This new model is called the Emperor 1510. For $4,950, you get about the same shape as the big brother, as well as a number of its high end features. These include seat tilting, integrated audio, LED lighting and an inferiority complex the likes of which no IT department has ever seen.

This guy launches December 15, with any purchaser's ego following it into the stratosphere soon after. [Novel Quest via Born Rich]

Essentially, AWE is a programmable wall with varied displays that can switch between six configurations just by activating a proximity sensor. For example, when the wall is hanging overhead like a ceiling, the act of standing up triggers the sensor and instructs the wall to move out of the way. The project is in it's infancy, but it is easy to see how future applications could lead to a whole range of dynamic, multi-functional furniture that automatically reacts to its environment. [AWE Project via IEEE Spectrum via BotJunkie]

Check out the two-seater version in the upper right hand corner of the image above. That's gonna run you $1000. Single seat versions are priced at $500. [Opulent Items via 7Gadgets via OhGizmo]

Seriously, the gallery reads like this is something you might purchase in a unassuming building with no windows in the bad part of town. Whatever it is, I wouldn't mind having one. It's kind of like a hammock and a rocking chair all-in-one. Too bad about the ridiculous $4,200 price tag though. [PID via NotCot via DVICE]

"Personally, I am fascinated by how the world is changing into a digital world. To me it seems that; the digital world is personal but not private at all. For example, when I Google to find information about a friend, I will most likely find information about his life, his pets, his company and maybe a review on a digital camera that he has recently written. Notice that the digital verb 'Googling' has recently got the status of a real verb in the Netherlands. Just another example how the two worlds become one." Dear diary 1.0 is thus both the literal and the figurative manifestation of the worlds colliding. A physical reminder that increasingly, the real and the digital are becoming indistinguishable.

It's deep, but at least I see Romberg's point—not like this ridiculous Spaceballs lamp. [Marlies Romberg via Moco Loco]

Sometimes any old couch simply won't cut it—Brandon Allen's multi-jointed loveseat can transform into a sofa, coffee table, working station and a regular old place to but your booty on. There's also a storage space underneath the desk and the arms that can be tucked away when you're not using them. There's no word on availability or pricing yet. Yup, you don't have to move from the big game and there's ample space for all of your things (read: food). Too bad, you're actually going to have to move to get rid of those 10 pounds of Cheetos and that six-pack of Shiner Bock (or beer of choice) after not making a move for 12 hours.

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If that figure sent a shudder through your spine, I'm assuming, like most of us, that you could in no way afford this. For everyone else, this three-headed beast with THX 5.1 surround sound, air filtering, light therapy and touchscreen controls is available now. [NovelQuest via Gizmag]

[Planet 3 Studios via The Design Blog]

If you are old enough to remember, NeXTCubes were high-end workstation computers built in the late '80s and early '90s that featured a die-cast magnesium case. Magnesium was an attractive metal because it was strong and light—but as any high school chemistry student with a penchant for pyromania can tell you, magnesium burns with a brilliant white light. Naturally, this lead some to wonder what would happen if you set one ablaze.

Back in '93', Simson L. Garfinkel, then Senior Editor at NeXTWORLD Magazine, indulged his curiosities and discovered that, with some effort, it will generate a magnesium fire. The pictures are the main attraction here, but Garfinkel's quest to burn the cube is a definite must read for retro geeks and people who get a twisted pleasure out of watching things burn. Hit the link for the full story. [Simson via Macenstein]

The Revolution Desk comes in three sizes—48, 60 and 72-inches as well as a variety of colors. As far as monitor size is concerned it appears that the rotating panel is restricted to 19-inches max, which is a disappointment—but I can still see it becoming popular in both office and domestic settings. Prices range from $500 to $700. [Versa Tables via The Design Blog]

Powered by a custom version of Linux named Transmission, a 500MHz processor, and 256MB of RAM the Trinity DAW comes loaded with a variety of soft synths, sequencers, and audio editing programs. The workstation has 802.11g Wi-Fi, a 40GB hard drive, and is controlled by a touchpad and two buttons. It also has an USB input for controlling the soft synths and a set of XLR (big, three-pronged connector) and TRS (big headphone connector) inputs and outputs for interfacing external gear.

Sure, you wont be running 15 pieces of equipment at once, but that's what all the software is for, right? No price or release date has been set.
[Create Digital Music]

–Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via MedGadget]

Product Page [via Coolest Gadgets]

Our test machine ($3893) arrived equipped far beyond its basic $1050 configuration, powered by the fastest Core 2 Extreme processor, a dual-core 2.93GHz "Conroe" chip. Along for the ride is 2GB of DDR2 533MHz RAM, a workstation-class NVIDIA PCIe Quadro FX 3500 graphics card, and an 80GB SATAII 7200RPM system drive. Then there's a little high-tech jewel, a Raid-0 array with two tiny one-inch 146GB SAS hard drives spinning at 15,000RPM, a brand new piece of technology which gave us remarkable speed test results.

How fast was this monster workstation from Dell? Find out after the jump.

Don't be fooled by that 2.93GHz clock speed, because this is the fastest processor we've ever seen here at the Midwest Test Facility. That's because these Conroe processors have an extra speedy front-side bus design, a 4MB L2 cache and a 64-bit dual core architecture. They're just more efficient all around, and Intel's blather about how they're faster by 50% or more is not really blather, it's all true.

Along with that efficiency comes serene quietude. Dell has always been expert at hushing even its most powerful workstations, and this Precision Workstation 390 is no exception. Of the dozens of workstations we've tested here, this one is the quietest, and a few times we wondered if it was even running, only confirming such by observing its backlit power button on the front. Yes, this speedster is quiet enough to be in "church mouse" territory.

Exactly how fast is it? Let's start with that pair of 146GB SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) hard disk drives. This is the next generation of hard disk drives, and these 15,000RPM babies lashed together in a RAID-0 array added $1000 to the price of this configuration, but showed us astonishing speed, tipping our disk speed benchmarks at 160MB per second writing and an even faster read speed of 178MB per second.

The main event? Since this is the workstation-class machine, we ran a suite of benchmarks concentrating on Adobe After Effects compositions, and the Dell Precision Workstation 390 blew the doors off every machine we've ever tested using our suite of After Effects benchmarks. It lags slightly behind an HP dual core dual Opteron machine we tested a few months back on CineBench rendering tests, which demonstrate 3-D graphics performance, but then that dual-core dual Opteron machine costs $1500 more than this one.

Overall, the Dell Precision Workstation 390 performs as advertised, with its Intel Core 2 Extreme 2.93GHz processor delivering speeds on some benchmarks that were nearly twice as fast as a dual-core dual-processor Opteron 280 machine. If you're looking for power, efficiency, and quietude, look no further. – Charlie White

Full review [Digital Video Editing]

Product Page [Dell]