A Good (Wine) Rack Gets Much Praise

Samuel Johnson said “One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”

This unique Grape Wine Rack is the ideal place to keep your favourite tipple!

It will look great in any home, especially after a fine merlot… just remember to leave something in the wine rack, or it’s a bit pointless spending £79.99 (about R1000) over here.

Why not read a few old wine proverbs? Here you go…

• Old wine and old friends are enough provision
• Good wine carrieth a man to heaven
• Drunkenness is not the wine’s fault, but the man’s
• A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds
• Burgundy for Kings, Champagne for Duchesses, and claret for Gentlemen
• The best use of bad wine is to drive away poor relations
• In water one sees one’s own face, but in wine one beholds the heart of another
• There are more old wine drinkers than old doctors
• Drink wine, and you will sleep well. Sleep, and you will not sin. Avoid sin, and you will be saved. Ergo, drink wine and be saved
• Take the drink for the thirst that is yet to come
• One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints
• Drink a glass of wine after your soup, and you steal a ruble from the doctor
• With wine and hope, anything is possible
• Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach

Frozen Dentures to Cool Your Drink!

How awesome are these bedside denture ice cube moulds?!

Each tray will hold two sets of frozen dentures. So just add water, wait a bit and you have enough false teeth ice for four drinks or two drinks with a complete set of dentures. Get em here!

Sexy Post-it Advertising

“For the little things you’ll forget” – classic, funny, sexist… call it what you want!

What a great advert!

Funky Tape Measuring Tape

This cassette tape is literally a measuring “tape”!

The Mix Tape measuring tape can measure over 2.5m in length and oozes with retro funkiness! Get is for $10 (about) over here.

Floating House in Seattle

This place is definitely not for those who have a water phobia or who mind seeing a few boats swinging nearby when looking out the window. It’s located in Lake Union, Seattle and has an awesome interior and exterior design. Its room structure was designed so that all the private areas like bedrooms and bathrooms be placed on the ground floor in order for the second story to be dedicated to one large entertainment room. Sliding doors reveal an outdoor terrace for relaxing and enjoyable views.

I could easily live here! Check it out…

The All-Embracing Look into Apples Latest Lineup

Today, after a week of rumors, Apple released a few exciting and revolutionary products. I’ve summed up the important parts and compiled the ultimate quick-look into their latest lineup…

Meet the Magic Mouse

The entire mouse has a seamless multi-touch surface!

It’s got low-profile design and seamless top shell – so sleek and dramatically different, it brings a whole new feel to the way you get around on your Mac. You can’t help but marvel at its smooth, buttonless appearance! The Multi-Touch area covers the top surface of Magic Mouse, and the mouse itself is the button.

Scroll in any direction with one finger, swipe through web pages and photos with two, and click and double-click anywhere. Inside Magic Mouse is a chip that tells it exactly what you want to do. Which means Magic Mouse won’t confuse a scroll with a swipe. It even knows when you’re just resting your hand on it.

Click
Magic Mouse is an advanced point-and-click mouse that lets you click and double-click anywhere on its Multi-Touch surface.

Two-button click
Magic Mouse functions as a two-button mouse when you enable Secondary Click in System Preferences. Left-handed users can reassign left and right click, as well.

360° scroll
Brush one finger along the Multi-Touch surface to scroll in any direction and to pan a full 360 degrees.

Screen zoom
Hold down the Control key on your keyboard and scroll with one finger on Magic Mouse to enlarge items on your screen.

Two-finger swipe
Using two fingers, swipe left and right along the Multi-Touch surface to advance through pages in Safari or browse photos in iPhoto.

The New iMac with 21.5-inch and 27-inch displays!

The new iMac has come a long way from the first 15-inch iMac. A 21.5-inch or 27-inch display with edge-to-edge glass covers nearly the entire front of the enclosure. When all you see is the display, nothing gets between you and what’s onscreen. Movies, TV shows, websites, photos -everything looks stunning on the new 16:9 widescreen iMac display with higher resolution!

