Do you ever feel boring about conventional faucets which you have to touch to turn on and down the water? I guess you do, because that means your hands are never clean enough, and we do not like that. So that’s one of the reasons why most public places have replaced those conventional faucets with modern touchless ones. But here today we’re going to talk about is not just a touchless faucet, it is much more than just that!

First, the exterior design is neat and beautiful, I really love the compact fluid shape and smooth feel. But the most amazing part of this high technology faucet is not this. The magic faucet is completely controlled by gestures, a wave of the hand will change its temperature and flow rate. You move your hands backward, the flow rate goes down, otherwise the flow rate goes up; You move your hands away from the side of the faucet, the water runs from single stream into shower-like multi-stream, otherwise, do the reversal. Also, the beautiful faucet has two sides for you to move your hands around, one for hot water and another for cold water. There’s even two lights to generally indicate the temperature too! I think this faucet is totally great for a modern kitchen, or maybe a bathroom too.

If you want more information on this, you can check out the designer’s website at Jasper Dekker.com, there’s even videos to check out. Believe me, the videos of the working prototype really will convince you that this is a neat idea!

OK, this is not a usual household appliance, this is an exquisite auction piece, a gold-inlaid Colt handgun which auctioned for $259K! Since we’ve talked a lot about household appliances, and this pistol is really extremely elegant, let’s just spend some time to check out this super elegant handgun!

Here’s the story: This gold-inlaid handgun, which once belonged to Robert D Meldrum (also known as a classic “Bad Good Guy”), managed to fetch a cool $258,750 at an auction held by James D Julia. The classic Colt pistol was the star attraction at the auctioneer’s sale of antique firearms and militaria. As I was told, Robert D Meldrum got this pistol while he was working for the Tomboy Mine Company. They had presented him with two engraved pistols, with one in-laid with gold. If factory records are to be believed, there were only two gold-inlaid first-run Colt SAA’s ever made. These pistols were adorned with presentations and to add to the beauty, these pistols carried the distinctive patterns by master engraver Cuno Helfricht. Lately, a 1907 Luger by Greg Martin Auctions went for $494,000, making the Meldrum’s handgun to be the second handgun from a century back to fetch a six-figure amount this month. The extraordinary pistol carried a pre-sale estimate of between $200,000 and $400,000.

What a handgun! Please just view this as a compliment to this elegant art piece, not a weapon. I think this exquisite gold-plaid handgun is really beautiful as a art work, but does it really worth the money, not so sure!

TV has become a important thing in our life for quite a long time, although you might say PCs are more important nowadays, but you can’t deny that TVs are kinda special, actually we sometimes can’t live without it. The pleasure we get on TVs is kinda unique, different from the things we get on the internet. However modern TVs are becoming a little boring recently, you know, all those boring black rectangles. Well, if you’re thinking the same thing I was, here comes the artful TV, which is no way boring, but just beautiful!

Sony’s new Bravia E4000 TV left us confused. Yes, cause we just couldn’t make out the Bravia Flat TV amongst the different paintings that adorned the wall. If not for the little Sony insignia below the LCD panel, we certainly wouldn’t have found out which amongst the paintings was the Bravia E4000. Yes, so now you see how flat the Bravia E4000 really is, not to mention how crisp and realistic it’s picture quality is. And to further confound matters for us, the Sony Bravia 4000 even comes with six pre-installed images from famous artists like Vincent Van Gogh to name one. The high definition TV has the usual 1080p resolution and comes in screen sizes ranging from 26 to 40 inches to meet your different needs.Trick Sony technology for it’s legendary clarity lies in the Bravia Engine 2 processing and an X.V colour on a ten bit panel. The Bravia 4000 series also features 3xHDMI connect and you can even plug your USB pen drive to watch a movie. Now, who would care to buy a DVD player with such TV technology growing by such leaps and bounds. Digital camera enthusiasts relax, your cybershot too can be connected to the Bravia 4000 series TVs. Scheduled to hit European shores in a few weeks, there is no word still about the digiframe, er, TV’s pricing.

This is much more than just a TV, more functions, more beautiful! This is actually much more than just an appliance, it is a multifunctional home media station, and a beautiful house decoration as well, exactly the TV I would love to get.

Music, the language of all countries; piano, the instrument loved by all. We’ve seen a lot of nice pianos before, and I’m really not an expert on this subject, but today I’m going to tell you about a very special piano, the Yamaha digital piano with LCD.

For all those piano enthusiasts who have had a lot of fun playing the acoustic pianos all these centuries, there’s an improvement on the action and the piano sounds as the Yamaha Clavinova “CGP-1000″ marks it presence at the Musikmesse 2010. Featuring a LCD (640×480), a LAN terminal to download the desired content from internet along with a USB port to keep playing the recorded audio data, this digital piano has the perfect outline of a grand piano. However, to make such advancements on the piano would require a significant hike-up in the price, but the price is certainly worth it. Priced at $20,900, the Yamaha Clavinova “CGP-1000″ has outstanding quality and workmanship that creates a balance between novelty and practicality.

