We all played with cars when we were younger. Whether you were a little boy who could sit in your room for hours and drive the cars up and down all of your bedroom furniture or you were a little girl with an older brother who tricked you into playing cars for hours; we all played with cars.
In all of our years of pushing those little cars around for hours there was never a track that could change so easily, so quickly as DayDream Toy’s extraordinary Doodle-Track. The Doodle-Track car is a race car that follows whatever track is made using a black line. Yes, you read correctly. The set comes with a race car, stick-on decals to decorate your car, a playmat, and an official Doodle-Track marker. Optical sensors in the car allow it to move along any black line that is drawn. Now your child can have multiple race tracks with as many turns, loops, and straight-aways as he or she sees fit. The Doodle-Track set is recommended for ages 4 and up and sells for the bargain price of $14.99USD. Just make sure you stock up on batteries. The Doodle-Track needs 3 AAA batteries to operate and you will probably go through the first pack before you even let your kid know you bought it.
To be fair, it’s still cheaper than getting the original one but sarcasm aside, this one-of-a-kind replica of the 1970 Nissan Fairlady Z432 is just like any other toy – that is, if you think ‘toys’ are now made from platinum and come with a price tag of $80,000.
Given that Nissan only built 420 of these Z432s from 1969 to 1973, you can understand jeweler Ginza Tanaka’s choice of the Fairlady to commemorate the Japanese toy-car maker’s 40th anniversary seems to be a good choice.
The detailing of the platinum-made Fairlady is incredible and just to emphasize the toy car’s rarity and exclusivity, Tanaka didn’t settle for just any kind of packaging - even the car’s box is made from platinum.
In case you’re interested to have a closer look at this $80,000 toy, it’s going to be on-display at the Hong Kong International Jewelry Show for this whole month of March and will then move to the Osaka Tomica Fair in Japan next month.
You know those ‘Made in China’ tags that comes with just about every piece of merchandise you buy these days?
Well, now you can add something to that seemingly endless list: a Bugatti - or ’Bugatty’, as its called - Veyron mobile phone.
We’re not kidding; there really is one. Not only that, but it’s got some pretty nifty features too, including a 2.4-inch touch screen, an FM radio, a camera, Bluetooth connectivity, and dual-sim capability.
The downside of this novelty phone – that’s the only way to describe it, really – is that it doesn’t come with any warranty whatsoever and the price tag is pretty steep - $200 for one - relative to what you can get with that same amount of money if you just bought the more tried-and-tested brands.
If userability is what you’re looking for, then you can do better than this Bugatti Veyron phone. But if you’re looking to stand out from the rest of your friends – and you can spare $200 for a phone that probably wouldn’t last a couple of years – then this Bugatti Veyron mobile phone may just be what the doctor ordered.
A few weeks ago, we heard about an obscenely wealthy man who purchased two Aston Martin One-77s with the purpose of using one for his own driving pleasure and the other as an enormous art decoration in his house.
While we cringe at the mere thought of having a $2 millon-dollar supercar idly hanging on a wall and collecting dust, we do have a suggestion for our wealthy friend and opt instead for this DRIVE IN wall art that’s being sold by a company called JELLIO for a ‘paltry’ $2,500.
So what if it’s not a car? It’s actually a pretty cool concept, which takes those plastic car kits of yesteryear and supersizes them to become a limited-edition 44” x 44” sculpture.
The limited edition sculpture even pays homage to the chrome heavy hot roads that were prevalent back in the 1950’s, which pretty much guarantees it a ton of attention by itself.
Don’t get us wrong; an Aston Martin One-77 that’s hanging on a wall is guaranteed to be the center-of-attention. But we’re afraid that not everybody will appreciate that work of art, especially if they see themselves sitting behind the wheel one.
Have any of you ever noticed how race cars of all shapes and sizes get to become colorful works of sponsorship art? There’s a method to that madness and you can find everything you need to know through ‘Go Faster’, a coffee table book written by Sven Voelker, a professer at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and a self-admitted racing and car savant.
