Top 10 Digital Photo Frames

There are over 30 vendors selling the framed digital wonders, offering standard features like built-in memory, Wi-Fi, and video playback. The good news is that there are a handful of truly innovative digital photo frames out there. Mustek offers one with an integrated iPod dock for music lovers, and Pandigital designed a frame for the kitchen with a digital cookbook and HDTV. Here’s our list of the top 10 digital photo frames to get you in the picture.

1.Kodak EasyShare M1020 Digital Photo Frame

$139.95
This beautiful 10-inch frame lets you change your mind. The included Décor Kit has a Black Shadow Box Faceplate with 2 decorative mattes, so it can look like it belongs in your living room instead of sticking out like a sore thumb. High resolution (800×480-pixels), viewing angle, and contrast ratio (300:1) mean you don’t have to comprise on picture quality for style. You can listen to MP3s with the built-in speakers, and the unique Quick Touch Border lets you edit and organize on-screen without getting it all smudged up.

2.Sony DPF-V1000/B 10.2″ Digital Photo Frame

$199
This stunning frame not only holds a whopping 2,000 photos (1GB), and a displays large 15:9 Aspect Ratio, but it’s also Bluetooth-compatible and has an HDMI Output so you can share your photos in Full HD 1080 quality on your compatible HDTV. Icing on the cake is the Auto Image Correction that makes fixes like auto dodging and auto white balance correction along with Auto Dimmer and Auto Image Rotation.

3. Transcend PF720 7 Digital Photo Frame

$95
The Transcend 720 ($95 as of 5/7/2009) does seem serious about transcending genres. Not only is it a digital photo frame, but it is also an FM radio, a video player, and an MP3 player. The device’s built-in 2GB of memory makes it easy to amass a big collection without using any cards or a PC (although you can do that, too).

4.MediaStreet eMotion, 15-inch Digital Picture Frame

$149.95
Big is beautiful with this affordable 15-inch multi-media frame with a clear 1024×768 4:3 aspect ratio display. In addition to the photo, video, and audio applications, there’s an organizer with a calendar and a clock that lets you turn the frame on and off with a timer. Files can be viewed via memory cards thanks to the multi-card slot , or downloaded via USB and stored in the 512MB of internal memory.

5.Philips 10.2-in Digital Photo Frame

$186.95
This big and beautiful frame is all about image quality. Aside from its impressive resolution (7320×480), aspect ratio (16:9), it also boasts Philip’s unique image Pro that automatically analyzes your photos to correct color accuracy, color depth and smart contrast for the best display. It also enhances skin color and extends the color on the edges of a less-than-full-screen photos to eliminate black bars and aspect ratio distortion.

6. Sony DPF-X1000/B Digital Photo Frame

$244
This super high res frame might make your photos look better than you thought they could. Sony’s “TruBlack” technology gives you more natural and realistic colors, and the advanced image processor scales and displays images up to 48 megapixels on the with an impressive 15:9 aspect ratio on a 10.2-inch, 800×400 resolution screen, making it perfect for compact or DSLR owners. You can store up to 4,000 images and with the CreativeEdit function you can decorate and create themed slideshows—a virtual scrapbook—and customized slides with superimposed messages, frames, and more.

7. Digital Foci “The Executive” Image Moments 6

$59
If want a quality frame and you don’t need a super big screen, this is a great option and an even better price. This 5.7-inch 640×480-pixel screen has 450MB of internal storage, and lots of playback options, including auto-rotate so you never end up looking at sideways pictures.

8.JOBO ScanViewer Digital Photo Frame

(Price to be announced; expected to be around $390)
The first and only digital photo frame that’s also a scanner, this innovative 8-inch frame digitizes up to 4×6-inch printed photos and saves them to the 1GB internal memory (or with a USB connection, transfers them to your computer). This multimedia digital picture frame also plays videos and music, with its on-frame buttons or remote and has many slideshow options. Coming soon!

9.Smartparts 8-inch frame with Built-in Printer

$69.95
Talk about one stop shopping, you can both display your digital images and turn them into tangible 4×6 prints with this frame with a built-in printer. Easy to install ink cartridge and pack of photo paper are included with the wood 800 x 600 resolution frame, that come at a impressively low price.

10.Pandigital PAN1002W02T 10.4-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame

This 10.4-inch digital frame ($185 as of 5/7/2009) does its best to blend in with your retro ones. It even comes with an extra wooden frame, so you can switch between black and espresso, depending on your décor. It has 512MB of built-in memory and supports CompactFlash, MicroDrive,

Top 10 Most Expensive Mobile Phones in the World

When mobile phones were first launched in the market, just having them was a matter of pride. Today mobile is a necessity and most of us can not even imagine a day without our phone. The role of mobile has grown manifold from being a tool for conversation to a complete channel of communication.

