Posts with tag technology

The Clarisonic is one of the hottest items on wishlists for this holiday season. It's a pretty big ticket item, but if you're feeling lucky, Fortune might smile upon you: there is a three-way Clarisonic giveaway happening in the next week!

A Ralph Lauren iPhone application? Well, that's all well and good, but we have just one question: What the heck are we going to do with it?

Answer: A lot more than you might think.

Want a new cell that'll make you stand out? Forget about bedazzling a Crackberry -- be the first one on your block to own either Prada or Porsche's newest phone.

For us, this quintessentially describes "geek-chic": a 90210-themed iPod Nano. Gearing up for the new spin-off/recreation coming to television this fall, CBS (which owns the rights to classic 90210 and is developing the new program), the CBS Store is offering a limited edition 8 GB iPod Nano (available in a full choice of colors, including pink!) featuring the original 90210 cast (well,t he cast members that mattered anyway) laser-engraved the back. You can even customize it by adding your own name.

The iPod is $269 and limited to only 2000 players, so if you want to reminisce like it's 1993, while keeping up with the gadgetry of 2008, order now!

If you want to relive the 90210-resurrection with fashion, Junk Food has a collection of 90210 (the original series) themed tee-shirts that we think are just awesome.

[via Engadget]

Once you've finally saved up enough cash to buy your super-fancy expensive handbag, that last thing you want to happen is for it to be stolen by some scrub.

Enter DataDotDna, a laser etching process that can create DNA for practically all of your luxury items through a process that "etches microscopic information onto barely visible discs."

After the micro discs are placed on your objects, they'll forever stay attached. So anyone trying to fool around with your stuff isn't going to get away easily and for long. This kind of technology has been championed by car companies for years. The fashion companies hope they can bring that same level of safety and authenticity to their products.

[via Fashion Week Daily]

Just like us, dogs can suffer from dehydration and heat exhaustion. They do their best to stay cool by panting, but since they can't exactly sweat, it's tough for them to beat the heat.

There are all kinds of contraptions on the market that use space-age polymer technology and old fashioned evaporation to help you do right by your best friend. From cooling vests to crate fans, to simple travel water bowls, it's easy to keep your pet cool. And that makes you cool, too.

Steampunk is a counter-intuitive sci-fi concept. It's about the future, but set in the past, usually Victorian era England. The technology is pre-digital and steam-powered, but it's also quite modern and computer-driven. Analog computers, that is, that float over cities on dirigibles. See? Confusing. Let's stick to the aesthetics of it.

If you enjoyed the look of City of Lost Children, Van Helsing, Howl's Moving Castle or Lemony Snicket, then you like steampunk. One of the most distinctive visual characteristics is a quasi-Victorian mechanism, with lots of polished brass and clockworks.



Interested? Well, before you pull out the superglue and renovate your laptop, start by decorating yourself with some mechanically beautiful necklaces, cufflinks, earrings and brooches from Rivkasmom on Etsy. They really capture the essence of steampunk, with clocks, trains, balloons, and so much shiny brass! The items are all handmade, original designs, and one of a kind, so if you see something you like in the gallery, rush over to Etsy before some steampunk beats you to it!

What qualities would your perfect bra have? Of course, it would have to provide proper support and be comfortable. And, it would need convertible straps so it can be worn with just about anything. It needs to cut low enough for you to wear your deepest neckline, but still provide a seamless appearance under a clingy t-shirt. It should lift and separate, but not so much that it makes your breasts look fake. Oh, and it should be a little sexy, too.

Are we forgetting anything? Because it turns out that building the perfect bra is a lot more scientific than we had realized.

As Gillette and Schick continue to battle it out, creating razors with increasingly higher blade counts -- until one day we'll have razors that look at the hair, talk to the hair, ask the hair out for coffee, and then get to know its parents before finally hacking it off -- one of them has finally returned to inventing something useful. Kind of. The new Gillette Fusion Chrome Collection Power Razor comes with five blades, "micro-pulses" (read: it vibrates), and has a flashlight.

For those times when the world needs to know that you'll exchange sex for money, you can't go wrong with a pair of shockingly-tall, black leather stilettos. But what most hookers don't realize is that you don't have to forgo fitness while you're pacing poorly-lit street corners and schlepping up stair cases to the untidy apartments of lonely pervs.

In fact, you don't even need a separate stair-counter for your working-girl workouts -- all thanks to these new heels from Costume National.

Cell phones have become far more than a way for us to make a call. Between sending text messages, pictures, and videos, storing music, and acting as a mobile workstation, it's a wonder our cells have time to do anything else.

But they do -- they act as yet another fashion accessory.

