Luxury and extravagance know no limits. Products in the consumer market today tender a whole range of offerings with which you can pamper and mollycoddle yourself. If indulgence is on your mind, then a swell way to treat yourself is to book a flight on the statesque Brabus Private Aviation carrier. Just image what it would be like to have an exclusive cabin or a private jet all to yourself. The company has liveries as well as aircraft management services on their list. Moreover, these can be custom made on orders from clients. Offerings from the company include jets like Challenger Aircraft Families, Dassault Falcon Series and also Bombardier Global Express.

Vertically tall high rises are a feasible way out of the space crunch people are tackling with currently. London is also planning frantically to combat its share of challenges and the upcoming Loft London farm Tower proposed by Architect Peter Stasek might help to alleviate the distress to some extent. The structure that looks like a gigantic cylinder resting on the buttress is definitely something to look forward to. It will hold nests within that will serve like a terrain for habitation and settlement. Here is a snapshot of what the structure will look like and what it will do for the capital city of UK.

If the iPad, Microsoft Surface and the whole range of touch enabled devices isn’t enough for you, then perhaps this invention called MaKey MaKey by designers Eric Rosenbaum and Jay Silver of the Minty Geek Electronics Lab would interest you. The open source hardware project can basically turn any surface into a touchpad which means you can type out short messages, play software-based instruments, control onscreen gaming action by turning objects like Play-Doh, coins and even bananas into objects that can produce the same functions as mouse clicks and computer keyboard keys. Human Interface Device (HID) protocol then sends input commands to the computer.

This eye catching and futuristic structure scintillates when daylight hits its surface. The mind boggling arrangement is inspired from the shape of interlinked chains. Let your imagination run free and the assembly will look like floating clouds, microscopic bacteria or a cluster of stars. The bewitching formation known as Cloud City is a creation of an Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno. It is on display at the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Are you waiting for the Porsche 918 Spyder to roll out? Well, the swanky car with wavy curves will not come out before 2013. After all, fitting in two independent motors and a V 8 engine, is quite a task. That too, when the rear wheel driven motors will be slotted on the front axle as well as the drive line of the auto. The zero emission car boasting of a 770 hp will have a range of 94 mph.

If you want a spacious house, you don’t necessarily have to build a villa or farmhouse on a plot of land anymore. High rises are getting creative with their designs and using space innovatively. Condos in a lofty building have terraces, roomy balconies, gardens and even swimming pools. Yet another addition to this groovy segment is the Sky Condos at Lima, Peru. The smashing luxury housing concept will definitely make people in the neighborhood green with envy.

For people who want to reduce energy consumption through the course of their daily lives without giving up modern conveniences, Spanish designer Miren Arrieta-Odria has created the Sustainable Toaster for Delft University of Technology. A second runner up at the the 2009 Domestic Appliances Design Award organized by Philip-TUDelft, the toaster is designed to use up to 34 percent less energy than a regular unit thanks to four insulated compartments.

Various concerns like unbalanced diet, food contamination, subsidized farming, poor circulation, GMOcrops, etc. can prove hazardous to our existence. The need of the hour is to design a product that would provide crucial information regarding food and enhance the grocery shopping experience. The aim of the design was to create a physical device that would allow physical interaction with all food items. Earlier the design of the “Food Informer” was proposed in form of a tablet but it did not consider ergonomics therefore, a band-shaped design was finalized taking all factors into consideration.

Escalators and elevators are somewhat necessary for mass mobility in high rise buildings and motorized wheelchairs are certainly helpful in enabling the disabled to carry on with their routine functions without spending all their physical strength on towing themselves around. However, inventions like the Segway have just made us a lazier race and even though we’re thankful that it didn’t catch on as a means of personal mobility on a wide scale, it did put “ideas” into the minds of many auto brands as a way of making a quick buck by creating a motor-operated vehicle for each and every one of us that would make walking redundant and unnecessary.

A generator proves to be nothing less than a blessing when it comes to providing electricity to power various gadgets/tools or simply lighting up an area where the electricity supply has been cut or absent due to some reasons. This back up power source comes wrapped with a lot of usefulness, but what happens when it is needed in difficult to reach areas? Treacherous terrain, bumpy grounds or rubble can prove to be a great hurdle and crossing all this gracefully will be Yasher, which has been designed by Jorge Eduardo Armendariz. The generator can be tagged as a true outdoor portable device as it will work well in non prepared environments, field encampments as well as emergencies.