A Lamborghini handset for USD 4000
The Italian luxury product brand takes its first exclusive steps into the handset market with the Antares. The phone, which will launch in Russia and China in December before making its way to US and European shores in early 2014, is a strictly limited edition affair, and as such each device will carry a rear-mounted badge recording its serial number. Hewed from stainless steel and wrapped in the highest quality leather, the Android handset, unlike many phones in the luxury sector, is not lacking for high-tech features or performance. It has a very capable quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage, plus a microSD card slot for a […]
Hunger games with chocolate for $225
If the main “Hunger Games” heroine Katniss Everdeen were a confectionery, the lady warrior would be a bar of milk chocolate, flavored with hickory-smoked bacon and accented by sweet, crisp apples. That’s according to premium Chicago-based chocolate-maker Vosges Haut-Chocolat, which has released a range of new products inspired by the blockbuster sci-fi hit. Launched to coincide with the highly anticipated silver screen sequel “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” the new Vosges chocolate series ranges from a luxury $225 truffle collection dubbed The Capitol to $5 chocolate bars created to represent some of the different districts of the dystopian state. To evoke District 10, for instance, where livestock is produced, the […]