Organic Air Scrubbing Purifier

These days, going green is not enough – if you truly want to live out the green and healthy lifestyle, you will also need to go organic. With the $399.95 Organic Air Scrubbing Purifier, you can be sure that psychologically, you will feel as though what you are breathing is top notch quality air, as though you were high up on the Swiss Alps and away from all the pollution, noise and dust of the city. This Organic Air Scrubbing Purifier claims to eliminate 99.9% of all pollutants including VOCs while reducing odors.

The air purifier is capable of creating a neutral ambient air which will attract positively and negatively charged airborne impurities, drawing them straight into the unit with a fan, while destroying them with a mixture of water and an organic enzyme. It works on a similar principle to that of yogurt cultures, where the enzyme will break down all carbon bonds in order to destroy any organic matter, ranging from mold to viruses, and pet dander. You might think it is a rather expensive outlay at the moment, but what is the price that you are willing to put on your health, as well as that of your family’s?

Uppleva – Not your Grandpa’s Console TV

How I remember the good old days. I hate to admit it but I am in fact, old enough to remember when television sets were furniture. When the set was actually built into a beautiful cabinet and sat in the living room as part of the landscape, unlike now, where our TV’s are becoming smaller and flatter and blacker, of  course what has become of the tangled mess of wires and cables and set top boxes and gaming consoles and disc players? Are they stacked up beside your innocuous flat panel? You’re not alone.

Please welcome Ikea’s foray into the smart television game. A brand new entertainment option that remembers the good old days with a twist, the Uppleva (pronounced oop-lee-ev-ahh) and say it like you’re Swedish, not because you have to, but because its fun. The Uppleva is a television cabinet hybrid with a built in blue ray player, wireless subwoofer, wire hiding access panels and, special hardware-hiding doors that your included remote control will penetrate without having to leave the doors open.


The base unit will be available with an LED TV, Blu-ray, CD and a DVD player, a virtual surround sound system that includes a wireless speaker that you can put anywhere in the room you like. Staying true to Ikea’s modular style that allows you to customize just about everything, you will be able to customize your entertainment center by changing your TV’s size, frame color and add or delete certain cabinetry items.

No word yet on when the Uppleva entertainment system might enter the US market, but I’m thinking sometime next year, but they should hit select stores in Stockholm, Milan, Paris, and Berlin early this summer, and be in stores in Sweden, Italy, France, Poland, Denmark, Spain, Norway, and Portugal this fall.

With a starting price of under 1000 bucks for the basic Uppleva system, this could be big! Check out youtube.com to watch the Uppleva video, or visit ikea.com for more information.

Pebble Smart Watch: Wrist Companion for iPhone and Android Hits Kickstarter Jackpot

If you had any doubt that wearable gadgets were about to take off in a big way, you don’t have to look any further than a small start-up called Pebble Technology. Just eight days after putting its Pebble smart watch on Kickstarter, a site that allows people to fund projects and even buy the new products, it raised $4 million. That’s the most cash a project has ever raised on the site.

So what have over 34,000 people bought and given their money to exactly? Smart watches. As the name implies, the semi-new category of devices brings the functionality of  smartphones to the time-honored technology of watches. And while there are a few others on the market, made by companies like Sony and WIMM, the Pebble’s standout features are its screen and ability to make a wireless connection to your iPhone.

“We are blown away by the Kickstarter success. We were estimating 100K — we clearly beat our expectations,” Pebble Technology’s founder, Eric Migicovsky, told ABC News.

The Pebble, like its competitors, uses Bluetooth to connect to Android phones, but is the first to have iPhone support. And Migicovsky is aware that the iPhone compatibility is what gives the Pebble a “huge edge.”
“We tapped into something big here. We can’t talk about [our relationship with] Apple, but we are able to do what we are doing so that’s pretty cool,” Migicovsky said.

The Pebble allows you to view text messages, incoming calls, Tweets, etc. on the 144 x 168-resolution e-paper, outdoor-readable display. And pairing is supposed to be easier as well than it is for the others — its Pebble app can be downloaded to iPhones and Android phones and has simple configuration settings.

Speaking of apps, there are apps built in to the watch that allow you to control your phone’s music, track how many miles you’ve run (thanks to the built-in 3-axis accelerometer), and check the weather. But there’s also the Pebble watchapp store, which will let you send watch-specific apps the company and third-party developers make to the watch. The WIMM watch, which we took a look at in this video, has a similar app feature.

The Pebble will cost $115 when it is available. Migicovsky says that Kickstarter backers will get their Pebbles in September. The first 200 Kickstarter backers will get the watch for $99. You can still snatch up the Pebble on Kickstarter now.

HP Pavilion dm1 by Alexandre Herchcovitch

I don’t know about you, but sometimes, fashion just does not sound all that worth it when it comes to notebooks. After all, it is not as though the innards of a notebook will appreciate in value with the tide of time, instead, it will depreciate – just like most cars, unless you are talking about super exotics that are released in extremely limited quantities. Still, this has not stopped folks like Alexandre Herchcovitch to dabble around with an artistic rendition of technology, case in point, the HP Pavilion dm1.

The HP Pavilion dm1 by Alexandre Herchcovitch is a special edition notebook that was specially conjured in partnership with the esteemed Brazilian designer. Alexandre was picked thanks to his global reputation and innovative position in the fashion world, delivering more than 15 years of experience to the , while continuing from where Chinese fashion designer Vivienne Tam and Dutch designer Tord Boontje left off.


Taking inspirational cues from his autumn/winter 2012 collection, the HP Pavilion dm1 by Alexandre Herchcovitch will come in an intricate black lace pattern against an iridescent olive pearl color that will cover the entire chassis, keyboard deck and keycaps, delivering an increased visual “glow” effect as well as stunning design that would definitely be worthy of any catwalk.

The HP Pavilion dm1 tips the scales at 3.5 pounds and boasts up to 9.5 hours of battery life, and will be equipped with an 11.6” LED display, an AMD processor, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, USP, HDMI, RJ4 and VGA ports with Windows 7 Home Premium as the operating system of choice. To make sure you remain entertained with the best quality hardware for its price point, the HP Pavilion dm1 will feature Beats Audio coupled with HP TrueVision HD Webcam for quality images.

The Pavilion dm1 by Alexandre Herchcovitch notebook will hit the US exclusively at QVC, starting from $629.95 upwards. Other countries that are set to receive this special edition include Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. No idea on whether those of us living elsewhere will be able to get our hands on such a beauty though.