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.

We’ve seen more than our fair share of USB displays as of late, and on the whole they’re usually tiny — say, around 7-inches. Sure, they’re well-suited for someone who wants to get that Tweetdeck or their IRC window off of their main desktop, but that’s about it. It looks like Samsung’s poised to take the whole affair to the next level with its new 18.5-inch LCD display. By “improving the transmittance of the panel and the luminance efficiency of the backlight,” Tech-on! notes, the company was able to keep power consumption down to 6.3W — low enough that a forked USB 2.0 cable is sufficient to power the thing as well as supply data. The only drawback? Apparently the device uses an edge-lit backlight that limits the device’s lifetime to 30,000 hours compared to 50,000 for existing LCD monitors). According to the company, you can look forward to seeing these things hit store shelves sometime in 2011.

Typical, right? As the 3D craze flows from the cinema to the television and onto the PC, it was just a matter of time before one of MSI’s Wind Top all-in-ones shipped with support for the third dimension. By most accounts, the new Wind Top AE2420 3D looks like a mildly larger version of the AE2220 we peeked late last year, touting a 24-inch 1080p multitouch panel, support for shutter glasses (a single pair is included), Core i5 or i7 CPU options and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD5730 pushing the pixels. There’s also a pair of 5-watt speakers built-in, not to mention an Ethernet jack, VGA output and a handful of USB 2.0 sockets. Mum’s the word on pricing, but MSI Read the rest of this entry »

Gainward has added a new factory overclocked graphics card to its range in the form of the GeForce GTX 470 GS. The card integrates 448 Stream Processors, a 320-bit memory interface, a 1,280MB of GDDR5 memory, a dual-slot ‘hybrid’ heatpipes cooler with 2GR8 fans and boasts several factory overclocked frequencies – 650MHz for the GPU, 1,301MHz for the shader and 1,700MHz for the memory. It also comes with a number of connectivity ports including dual DVI, HDMI Read the rest of this entry »

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]