The new 21.5-inch iMac features 1920-by-1080 HD resolution. Apple engineers could simply have stretched that resolution up and out for the 27-inch iMac. Instead, they took the display well beyond HD with 2560-by-1440 resolution. That’s 78 percent more pixels than the 21.5-inch iMac!

In addition to every normal input, the new machine also has a SD card slot built-in to transfer your photos and videos to and from your iMac just as fast as you’re able to take them.  Just insert your camera’s memory card and import your photos to iPhoto.

Wall mountable? Yes, it’s easy to give your iMac a place of honor on the wall. The 27-inch iMac is compatible with the VESA Mount Adapter Kit for use with wall mounts and articulating arms.

Last, but not least, the specs are incredible! 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 8MB shared L3 cache; Turbo Boost dynamic performance up to 3.46GHz; Hyper-Threading for up to eight virtual cores

Lastly the Durable Unibody MacBook

A mere 25.5 mm thin and even lighter at 1.8 kg, the sleek new MacBook cuts a slim profile on any desk (or in any backpack or briefcase). It features a new seamless, more durable unibody enclosure with rounded contours that make it easy to pick up and slide into and out of your bag.

And it’s made of rugged polycarbonate that withstands the rough and tumble of everyday life – at school, at work, or while traveling. Even the bottom of the new MacBook feels different. Covering its entire surface is a nonslip material that keeps your MacBook right where you put it, whether on a desk, table, or airplane tray.

Brilliant LED-Backlit Display - A glossy widescreen display with spectacular color and instant-on brightness.

Built-in 7-Hour Battery - Work or play for up to 7 hours between charges thanks to the long-lasting battery.1

Glass Multi-Touch Trackpad - Plenty of room to navigate and more innovative ways to interact with your MacBook.

Under the Hood - Advanced NVIDIA graphics, a fast Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory, and a large drive up to 500GB.

MagSafe and More - A magnetic power connection, built-in wireless, SuperDrive, and ports for your everyday tasks.

Built-in iSight camera - Use the camera and iChat software to stay connected with friends and family.

Visit Apple for more info on everything above.

Mercedes-Benz E Class Coupe Adverts

Talk about inventive! Aren’t these Mercedes E Class ads great? They’ve combined words to create new awesome ones like Superfect:

…and Fabuttractive:

The car’s not too bad either!?

Set Your Shirt on Fire with Zippo-like Cufflinks

Can you believe that cufflinks go back to the Middle Ages where their precursor, ‘cuff strings’, adorned the wrists of fashionable gentlemen of the day. One of the earliest references to what we now recognize as cufflinks was made in the London Gazette of 1684, which referred to a pair of cuff buttons set with diamonds – styling! But can we say they same for these mini-lighter cufflinks of today??

I suppose you’ll always stand out from the crowd (one packed with smokers). And even if people think you’re a complete nob, at least you’ll always have a lighter handy. You can purchase the set of cufflinks here for $40 (about R300).

If you’ve got some style, check out the YSL Bullet Cuff Links… If you’re a little more funky, start sporting these Guitar Hero Cuff Links.

Finally: A Video Recorder with Quality Audio

This Zoom Q3 Handy Video Recorder is groundbreaking. Its claim to fame: it grabs high-quality audio with its two directional studio-grade condenser microphones.

The downside? It only records standard definition video. Sure, it’s great to have HD video, but pros will tell you that amateurs always forget about the audio, which is a lot more important to the overall effect of a video than you might think.

It goes for $249 (about R1800), has a built-in USB cable, giving you easy plug-in convenience. There’s a 2.4-inch LCD display and another nice touch: a built-in tripod mount on the bottom.

Bear-Claw Firelighters for the Seasoned Pyromaniac

Bear Grylls can start a fire with two green two twigs in the rain, but us normal people prefer to do things the easy way:

These KM Firelighters are basically gigantic matches – so big, in fact, that I can’t imagine the fireball and plume of smoke these things emit when scraped against your rough, expendable surface of choice – seriously, each match is so large that you can count the tree rings! They burn for 8 minutes and are bound to get any braai going fast!

Get a pack of 20 here for $60 (about R435).