Few years back only Vertus ,a  division of Nokia produced the costliest phones in the market. But today,the monopoly of Vertus in the luxury phone market is coming to an end with the entrance of other mobile phone manufacturers like Gresso, Mobiado and GoldVish. It’s not only mobile manufacturers but luxury such as Prada, D&G and Motorola, and now Tag Heuer and Modelabs which are converging technology and style.

Let’s have a look at the top 10 most expensive Mobile Phone handsets in the world.

1.iPhone Supreme ($3.12Million):- World’s most expensive mobile is unveiled by a British company on November 2009. It is a  gold iPhone which is encrusted with nearly 200 diamonds. The casing of the exclusive iPhone 3GS Supreme is created using 271 grams of 22 carat solid gold.

The front bezel houses 136 flawless diamonds totaling a massive 68 carats while the Apple logo on the back is made from a further 53 gems.  The front navigation button is made from a single diamond of more than seven carats.

Designer Stuart Hughes, from Liverpool, Merseyside, took ten months to make the phone after it was commissioned by an anonymous Australian businessman. The phone comes in a special 7kg chest made from a single block of granite and Kashmir gold with a Nubuck leather lining.

2. GoldVish LeMillion($1.3Million):- This GoldVish phone is the second most expensive in the world with a price of $1.45 million. The odd-shaped device is made out of 18-carat white gold and features 1,800 diamonds totaling 120 carats.

A Russian businessman bought Le Million for his wife last September at a luxury goods fair in Cannes, France.

3. Pieces Unique Mobile Phone by Goldvish(1.29Million):- This mobile hold the third place among world’s costliest mobile phones. There are three pieces of these mobiles in this world of which one is reported to be sold to a Russian Businessman.

These are made by Goldvish with 18 carat gold set with top quality diamonds. It has Bluetooth,2 GB Memory,8x digital camera, and worldwide FM radio.

4.The Diamond Crypto Smartphone($1.1Million):- The Diamond Crypto Smartphone is quoted as the World’s fourth most expensive cell phone.

Russian firm JSC Ancort has developed a Windows CE-based smartphone ready for Peter Aloisson’s(the designer of the phone)bejeweling that employs “powerful encryption technology” to “provide secure protection of information against kidnapping, technological blackmail, financial racketeers and corrupted state officials” . This security feature is really essential since every thief will certainly wish to have a similar phone.

5. Bucheron for Vertu Cobra($310,000):- This is the fifth costliest mobile phone.Parisian jeweler House of Bucheron linked up with Nokia subsidiary Vertu on this limited-edition series of eight cobra phones, which include a two-carat pear-cut diamond, a one-carat round diamond, two emerald eyes and 439 rubies totaling 21 carats.

Vertu phones also link up to a special concierge service with information about travel, entertainment, restaurants and events. Vertu manufactures the uber-premium handsets and they sell Vertu phones between the price of $4,350 and $81,000.

6.VIPN Black Diamond Smartphone($300,000):- With $300,000 this Black Diamond Smartphone holds the sixth place in the list. It is a Quad-band phone with Wi-Fi,Bluetooth, an Intel 400Mhz processor running windows mobile 5, 4 Megapixel camera and a touch sensitive 2″ 256K TFT screen. This phone has an internal memory of 128MB and a 2GB SD card for external storage.

The designer Jaren Goh has used some pretty impressive materials for the build, featuring  titane with polycarbonate, mirror-finish cladding and diamonds.
7.Vertu Diamond($88,000):- Another Vertu phone with tiny diamonds dotted all over holds the seventh place in the list. The phone’s body in constructed from the finest platinum, underpinned with ruby bearings and equipped with a similar ceramic composition originally intended for the space shuttle.

For that price, it doesn’t even come with a camera! Only 200 such phones will be sold in jewelry and department stores.

8.Motorola Special V220 edition($51,800):-Motorola has also shown its presence in this luxury phone market but it could get only the 8^th position.

Austrian designer Peter Aloisson, has taken a standard Motorola, studded it with 1,200 diamonds and added a keyboard inlaid with 18 carat gold. This phone is looks feminine.

9.The Diamond iPhone($41,000):- The diamond iPhone which comes on 9^th rank boasts an impressive 420 diamonds at a total weight of 5.65 carats set in 18K white or yellow gold.

