Cars, Deco, Tech, Food, Fashion, Music & More LIVE from Joburg - Part 6

Screw Keys!

These Screw Keys are a simple concept – two screwdrivers roughly the size of your average key. They are wide enough at the top to get a good grip, but aren’t unnecessarily bulky.

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At $4.50 (about R35), they just ooze with convenience! Get em here.

The Clock That Spells Out Time

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Introducing the QLOCKTWO – it tells time by writing things like “IT’S FIVE PAST NINE” and if you choose to get one, it may become the most expensive item in your living room – the asking price is about $1,600 (about R12,500).

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Despite it being plain brilliant, it does have one drawback… it only spells things out in five-minute increments. So, if you want it to be more precise, you have to look to the four corners of the clock, each of which has a dot that represents a single minute. Still smart.

Turn Your Laptop Into a Desktop

If you use your MacBook as your main desktop computer, then you might find the BookArc appealing…

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It’s a stand for your MacBook (regular, Air and Pro all work) that keeps it out of the way while it’s hooked up to your external monitor. You can position it so all your cables are and out of the way – personally, I can never have enough monitors, so I prefer a stand that actually lets me use the built-in screen.

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Either way, it can be yours for $49 (about R390) from Twelvesouth.

Irresistible Spanish Island Villa

Just look at this luxury villa in Mallorca (the largest island of Spain)!

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The overall size of the property, including gardens, is 1350 sqm with the actual home stretching 530 sqm across the plot. What does that mean? Simple – you get to enjoy a 180 degree view over the bay throughout the day to until sunset…

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I can’t resist! Just one more peek before the gallery…

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Now see the rest… Click here for the full gallery.

Dexters Bloody Coasters

We all know Dexter – the TV show about the serial killer that works as a forensic blood splatter analyst. So how about these coasters?

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They’re made to look like blood samples on microscope slides that ol’ Dexter keeps in a wooden box on the show. Neat!

Snow Leopard Finally Shows Itself

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That’s right Mac lovers, it’s being released this week, right on schedule!

A glimpse at some of the new enhancements:

More Advanced Finder includes 64-bit support

It’s more responsive from top to bottom, with snappier performance throughout the Finder. And it includes new features such as customizable Spotlight search options and an enhanced icon view that lets you thumb through a multipage document or watch a QuickTime movie.

New look and features for Exposé

It’s now integrated in the Dock, so you can just click and hold an application icon in the Dock and all the windows for that application will unshuffle so you can quickly change to another one. So if you hold down the Pages icon, you’ll be shown the various templates for which you want to create a new file from.

Faster Time Machine backups

Now Snow Leopard makes Time Machine up to 80 percent faster and reduces the time it takes to complete your initial backup to Time Capsule.

50% Faster wake up and shut down

Your Mac wakes from sleep up to twice as quickly when you have screen locking enabled. And shutting down is up to 80 percent faster, saving precious moments. Time to connect to wireless and ethernet connections is also reduced!

Smaller footprint

Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing up roughly 7GB of space for you.

A Leap forward for Quicktime

It includes a completely new QuickTime Player application with a clean, uncluttered design, a new trimming interface, and easy uploads to YouTube and MobileMe.

The Right Service

The Services menu in Mac OS X lets you use features of one application while working in another. In Snow Leopard, services are more simplified, streamlined, and helpful. The Services menu is contextual, so it shows just the services appropriate for the application you’re using or content you’re viewing rather than all available services.

And the Winner… Built-in Support for Microsoft Exchange

the Mac is the only computer with built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. So you can use your Mac — with all the features and applications you love, including Mail, iCal, and Address Book — at home and at work and have all your messages, meetings, and contacts in one place.

Noble M600 On Roads In November

And here they are, the first images and details about the new Noble M600 supercar…

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Boasting generic supercar styling, the M600 is powered by a twin-turbo 4.4-liter Volvo V8. While it’s odd hearing “Volvo” and “supercar” in the same sentence, the M600 is anything but Volvo-like. Packing 650 bhp, the car accelerates from 0-62 mph in 3.0 seconds, 0-100 mph in around 6.5 seconds, and tops out at 225 mph.

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In order to get these insane performance figures, Noble had to build the M600 as light as possible. Weighing 1275 kg (2811 lbs), the car uses carbon-fiber body panels and a steel tube chassis.

Speaking of the chassis, the M600 has a 40/60 rear weight distribution for sporty handling. Other interesting touches include fixed-rate dampers, Alcon brakes (with iron discs and minimal servo assistance), and a fixed steering ratio.

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“Designed to provide a pure and uncorrupted driving experience,” the M600 lacks typical safety features such as ESP and ABS brakes. While a traction control system is part of the package, it can be defeated by flicking a missile launch switch (from a Tornado fighter bomber) off.

The £200,000 (roughly R2.5m) M600 will go into production this fall, with deliveries set to begin in November. Take a look at our awesome Noble M600 Photo Gallery

Sharp Phone and Photo Frame Combo

Sharp has just released the JD-7C1CL/CW, a phone and digital photo frame combo.The 128MB photo frame packs a 7-inch touch panel (800 x 480) which acts as the status indicator, calendar, clock and address book.

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There’s no word on a price or release date, but really, you should anyone be considering a “home phone” in 2009 under any circumstances?

Recipe Timer Offers Precision Cooking

Take a look at this kitchen timer device that works with specially designed recipe cards. Like any recipe, you have instructions only the Kitchen Timer goes one step further and provides visual and audio feedback on progress.

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If a set of instructions says to cook the chicken for 30 minutes, the arm will slide down the card in that exact amount of time – now that’s precision cooking!

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Designed by Emma Caselton

Gemballa Transforms Porsche Panamera into Mistrale Beast

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Gemballa, the highly-specialized German tuner of Porsche models has come up with this new look for the recently unleashed Panamera. It’s been dubbed the “Mistrale” – a name taken from the cold, Northwest wind that sweeps through the region of Provence in the south of France.

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There’s a wholly new front bumper including a carbon fiber lip that flows seamlessly into the front skirt. Details on what will lie beneath the re-fashioned exterior remain few, but large air intake slits (on the bonnet too) hint at some serious power upgrades with their capacity for increased cooling of both the brakes and motor.

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At the back are also some additional touches to give the Panamera a 911 coupe/sedan look. A rear diffuser made to hold a quad stainless-steel sport exhaust is integrated into the existing rear bumper.

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Finally, the 22-inch alloy wheels are the visual signature of what will surely be a performance-oriented tuning job! Wow!

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