Category: Hi Tech
-
The Leica difference while on a world-class vacation
Your vacations are all about creating once-in-a-lifetime moments and memories. A new program helps ensure you are able to capture these moments in the best possible way using the very best equipment. A new Leica on Loan program launched by Exclusive Resorts provides the opportunity for luxury chain guests to use a Leica camera or…
-
Vertu for Bentley: Bentley’s luxury range expanded into the cutting-edge world of mobile communications
Vertu luxury mobile phones to fully integrate with the Bentley brand. First ‘Vertu for Bentley’ phone planned for launch in October 2014. English manufacturer of luxury mobile phones Vertu announced a five-year partnership deal with Bentley luxury car manufacturer. According to Vertu, the partnership will allow Vertu to fully integrate with the Bentley brand; phones will…
-
From a niche market to a revolutionary force: $47 billion mobile sensing wearables market in 2018
Over the next five years, 700 million wearable tech devices will be shipped for a global annual market worth $47.4 billion at this time, according to global technology research firm ON World. Hardware will make up the majority of the revenues during this period but mobile apps and subscriptions will grow faster. The wearables industry…
-
Fashion-meets-tech accessories: Beats by Dr. Dre in Fendi dress
Fendi’s first headphones created in collaboration with Beats by Dr. Dre “With Beats, people are going to hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should: the way I do.” – Dr. Dre Beats by Dre, the brainchild of legendary artist and producer Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, Chairman of…
-
Prototype of world’s first microchip goes up for auction at $1,000,000
Designed by Jack Kilby and built by Tom Yeargan, the chip is made not from silicon, but germanium
-
Signature Touch high-performance smartphone. A $11,300 Vertu with Hasselblad-certified camera
English luxury mobile phone manufacturer Vertu aims to cement its position as leader of the luxury mobile category with the $11,300 Vertu Signature Touch high-performance smartphone model which comes with Hasselblad-certified camera. Vertu Signature Touch is sound tuned in collaboration with B&O and features Dolby Digital Plus virtual surround sound and Hasselblad certified imaging, as…