Something’s just always elegant whatever it looks or costs, piano is one thing that can always make us feel the elegance, and there’s even something more, this one is poised for pure pleasure, and I hope you like this.

We’ve talked indeed quite a lot about toilets before, and yet here’s another elegant high-tech toilet! For one thing I had to admit that I’m really interested in nice bathroom appliances, cause I do believe in the theory that the condition of bathroom indicates a man’s living standard! In other words, you can see a man’s lifestyle by look at his bathroom. So, it’s actually quite important to get your bathroom look really nice, and now, let’s check out this elegant toilet.

The Neorest SE is a new high-tech toilet from Toto packed with great features. Being Washlet Bidet function integrated, this is seriously a luxury and innovative toilet addition to the well-known Neorest range. As we all know, nothing is too much for Japan company Toto to take on… from a sensor operated automatically opening and closing lid to an automatic flush. The washlet cleaning functions are, though, what really makes a Toto toilet special. You can pick from different washes such as an oscillating wash or a soft wash, and also select if you wish to use the air-drying feature. Of course, the toilet seat is electrically kept warm for comfort even on chilly mornings. And wouldn’t you already know? The new Neorest toilet is self-cleaning too! Clever CeFiONtect glazing and a Tornado Flush make this self-regulating hygiene possible. And as for it’s external appearance, the Neorest SE is of a classic, contemporary design, which is totally suitable for an elegant modern bathroom! And also there’s a brother product called the “Neorest LE”, which boasts the same features, but sports a more curvier, flowing design suitable for any bathroom.

Convenient, elegant, intelligent, this Toto Neorest SE is really a nice toilet designed for those who desires a healthy upscaled lifestyle! And just to be clear: Toto toilets will seriously actually upgrade your standard of living!

As I said before, food is very important to our bodies, and someone also believe that they’re quite important to our mind too, they say nice food can create us a good mood. Having dinner with family is indeed very enjoyable but however making dinner is usually known as a tired work, and to make the food delicious and nutritious in the meanwhile is really hard work! So, here comes the Morphy Richards Intellisteam steamer.

The Morphy Richards Intellisteam steamer is an excellent way to cook meats, fish, vegetables and more. Equipped with a unique, intelligent digital timer with alarm, this steamer retains vitamins and minerals in your favourite foods, and delivers you the perfectly cooked, healthy dishes precisely on time. Morphy Richards also integrated a pre-set time guide for different foods such as chicken, fish, vegetables, rice and sauces eliminating all guesswork as well as Personal Memory function so your cooking times can be personalised and saved to memory for future use.

This 8.2 litre Intellisteam steamer can cook complete meals for up to 4 adults and features 3 individually controlled heaters, thus allowing you to set different times for different containers, which means cook three different dishes at the same time, dinner will be fast, but not rushed! Other benefits include blue backlit LCD screen, up to 40 minute auto keep-warm function, instant steam production, visible water gauge, external water top up, removable drip tray and cord storage. Boil Dry safety cut-out alarm will sound if water boils dry and cooking will stop. All accessories are dishwasher safe.

Steaming is a tasty way to retain more vitamins in cooked food. Intellisteam is a truly revolutionary new food steamer. From succulent meats to crunchy vegetables to delicious sauces, the whole dinner could be served by this one little guy. And the most important thing is that this provides a healthier lifestyle which we all need! As for the price, you can buy it for around £100, totally worth it!

Whether love it or hate it, the one thing you can’t deny is that Apple’s ads are awesome and the buzz they make is huge, and now as their new creation comes out, the whole world is talking about the iPad!

Though the iPhone can be considered Apple’s next-generation MessagePad, after much speculation Apple’s long-rumored entrance into tablet computing has finally arrived. As Apple always does, its new Tablet has been built in a nutshell. At first glance, the device basically resembles a large iPhone, complete with a home button and glass touch screen. True to the style that has come to define Apple products, the device looks simple and well-built, with a rigid glass display and a inch or so of bezel area around the display. The display is a full capacitive multitouch panel, as was expected, but is also an LED-backlit IPS (In-Plane Switching) display that has a great viewing angle. The back is aluminum, and there are various connectors on the sides for power, sleep, and volume controls.

On the inside, Apple has given us a surprise. The device uses an Apple-designed chip it is calling the “A4,” which runs at 1GHz and is used for managing everything: processing, graphics, and I/O. The system has between 16 and 64GB of memory, contains Bluetooth and EDR wireless connectivity, has a speaker, and microphone, and also contains Apple’s accelerometers, ambient light sensors, and digital compass with assisted GPS technologies. There is a 30-pin connector for attaching the device to computers, but it also uses Bluetooth and Enhanced Data Rate technologies for fast wireless access up to 3Mbps. The device has a powerful battery that gives up to 10 hours of usage, and nearly a month of standby time.

