| Pink - As Fashionable As Ever |
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| Written by DeeDee Dobson |
| Friday, 17 April 2009 08:25 |
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There are many of us who simply can't get enough of the color pink. We want a pink everything, and thankfully, manufacturers of all kinds of wares oblige. Here are 5 items on the market that will make any pink-lover
There are many of us who simply can't get enough of the color pink. We want a pink everything, and thankfully, manufacturers of all kinds of wares oblige. Here are 5 items on the market that will make any pink-lover Dell Wasabi PZ310 Ultra-Mobile ZINK Printer The tiny (4.8" x 2.9" x 0.9") Wasabi color printer is truly a child of its time: it prints wirelessly, is ultraportable and uses inkless technology. Instead of ink, you use ZINK paper (the same kind as the Polaroid PoGo printers and cameras), which has embedded crystals that, when exposed to heat in the printer, magically transform into a picture. It can hold up to 12 sheets, and produces one 2x3 sticky-back print per minute. Why it's called Wasabi is anybody's guess - I assumed it was because it was green, but no. It's available in 3 colors - pink, black or blue - and retails for $99. Diana F+ In Flourescent Pink Ah, huge stack of film in my refrigerator door - what shall I do with thee? I could dig out my old camera I suppose, but my new digital one is so much better but I can't just throw all that film out. Sound familiar? I'm sure I'm not the only one with leftover film from the pre-digital days of photography hesitant to throw it in the garbage. If you got rid of your film camera when the digital craze began and now find yourself wanting to get back to basics occasionally, check out the cameras at the Lomographic Society. Inexpensive, plastic and with a huge variety of models and lenses all producing crazy creative images, the cameras offered here are just plain fun. Among their new cameras this spring is the Mr. Pink Diana F+, a fuchsia, medium sized (i.e. uses 120 film), plastic and very manual camera model that originated in Hong Kong in the 1960s. It produces beautiful, dreamy soft focus shots with unmistakable Diana-camera vignetting. If medium format is not your thing - don't worry. You can get it with a 35mm back as well, and new this spring even an instant back, for Polaroid-esque prints. The price runs from $105 (for the basic kit) to $280 (for the camera with an instant back and a 10-pack of film). Sony VAIO JS Desktop PC Did anyone else think "iMac" when you first saw this? I always suspected it was just a matter of time before someone else came up with the same sleek design in PC format. It not only looks great, it does save you tons of valuable space. This non-customizable, pale pink PC has a 20.1" screen, 4GB memory, a 2.50GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor, a 500GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive, 2 3-watt speakers, and a built-in webcam and microphone. The price? $949. Colorful Inspiron Desktops From Dell Finally, someone is adding a rainbow of colors to desktops as well. While laptops are available in all imaginable colors and designs, desktops have remained in the silver/black range. Dell's new Inspiron desktop line has so far only been released in China, but is scheduled to appear on the US market later on this spring. The 8 color choices include the candy colored "Promise Pink", which supports the Susan G. Komen foundation (Dell donates $5/sale to breast cancer research). The customizable Inspiron will be available both as a mini-tower and slim tower, and the starting price will be $299. Poken - Your Social "Business Card" With the growing number of social networking sites, keeping track of your identities and contact info can be a daunting task, and sharing them with friends even more so. Poken - a keychain-sized gizmo with a USB connector and a huge hand - will take care of all that for you. Select which profiles you want to share with people, add them to your Poken, and when you meet someone you want to exchange info with, just have your Pokens "high five", and voila! The two of you have exchanged your social networking info. The Pokens come in a few different shapes: Panda, Alien, Fox, Bee, Voodoo, and the two pink choices, the Geisha and the Piggy. They cost around $20 and are available online. About the Author: DeeDee Dobson adores the color pink. On her blog, she talks about stylish pink notebooks and helps you compare the different models. |