The dazzling electric violinist Linzi Stoppard has mixed together an intoxicating form of electric violin with the glitz of Swarovski crystals to bring out the world’s most expensive electric violins. With a price tag of £1million, each bespoke Bridge electric violin is encrusted with 50,000 Swarovski crystals. These functional pieces of art will be on display at Harrods until June 2 at the top of the fourth floor Egyptian Escalators.

Korean gadget manufacturer NextPapyrus today unveiled their latest entry-level e-book reader. Known as the PAGEone, this gadget is currently being displayed at the World IT Show 2010. Folks in South Korea are able to buy this eReader for 200,000 Won or approx. $167. Read the rest of this entry »

Designed by Dragan Trencevski, the eRoll e-book reader is contained in a tube from which the OLED paper-thin screen is pulled out from. The gadget features navigation buttons on the right side of the screen, which can be controlled using your thumb. Sadly, it is only a concept so far. [Yanko]

That’s right! the Sanyo Xacti DMX-CA100 is claimed to be the first waterproof full HD camera in the world. This new camcorder can be used to a depth of 3 meters underwater for up to 60 minutes. The Sanyo Xacti DMX-CA100 is able to record Full HD videos (1920 x 1080 pixels) and capture 14-megapixel still pictures. The video recorder also has the High-Speed Sequential Shooting mode, allowing it to capture up to 22 photos at 7 frames per second. Other features include Digital Image Stabilizer, Face Chaser Function, a Mini HDMI Terminal and an Eye-Fi card compatibility. The Sanyo Xacti DMX- Read the rest of this entry »

Fusion Garage CEO and JooJoo creator Chandra Rathakrishnan has certainly discussed the iPad before in talking up his own tablet, but nothing could have quite prepared us for the bit of bombast he unleashed on the occasion of the iPad’s international launch. While he started out with the usual line that the “JooJoo delivers the entire Internet — including Flash-based websites,” he soon took things to a whole new level, saying that “we don’t see the need for an app store,” because “an app store sells stripped down versions of actual Read the rest of this entry »

While we’ve got no way to confirm at the moment, here’s some proverbial food for thought. A friendly reader last night published in our comment thread for the two rumored Verizon-bound Motorola devices with the above picture (subtitles added by us), claiming the bottom image is the Droid 2′s upgraded QWERTY keyboard. The story goes that his friend had one but no other information is currently available — the font on the keys is identical, and the mic icon on the bottom left is distinctively Android. If it’s legit, we gotta say we’re hopeful; the keys look to have a more protruding center à la the CLIQ, which should make typing on the little guy much easier than before. And if it’s not the Droid successor, well, it’s still something we haven’t seen. Could this be the updated QWERTY-fied Android Read the rest of this entry »