Fine Living

For thousands of years, mankind has dreamed about flying. Those flying dreams eventually became a reality in 1903, but what about our childhood dreams about having personal jetpacks and becoming rocketeers?

In the 1960’s, a personal jetpack was developed by the army for soldiers to cross the mine fields in Vietnam. But commercialization efforts were halted as the jetpacks were powered by dangerous fuels, expensive to maintain, had a short flight duration, were too noisy, difficult to control, and came with a high risk of serious injuries and death.

But not to worry my friends, as the folks over at Jetlev Technologies, Inc. have something for all those aspiring rocketeers. Development started back in 2000, and after years of research and development, the Jetlev R200 is finally ready to be released to the public.

Down in the south (Texas), seeing people with diamonds in their mouths is a normal thing. Southern rap artists have made owning a diamond encrusted grill a “cool” thing and teenagers down there save their money for their first set of grillz – not their first car.

I think Nelly and Paul Wall might want to take a little trip to India and meet up with optometrist, Chandrashekhar Chawan, who is the creator of the diamond contact lenses. Chawan’s company, Shekhar Eye Research, is offering the contact lenses in four different designs: gold, white gold, 18 diamonds on gold and 18 diamonds on white gold.

Over the years, I’ve developed a strong appreciation for good, solid umbrellas. Living in a rain forest makes a strong umbrella – or at the very least a very thick hoodie – an absolute necessity. It’s a funny thing too, because I really don’t like umbrellas for the most part. I’ve always found them a nuisance to carry, and most of them are ugly, bulky, and end up breaking at even the slightest gust of wind. That all changed about 6 months ago when I found a company called Senz.

The Senz Mini AO, like it’s big brother the Senz XL Storm Umbrella, features a number of improvements and innovations over “regular” umbrellas that I’m going to outline in depth. In a nutshell, these umbrellas are better because

Last December I wrote about the $50,000 CXC Motion Pro II video game racing simulator, if that was out of your price range then you might want to think about the Vesaro Advanced Racing Simulation rig.  The Vesaro race simulators have a starting price of £999 ($1,565 US) and can go up to £16,578 ($25,980), still a hefty price but much more reasonable compared to $50k ;), which can buy you a very nicely equipped sports car.

The Vesaro race simulators come in 9 different variations and all come with stainless steel structures that have been painted black.  The base model

When I first saw the name, Handpresso, I was thinking it was a device such as the Fleshlight. Kind of like a hand job on the go. But you will quickly realize that you do not want that thing anywhere near your crotch as it contains espresso coffee. I’m not much of a morning person so caffeine is always appreciated.

And the Handpresso Auto provides just that, a shot of “premium quality espresso” while on the go. I’ve never had an espresso in my life but the device seen here looks like a pretty heavy duty piece of equipment. The Handpresso Auto will hook into the 12V cigarette lighter in your car.