Among all the great articles at Luxist, I noticed:
Filed under: Jewelry, Auctions
More beautiful pieces have come out of the House of Taylor Jewelry collection. Three couture jewelry pieces from the Elizabeth Collection inspired by Dame Elizabeth Taylor, will be featured in Christie’s Magnificent Jewelsauction on April 25 in New York. The three Elizabeth Collection […]

I figure I’d share what I found recently at Luxist:
Filed under: Decor, Gadgets
Paradigm Electronics has released a new line of speakers meant to complement flat screen television home theater systems. The Paradigm Millenia 300 speakers are long and thin, packing six drivers into a four-foot aluminum frame that sits on a glass base. The 300 […]

Getting back to this topic, Luxist recently posted:
Filed under: Decor
The April issue of W has a piece on Loretta Caponi, the 82-year-old designer who sells beautifully embroidered towels and tableware as well as children’s clothing and lingerie from her elegant shop in Florence, Italy. The company has made silk gowns and pajamas for some of […]

Among all the great articles at Luxist, I noticed:
Hotel chain Sol Meliá has been expanding lately. They just opened their first resort in Chile, the Meliá Patagonia in Puerto Varas, a resort town in Southern Chile. The 91-room hotel was designed by architect José Domingo Penha Fiele. The hotel’s rooms have lake views and each […]

While reading Fosfor Gadgets, I found this interesting article:

If you’re handy with the screwdriver and want to equip your PS3 with a bigger hard drive you might want to check out this neat little Playstation 3 HDD replacement guide. It tells you how to pimp your PS3 with a standard 2.5″ Notebook SATA drive (of […]

I browse Fosfor Gadgets quite a bit, and found this:

If you have run out of HDMI ports on your flat screen you might want to check out a HDMI switcher. I wrote about the automatic HDMI swithcer yesterday, but here’s another one that lets you hook up 4 different HDMI devices and switch between them […]

I stumbled across an interesting article from Fosfor Gadgets:

The usual homemade wallet is some kind of weird duct tape invention. This one is different. It’s made out of old computer keyboard parts and the end results is pretty cool - or what do you think?
Wallet made from a computer keyboard [instructables.com]
via [digg]

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I figure I’d share what I found recently at Luxist:
Filed under: Dining, Wine, Events
Ever since ZAP in January, I’ve been all pumped up about the idea of tasting ones in just one varietal. I got to have the experience again yesterday at a tasting held by the Sauvignon Republic and Blue Lifestyle at the Water […]

Among all the great articles at Luxist, I noticed:
Filed under: Jewelry
A few days ago I brought you news of the Baroda Pearls, the very pricey strand of pearls that is part of the property of the royal Gaekwad family of Baroda. The Times of India has a fascinating story about another royal jewel that was […]

This post, from Luxist really caught my eye:
Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping
Sheikh Hamad, the foreign minister of the Gulf State of Qatar, has just made an amazing purchase. Various news outlets are reporting that he has picked up a penthouse home in the One Hyde Park development in London for an astounding £100 million (around […]