STMicroelectronics has just started the mass production of its STLC4370 Mobile Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) chip, which is geared towards mobile phone use.
Its diminutive size allows it to be used on a wide variety of mobile devices, including small PDAs and fold-open portable keyboards. In fact, the chip has already been incorporated into several [...]

Slim Devices, maker of the Squeezebox family of network music players, will next month link its web-based internet radio service, Squeeze Network, to the Pandora music discovery service, the company said today. From March 1, Squeezebox will provide customers old and new with three months’ free access to Pandora.
Pandora’s team of music analysts spend their [...]

Seagate yesterday not only pledged to ship a 12GB 1in hard disk drive in Q3, it also promised the drive would ship in a much smaller casing than its current 1in HDD line-up does and consume two-thirds of the power. What’s more, the drive incorporates perpendicular recording technology, the company said.
Seagate’s 14g ST1.3 is pitched [...]

A rather cool-looking gadget for snow freaks is set to pop up on the piste next winter. Spyder, apparently the largest specialty ski-brand in the world, has just announced the launch of a ski jacket with integrated iPod controls. The user simply touches the button on their arm with their glove to change track.
And the [...]

A Henk is as different from a “wheelie” as a puma is different from a pussycat. Its materials are exotic, its engineering elegant. Each case consists of 500 separate parts (more than 22 of them moving), fashioned variously from red Italian burl, black ebony, horse hair, magnesium, aluminum, titanium, carbon fiber, parachute fabric and the [...]

Motorola, Oakley and Cingular Wireless all working together to bring you an interesting piece of eyewear featuring a third generation Bluetooth technology. The RAZRWire supports protocol version 1.1 and 1.2 meaning that it’ll be compatible with most Bluetooth enabled phones and other devices on the market. You’ll enjoy five long hours of talk [...]

Wrinkles are not the enemy of youth. More insidious is the subtle loss of facial volume that dramatically ages a face. Volume loss could never be managed with a skincare cream…until now. ReVive introduces its most potent molecule yet, KGF (Keratinocyte Growth Factor). Intensity Volumizing Serum with KGF augments the subtle loss of facial volume [...]

How much could a pair of shoes cost? Well, the world’s most expensive pair of women’s shoes costs a cool $2 million!
The one-of-a-kind 4-inch stiletto sandals are studded with 565 platinum-set Kwiat diamonds (which include 55 carats of clear diamonds and one big 5-carat stone).
The ‘Cinderella slippers’ as Stuart Weitzman, the designer of the fantasy [...]

As the festive season draws near and thoughts turn to presents for loved ones, those seeking to add a bit of spice and glamor to their yuletide gift list may well consider buying their wife, girlfriend, lover, partner or mistress some designer lingerie.
And if they’ve got some spare cash sitting around — $15 million of [...]

Caran d’Ache created in 1999 La Modernista Diamonds fountain pen, in homage to Antoni Gaude (1852-1926), the most famous of Modernist architects. The pen, made of rhodium-coated solid silver components, has an 18-carat gold nib, also rhodium-coated. It is covered with 5072 full-cut Top Wesselton VS diamonds totalling 20 carats. 96 half-cut rubies (0.32 [...]