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Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional HG Japan

Filed under: Gadgets

A high price tag should buy you beauty and functionality, but the two don't always coexist for some reason. Take the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional HG Japan, a new limited edition keyboard that was created by a collaboration between Fujitsu and Daitetsu-Yatsui Urushi Workshop. Daitetsu-Yatsui Urushi specializes in traditional Japanese lacquer techniques, so the basic blank Happy Hacking Keyboard has carefully-coated keys, each of which were hand-painted and sprinkled with gold dust. It is beautiful, especially when compared to most keyboards out there, but a blank keyboard might not even be appealing to highly skilled typists. Price: $4,240.

[via popgadget]

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Namiki Pheasant and Sakura Pen

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Writing Instruments

This exquisite pen, the Limited Edition Pheasant & Sakura from Namiki is new for 2006. The pen uses the Chinkin technique in which patterns are carved into the lacquer surface with chisels. Next more lacquer is poured into the carved grooves and gold foil or gold powder is inlayed. Then pens are detailed with platinum powder sprinkled on the petals of the flowers and nacreous shell embedded in the center of the flower. There are 99 of these pens created and they each come in a box made using the Kaba-zaiku technique which involves using a thin layer of mountain cherry tree bark and creating a cherry blossom design. The pen sells for $10,000.

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