iPod Touch

Sunseeker App Finally Gives You Something to do with Your iPad

As much as we love big cats and bush dogs, our favorite kind of predator is still made by Sunseeker. The Predator 108, to be exact, is the one with all the teeth and claws to get our attention. More precisely, it's the Sunseeker with the stowed Caterham 7 that kills us. that However, you probably didn't know there are two larger Predators and a surprisingly complete range of other Sunseeker motor yachts and cruisers from which to choose. To remedy those regrettable oversights, Sunseeker has released an app for your iPad that will get you caught up on all the latest. And Sunseeker itself says that this is the first step toward making one of its sailing yachts and motor yachts yours. That means you can't consider yourself wasting time with this app. You're planning for the future.

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Tags: app, app store, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, Sunseeker, yacht

Fancy a Saab 9-5? Then Get to Know it with Saab's iPhone App

by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

Saab wants you to like its new 9-5. Based on the reviews the brand-new-and-free-of-GM sedan is getting, that shouldn't be such a hard thing to do. But until you're actually in the showroom singing on the dotted, Saab believes a little persuasion in its favor wouldn't hurt things, and portable persuasion would hurt things even less. That's how we get the Saab 9-5 app for iPods and iPads and iPhones.

As per usual, you can watch videos, admire the plentiful photos Saab has taken of the car, or dress one up yourself and spin it around just like you do with your significant other at Saks. When it goes on sale it will start around $38,000 and climb all the way up to nearly $50,000 for a loaded Aero model. So if you want to save time at the dealership figuring out how much quirkiness you really want to buy, the iTunes app store is where you should be headed.

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Tags: app, app store, apple, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, saab, saab 9-5

New App Lets You Customize Your Dream Rolls-Royce

by Jonathon Ramsey (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets, Luxury Cars & Autos

If you want to be really good at something, the prime directive is always this: practice practice practice. That goes for running just as much as it goes for being really, really rich. Rolls-Royce is here to assist on the getting-ready front with an iPhone and iPod Touch app that lets you – the "potential customer" – kit out their newest ride, the Ghost, any way you wish.

A dozen paint finishes make up the exterior options, along with tweaks like visible exhaust tip, Silver Satin hood and various styles of wheels. Inside, eight different leathers and five veneers that include Dark Wenge and Malabar can be mixed and matched to please the eye and touch. If you want to see what others have done, the app also includes a gallery and videos of the Ghost in action and when you're finished, you can save your own Ghost in a virtual garage. Before you dig in, though, you might want to download that dictionary app so you can look up terms like "Dark Wenge." Available in the iTunes app store.

[via Autoweek]

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Tags: app, app store, apps, iphone, iphone app, ipod, ipod touch, rolls-royce, rolls-royce ghost

Antique Wine Company's New iPhone App

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets, Wine

The Antique Wine Company has launched a new free app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that has something for wine lovers at all levels. Among its many features is a series of 80+ podcasts covering everything you could ever want to know from the principles of wine tasting and understanding wine jargon to food and wine pairings, building a fine wine cellar, and even tips on wine investment. Each podcast is only about 2 1/2 minutes long, so you can easily find time to listen, and new ones will be added regularly.

The app also offers the ability to browse through more than 2,000 of the world's finest and rarest wines, sorting them by price, region, or vintage with links to the Antique Wine Company website to make inquiring and purchasing wine easy and convenient.

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The World's Most Expensive iPod

by Lisa Palladino (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets

Katherine Hughes, of Stuart Hughes, has designed what is likely the world's most expensive iPod. The iPod Touch SUPREME's body was re-formed using 149 grams of solid, 22-carat gold, with a rear Apple logo from 21 grams of gold that houses 53 VVS1, color F diamonds. The front outer section has been set with 300 VVS1 diamonds, also color F. The main navigation buttons has 12 diamonds of the same quality set in 16 grams of gold, all of which surround a single cut pink 2.10-carat diamond, color G-H. A true limited edition -- only three available. £139,995, or $231,776 USD at today's exchange rate.

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Tags: Apple, diamonds, gold, iPod, Ipod Touch, IpodTouch

Talk, Text, and Now Buy Shoes on Your iPhone

by Lisa Palladino (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets, Services

Talk, Text, and Now Buy Shoes on Your iPhone

There's likely no end in sight to the number of iPhone apps to come. So I'm going to tell you about one more, OK? You'll thank me. Actually, thank The New York Times: Designer fashion hub Net-a-Porter.com released its iPhone application, the Net-App, in mid-July. Shoppers can browse handbags, clothes and shoes; read the site's weekly fashion stories; and make purchases. The Times noted that even though some people use their cell phones to buy virtual goods to use in mobile games or e-books to read on their phones, the masses have not shown much willingness to buy physical goods - especially expensive ones - from their cell phones. (Kind of like how early online purchases, of anything, were made by the few and the brave; now, it's second nature.)

But Net-a-Porter.com, which went live in 2000 and states it has 1.8 million visitors a month, succeeded in getting people to buy $4,000 gowns and $1,000 stilettos on the Web, so iPhone app success may be in sight. The potential for shopping on phones "is massive," said Alison Loehnis, v.p. of sales and marketing at Net-a-Porter.com, in the Times. "We feel very strongly that third-generation technology is the new shop window. No one wants to be bound to their computer anymore."

Net-a-Porter.com is not the first to offer an iPhone shopping app: there's Lucky at Your Service from Lucky magazine and ShopStyle Mobile from ShopStyle. Net-a-Porter, however, developed a tool it calls ClosetFlow, which shows users small images of new products to thumb through. Shoppers can zoom in, flip the phone to look at items from different directions, and read more detailed information about them. The shopper can add the items to a wish list to access later from a computer or buy from within the application, without opening a separate browser window.

Loehnis noted in the article: "Our customers love to shop from their homes or offices, but we want our customers to be able to shop from a cab or while waiting in line and really maximize what little free time they have."

[Thanks to my savvy sister, GP]

Tags: apps, clothing, handbags, iPhone, iPod Touch, IpodTouch, net-a-porter, shoes, shopping

A Tux for Your iTouch

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Gadgets

Feeling frivolous? For just a small splurge of $74 - $78, you can dress up your iPod Touch (or iTouch) in its very own sparkling tuxedo like the one at right from Pliadesigns.com. It's a cute way to protect your Mac paraphernalia for a night on the town -- or a very novel way to wrap an iTouch being given as a gift.

If you feel strongly that your iTouch is a girl (and you're not into cross-dressing her up like Diane Keaton -- 'cause really, almost no one can pull that off), Plia also has Bellini Clutches, which look like miniature clutch purses and fit iPods, iPhones, and anything you have that's small and flat. It's a great way to protect your devices' casing glamorously -- even if it is a little silly. Everyone knows glamor should be fun!

Check out the gallery below to see the Bellini Clutches and the iPod Touch cases from all sides.

Gallery: Cute and Fun Cases from Plia.com