Fine Living

I was travelling through Europe recently, and by the time I got to Switzerland I realized that I had a real problem on my hands. When a person travels, inevitably they forget a thing or two, but what I had forgotten to bring was extremely important to the safety of both myself and everyone around me. What I had forgotten… was my nail clippers.

Looking around, careful not to stab any passersby with my dagger like fingernails, I eventually picked up the Design Go Travel Nail Clippers at the hostel we were staying at. After having used them, I can safely say that

The Traxxas X0-1 is one of the fastest RC cars in the world and is the fastest out of the box RC car.  The X0-1 can hit a top speed of 100 mph, which is pretty damn fast especially for a remote control car that you don’t need to “hack” or mess around with.

According to the company, the X0-1 is not a toy car and is intended for experts only; it carries a risk of fire, injury, or worse, death!  Traxxas suggests using the car on a closed course, like a race track or a drag strip.  I can see the X0-1 taking out a few toes if you race it at full speed with people around, especially if you’re doing it in your living room.

I never thought I’d find a computer mouse sexy, but here we are and I say “this is one sexy mouse!” The mouse in question is the Logitech Touch M600 Touch; it’s like one of those fancy Apple mice without buttons that you see at Starbucks next to those fancy laptops. 😉

As cool looking as the M600 Touch mouse is, it’s nothing too special. It’s basically a trackpad (those things found on laptops) shaped like a mouse.  You swipe your finger across the surface to move the cursor and click it.  The Logitech Touch M600 mouse uses one AA battery that lasts for about 3 months and if you want to double that to 6 months, there is a slot for a second battery.

I’m no shisha/hookah connoisseur but I do enjoy the occasional smoke here and there. I actually talked about my hookah experience a while back and we’ve featured a couple of fancy devices such as the Porsche Design Shisha and the Etienne LeRoy Shisha. I thought those hookahs were fancy but boy was I wrong! The Desvall Shisha is apparently the most expensive in the world selling for a staggering $60,000.

Desvall is offering unique pieces with state of the art engineering while incorporating traditional craftsmanship. Each Desvall Shisha is milled out of a solid block of metal with tolerances down to five hundred of a millimeter. Each metal piece sanded and polished by hand and then individually coated.

One of the biggest complaints I have about the Apple iPad, other than me wasting hours playing with it, is the lack of a proper speaker and I’m not the only one with this complaint.  Sometimes, when I’m watching videos on the iPad, I put my hand behind the speaker and giving it a round shape to bounce the sounds toward the front, kind of lame but it does work somewhat.

Nonlinear Studio took the idea of using a hand as an amplifier, I guess I wasn’t the only one doing this, and made it into a neat little product.  The product is called “amplifiear” and it looks like a saucer or a plate that’s missing