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This chic has sucked them all so much that now she can tell if it is Yoda or Han Solo just by putting them inside her mouth.

[Gizmodo]

In a live interview with Japan's Fuji TV, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut and Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi demonstrates his love for cooking aboard the International Space Station with the first hand-rolled sushi in space (with salmon).

A hardcore Mario fan would drop his jaw looking at these themed shelves. I just love the warp pipe which is made from garbage cans and serves as a stand for charging stand for mobile phones. The icing on the cake is the clock (after the jump) which features a scene from Game Boy videogame, Super Mario land. This is the brainchild of Dennis and his girlfriend Judith who are both undoubtedly video game lovers.

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[Neatorama]

Rendering Midas touch to almost all the gadgets that we cannot exist without, Stuart Hughes moves on to take wraps of the world’s most expensive Televisions. Not just satisfied by offering the most expensive iPod, iPhone, iPhone wallet and other stuff, he has channelized his expertise to glam up televisions too. Since they carry the most expensive tag, they ought to be loaded with luxe materials like gold, diamonds, precious stone and exotic skins. The pricier of the two is the PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition. For £1.5 million ($2,250,000), the 55” screen by Metz is cased with 28 kilograms of solid 18ct rose gold. The gilded frame dazzles with 72 brilliant round cut 1ct IF flawless diamonds along with Sunstone and Amethyst. Alligator skin is hand sewn by folks at PrestigeHD on the inner screen layer. The second version which is slightly affordable is the PrestigeHD Supreme Edition. Priced at £1million ($1,500,000), the half a million drop is justified by using less gold and diamonds when compared to the Rose Edition.
19 kilograms of 22ct gold and 48 brilliant round cut 0.75ct IF flawless diamonds along with Aventurine and Topaz render the glam quotient to the Supreme Edition. This one too comes with an alligator skin inner screen layer.

Since a TV is the centerpiece of most living rooms, the most expensive televisions will find their way into the dens, oops mansions, of the world’s richest clan.

Via - [Luxurylaunches]

Pentax today announced the launch of the Pentax 645D lens-interchangeable, medium-format digital SLR camera. Thanks to the incorporation of a large image sensor, equal in performance to professional-standard digital camera backs, this high-performance Pentax 645D lens-interchangeable, medium-format digital SLR camera delivers super-high-resolution images with approximately 40 effective megapixels. It also offers outstanding dependability and superb operability and maneuverability to make outdoor shooting effortless and comfortable for demanding photographers.
The Pentax 645D incorporates a high-performance CCD image sensor produced by Kodak. It measures 44mm by 33mm, and is approximately 1.7 times larger than its 35mm-format counterparts. Thanks to approximately 40 effective megapixels, it assures a wide dynamic range to faithfully reproduce the prevailing ambience and the sense of depth in super-high-resolution images that are rich in gradation and truthful in texture description.

The Pentax 645D features the acclaimed, Pentax-original PRIME (Pentax Real Image Engine) II as its imaging engine. Thanks to its high-speed data processing capacity and new algorithm exclusively programmed for medium-format digital SLR cameras, this high-performance imaging engine produces super-high quality images rich in gradation and faithful in color reproduction, while allowing speedy data transmission of large-volume image data — even RAW-format images as large as some 50MB per file.

The Pentax 645D’s main frame is made of lightweight but strong magnesiumsteel alloy, while the chassis is made of diecast aluminum to minimize the expansion and extension caused by heat and also to optimize kinematic accuracy and thermal stability.

The LCD panels — one on the camera’s top panel, another on the back panel — are covered with tempered glass plates for extra protection. The Pentax 645D’s body is also designed to be a compact and highly maneuverable mediumformat camera, despite the incorporation of such dependable features as a dust-proof, weather-resistant construction with 70 special seals, outstanding cold-resistant performance to assure solid operation at a temperature as low as –10°C.

A newly designed shutter unit with a top shutter speed of 1/4000 second that can withstand as many as 50,000 shutter releases.

Incorporated in the Pentax 645D’s finder unit, a trapezoid-shaped glass prism not only assures an approximately 98% field of view, but also greatly contributes to the downsizing of the camera body. Coupled with a bright, easy-to-focus Natural- Bright-Matte focusing screen, the PENTAX 645D’s viewfinder offers a large, clear view of the subject.

