Girl Geek Chic

Blow Up Hall, Poland 

Blow Up Hall is a hotel dubbed as an interactive work of art which offers a combination of 5 star luxury and hi-tech. The guests not only experience art but also participate in it’s creation. Renowned artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has created an intriguing video installation so from the moment you step inside you’re a performer in the video being played in the lobby! Every guest is supplied with an iPhone which you use to gain access to your room – so no keys or door numbers.

For more details… www.blowuphall5050.com

Mama Shelter, Paris

Voted best business hotel in europe by CNBC, this Philippe Starck-designed boutique hotel used to be a parking garage. Mama Shelter has a 24-inch iMac in each one of its 172 rooms. The iMac acts as your entertainment centre, there’s free Wi-Fi as well as free in room movies on demand. It also has a fleet of rentable electronic scooters if you fancy going out and about.

For more details… www.mamshelter.com

Pod Hotel, NYC

New York’s Pod Hotel is sure to satisfy the tech-hungry budget traveler with its high style and high tech, hip accomodation. This hotel has an in-house Pod Community Blog, open to those with reservations so guests and prospective guests can interact, ask questions and exchange information.  Each pod comes with free wifi, mp3 player docking stations and LCD TV.

For more details… www.thepodhotel.com

Fancy saving money on your water bill and helping the environment? Then check out the Waterpebble. It’s a new green gadget that is designed to raise awareness of your water consumption by monitoring how much water you use in the shower and telling you when to get out!

It’s a small pebble like device that you put in the shower next to the plug and it basically checks how much water is going down the plug hole. This clever little pebble memorises your first shower (from when you start using it) as a benchmark, then gradually sets about reducing the amount of water you use by fractionally reducing your shower time. It does this via a series of traffic lights flashing from green when you start to amber halfway through and finally red when it’s time to get out. It effectively trains you to use less water when you shower without you really having to think about it, all you need to know is red means it’s time to turn off that shower!

Simply set the Waterpebble by pressing a little button located on the back, pop in the shower and then keep an eye on the colours. It can be reset at any time and the battery should last for around 6 months according to the manufacturers.

The Waterpebble is available now and retails for around £8. For more details check out www.waterpebble.com

If you’ve got a few cheeky eye wrinkles appearing and like myself can’t really get your head around the whole Botox thang – then check out these babies from Japan – I mean it couldn’t really be anywhere else could it. Simply wearing these ‘goggle-style’ glasses for 5 minutes every day will apparently improve the appearance of your face.  Will it? I mean *really* will it?

On the inside of the ‘Mejikara’ there are specially-designed ridges which massage and help your skin. It puts gentle pressure on the skin and pushes those sagging eyes back up to where they once were. But how do they stay up once you take the goggles off, that’s what I want to know?!

It might seem like another wacky Japanese invention but in fact the ‘Mejikara’ has been a bit of a sleeper hit, and I suppose it does beat injecting your face with poison! Do we love it or leave it?

RIM Blackpad

Due to be available as of November, this 7″ high end tablet is designed more as en enterprise tool so predominantly aimed at business users. It will include a new graphical menu system, secure email and of course wi-fi. We love Blackberry so will be interesting to see how it compares to the iPad…

HP Slate

Due to arrive early 2011, this will be a Windows 7 computer that has great touch screen capability and fast web browsing. Keep a look out for the so-called PalmPad, HP’s rumoured webOS tablet, which is said to be landing later this year, complete with stylus.
 

Samsung Galaxy Tab

This arrives in September and is a 7″ tablet  with a good quality OLED display, powered by a 1.2GHz processor. It is probably the closest rival to the iPad and runs Android 2.2. It also has wi-fi and 3G.

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Nikki xxx