Designer pink eyelash an inspiring vision

Only a fashion impresario and true visionary could launch a versatile range of long lush pink eyelashes for the pink fashionista.

Add a  pink feather boa to create a scandal and establish yourself as a true innovator amongst your peers.

At an affordable four pounds or so, they are now within the reach of every pink peasant with an inalienable constitutional right to match her  make up with her favourite accessories.  Join the  pink monarchy.

Team them with a pair of   hello kitty pink contact lenses for that unmistakably self-possessed look.

You never know when you are likely to need a pair, so get some or get left behind. You wouldn’t want to get caught behind the wheel of your pink car without them.

The perfect Valentine’s day gift for the woman who has everything apart from a  pair of coveted pink eyelashes.

Pepto-Bismol Pink Bentley for Paris

Do you remember what your childhood fantasy was? For Paris Hilton it was to own a pink barbie like corvette.

Paris Hilton found the inspiration for the shade of pink for her Pink Bentley after seeing a clock at a Disney Store. So she took it into a technician and asked for the car to be painted the same colour.

The Paris Pepto-mobile is fitted with special glass to render it paparazzi proof, and achieve the desired purpose of deflecting attention from Paris.

Paris admits that this car isn’t the sort of car she will be driving everyday. To many Bentley lovers Paris’ act of painting her beloved new possession pink is tantamount to the highest form of blasphemy.

As reported by Autotrader,  in it’s former life,  the Continental GT was a grey Bentley before West Coast Customs was commissioned by Hilton to spraypaint the car.

As Paris states, this car isn’t for everyday use, so I don’t imagine we will see her in it going down to the Laundry Mat in it, unless of course she is shunning attention behind those special windshields.

Get smart pink high heeled shoe phone

The Pink high heeled shoe phone is no girly gadget designer gimmick.  The only thing that could possibly detract from it’s functionality in helping you stay under the radar is that there  is no actual compartment for your foot.  Until then you just hide around the corner when you want to avoid any unwanted attention.

No indication it can be fitted into the pink cadillac and I’m guessing no USB to your laptop.

 

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This is a serious buy for the high end fashionistas in the security business.

And if you are at risk of corporate espionage the last thing you want to do is draw attention to yourself.

Discretion is a must…

Available from gadget4all

Aston Martin Code 77

 

A hand made coupe Aston Martin with a 2.3 million dollar price tag will be put on the market next year, with only 77 to be produced.

Prospective buyers of this luxury car according to Autopia will receive an exclusive invitation to the dedicated design centre in Gaydon to submit their order after consulting with a team of designers and engineers.

There is a lot of mystique surrounding the vehicle known at this stage only as ‘one-77′, and is reminiscent of the DB9. By using the latest technology including carbon fibre technology it is envisaged that the ‘One-77′ will be the one of the fastest, and most expensive luxury cars.

Aston Martin is famed for making some of the most beautiful luxury performance cars which have featured in many films including the James Bond series.

The flagship car will be powered by a  7 litre V12 and will be handcrafted in aluminium. The select buyers will be able to order the cars to their exact specifications.

The contours of the car and sleek shape impart a distinctive appeal to the vehicle sure to attract those select few able to afford it .

 

 

 

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Pink Nissan Figaro

Pink Nissan figaro , a personal favourite of mine, is for sale on  ebay

Without scouring many listings, it gets my favourite vote for it’s innate charm and restyling, with baby pink glitter paint and refurbished interior.

Appreciating beach bomb VW Kombis

The  rear loading 1969 Beach Bomb Kombi is one of the most valuable Hot Wheels collectors cars in the world.

When it was released back in 1969 you could get a Hot Wheels VW Kombi for under $1.

Due to only a few being released by Mattel, there are believed to be only about 25 in existence around the world and they have significantly appreciated in value, becoming a hot collector’s item.

Now you would be forking out $1300 per millimeter, with the value of the above car estimated at $100K.

Intel’s vision for cars with eyes, brains and touch

Who could forget the lovable robotic VW Junior?

How much easier would life be out there with a car that could park itself, suss out other cars, and make decisions for the driver? Once part of the popular imagination it is slowly coming closer to reality. Perhaps not in the form of walking , talking intelligent humanoids, but certainly the robotic devices that assist us in our daily living and in industry. Robotic vacuum machines and lawn mowers are commonplace. In fact the world of personal robotics for technology companies is big business!! There is a global race to develop smart machines based on robotic concepts.

Just like Victoria has a 2030 plan for sustainable development, the Korean Government’s target is that every household have a robot by the year 2020.

