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Luxury PCs for the curio cabinet

This is really just amateur hour compared with the platinum, gold, and diamonds of Zeus Computer, but these desktops aren't exactly something you'll find at Office Depot either. And frankly, we think they look a lot better than their bejeweled counterparts.

The luxury PCs from China-based Eazo feature magnesium alloy cases finished in Chinese lacquer, making them worthy of display in a museum cabinet with mother-of-pearl inlays. At what qualifies for the "low end"--$45,500--the X70 model comes with a "3GHz Q9550 Core 2 Quad processor, two Nvidia 8800GTX graphics cards, 4GB of … Read more

From Paris to your USB port

Go figure. We thought that legendary luxury goods purveyor S.T. Dupont would have better things to do than make an occasional computer peripheral. But apparently the palladium memory stick it introduced earlier this year wasn't just a one-time thing.

In between crafting museum-quality pens and lighters, the Parisian institution is continuing to forge USB keys such as those from its "Cote d'Azur" collection. The newest models are made of palladium and a choice of three lacquered colors, each bearing the company's signature diamond-head pattern.

We don't necessarily object to the company keeping up … Read more

Compact Lumix gets all lacquered up

Here we go again--another "limited edition" vanity camera. A few days ago we saw Pentax re-issue its 18k gold SLR to mark its 60th anniversary. Not to be outdone, Matsushita is coming out with its own special Lumix DMC-FX07 edition in five lacquered colors. As Fareastgizmos notes, the compact cameras--limited to 100 per color--are the same as the Panasonic model launched earlier this year, except for the finishes. Oh, and they come in boxes made from paulownia trees that are native to China and cultivated in Japan and Korea. (Who could resist anything that comes in a box … Read more