One of the most desirable competition-bred Ferraris in existence 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Tour de France will be on offer at next week’s London auction.

Powered by an alloy block-and-head V-12 engine, this is one of just 36 competition 250 GT LWB Berlinettas originally produced by Ferrari with the single vent and desirable covered headlamp configuration.

As a matching-numbers, Ferrari certified example, it remains one of the marque’s most coveted models and is expected to garner significant attention from collectors at the upcoming sale. (Est. £2,000,000 – £2,400,000)

The D&G case is a bit different from the other luxury brands as it has been designed keeping ladies in mind. The brand has used shiny sequence at the half of the case that makes it look elegant and trendy at the same time. This stylish case allows you to ditch your hand bag as it has ample of space to keep your other belongings along with the iPad.

Sequined with an exterior zip pouch and open top with a magnetic flap, it protects your favorite gadget form wear and tear. Case is festooned with two-tone Dolce & Gabbana sign and is a tubular side reinforce design. Made in Italy D&G iPad case is one of the most expensive cases that any designer brand has designed as it costs whooping $1,175, and interested buyers can place a booking order on Neiman Marcus.

IPhone 5

HOW cited in KETI Hubert, Morgan Stanley analyst, Apple’s three senior managers, Peter Oppenheimer, Ron Johnson and Eddie Ku, refused to discuss the date when it will introduce a smart phone iPhone fifth

According to the site World of Apple, Hjubertiova requested comment on rumors of delays launch of next-generation iPhone, but has not received a response.

However, Hjubertiova from Apple was able to find out cycles of publishing new generation of devices depend more on software than hardware, which can mean that the cause of the delay IOS 5, and not the phone.

Apple tends to announce the launch of new models of its phones in June at a conference WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC), which is usually held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

IPhone 5

Most analysts believe that Apple will introduce five new iPhone in September, and may postpone the launch for 2012. year.

Hjubertiova is even stated that it is confident that sales of the iPhone will increase annually by 55% over the next two years, while sales will rise by iPad 74%, and Mac computers by 17% over the same period.

Flexible displays “Electronic ink is likely to win the market until the first usable drawing color screen that can be seen in the science fiction series of novels and stories inspired by Gene Rodenberija. However, Samsung’s researchers may have on the trail of an important discovery with its flexible AMOLED display that can be bent without any consequences.

Prototype was designed and developed by researchers from Samsung’s Institute for Advanced Technology in South Korea, in detail has been tested and passed as many as 100,000 bending cycles and the change process. The test results showed no visible grooves, while the brightness decreased only by 6%.

AMOLED display consists of two panels placed on the bottom and top layers of silicone rubber. The protective layer of glass is set to “optical sandwich” to save from scratches and allowed him to become sensitive to touch. All components were placed in a plastic casing which is Saviano angle of 180 degrees.

A new type of display is still thriving as Rodenberijeva predictions of the future, but it is certainly on the right path and step away from the screen built into the Nintendo DS and Kyocera Echo

Whiskey or whisky is an anglicization of a Goidelic name (Irish: uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic: uisge beatha) literally meaning “water of life“.

Luxury Beverage Company of the United Kingdom, presented most luxurious non-alcoholic beverage Ruwa, has now unveiled Isabella’s Islay, the most expensive luxurious whisky product in the world as of now. It is available in two editions.

The Isabella Original bottle retails for £3.8 million ($6.2 million), and furred with over 8,500 diamonds and over 300 rubies. Two bars worth of white gold wraps this premium crystal decanter. The whiskey inside both bottles is available in refills. Isabella Special Edition are available for £450,000 ($740,000), and boasts the finest British craftsmanship in Crystal, White Gold and diamond lettering. On the launch, Luxury Beverage Company said…

This product was crafted to take the whisky and beverage market to a new level for the first time combining premium whisky and finest crystal with gold and diamonds encrusted by the most respected jewelers in London.

Isabella’s Islay Whiskey

Futuristic Hotel – Yotel

ALTHOUGH THE NEW YORK Yotel be opened in June, his robot in the form of mechanical hands to manage baggage, but catches the eye of passersby. Visible from the sidewalk, in a white room is Yobot, the first robot to manage luggage in hotels ever built, which is not required to tip.

The hotel is located on Tenth Avenue No. 570, three blocks west of the intersection of Times Square, and the latest in a chain of small and modern hotel Yotel, which includes the pensions of the London airports Gatwick and Heathrow and Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, with rooms in shaped “cocoon” which is charged by the hour spent in them.