Apple has not omitted the option for 3G connectivity. The system contains 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-fi options, but also can directly tap into UMTS/HSDPA and GSM/EDGE 3G wireless networks, and come unlocked and without any contract so if your wireless carrier uses a GSM micro SIM, it should “just work.” However despite this, the capability to make phone calls does not appear to be available, but then again it is not a phone. An internal camera is the one missing feature on the iPad, but there should be ways to add one as an accessory, though Apple has not mentioned. And the one really big disappointment is the device seems to be limited when it comes to multitasking.

As for the price, it has been able to provide all of this in the range of $499 to $699, and we should start seeing them hitting store shelves in about two months. Quite a reasonable price consider their earlier productions. The popularity of the iPhone has made it a raging success, and it, along with other “smart” devices, has shown Apple and other manufacturers that consumers are ready for a tablet. With the iPad Apple has come to define computing in the modern era, and like it or not, this really is the beginning of a new era, there will soon be no room for those cheap netbook, and the new fashion of palm computer begins here!

Water is one of the most important elements in our daily life, we use it to drink, to wash and many more. But somehow water is kind of dangerous too, although we don’t have to worry about drown inside the house (well, still do if have got a personal pool at home), we do should be aware of impending burning! So here is a clever faucet that can warn you of the impending burning!

Yes, we’ve seen a couple LED faucets before, but this one is very different. Check it: rather than just making your water blue, which makes you feel like you’re doing the dishes with antifreeze, it changes color based on the temperature, making you feel like you’re doing the dishes with either antifreeze or Gatorade. Not just for fun, actually it’s a cool concept, as you won’t have to worry about scorching your hand while testing the water again. If it’s red, don’t mess with it. This could quite possibly be the world’s first color changing faucet — built-in LEDs change colors based on the water temperature. There is also “precise control” for baths, sinks, and showers.

So this is it, elegant and practical! No more worry about burnt, you can totally count on this high-tech water faucet!

Women love baking, it feels really awesome every time we made out some delicious cookies, not to mention a nice cake! We love the sweet smell and the wonderful mouthfeel of different cookies and cakes, and indeed we enjoy making such beautiful food, seriously! But what is this always standing in the way, driving us away from baking?

The oven! Of course, most of us have been injured or failed to make nice food due to a terrible oven. Here’s an example, every time you open the oven door, some heat escapes, which is one of the many reasons that baking times can vary from person-to-person for the same recipe, as there is no telling from a writer’s standpoint how long a person will leave his or her oven door open while trying to fit in cake pans and baking sheets, and this is sometimes why you can’t make out the right cake or cookie you’re suppose to. Now, the famous kitchen manufacturer Gaggenau has come up with an absolutely gorgeous oven that tries to solve this problem. The “Lift Oven” is built to utilize the fact that heat rises and, instead of having a door that opens on the front of the oven, it has a base that lowers to open and raises to close – leaving the hot air in the preheated oven above. Better yet, the manufacturer suggests mounting this oven above the counter, so the platform comes down to your level for loading and unloading and completely eliminating the need to bend down or to reach into a hot oven, therefore much less burnt! The oven opens and closes at the touch of a button, and Gaggenau says that it has 11 different heating methods, including a convection setting. It also has a glass-ceramic base, which you can put cookies, breads, pizzas and other baked goods on – no baking sheet required.

However, the only real drawbacks are the the oven is only 24 inches (many out there are larger, so it might not be idea for very large roasts, etc.) and it comes up with a quite astonishing price tag of $4,000. Well, Let’s say, there are plenty of ovens that are even more expensive, and this is still a great oven with wise design.

Cars are very important in our daily life now, for we really need that transportation to live in a city these days. Go through history you can certainly see the changes in car design. But what the future car would look like? We all have our own picture in mind, but still that’s the question no one can really tell until it actually comes out eventually.

Nevertheless, many manufacturers are trying to show us their idea. Here’a preview of one future car style with this Sergio Luna’s ‘2028 One’ car. Coming from the Michelin Challenge Design 2010, ‘2028 One’ is a single-seater for inter-city transportation. Based on the Segway mechanism, the lightweight vehicle is compact enough for an easy driving. Though it adopts a joystick, the car could also be entirely controlled by a computer.

Well, is this your idea of how the personal vehicle would look like in the future? Anyway, looks fun and beautiful line, but I really concerned about my luggages or shopping stuff, seems too small for those. Somehow I’ve got a really weird feeling that if they make a toy car like this, it’ll definitely sell! I would love to buy one!