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The $650,000 FPS simulator shoots the gamer
The setup comes installed with Battlefield 3. The spacious four by nine meter video dome provides for an omni-directional treadmill perfect for all your movements that are tracked by ten infra-red motion tracking cameras and a sensor on the gun, along with a Kinect hack that maps your jumps and crouches. The highlight of the simulator is 12 paintball markers that ensure that you feel every shot from the game. The simulator is worth $650,000.
Shannons Melbourne Little Italy auction
A range of Italy’s automotive pride is tiny little scooters and cars which once graced its streets. Shannons auction in Melbourne is holding the special auction which will feature a 1960 “suicide door’ 500D Fiat Nuova and a 1969 500F Fiat. They boast the car company’s “legendary’ 500cc two cylinder engine and have four-speed manual gearboxes. The cars are expected to sell for $9,000-$12,000 and $8000-$10,000 range respectively.
The extremely catchy and cute Vespa of the 1950s including a red 1955 model that needs restoration, a restored silver 1959 GS and a restored 1958 Vespa Ape three-wheeler will also be showcased. Prices expected are $1,500-$3,000, $5,000-$8,000 and $6,000-$10,000 ranges respectively.
A $150 million designer hotel in Russia
The Armani Dubai hotel was opened not only opened doors to a whole new level of luxury and class but also offered the many celebrities who invested in the Burj Khalifa and elsewhere in the Emirate a chance to dine in style. The Giorgio Armani S.P.A is now looking further North East in Russia with a $150 million 100-room designer hotel planned for Kommersant in southern Russia. The property will be developed by POP and will have more investors aside from Giorgio Armani S.P.A. It will cover a total area of 30,000 sq m and will cost $2,000 a night.
Original Little House On The Prairie Art To Be Auctioned
The cover art used starting in the 1950s and continuing up to present day, a soft-pencil drawing of the Ingalls family in a covered wagon by illustrator Garth Williams will be part of Heritage Auctions’ February 11 Signature Illustration Art Auction in Beverly Hills. This piece is expected to bring in over $8,000 and joins 99 other Little House drawings, spread across 30 lots, in the auction.
Williams’ scenes of the close-knit frontier family replaced the extremely stylized versions by Helen Sewell that had been used since the 1930s. “So many of us saw America’s heartland through the eyes of Garth Williams, through these exact drawings,” said Barry Sandoval, Director of Operations of Comics & Comic Art at Heritage, “and the cover is the most famous of them all. With his wonderful soft-pencil art, Williams conveyed the majesty of the prairie, but also the warmth of a family that had to stick together through all of its hardships.” Sandoval goes on to say that Williams went on a six-month trip to research his drawings, meeting with Wilder in Mansfield, Missouri and also visiting other states where the Wilder family lived.
Last year, Heritage sold the original cover art, plus 41 interior drawings, from Charlotte’s Web, also illustrated by Williams. The cover art sold for $155,350 more than five times the pre-sale estimate and a world’s record for any of Williams’ art.
Lotus Evora, the Bond Car
A Lotus Evora that looks like the one Mr. Bond drove in the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only is available for a little over $70,000. The price sounds very reasonable for a Bond car. This Evora is the Bond car that James never drove and it doesn’t seem likely to appear on the silver screen ever.
For the 1981 film James Bond had driven a Lotus Esprit at a northern Italian ski resort. This Evora has been painted and lightly customized to resemble the car that was used in the film. This car was readied for a press event in the French Alps. Journalists drove Evoras on an ice-racing track in the region, where this Lotus provided amusing pop-culture eye candy at the event.
A car becomes collectible by mere association with the entertainment industry. This ski-rack-equipped Evora has been photographed a lot during the press event and later. It has been visible on the web extensively. It has been used for promotions at the dealerships.
Ports 1961 to commence their exclusive men’s collection
Ports International was available overseas, but now the brains behind the designs, Tia Cibani and her sister Fiona Cibani are bringing out their very own menswear collection. This line will be launched by the New York based company with the Fall 2011 collection.
It will be presented in Milan this January, at the Milan Men’s Fashion Week. Cibani said that this collection will comprise of tailored clothing, outerwear, dress furnishings, and knits, and also accessories, including leather bags, gloves, and scarves. Around 50 looks have been created for this collection and will hopefully expand with the upcoming collections if things go well. Their suits will cost around $1,600, coats $2,000, and knitwear around $450 and $1,000. Each piece will be made in Italy. The collection will most probably hit department stores simultaneously with its launch.
Their exclusive stores are also in the works. Fiona Cibani thinks it is the right time to launch their stores and that, the clients, “were asking for it, we really believe in menswear, and think it’s necessary to be in this market. We want it to be the same caliber and have the same sophistication as our women’s collection”.
Pigeon Racing Takes Off in China
The luxury companies require minimal customization in order to sell a product or service anywhere in the world. But you can depend on China to be different. With the number of rich rising dramatically in China all sorts of records are being set there in terms of pricing, but the latest news coming out of there is a bit unusual.
The new record is not about mansions, yachts, art, private jets or wine but a pigeon. A rich Chinese buyer paid $200,000 for a racing pigeon at a Belgium auction recently, setting a new world record. It is not commonly known what a racing pigeon is but the pigeon in question called Blue Prince was one of the highly pedigreed Belgian racing pigeons that have long been considered the gold standard in the pigeon racing world.
Pigeon racing has a long history in Western Europe dating back to the Romans and Charlemagne. Today we do not use them for communication as we have much more reliable technology available but simple races are held where the pigeons are launched hundreds of miles away from their home and the pigeon that comes back home first wins the race. The sport has taken off in China as it creates betting opportunities.
Lürssen’s exclusive iPad-controlled yacht
When L¼rssen superyachts announced their mega luxurious water wonder with its iPad control system, we all gaped. P Diddy, his girl friend Kim Porter and their two little ones D’lila and Jessie has become of the first celebrities to rent out the Solemates, the first pleasure to carry the iPad technology, on a vacation cruise. The superyacht officials spared no minute to welcome the bling-master rapper, the former Puff Daddy, abroad by providing the couple each an iPad to control a list of actions on the shipboard including entertainment, climate conditions, blinds, lights or even “topping up a drink’.
Prior to giving the guest their iPads, it is also customised to suit their needs, whims, likes and dislikes and even updates the music library to suit their taste. The application cannot be downloaded from Apple store and is exclusive to L¼rssen’s super yachts and is priced at $850,000 a week.
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