Yobot, a direct descendant of robots working in factories for assembling the car, skillfully captured, lifted and placed basket with luggage, and all this with delight passersby. Guests who need to leave luggage at the start Yobota using your card for the room, and then follow the instructions on the screen until the door for investment luggage is opened and closed and Yobot to take action. The robot is moving surprisingly easy considering its size, while seeking a suitable place in the closet to store luggage.

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Guest login is automated. At the entrance of the hotel is located in a number of computer kiosks that “welcomes” the newly arrived guests, while the staff is always nearby, if necessary. Card for the room using RFID technology – no need for any swipe card, it is enough to touch the card lock. Small Business Center, located close to restaurants and bars on the fourth floor, also offer free Internet access and printing documents….

Hotel taking reservations for accommodating starting from 7 June. Price per night ranges ranging from $ 149 upwards, but depending on demand and prices can vary significantly.

If you want your bar to bling up, without any spirits, then Swarovski Crystal Encrusted Absolut Vodka Bottles is just the thing you need. Sold in a lot of six bottles, each of these Absolut bottle “Embellished By Relish” features 5,000 Swarovski crystals. The Florida-based online craft boutique RelishByGT. The 750ml bottles cost $6,700 for the complete set.

The bottles in this collection include Absolut Raspberri, Absolut Regular Flavor, Absolut Vanilia, Absolut Ruby Red, Absolut Peppar and Absolut Mandarin. For legal reasons, the bottles come empty, but that doesn’t mean you can fill them up when they come home.

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American artist Jeffrey “Jeff” Koons (born January 21, 1955) known for his reproductions of porcelain sculpture “Pink Panther” has fetched $16.8 million at the Sotheby’s May 10 contemporary art auction. The 1988 porcelain sculpture of a semi-naked blonde woman hugging a pink panther toy it was earlier expected to sell for between $20 million and $30 million.

There were three editions made of the work. The one at Tuesday’s auction is the artist’s proof. One was sold at Christie’s in 1999 for $1.8-million. The largest sum known to be paid for a work by Koons is Balloon flower (Magenta) which was sold at Christie’s London, on Monday, June 30, 2008 in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, where it sold for $25.7 million.

Jeff Koons Iconic Pink Panther Sculpture

Superior in every sense, the Bugatti Veyron already has earned itself a name in car history as an undisputed classic. We have earlier seen some of the most exotic and expensive Bugatti Veyrons, and now, we have a yacht that draws inspiration from this gorgeous Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Sang Bleu supercar. Designed by Ben Walsh, the 30-foot Sang Bleu yacht concept enjoys a sleek silhouette and a carbon fiber and aluminum exterior.

Luxurious attention has been paid to every single detail inside the super-sleek yacht. Back in the ‘20s, the founder Ettore Bugatti thought of creating an exclusive high-powered motorboat designed to cross the Atlantic in speed and comfort. Brit designer Ben Walsh is a Royal College of Art graduate who currently works on interior design at PSA Peugeot Citroen.

Bugatti Veyron Sang Bleu speedboat

Bugatti Veyron Sang Bleu speedboat

Bugatti Veyron Sang Bleu speedboat

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Researchers from the Laboratory of Human Media (Human Media Lab) of the Canadian Queens University of Ontario (Queen \ ‘s University of British Columbia) made ​​the fully functional, flexible smart phone-based e-paper, also known as computer paper. Like their cousins ​​in the thick rigid packaging, papirfon can call and receive calls, play music and read an e-book. However, in contrast, adapts to the shape of the user’s pocket or purse, and some actions can be made by it to bend in certain ways.

“This computer seems to leave an impression and works as a speck of interactive paper, “says its creator, Roel Vertegal, director of the laboratories mentioned. “deflect it to work as a mobile phone, making him bunny ears to flip sides or writing on it in pencil.”

The device has a thin flexible screen diagonal 9.5 cm (3.7 inches) made from e-paper company E-Ink, below which the flexible printed circuit with resistive sensors bending. These sensors allow the phone is programmed to recognize different types of bending, which then result in actions such as viewing menus, dialing, dialing songs or perform some other function. Built Vakomova (Wacom) panel allows the writing on the screen, making it even closer paper.

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When not in use the paper phone does not waste electricity. Vertegalov team has made ​​a similar device, called Sneplet (Snaplet), which can be worn as a band on the forearm. Works like a clock when the convex curve (arm), it becomes a personal digital assistant when the plane, and can be used as a phone when he bent concave.

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Technology is the result of collaboration between Queens University and the University of Arizona, and will be officially presented to the 10th May at the conference on interaction between people and computers (Computer-Human Interaction, CHI 2011) in Vancouver.

Vertegal says this is the future and that five to ten years, providing a similar look and feeling like their devices