The book covers over 100 examples of race car designs with all of their designs chronicled in full detail from a blank canvas to a sponsorship-laden piece of race car art. ‘Go Faster’ is a book every race car fan should at least take a look at and we’d even consider it as a must-buy for anybody who’s ever wondered how a car’s aesthetics morphs from a clean slate to an explosion of color and graphic design.
Remember that Nike viral marketing video of Kobe Bryant jumping over an Aston Martin using only his new – at that time, at least – Nike Hyperdunks?
Well, that rather outrageous cross-promotion from Nike and Aston Martin has finally come full circle after the shoe brand recently released a special-edition Kobe Bryant Aston Martin Edition Hyperdunk. The shoe, which features some shiny leather, Kobe’s signature embossed on the inside tongue, and the Aston Martin logo on the outer tongue is already selling for a whopping $700.
What’s more, Nike only made 500 of these bad boys so you can expect all the sneakerheads to be busting out of line to get a chance to scoop this limited run kicks for themselves. We just hope that they don’t do anything silly and try their luck jumping over an Aston Martin with these shoes.
In terms of popularity among sports cars, the Nissan GT-R is just about as popular as any sports car to have been released in recent times. Why else would it have such a tremendous following among car enthusiasts all over the world?
Heck, it even has one of the coolest nicknames – Godzilla - to have been bestowed upon a sports car!
That being said, fans of the GT-R – and we’re pretty sure that they are a whole lot of them – would be thrilled to know that a new coffee table book about the GT-R is now being sold for a pretty modest price tag of £ 39.99 ($61.50).
Would you ever buy a pair of sunglasses for $14,000? What about a fountain pen for around $6,000?
If you answered to the tune of ‘Heck, No!’, then we won’t blame you. After all, spending for a pair of glasses that cost about as much as a new entry-level car is borderline ridiculous.
But if you’re the type that finds money allergic – therefore you spend it any way you can – then you might find these items a little more alluring, especially since they’re made by Bentley.
These two items, along with a lot more, will be sold at Bentley’s own boutique at the Geneva Motor Show. In addition to the sunglasses and the roller pens, Bentley is also selling passport holders, wallets, cufflinks, ties, gloves, pens, and even those limited edition Zai Supersport skis that we featured about a month ago.
Needless to say, those who don’t have enough cash to purchase even a regular pair of skis shouldn’t even bother going to the Bentley Boutique – unless, of course, they’re there for some good old fashioned window shopping. But if you’re going there with intentions to purchase, then we suggest you bring a lot of money with you, or maybe take three credit cards, just to be sure.
The double-edged sword that is technology has, throughout history, produced some of the most remarkable inventions the world has ever known. And while most of them have been or are being put to good use, there are some inventions that, while pretty cool in their own right, poses an element of threat should they fall in the wrong hands.
Take this new Electronic Key Impressioner for example. The EKI is a small hand-held device that has the capability to electronically map the inside of car locks and remold a key that could open the car lock that it previously scanned. With the use of a USB port and a lock mapping software, users of the EKI can completely redesign and duplicate a set number of keys.
On one hand, this new device could end up becoming a locksmith’s new BFF – imagine how easy it would be for them to just scan a certain lock’s key codes and create a duplicate using a lock mapping software. On the flip side, however, the EKI – should they end up with someone with evil intentions – could also become a thief’s new favorite toy. Can you imagine how easy it would be for a lot of car thieves to boost a car simply by using this new contraption?
It may be a little far-fetched but in a time when crime rates all over the world are steadily increasing, we figured that this may not be an appropriate time to be releasing something that could potentially lead to trouble.
Sure, it could end up making the life of a locksmith a whole lot easier. But on the same token, you can also say the same thing for a thi , a car thief, at least.
Go to any novelty shop all over the country and chances are, you’re going to find all sorts of oddly-designed rings being sold for maybe three bucks a pop. While these rings serve no purpose other than becoming cheap finger fashion, we think that if anybody would want to ride a ring in style, they should at least take a look at the Gear Ring by Kinekt Design.
As the accompanying video will show you, the Gear Ring is more than just a cheap pop ring; it’s actually a real gear contraption with tiny gears across the face that rotates when the larger rings spin in opposite directions. If you’re having a hard time picturing it in your head, then we invite you to watch the video and see for yourself.
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