It can also be ordered in white, black or pink sapphires. The phone, is manufactured by UK blingmeister general Amosu, at a blustering price of $41,000.

10. Gresso Black Aura Collection($13,000):- Gresso with 10^th rank, boastfully claims that its Black Aura cellphones are 200 years old – due to the age of the African Blackwood on each phone’s case.

Black Aura series ranges from $6,500 to $13,000 with the most expensive featuring an 18-carat gold front panel.

Top 10 World’s Most Expensive Watches

If you love expensive watches, Expensive brands and information related to them, then here is the list of  Top 10 World’s Most Expensive Watches with price and Brand name

10. Zadora Timepieces

Manufacturer: Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof

The latest offering by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof is a bee of oxidised palladium and micro pave. The bee is adorned with black and canary yellow diamonds, pear-shaped emerald eyes with a baroque south sea pearl in its mouth.
Price: $150,000

9. Titanic Watches

Manufacturer: Romain Jerome

A Swiss jeweller is now offering watches made from the hull of the Titanic.
The metal has been mixed with shipbuilding steel to make the casing. The black dials have been made by mixing the recovered coal burned in the Titanic’s furnaces with ceramics.
Price: $152,435

8. Double Tourbillon

Manufacturer: Breguet

The Breguet Double Tourbillion** comes hand-engraved with an image of the solar system.
This double-tourbillon watch has a 95 per cent pure platinum case while the blued-steel Breguet hands are wound manually and do not contain springs.
Price: $329,000

7. Opera One

Manufacturer: Girard-Perregaux

This beautiful platinum timepiece includes an alligator band and features a Westminster minute repeater and tourbillon with three gold bridges, manual winding, 75-hour power reserve and a see-through backing.
The watch has a power reserve indicator, a subsecond complication, a minute repeater and a truly elegant face.
What differentiates Girard-Perregaux’s Opera Three from other luxury watches is its ability to sound passing hours not with a beep but with actual tunes.
Price: $495,000

6. Grande Complication

Manufacturer: Blancpain

This wristwatch has a minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon phase and an automatic winding mechanism.
The sleek crocodile wristband further adds to the look. It takes the maker eight to 10 months to piece together all 740 components and only 18 of a limited run of 30 watches have been assembled till now.
Price: $785,000

5. Tecnica Skeleton Chronograph

Manufacturer: Parmigiani Fleurier

This watch hit the market early this year.
Each unit of the watch includes a platinum case and other interesting features like a minute repeater, tourbillon and chronograph, as well as a cathedral chime.
Price: $850,000

4. Classical Billionaire Tourbillion

Manufacturer: Corum

The shimmering wristwatch is adorned with 850 diamonds and boasts a dazzling skeleton dial with skeleton hour and minute hands. The watch is manually wound with 90-hour power reserve and features Caliber CO-372 by Corum and La Joux-Perret.
Rightly named so, the Billionaire Tourbillion comes in many versions with price ranging from $325,000 to $998,000. Only 10 pieces are in production.
Price: $998,000

3. Big Bang Chronograph

Manufacturer: Hublot, Bunter SA

The renowned watchmaker, Hublot, in alliance with a diamond-setting workshop, Bunter SA, designed and developed an elite watch dubbed Big Bang.
The $1-million Big Bang boasts a fully invisible setting that makes the material disappear. Only things that can be seen are the diamonds.
The credit goes to the craftsmen who accomplished the tedious job of making this exclusive watch, which was not feasible a few years ago.
Price: $1 milllion

2. Tour de l’Ile

Manufacturer: Vacheron Constantin

Vacheron Costantin’s Tour de l’Ile was designed in 2005. The collectible piece is also the most complicated double-face watch, and only produced in a limited edition of seven.
This 834-part watch took over 10,000 man-hours to be made and features an 18-carat silver gold dial with a hand-sewn alligator leather band and pink gold buckle.
It touts an original combination of horological complications and astronomical indications forming 16 different points, including a minute repeater, sunset time, perpetual calendar, second time zone, and a tourbillon device.
Price: $1.5 million

1. Joaillerie 101 Manchette

Manufacturer: Jaeger-LeCoultre

Joaillerie 101 Manchette is the

most Expensive watch in the world

In this watch, a unsystematic series of polished or gem-set links (a jewellery puzzle) hides the exalted Calibre 101.
It’ss wonderful to look for the time through the gold, diamonds and onyx cabochons.
The wristwatch is festooned with 576 diamonds and comes in 18-carat white gold. The versions with Onyx have 400 diamonds and 11 onyx cabochons.
Price: Unknown at the moment