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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Latest High-Tech Accessories

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We love to talk about fashion and beauty trends at The Thread but here's something a little different. We found out about a slew of chic, high-tech accessories coming on the market (ex. a ring that turns into a wireless headset, James Bond-style) and we had to share them with you immediately!



I'm not usually happy unless I'm doing two or three things at once. So these accessories really appeal to my multi-tasking sensibility-- and hopefully, yours.

Calvin Klein's USB Memory Frames look like a sleek pair of Calvin Klein sunglasses. They are, but they're also more than that. Hidden in the right arm of the sunglasses is a 4GB USB which you can use to transport data, images, music. .  . anything. They'll cost $200 when they hit store shelves later this month.

Vivienne Tam and HP have a new "digital clutch"-- you carry it like a clutch but it's actually a laptop! The gorgeous butterfly design on the laptop's casing compliments the patterns in Tam's Spring line.  This netbook is a follow-up to Tam's incredibly popular red floral-patterned netbook that came out last year. The new clutches will be available with Tam's 2010 Spring Collection.

Here's something straight out of The Jetsons: The O.R.B. It's a wireless earpiece for your cell phone that doubles as a ring. You twist it open and it transforms into a Bluetooth headset for hands-free calling. How cool is that? It hits the market in January at $129.

Samsung new digital camera, the TL225, solves the problem of getting only half your face in a self-portrait. There's a LCD display on the back AND on the front, so you can snap yourself and your friends and actually see whether you're in the shot or not. And it comes in purple— the hot color of the season. The camera retails for $349.99

If you've stopped wearing a watch because you always have your cell phone to tell you what time it is, here's something for you: a cell phone you can wear on your wrist. The W PhoneWatch is the world's smallest cell phone with a touch screen, a camera and a Bluetooth headset.  The Kempler & Strauss W PhoneWatch is $199.

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  • Dianna's Avatar
    Posted by Dianna Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:59am PDT

    wow that's really cool stuff

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  • Mia's Avatar
    Posted by Mia Sun Oct 11, 2009 4:10pm PDT

    I love the O.R.B!!

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  • catherine's Avatar
    Posted by catherine Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:24pm PDT

    I love the "digital clutch" I am always working and that is so much cuter than my laptop!

    Catherine Wood Hill

    http://www.lagrandedame.com

    "Making Skinny Women Jealous"

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  • tommy's Avatar
    Posted by tommy Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:23pm PDT

    thats so cool i hate my display name

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  • Chocoholic's Avatar
    Posted by Chocoholic Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:26pm PDT

    Maybe I'm too much of a Tomboy...but I wouldn't be caught dead with any of that crap!

    $200 for a USB/sunglasses?

    I go to the dollar store for glasses that look just like those, and I got my USB for free from a friend who builds computers and had extras.

    Plus...I'm a Mac....so, I'm not even sure why I clicked on this thing....

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  • Carol R Hill's Avatar
    Posted by Carol R Hill Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:33pm PDT

    This is juat another thing we really don't need but it is going to happen but I would be the last person to tell anybody I have one because the next thing going to happen someone is going to get robbed.

    To me why don't we put that money into something that is really needed like a bank account and let that money grow.

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  • Samantha's Avatar
    Posted by Samantha Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:11pm PDT

    This video is way too hard to watch it took about 15 minutes to get through the whole thing. I was very disappointed.

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  • Isabelle's Avatar
    Posted by Isabelle Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:27pm PDT

    That girl seems a little out of place for this. Oh and annoying. The whole laptop thing was stupid too. You order/buy skins for your computer and carry it around just like that. All that junk should be on late night infomercial TV.

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  • Chance's Avatar
    Posted by Chance Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:58am PDT

    this stuff is way cool

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  • Wanda's Avatar
    Posted by Wanda Tue Oct 13, 2009 8:35am PDT

    i think that the sunglasses are dumb! sunglasses are supossed to protect your eyes and thats it come on people!

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