TAG Heuer is no stranger when it comes to luxurious watch, but they’re also famous for very high-tech watch that’s not only for show, but has the technology to back up the price tag that they’re asking for. Here’s a new watch from TAG Heuer if you’re looking for one. The TAG Heuer Mikrotimer Flying 1000 concept watch is known as the first mechanical chronograph to achieve 1/100 accuracy and a speed of 500Hz. Set to debut later this week at Basal, the timepiece features a highly modern design with an innovative case system made of black titanium carbide and silver titanium horns. As this model is currently a concept watch, there is no word on when it will go into production, and how much, but I’m sure it’s going to be quite sky high.

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Image shows a third-party metal back for iPhone 4, not an actual image of iPhone 5.

9to5Mac has source from inside of Foxconn that says the next iPhone prototype has surfaced. The source claimed that the next iPhone will retain the same shape, but screen size will be slightly bigger, believed to be 4-inch. It’s said that the Retina Display has also been improved, though no screen resolution was mentioned.

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Nokia’s been struggling to play catch-up with the smartphone world, but they’ve also been expressing interest in penetrating the tablet world too, but all these while they’re just news with world. Finally today we have a clearer picture of Nokia’s motive, in the form of some sketches, courtesy of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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These days more people are using LED for their home lights, due to them being very power saving, and very flexible. If you’re a creative head like Adam Wendel, then you’ll be able to have weird shapes lights, like this Modular LED Concept. Designed by Adam Wendel, the Modular LED concept allows users to create the perfect arrangement depending on size or intention. The shape gives them a futuristic and elegant look. Suspended from the ceiling or adapted to a table lamp base, the object can live 2-dimensionally or the components can be rotated and conjoined creating a unique 3-D form. Having the aesthetic look while still able to provide optimum lighting source to whichever part of the room that you need. Creative? Oh yes!

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Microsoft said that the company plans on keeping the Xbox 360 console going until at least 2015, despite the refresh that they did last year. However, they might be gearing up for the next Xbox despite still having four years’ development cycle timeframe. The software giant has listed a glut of new job openings, with the most interesting ones being at its Mountain View research campus, where a team responsible for “defining and delivering next generation console architectures” is to be formed.

A graphics hardware architect is sought to ensure that the next Xbox strikes the optimal balance between greed and dictatorship, while a design verification engineer and a few others will be hired to test and help develop prototypes along the way. This huge numbers seems to indicate that Microsoft is starting to ramp up research and development on its next-gen home entertainment console, though it’s still a long way to go, for us that is.

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When it comes to concepts, we can only drool over it and hope that someday someone will pick it up and actually go and mass-manufacture such beautiful concepts. If you have lots of power sockets at home, you’ll find that quite a number of them are actually hard to remove after being used for long. The connector is often too tight, so it can’t be pulled out with just one hand. We might not have problems removing it with two hands, but there will be times when you’re much occupied and can only use a hand to remove the plug. That’s why Zhao Zhao Hui’s design is very smart. His concept, the Single Hand Socket Strip, creatively designed to allow you to pull your electric plugs/power plugs single-handed without causing any damage to the head or wire or your fingers.

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Think you might be sinful? Had the itch to commit a crime due to the Satan in you? There are always the good and bad in you, quarrelling everyday like husband and wife and judging every moves and actions that you take, just like in the cartoons. Well, sometimes committing a crime and going to jail isn’t a very bad thing. Hey, at least you get to raise sheep and grow veggies. Sex is even permitted. That is, if you’re heading to this new Danish State Prison. They look a lot better than those low cost flats that we have around.

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These days there are many digital photo frames for you to choose from, and they all looked very sleek and futuristic. But what if you get a photo frame that’s quite bulky, but the picture is light and transparent? Dismantled, deconstructed, and disconnected from the frame as if there was nothing behind, this is Parrot’s idea of a digital photo frame.

“The photo frame designed by Jean-Louis Frechin is very mysterious,” continues Henri Seydoux. “Jean-Louis was smart or ‘crazy’ enough to dismantle the LCD screen we get used to, and the result is quite simply magical. We don’t see where the photo comes from… It is simply there, on this transparent and half-dismantled screen… It is prestidigitation!”

It’s coming in this February, but with a hefty price of $500. Well, aesthetic stuff are never cheap to begin with.

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People these days do not just go around screaming when they’re a fan (unless you’re a certain JB’s fan), as a designer who is also a Tron’s fan (should be) has dreamed up and designed the Tron Armchair, inspired by the upcoming movie itself. Dror Benshetrit’s Tron Amrchair debuted this week at Design Miami / Art Basel. The chair is made of “impregnated fiberglass and polyester resin”, but we still do not know how much this fiberglass and polyester resin chair cost.

Dror’s mission is to articulate the complex meaning of objects in the simplest of ways. Their uses become a part of their narratives, expressed in transformations that are both metaphorical and literal. Raw Data forms a jagged and angular landscape, serving as a muse for a chair that is comprised of intersecting layers and textures of ‘digital’ rock. Constructed of composite material consisting of impregnated fiberglass with polyester resin processed with manual layering, these Special Production Walt Disney Signature TRON Armchairs invite you to “sit off the grid.”

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But I still can’t see the need for them. Typical plain glass cabinet looks better, and can store dozen times more. But if you like the idea and the creative design, no harm to have them in your living room right? Looks very cute in some way. I’m sure the kids will love them.