The Pentax 645D has a pair of memory card slots for the recording of images on both SD and SDHC memory cards. This dual-slot design gives the photographer extra data-storage options: for instance, recorded images can be assigned to different cards according to recording format (such as RAW or JPEG), or one of the cards can be used as the backup of the other. The settings for each memory card slot can be easily made by dedicated button.

The Pentax 645D is powered by a large-capacity, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which can capture approximately 800 images when fully, charged.

Via - [Fareastgizmos]

You have the taste of bubblegum spread around the insides of your mouth as you set your eyes on a gizmo as pink as this one. It comes in 8GB and 16GB variants. The features include a 2.6 inch LCD screen, FM, Bluetooth, recording facilities, 4 hours of video playback and 50 hours of audio play back on a full charge, 50 grams in weight and a thinnest of just 8.9 millimeters. The sound quality cannot be doubted thanks to the awesome Digital Natural Sound Engine (DNSe) 3.0 sound enhancement technology from Samsung.
The good news is that the one you see here is not the only color it comes in. Besides pink the R1 will also be available in black and silver, from April onwards.

Via - [Gizmodiva]

The Game Boy pillow doesn’t have the awesome looks like the iPhone bedding or the brains of the Notifier Pillow but its still cooler than ever. So what’s the catch? It’s nothing more than the ever-effective plain old nostalgia. Yes, the Game Boy Pillow does have something from our past hidden within its softness. It’s got some buttons that can be pressed and thought off to be other things as you lay your head on the pillow and it helps you make it through the night.
The Game Boy Pillow is by Soft Machine and costs $135. Don’t mind the words ‘dot matrix’.

[Gearfuse]

Here’s one of the few, first brain readers that we have around. With the advent of the awesome Hawking chair (that also made it to some teen movie parodies) we all learnt that it’s possible to read the thoughts of those who’re bound to their wheelchairs and rendered immobile. The Indendix EEG system comprises of an EEG cap, a display, and a computer. It can help patients who suffer from paralysis but with working minds. By focusing on letters on the screen, the patients can get them typed automatically by the system and even read aloud. Further sophistications allow users to even e-mail their messages.

Intendix was first exhibited at CeBit tech fair in Germany. It will most likely cost about $12,000.

[Cnet]

Samsung are all set to unleash the awesomeness of their new soundbars. The HW-C450 and the HW-C451 both come in with similar looks. However, the former comes for simple home theatre setups and is a 2.1 channel system. It comes, dressed all in black. The HW-C451 will come in silver. Both systems have a 280W power rating and the awesome Touch of Color design. They also sport grill-less speakers and wireless subwoofers. Nice! Samsung also plans to launch a dock called the HT-WDC10 wireless iPhone/iPod dock.
The HW-C450 is already available for $350 from Amazon.com. The HW-C451 and the HT-WDC10 ($150) will come in by May.

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Your fascination with the Android platform and the very astonishing concept of devices/gizmos/operating systems turning into pillows can keep you up all night. With the cool Android Pillows coming in with those cute little green bots you are bound to have a pretty disturbing night because you’ll find your face on either its stomach or its, well, never mind.
It measures 12 x 12 inches, that’s more like a cushion. Each of these are handcrafted by Craftsquatch for about $20.

[Technabob]

We heard about the HTC T-Mobile HD2 coming out and all that jazz but the big question was when. At last we’ve got something to lean back on thanks to the wildfire news that spread all around about the possible launch of the HD2 on March 23rd. Yes, it’s this month! The device will come with Windows Mobile 6.5, a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, multi-touch and a 4.3 inch screen.

There was an earlier rumor that the phone would be released on March 24th. None the less, one day earlier is always welcome.

There is finally some weighty news about the Windows 7 phone operating system that’s likely to be announced in the not-so-far future. It seems the Microsoft have done their part to accelerate the 3D APIs in the series. There will be integration of Visual Studio 2010 and buffered audio support. Thanks to the XNA Game Studio 4.0 will help integration with Xbox 360. Finally, the big news is that Microsoft has also accelerated the 3D APIs on the new platform. 3D gaming is ever needed in the mobile platform and this one will satisfy that hunger to good measure.
Another improvement is the Gamer Services API that will help you pull in any user’s Gamertag and 2D Avatar to his mobile for a better experience.

[Intomobile]