Coco Mademoiselle L’Extrait
Chanel offers a new, fresh and light but high-quality version of its famous Coco Mademoiselle fragrance in a format that is intimate and convenient for summer nights. The fragrance is created by Jacques Polge who combined fresh notes of Sicilian bergamot and orange with jasmine flowers and roses and woody accords of patchouli and vetiver.
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The E382 Aerial Mapping Airplane touts unmanned cartography, ready-to-fly drone kit starting at $600
Find yourself needing custom aerial maps on the regular? Is Google just not doing the trick when it comes to resolution? Well, the folks at Event 38 have got you covered. The outfit’s model E382 photomapping UAV kit is now available for $600. Included in that price tag is a pre-assembled Skywalker airframe, 1250 kV [...]
Insert Coin: Hand Stylus for touch devices
Inventive scribbler Steve King — no, not that one — is working his fingers raw trying to raise $25,000 on Kickstarter. His project, the colorfully-named Hand Stylus, works with all your capacitive touchscreens, sports a retractable nib that rotates to avoid uneven wear, and even sticks to the magnet on an iPad. While it can’t [...]
A. Lange & Söhne Grand Lange 1
It’s been 18 years since A. Lange & Söhne put German watchmaking on the map with its now-iconic Lange 1 model. The collector community took notice of its boldly off-center dial design and large date, as well as traditional Saxon elements in the movement, like the three-quarters plate, screwed gold chatons and screw balance, and [...]
Australia – Cape Lodge, Western Australia: Best for food
This charming boutique hotel is set in its own vineyard in Western Australia’s Margaret River wine region. It has 22 bedrooms and suites decorated in a contemporary style and showcasing original works by top Australian artists, as well as a two-bedroom cottage and five-bedroom villa in the grounds. There are tennis courts and a pool. [...]
Sigilli by Enrico Buccella: Hymba & Bayan Mulak
Perfumer Enrico Buccella creates and promotes two brand new perfumes, Hymba and Bayan Mulak, adding them to his collection SIGILLI. Besides this collection, the perfumer is working and creating two other collections: LES VOILES DEPLIEES and CERCHI NELL’ACQUA, divided by the theme of the collection and characterized by their different flacons.
The entire collection was [...]
Rimac Concept_One EV now a reality: cash in those stock options (video)
If you don’t have a sonorous v-something under the hood guzzling gas, do you still have a supercar? Judging by the nearly one million large needed to buy its Concept_One high performance EV, Rimac clearly thinks so. Since our last dalliance with the sinuous eco-powerhouse, the Croatian maker has announced that it’s producing 88 units [...]
Withings WiFi scale syncs weight with BodyMedia site, won’t let you hide from the truth
Are you using a Withings WiFi Body Scale to monitor your weight-loss efforts? Are you also using a BodyMedia FIT Armband to track your activity and calories burned? Get ready for a body-stat explosion, because now you can pair the two devices to streamline all that info on your progress. Instead of manually entering your [...]
Animation Innovation: Harry Winston’s Opus 12
Each year as Baselworld approaches, one word percolates to the top of the watch world’s collective consciousness: “Opus.” Harry Winston’s Opus pieces often outscore all others on the buzz-generator charts. This year’s Opus watch did not disappoint. It may have momentarily confused some of us, but it did not disappoint.
Upon entering the HW booth, I [...]
Shanghai – Pudong Shangri-La
The Pudong Shangri-La is famed for its location on the Huangpu River, with stunning views of the Bund and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. But it’s also worth checking into for its luxurious accommodation. There are 952 glamorous rooms and suites, including 375 added to the hotel’s Grant Tower in 2005, which are decorated in [...]
