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The Fashion Statement: Vivienne Tam's Digital Designs

Vivienne Tam is one of the few designers who deigns to go near technology.

Tam unveiled the new design of the HP "Digital Clutch," a small purse-size notebook computer aimed at style conscious women. The machine, which costs about $700, will be available next spring.

Backstage before her show last night, Tam told me the print--a red butterfly on Champagne gold background--was inspired by the famous Chinese opera "Butterfly Lovers." The same print showed up in the designer's spring line which was all about ethereal printed caftans, origami shifts and hippie silhouettes. "It's a symbol of happiness, freedom and optimism," she said. All good.

But here's the thing: The Vivienne Tam notebook computer is pretty much your average HP notebook computer with a pretty design on the lid. Will there ever come a time when fashion designers actually design computers? Are we forever bound to squares and rectangles?

If Tam has anything to do with it, the answer is no. "I would love to learn that!" she said. Hear that, HP?

Tags: Butterfly Lovers, ButterflyLovers, Digital Clutch, DigitalClutch, HP, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Mercedes-benzFashionWeek, Vivienne Tam, VivienneTam

Touchscreen Media PC

by Anton Friant (RSS feed) —

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With CES season having descended upon us once again, we're starting to see some really cool new high-end offerings from the compy giants. This puppy looks like Microsoft's answer to the iMac, branded as an HP and (tentatively?) called the TouchSmart PC, and is at the same time trying to take over your study and living room. The whole 19" touch-screen thing is obviously making it a larger-than-normal blip on the radar, but it also boasts some of the new-fangled tech specs we're starting to see more and more: AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core TL-52 processor and that sweet sweet NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600. No official word on price yet, but our sibs over at Engadget hypothesized $1799 - $1899 a while back (lots of cool pics there too).

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24ct Gold HP Laserjet

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HP's new strategy to recover legal fees: reduce stockpile of mediocre printers AND Scrooge McDuck-like vat of gold coins - and wham...Really, HP? No, not really, it's probably the work of a third-party independent contractor (they seems to like those) and has very little to do with the actual company, but still, come on. A Laserjet P2015? Who made that decision?

Anyway, the auction will start at about $300 US, but from what we can tell they want $20,000 for this thing. So, if Midas has been fingering all your other gadgets but still has yet to touch your printer, we say go for it. Click here for the (poorly) translated auction page.

Via Engadget.

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Tags: gold, hp, Laserjet, P2015, printer