While the holidays is slowly creeping in, many high end manufactures are releasing their seasonal collection of uniquely expensive gifts. While these gifts are not too innovative, I always enjoying seeing how much “bling” they manage to stick on an average piece of electronics.

Enjoy the world’s most expensive earphones – made of diamond encrusted gold – are on sale at a Bristol jewellers. The Diamond ring specialist Clive Ranger is selling the unique item – thought to be the only one of its kind – at the Broadmead store, and customers can pick it up for a mere £3,499; which amounts to roughly to $7000.

The earphones were hand crafted by the Belgian jewellers CasaGi’s and are only available in Bristol. They are made from 18 carat gold, set with 118 diamonds and weigh about 18 grams.

“At £3,500 it won’t be your Average Jo walking down the street who will be able to afford them, but I guarantee someone out there who earns a lot of money will enjoy the uniqueness and the luxury of owning them.” Staff at Clive Ranger say they are the ultimate “bling” accessory for an MP3 or iPod.

So, if you have a few thousand pounds to spare this Christmas and you are shopping in Bristol, you can be one of the few to enjoy these earphones.

A gold edition of the Motorola A1600 touchscreen phone has just appeared on the Chinese website of the company. Designed in the spirit of the Motorola V8 Luxury edition the A1600 trades the snake for crocodile skin but this doesn’t make it much less tacky.

This time Motorola somehow managed to convince the renowned French jeweler and watch maker Cartier to take part. However it seems that the design is mostly done by Motorola with Cartier only providing a business card holder included in the retail package.

I can’t quite get the idea behind all those gold editions that seem to be spawning recently. However I have to admit that among them all the A1600 is probably the most acceptably looking (read not as tacky).

Dunhil have created a unique USB memory stick as part of their ongoing innovation in modern technology. The Dunhill Black Diamond USB memory stick is made of oxidized sterling silver and is encrusted with two hundred and seventy two brilliant cut diamonds. The memory stick has a capacity of eight gigabytes and is available from Dunhill stores worldwide.

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Unless you are living in the West Coast or the South, you are probably experiencing Winter lurching in slowly. At the end of each winter, I feel as if I will be ready the next years cold temperatures. And each time, I am wrong - I am never prepared enough for the temperatures in North America.

That said, here is collection of Winter themed Usb Gizmos for those, who like me, are trying the survive through this winter.

Thanko’s busting out yet another zany offering to get your fingers (and hand, and wrist) nice and warm during the sub-zero winters. This USB / AC-powered, blue Fish(?)  sports an insulated compartment to stuff your plain ole mouse as well as your mousing hand. There’s also a “high / low” switch to control the fiery depths within, and just in case you’d rather not use your insulating mammal while on the PC, you can optionally connect it to any AC power source and attempt to shove both hands in simultaneously.

Sporting a detachable cable, on / off switch, alphabet stitching, dual warming pads, two-levels of heat intensity, and the ability to get toasty through any powered USB port (yes, even theWii), these should be a sure fire (ahem) in the stocking this holiday season.

My personal favorite are these ones - they are super cute. The pair of monkey-shaped USB hand warmers, for when you’re typing in the cold, or you’re a sufferer of chilly hands,  get up to 46 degrees in just five minutes, have a built-in wrist support for “supporting your tired wrist when using Mouse or Keyboard” and they’ll fit hands up to 6.7 x 4.3-inches, or thereabouts, and when they’re up to temp you can even disconnected them for freestyle use.

[gadget4all]

Are you feet cold? Don’t worry you can also get these Ugg-like slippers which are Usb powered as well. They should keep you feet nice and toasty. Just make sure, you disconnect them from your Usb port before leaving you desk otherwise you might trip.

[Brando]

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With this very simple, yet effective design, designer Santiago Cantera’s Escape Clock brings unity with  office . Find no tiny snooze button but a huge Escape button to hit on in the morning for a couple extra minutes of sleep. The snooze/clock button is connected wirelessly to a set of speakers which would play your favorite morning jingle. Set it on edge and you’ve switched from alarm clock mode to an in-room stereo. Sadly this is only a concept but lets hope its gets picked up?

[ via Engadget]

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We simply love DIY hacks here at the Office Supplies Blog - how combining just a couple of mondain object enables one to make the hottest accessory, like this cupSpeakers.

With all the hot-to-trot conceptual design work out there, it takes quite a person to just sit back and kick out the jams on a speaker set like this. Presenting the iPod Ghetto Accessory - made out of iPod with classic earbuds, two toothpicks, no girls, and four cups.

Designer Dmitry Zagga pokes fun at the concept of product design conceptualization:

This is a fun project. Four single-serving paper cups, two tooth picks (for holding cups together) + iPod with classic earbuds. The increase in volume, of coarse, is radiculous, but hey, you get stylish iPod accessory out of nothing!

Yes. It’s amazingly easy to make these speakers. But someone had to thing about it. So next time you are in need of DIY speakers at a party, you know what to do.

[ Via Yanko Design via Zagga ]

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I am always amazed by all those who work long hours to customize their own computers cases, laptops, ipods, …

This keyboard began its life as a very rare IBM Model M-15 split ergonomic keyboard like the one below, and was customized to look like an artifact straight out of a Jules Vernes book. Fans of Steampunk now have their Holy Graal.

This keyboard was commissioned by a female client and has some elegant, feminine design features such as violet LEDs, an acanthus-leaf pattern etched into the brass, and a soft burgundy wrist pad that is removable for cleaning. It also has a built-in “buttonless” touchpad mouse in the center (tap anywhere to left-click and drag, tap in the top-right corner to right-click). This keyboard is interesting because the typing plane is actually tipped forward rather than back. It looks odd at first, but actually makes for a very comfortable typing position.

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After:

The details on the Keyboards is impressive - the artist most likely uses scrap typewriters and metals to  create a piece like tha.

[via Datamancer ]

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