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This week RIM announced their latest phone, the Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry, an unexpected partnership with the luxury carmaker. Accompanying the phone's $2,000 price tag is a stainless steel frame, hand-wrapped leather back, and touch display. A new Porsche user interface, the Wikitude World Browser augmented reality app, built-in NFC support, and an exclusive PIN that identifies the BBM Read more
Strollers have come a long way from the frilly, teddy bear-adorned versions that flooded the market years ago, but only a few are actually coveted by design lovers. Hoping to change all of that is David Dawod. Answering a call for designs from Porsche, David created the P'4911 Stroller (price TBD) — the most masculine stroller ever made. Using carbon fiber, aluminum, leather, and ball-bearing Read more
Porsche celebrates its millionth Facebook fan at the New York International Auto Show by showcasing a special edition 911 GT3 R Hybrid with over 27,000 fan signatures. Check out more images in the gallery! Read more
Lego Big Mac Combo meal is better for your health than the real thing — Oh Gizmo! True Lore social network brings out your inner werewolf — Switched Create your own Google Map envelopes — Unplggd Battlestar Galactica fans building a working Raider — Dvice TiVo's got something up its sleeve, and it looks like it's gonna be big — Gizmodo Porsche is revving up the 911 hybrid — Crave Read more
We've seen our fair share of luxurious car company inspired cell phones recently. There's the limited edition MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Mobile phone, the $25,000 Ferrari Phone By Vertu and now, the Porsche P'9521 clamshell headset, which looks to be the most stunning design of all. The device is made out of sturdy aluminum and mineral glass and according to Crave, features a 3.2-megapixel camera Read more
In a study epically titled Peacocks, Porsches and Thorstein Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption as a Sexual Signaling System, researchers from Rice University, the University of Texas-San Antonio, and the University of Minnesota found that men spend conspicuously when they're trying to have a no-strings-attached fling. The lead author says the findings "suggests that conspicuous products, such as Read more
Back to the Future alternate ending is a little bit Star Wars — GeekTyrant Six minutes of Harrison Ford playing Uncharted 3! — SlashFilm Real princesses way too rocking for a Disney movie — Cracked Top 10 geekiest moments in Community — io9 Do you love the Sherlock show too? — PopCandy RIM to partner up with Porsche for a new sleek device — Dvice Read more
I'm excited to present a post from one of my favorite sites, ShelterPop! Rumor has it that the couple's Beverly Hills house is on the market for $49 million.It's hard to imagine why Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi-DeGeneres would want to sell their enormous estate. After buying the 12,000-square-foot house for $29 million in 2007, the pair spent 2008 buying three adjacent properties, so they Read more
Sure, the new 2012 VW Beetle is trying to drop its feminine persona with new "manly" features, but the truth of the matter is, I'd still drive it. Of course, I'm already a VW fan — I've owned two VW GTIs in my lifetime — and now that the new VW Beetle is stocked with some new tech and comes with an all new style, I'm even more excited to take one for a test drive. There's no price listed on Read more
Orlando Bloom chatted with a friend in a yellow Porsche outside a furniture store in LA yesterday. He's fresh off a family vacation to Paris where Miranda Kerr returned to the runway for Balenciaga just two months after giving birth to baby Flynn! Orlando had his own working weekend when he took to the stage on Sunday to act out the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene during a performance by the LA Read more