Intel have released details of their visionary products having various applications from self navigating cars with multicore processor based computers as a brain to futuristic projects in the field of health care, the environment and wireless networks.

Having foreseen the inevitable, that robots will continue to feature more and more in out daily lives, Intel is focusing on their utility, in particular building sensors so that robots have a better sense of touch.  Just as a shark uses electromagnetic fields to sense what is in their midst, Intel figure that using electromagnetic fields with robotic hands will enable machines to judge the optimum amount of pressure to pick up items without breaking them.

Concrete examples Intel give are a robotic bartender who knows how to handle glasses without breaking them and robots that are gentle enough to give grandma a helping hand out of the couch.

Intel’s innovative research is focusing on the way to multiply the number of cores in processing, by building tiny chips and adding customised core engines which are task specific, for example for encryption.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=development&articleId=9097218&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_top

Autonomous Robotic vehicles to enter war business

The Mule (a multifunctional utility/logistics and equipment), an armed robot the size of a Humvee, is Lockheed Martins machine which is capable of firing Javelin anti-tank missiles, featuring a turret-mounted machine gun, coupled with a digital eyeball with laser heat recognising and target acquisition systems in order to aim it’s weaponry with precision.

It uses GPS to navigate, has localised perception to enable it to avoid obstacles like buildings, and it’s versatility is enhanced by it’s six wheels on pneumatic legs to scale cars and barriers.

The Mule is destined to be shipped to conflict hotspots and the US government also plans to use them to clear minefields.

The military use of robotic systems is now widespread with thousands having been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, to conduct renaissance and disarm explosives, whilst also engaging in a futuristic kind of warfare. These uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) are reportedly being used to fire on insurgents. Clearly this kind of technology has the ability to outmaneovre and overpower enemy combatants.

Autonomous robot vehicles are however still by and large in the experimental phase with tactical decision making still requiring a human factor posing obvious challenges.

DVT compression stockings the new pink?

Medical compression socks  could become a new fashion rage. 

The Coalition to Prevent DVT is hoping that these socks will raise awareness of DVT in the same way that Pink did for breast cancer.

They don’t look a lot different than leg warmers, well not a lot anyway.

This is where fashion, medicine and marketing can converge to create a winner. Soon you will be throwing out your scrapbooking kits and buying a sock kit to create the funkiest socks on the block.

The formula is simple, a colour, a disease, and an item offering a  solution.
 

Body scanners at airports leave passengers in the pink

Body scanning machines  installed in major airports across America are revealing their most intimate body parts. These new security devices to be installed at 38 major airports are set to replace metal detectors and pat downs at airport checkpoints.

As pointed out by the ACLU  the controversial machines can see through a person’s clothes and this form of electronic strip search has enormous potential for abuse.  Everytime you need to jump on a plane you face the spectre of having your nude body inspected at random.  It has provoked an outcry from troubled women who feel that they are being assaulted by this invasive new technology.

 As Barry Steinhardt, Director of Technology and Liberty Group at the ACLU  has pointed out abuse of photographic technology under the pretext of security has been a reality in the past and it is invariable that the device will be misused.  As Steinhardt pointed out that the ‘active millimeter wave body scanners’ was justified given that there are less invasive technologies around and that the experts don’t seem to have successfully tackled cargo screening.

The efficacy of the technology must also be questioned as although the scanners can see items under clothing, it doesn’t look under the skin, so won’t be able to detect items surgically implanted or within body cavities. Neither can it see through rubber or plastic or items that resemble skin.

There are questions of informed consent and those who have refused to take the scans have been subjected to pat down searches.  Based on previous experience, it is conceivable that there will be warehouses of photos collected by employees for their circulation.  There have been no  details released on how tightly regulated and monitored the system will be to avoid this temptation.

Before long to get into the footy stadium or your employer’s building you might face this kind of test.

It is just as much the perception that you might be exposed to prying eyes than the reality of this occurring that is frightening and demonstrates that the Foucauldian panopticon is very much alive and well in this surveillance society.  What if the security camera picks up something innocuous? It is forseeable that pat down searches would quickly follow.  It evokes images of the abusive and degrading interrogation that Donald Rumsfeld allowed at Guantanamo Bay with prisoners being interrogated naked.

The move signals just the latest of incursions into the civil rights and privacy of domestic citizens in the name of national security. We know that without court permission the administration has been spying on groups from animal liberationists, Quaker peace activists and  anti war protesters, whilst the National Security Agency has been intercepting our emails, phone calls and snooping into the hard drives of our computers.