In India, adding bling to your cell is a booming business. For example, there is a device that will turn your car's rear view mirror into a monitor so you can check the incoming calls by looking in your mirror while you drive. There are also options for music lovers, like stereophonic speakers to turn your phone into a mini home theater. Or, if you're a bit forgetful, you might want to opt for an intelligent watch, which will alert you if you're leaving your cell behind.

And, if you're more interested in making your phone look fancy than in giving it fancy functions, you can always opt for phone jewelry and charms. After all, if you can personalize your ring tone, shouldn't you be able to personalize the phone, too?

As it turns out yes, the fashion industry is pretty much the anti-Internet. The International Herald Times put out an article about the top dogs in the fashion industry and their fear (well more like avoidance) of the Internet. Just typing about it gives me the willies, it would be a cold day in hell before you could pry my MacBook away from me.

Here are some top designers and their examples of computerphobia:

Marc Jacobs: "I do know how to Google. And I've even had a relationship from the Internet. But I can't sync up with my iPod; I don't know how to use Photoshop and machines break around me."

Nicolas Ghesquière of Balenciaga: "No, I am not really Internet - but I just got a BlackBerry."

Karl Lagerfeld: "I don't use a computer; I do research with my brain, and if I want or need to - I get people to do it for me."

Elbaz: "I open my imagination to push me forward, a computer is about getting into a formula - and that is the biggest danger to the imagination. I work with my heart and write with my brain, you take the knowledge but go forward with your feeling, your instinct. Above all, you have to start and end with the dream."

Prada: "I don't use the Internet - it is all in my imagination, if I want to see something they have to show me the sites. For me it is fundamental, today the computer can do everything fake. But the imagination is endless."

Dolce & Gabbana: Dolce has never used a computer, where Gabbana uses one twice a week.

Yikes, call me crazy but for me going without the Internet is like going without air. Not all designers are crazy computerphobic; Christopher Bailey of Burberry loves the Internet and "uses it all the time" and Robert Polet, chief executive of PPR's Gucci group says computers are a must.

Amen Robert Polet! What do you all think, could you live without the Internet?

ThinkGeek has done it again. They have taken something normal (a T-shirt) and made it outrageously nerdy (a Wi-Fi detector).

Here it is, the ThinkGeek Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt. Yep, it really works. Those little bars are on an animated decal you can remove to wash the shirt. Because Wi-Fi bars are not washable. Betcha didn't know that.


When I think of all the times I have wandered New York City with my laptop wondering where there is a place I can check to see if Han Solo has e-mailed me yet, when I remember sitting on that freezing bench outside of the fancy east side residence Sutton Place, when I think of peering at peeling Wi-Fi stickers in the windows of delis and diners, when I think of all the times I've desperately clicked on networks called "Tina's Angst Zone" and "Boyz Gone Wyld" in vain. . .how I wish I'd had this shirt.

I don't feel particularly inclined to walk around like a beacon of computer signal activity, but I would like to hire an intern to stand near me wearing this at all times. That would be handy. I can't offer pay, but I'll take you to prom. Okay?

P.S. Han Solo never writes. Scoundrel.

Facebook was the new Myspace, and now Twitter is the new Facebook. Are you following me? Probably not, but that's OK. Let me just put it this way. Twitter is going to be the next big thing.

It's a keep up, or get out of the way kind of world, and Twitter is what you should be keeping up with now. It's like Facebook, but in real time. You can update your status and set Twitter to send out phone text messages to tell all your friends what you're doing.

I been noticing that more and more people on blogs are using Twitter to communicate with their readers. I've seen Twitter everywhere lately! Since Styledash is always ahead of the game, we even used it during Fashion Week last year.

The phenomenon has been especially popular with people traveling, who might not have time to sit down and write an email to all their friends and family who want to know how he or she is doing. With Twitter, the traveler is able to send out his whereabouts by telling everybody at once, "I'm in Bali, getting a $5.00 massage. Life is good!" When you change your status, those who follow you on the website will receive text messages, if they are set up to do so, with your updates.

Twitter hasn't quite broken into the mainstream yet, but I have a feeling it will soon. The website is continuing to explode in popularity. Time Magazine said, "Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app," and I believe them. It's trendy to be on Twitter right now!

Do you Twitter?

Feeling the heat?

If so, you might want to look into Japanese Kuchou-fuku's air-conditioned clothes. The shirts and jackets keep the wearer cool with two small fans sewn into the back of each garment. The fans are powered by a pocket-sized rechargeable battery pack.

They aren't the most fashionable thing I've seen, even in any of the 10 different styles and a variety of colors, but they do help the environment because they use about 1/50th the energy of a small air conditioner. If you don't mind that you might look like a human blimp, you can get one of these shirts for 11,000 yen ($96).