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Admit It, You Want a $1,200 Bang & Olufsen Phone

The Serene is Samsung mobile technology housed in a sleek case designed by Bang & Olufsen, and it’s a phone everyone might want… at least until they hear about the $1,275 price.

So go ahead and get one.

Cisco Enables Widescreen Meetings - CIO Tech Informer - News - CIO

If you’re an enterprise executive, Cisco Systems wants to put you on TV—big-screen, high-definition TV.The curtain is set to rise Monday on a videoconferencing system that delivers life-size images of conference participants in real-time with the highest video definition commercially available. Integrated with high-quality speakers and specially built meeting tables, it also makes remote participants’ voices seem to come from where they appear.

Life size and wide-screen for the super-sized executive.

At 1.7 pounds and less than an inch thick, Samsung already had one of the smallest PCs around. Now it seems as though it got an upgrade.
Samsung quietly launches new ultramobile PCs | InfoWorld | News | 2006-10-20 | By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

The Q1-Pentium has a 60GB hard-disk drive and 1GB of memory, while the Q1b has a 40GB drive and 512MB of memory. The latter configuration is similar to the original model. The screen on both machines is unchanged from the launch model. It’s a 7-inch widescreen touch-panel display with 800 by 480 pixel resolution.The Q1-Pentium is priced at $1,250 and the Q1b $900, according to a listing on Internet shopping sites newegg.com and cdw.com. The same sites sell the original model for $1,000.

Its battery life is about three hours.

You know you want one.

Castles For Sale - Forbes.com

Though the number of castles sold worldwide is minuscule compared to the overall real estate market, it has increased in recent years, thanks to the rising wealth of buyers, increased visibility–there are several castle-specific Web sites out there–and general enthusiasm for real estate.There is a surprising range of castle options to choose from these days. They can be age-old or spanking-new, in New Jersey or South Africa, and have turret-high or relatively affordable prices.

In fact, depending on the exact location, the size and the level of restoration, smaller castles can be purchased for as little as $1 million–easily the cost of a two-bedroom condo in Manhattan.

The only possible way to make this better would be if it were actually cold. At $9 grand a pop, get one before the Tudor Joneses do.

SCI FI Tech

Three of the sides of the iceberg have grips for climbing and are of various stages of difficulty, from beginner to expert. The fourth side is a gigantic water slide to send you plummeting back into the water after your climb.

We can dig it.

Cingular 3125 review by PC Magazine

Think of the Cingular 3125 as an attractive flip phone that syncs with Microsoft Outlook and also plays music and you’ll be thrilled. Think of the handset as a cutting-edge smartphone and you’ll probably be disappointed.

Lenovo ThinkPad X60s review summary by PC Magazine

Staying connected and edging out the competition are two musts for business travelers, and the Lenovo ThinkPad X60s ($2,299 direct) can help you do both. The latest ThinkPad ultraportable is a compelling refresh to the ThinkPad X41, maintaining an ultralight weight and integrating Verizon’s EV-DO. And as it has a battery life of more than 7 hours, no trip is too far for the X60s.

We all need security in these uncertain times. We just hate it when our home dumps debilitating chemicals on us.

Platinum Protection - Forbes.com

But burglar, spy or inept visitor beware–hit one of the more advanced security systems out there, and you will not only be faced with impenetrable doors, but with blinding tear gas and other serious deterrents.It may sound like action-film overkill, but some of the wealthiest people turn to such elaborate protection systems to protect their families and valuables. And it’s not, as one might surmise, a post-2001 phenomenon among the über-rich.

Blow the expense budget at these 10 restaurants.

World’s Most Expensive Restaurants - Forbes.com

One of the best is in Japan. For the second year in a row, the top restaurant on our list of the world’s most expensive restaurants is Aragawa, a little steak house in Tokyo’s Shinbashi district. Like many of Japan’s high-end, hidden restaurants, it doesn’t have a Web site or grandiose decor. But reservations are excruciatingly hard to come by, and the tab reliably starts at $370–per person. But the platters of Wagyu beef (what we call Kobe), which is sourced from only one local farm and served simply with pepper and mustard, make the expense worthwhile.

There are just some types of data you want safely in your pocket, rather than floating around some insecure place such as your office PC. If you have lots of that type of data, we’ve got just the thing for you.
Gearlog : Filthy Rich Geek: A 64GB Flash Drive

Don’t get this confused with a 64MB flash drive. CDW is actually selling a 64GB flash drive on their site called the Buslink Pro 2 Series. Unless you’re one of the former owners of YouTube, the $5,740 price tag might be a bit of a turn off. The Buslink has read speeds of 20Mb/sec and write speeds of 15Mb/sec. It even comes with security software that password protects your drive.Don’t have $5700 at your disposal? Heck, you can finance it for a monthly fee of $180/month. Even more shocking is that there are no product reviews listed for the item. I usually like to hear what other consumers have to say.