Europe’s largest motorcycle producer KTM has now made its first automobile, the X-Bow ($50,000). It is designed for the road and has a Four-cylinder TFSI engine from Audi (220 hp). It weights only 1550lbs and can accelerate 0-60mph in under 3.9 seconds. Mark your calendars, mass production of this street monster starts early 2008 with the first units being delivered in February.

[Source: BornRich]

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Pool beer pong anyone? Do you ever wish you could play it in the pool? This is what you have been waiting for, a water proof floatable table for ping pong ($70). I don’t know how the rules would work for this type of beer pong game, but it would be fun to try.

[Source: Brookstone]

Last week at the Hamburg Aircraft Interior Expo, BMW group DesignworksUSA unleashed a few mock-ups of a concept 787 VIP business jet. This jet was designed for someone who “spends a significant amount of time traveling across the globe and needs an aircraft that function as a second home.” More pictures on the next page.

[Source: A Welsh View]
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It looks like HTC is beginning its shift from the dying PocketPC market to the new UMPC market, with the HTC Shift. This little guy does not have a price, but should drop late in 2007. It packs a 7-inch touch screen, a 30GB hard drive. Wireless: 3G, WiFi, and Bluetooth. a QWERTY keyboard and Microsoft Vista Business OS.

[Source: HTC]

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About this time last year at Baselworld 2006, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève prize for electronic watches was awarded to Seiko for their breakthrough in electronic ink technology. Their watch featured a thin-yet-easy to read e-ink display all around the watch. This year they one-upped themselves with a new e-ink watch-style bracelet for females that features emotional technology. The new bracelet has different modes depending the wearers mood and what they are doing. There is an “Efficiency” mode which “the display is informative and easy to read”. There is also a “Mystery” mode where “the panel expresses the time in a more imaginative, evocative style”. There is no word on pricing, production, nor availability right now, but I hope to see these in stores sometime soon.
UPDATE: There are only 5 of these watches made. Production of these watches might be around fall 2007.
[Source: SEIKO WATCH CORPORATION]

Lexus wins the award for the most expensive hybrid to date ($104,750). Available in June this 5.0 V8 hybrid powertrain will have a combined horsepower rating of 438HP. Don’t buy it just for the power, this baby packs; LED headlights, four-zone climate control (with a dedicated A/C unit for the rear passengers), voice-activated HDD-based navigation system with XM real-time traffic directing, 19-speaker Mark Levinson sound system, rear DVD entertainment system with 9″ LCD screen, automated parallel parking system and an Advanced Pre-Collision System (APCS).

[Source: DailyTech]

Sony impresses us again at the Display 2007 expo in Japan. They debuted new OLED monitors and are thinner, brighter and consume less power than traditional LCD. The display pictured above is an astonishing 9mm thick and sports 1080p resolution with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio.

[Source: Impress]
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The Loft Cube is a temporary living space that is very innovative and can be placed anywhere you desire. It starts at $110,000 and each is fully customizable.[Source: Werner Aisslinger - Loft Cube]

It has been a while since there has been anything worthy of writing about on this site. So I decided it was time for a fresh look. The old design was getting boring to me and was too dark. I hope you all enjoy this new look.

This is the EuroCave Vin Au Verre refrigerated wine serving unit. It is made up of separate red and white wine compartments with taps for 4 red and 4 white wines. It keeps open bottles fresh for about 2 - 3 weeks, and stores an additional 8 bottles at perfect serving temperature.

Shelby is celebrating the 40th aniversary of the “Eleanor” 2008 Ford Shelby GT500KR. Only 1000 of these are going to be made and will be available Spring 2008. This is going to be the fastest production mustang to date packing a 540-hp 5.4-liter supercharged V-8 with a Ford Racing Power Upgrade Pack, 3.73:1 rear axle ratio, short-throw shifter, and unique suspension tuning.

[Source: Ford]

Lawn mowers cars and motorcycles are only a few things Honda makes, and now they can add airplane to that list. This is Honda’s first aircraft cleverly named HondaJet. The jet can carry up to 7 people, and has a fully enclosed AFT lavatory. It uses a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit system, and is powered by two GE Honda HF120 engines which are placed above the wing to reduce drag. Honda is taking pre-orders for this little jet, the price is $3.65 million.