HP unveils iPAQ Navigate online service for trip planning

LAS VEGAS, USA (AVING Special Report on '2008 CES') -- HP yesterday launched HP iPAQ Navigate (www.ipaq.com/navigate), a trip planning website allowing users to create custom travel itineraries that can be printed for easy reference or loaded to the new HP iPAQ 300 Series Travel Companion personal navigation device.

Before embarking on business or personal travel, customers can log onto the free HP iPAQ Navigate site to search for attractions, restaurants and hotels to add as points of interest to personalize trip plans. The intuitive interface makes it easy to add, rearrange or delete destination points along an itinerary.

Unlike most mapping and navigation sites, itineraries need not stop at the printer with the HP iPAQ Navigate website. Once plans are completed on a PC, they can be printed or conveniently loaded onto the HP iPAQ 300 Series personal navigation device. If trip plans change along the way, travelers can edit itineraries directly on the device and instantly share updates with friends, family or colleagues by simply logging back onto the site.

(Picture: the new HP iPAQ 300 Series )

After returning home, travelers can invite their community of family, friends, colleagues and even new users to view their trip. When logging back into HP iPAQ Navigate, customers can add notes about great restaurants, shortcuts to destinations and the best hotels from their trip so others can use the existing itinerary to create their own custom trip plans.

Additional features are planned for HP iPAQ Navigate, including enhanced community tools and premium capabilities.

During travels, the HP iPAQ 300 Series serves as a virtual tour guide, providing a high-resolution, 3D immersive navigation experience with spoken turn-by-turn directions. The device also features a brilliant 4.3-inch widescreen display with resolution equivalent to full DVD-quality video, Bluetooth phone connectivity and premium entertainment system to enjoy MP3 music, videos, photos and pre-installed games during downtime.

If travelers want to further explore their destination, they can search through the HP iPAQ’s rich points-of-interest database to add to their itinerary. Best of all, the HP iPAQ 300 Series can recalculate routes in real time via GPS technology, so the itinerary automatically adapts to adjustments and detours

(Picture: the new HP iPAQ 300 Series )

Miro painting sells for record price at Paris auction

Would you believe this simple painting
costs 11.6 million euros or 16.7 million dollars?

Joan Miro the spanish artist ,the highest price ever for one of his works, the auctioneers Drouot said.

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extraordinary Bandages for the heart

This bandages for the heart, designed by Alyssa dee Kraus,an extraordinary made in 18k yellow gold or sterling silver.

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World’s Top 10 futuristic luxury hotels

The fast changing modes of travel would certainly one day make a big dent on the hotel industry. Only those will survive who have something special to offer or, at least, I would never settle down at a place with belts of my flying car or jetpack intact.

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10. The Apeiron island hotel

Designer: Sybarite
Status: Concept
Estimated project cost: $500million

The ‘Apeiron’ island hotel is a seven star resort with a total floor area of 200,000m². It is 185-m high and boasts of over 350 luxury apartment suites. The hi-tech futuristic hotel screams of luxury and comfort with its own private lagoon, beaches, restaurants, cinemas, retail shopping, art gallery, spas and conference facilities. Its out of the world design is magnetic enough to deliver a spell-bounded experience to visitors.
9. Foldable hotel pods

Designer: m3 Architects, London
Estimated project cost: $72 to $104 million

Location: Songjiang, China
Designer: Atkin’s Architecture Group
Status: Concept

6. The Poseidon Undersea Resort

Location: Fiji, The Poseidon Mystery Island
Designer: Bruce Jones
Status: Under construction, will be completed by September 2008
Estimated project cost: $105 million
Cost per person: $15,000 per week

Location: Dubai
Designer: Joachim Hauser, Crescent Hydropolis Resorts
Estimated project cost: $500-million

4. The Lunatic Hotel: Hotel on the Moon

Designer: Hans-Jurgen Rombaut, Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG)
Status: Blueprint ready, will take real shape by 2050

3. Aeroscraft: The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow

Designer: Igor Pasternak (Worldwide Aeros Corporation), Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG)
Status: Prototype under development

2. Galactic Suite

Designer: Xavier Claramunt of ADD+ARQUITECTURA
Status: On hold, prototype is ready

1. Commercial Space Station Skywalker: The inflatable space hotel


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Colorful e-dictionary nurian X-10 with dual LCD and multimedia playback

With an exterior LCD and several hot keys, you can enjoy multimedia content playback and voice recording functions easily without opening the dictionary; you can view the time, title of the songs being played, radio channel, and even a certain word that you've already looked up in the dictionary before. It has the content of 53 different kinds of dictionary in four languages(English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean) and it offers integrated search results from 45 dictionary content of it. Featuring pen-based touch screen, you can easily look up the dictionary for some complicated Chinese characters. According to the company, with improved search function, it gives you search result not just from the index of the words, but also from a usage part or any explanation part attached to a particular word as if you use Google search engine.

The Nurian X10 also contains enhanced multimedia functions; it supports Xvid codec, which allows you to view different types of video files by converting them. Other features include mp3 player, voice recorder, radio, image/text viewer and electronic scheduler.

With its 1600mAh of large capacity battery, it has 14 hours of battery life for dictionary, 11 hours for mp3 and 5 hours for video. It can be charged via adapter or USB. The X10 is available in orange and black color with the price tag of 319,000(KRW).

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Boxing glove chair

a novelty furniture that would make you relax, while watching the fight of manny paquiao's fight or any boxing champion.Can this do better than a boxing gloves?




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worlds biggest and smallest burger

Bob's BBQ & Grill of Pattaya, Thailand has smashed the current record for producing the world's biggest cheeseburger. The landmark in cheeseburger history was created in celebration of the king of Thailand's 60th year accession to the throne and was part of a wide range of events being held all year in Thailand to mark the occasion.









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World's Smallest cheeseburger ever made.
this is for those who are in a fad diet right now, and kids too would want to
swallow for sure.

It's the couples made to decide this micro burger,for art sake.
since they love spending time together in the kitchen ,an interesting tiny over one inch tall and about an inch wide is merely created.























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