cars, including a Ferrari and a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe.
Diablo Cody, the writer of the film Juno, which is vying for this year's Best Picture on today's Academy Awards, will wear the diamond sandals worth a million dollars.
The shoes, designed by Stuart Weitzman, feature two diamond roses, fixed to 1940s-style beige metallic T-strap high heels, made with more than 1800 diamonds weighing 100 carats.
Diablo Cody, Juno writer, once a stripper
Hooray, Diablo Cody, once a New York stripper turned screenwriter, will have million dollar feet to walk on the red carpet! Good luck, Miz Cody! Source: NDTV via Tardis-db
The $144,000 toy car, cast in 18-carat white gold and covered in more than 2,700 blue diamonds, is the world's most expensive toy car.
The tiny engine is covered in black and white diamonds. The tail lights of the car are red rubies and the tyres are set with yet more diamonds.
It was created by manufacturer Hot Wheels to mark the company's 40th anniversary. Link
Liu Xiang Gold Running Shoes are a pair of pure gold shoes carved with the name of world record-holding hurdler and Chinese Olympic champion Liu Xiang. The shoes, estimated to be valued at HK$238,000 (US$30,502), are replica of the ones that Liu Xiang wore in creating the 110-meter hurdles record at the Lausanne Super Grand Prix in 2006. They will be on display at Hong Kong Sha Tin Racecourse on the third day of this Chinese Lunar New Year, February 9. As Nike's swoosh logo is clearly seen on the golden shoes, we are not sure if they infringed the intellectual copyrights of Nike Inc.. Source: CRI
Life Mel Honey is the world's most expensive honey. Celebrities like Sienna Miller and Kylie Minogue are reportedly its huge fans, according to the London department store.
Without any artificial ingredients, the honey, which is made by bees fed on a special diet including herbs such as Siberian ginseng and echinacea, costs $84 for a pot containing just 120g.
The Israeli product has solely gone on sale at the pharmacy at the upmarket Harrods Department Store. It is supposed to be eaten by the teaspoonful in the morning and at night. Source: SKY; Tags: Life Mel Honey
Beaute de Siecle, the Hennessy's new limited edition cognac which was created to celebrate the 100th birthday of Killian Hennessy, the sixth generation descendant of the company's founder, costs £105,000 (about $210,000 ) a bottle. The most expensive drink in the world are just 100 bottles in existence. Source: Daily mail. #Tags: Hennessy, Beaute de Siecle, killian Hennessy
The diamonds-encrusted, 18-carat gold Bluetooth headset tailored for Motorola's H12 handphone (picture below) is sold for £6250, equivalent to US$12,500. Link via Tracing Gadget
David Rubenstein (picture left, credit: Justin Lane/EPA), who once was a domestic policy advisor to former president Jimmy Carter, is a co-founder of the Washington-based Carlyle Group private equity firm. He was instantly catapulted to the international fame by paying US$21.3m (a compromised price of $30M early estimated) for a 13th-century Magna Carta [wikipedia] auctioned at Sotheby's in New York yesterday December 18. This is the first time a copy of the historical charter has been sold by public auction. Mr. David Rubenstein will remain the 800-year-old law document on public display by loaning to US National Archives.
This only copy in US which was presented by British WII Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Americas was issued in 1297 by King Edward I, when the Magna Carta formally became part of English law, more than 80 years after it was written. It is one of only 17 in existence and the only one in private ownership.
Source: Guardian; Link to more backgrounds on the write-up of Magna Carta. #Tags: David Rubenstein, magna carta, sotheby's auction, freedom, human rights, lawsuit, constitution
Big Boi shows his diamond sneakers (picture by Wireimage/Getty)
Hip-hop singer Antwan Patton, aka Big Boi, was presented an exclusive pair of diamond encrusted Nike So Cal 1's valued at $50,000 by two businessmen on Prriya and Chintans Couture boutique November 27. The costly sneakers were studded with 11 carats. Click here for more information. Tags:
