Oil Price

In the early 1970s a fourfold rise in the price of oil almost brought the world to a standstill and a great shock. The shock of the Arab embargo left a deep mark in many countries: America subjected its cars to fuel-efficiency standards, France embraced nuclear power .

Thirty-five years on, oil prices have quadrupled again, briefly soaring to a peak of just over $135 a barrel. But, so far, this has been a slow-motion oil shock. If the Arab oil-weapon felt like a hammer-blow, this time stagnant oil output and growing emerging-market demand have squeezed the oil market like a vice. For almost five years a growing world shrugged it off. Only now is it recoiling in pain.

Alexander Amosu Diamond Mont Blanc Pen

The limited edition Alexander Amosu Diamond Mont Blanc Pen is handmade with 77 diamonds, and feature 0.45 carats of VS, F grade diamonds with a choice of white, black, pink, brown or blue diamonds set into the gold clip.
The pen exquisite style features an 18k gold nib, platinum inlay and black precious resin cap.

The Amosu Mont Blanc is priced at £1500 Earnings will go to charity!

Cowon

We knew before that Cowon A3 would be getting an upgrade to 80GB, and Cowon has now not only gotten official about a US release for it, but dropped word of new 80GB as well. You can look for the upgraded A3 to land in the US first on May 26th for $440 ,with the 80GB Q5W following in late June for $600.Both models are similar in aspects and characteristics.

Custom Private Jets

That is what keeps Belarus based designer Alex Nakobo employed. He redesigns and customizes the interiors of private jets.
With a host of custom designs which are already doing duty in Russian corporate jets, Nakobo can give your jet a lavish luxury interior fit for presidents and royalty.

Nice leather seats, built in HDTVs and even custom lighting programed especially to your own needs You can even have seat warmers installed, and an ornate dining room for elegant dinners in the sky. Alls nice... except the price!! Wish you had one? well first of all... don't wish!

Expensive Sundae!

The World’s Most Expensive Sundae costs a incredible $1,000. This treat hails from Serendipity 3 restaurant in New York City.

The dessert consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla, covered in 23 carat edible gold leaf, rare Amedei Porceleana and Chuao chocolate, American Golden caviar, passion fruit, orange, Armagnac, candied fruits from Paris, marzipan cherries, and decorated with real gold dragees.,Would you like to have one? well have fun paying the 1,000 dollars, I will stay home eating my homemade sundae that costs around 3 dollars and maybe even tastes better...

Tokyo Fast Food

Japan is a true fast food nation, and Tokyo's food on the run is vast and diverse, at its best a thing of genius, while at its worst it can out-affront anything the United States has to offer. A bottom-up tour gives a sense of the possibilities. You find not just the yakisoba dog, but also the potato-salad sandwich (available in vending machines too), the katsu sando (breaded pork-cutlet sandwich) and the curry pan, in essence a doughnut with a slurry of curry powder and meat gristle injected into the middle of it, irradiated for longevity.

Tokyo is growing vast... it is known for some really exquisite cuisine and really nice atmosphere but also known for some really bad services and "diarrhea" problems however Tokyo is vast growing city and the economy is rising fastly. New companies are opening up in Tokyo to get a wider market range and more interest in their products.

Burj Dubai

From today, the Burj Dubai skyscraper in the Middle East stands at 650 meters, and here's a picture (what we think it will look like). The construction has finally broken records and passed the current tallest man made structure, the Warsawa radio mast in Poland, which stands at 646 meters.

New Sony VAIO PC

The latest Sony Vaio is ‘out there’ in terms of design and unlike many "weird looking" laptops this is not a prototype. The Sony VAIO VGC-LJ25L features a 15.4in wide display but then departs from normality with a small keyboard that the company maintains will make it easy to work in narrow or confined spaces. Like working in a closet? The keyboard is quite absurd as we need big buttons to write, not these small ones that are so annoying!

New Iriver release

It took 'em a year, but iriver is finally ready to unleash its P10 touchscreen mega-PMP upon the world or at least in Korea. The player rocks an 800 x 480 4.3-inch LCD and 33GB of storage. There's also an included stylus and built-in handwriting recognition, with dictionaries for English, Chinese and Japanese. For about $312 US you can get a DMB-free unit, or spring for mobile TV at a $390-ish pricepoint, but again, those are both Korea only for the time being!.

Samsung demos 82” 2160p HDTV

We all thought FULL HD 1080 p was great no... now we have samsung testing 2160p lcd tv!

The prototype display has a massive 82” size and features a resolution of 3820x2160 pixels, which results in a total screen resolution of 8.3 megapixels. Current 1080p TVs run at 1920x1080 pixels or 2.1 megapixels. According to the manufacturer, the TV integrates a red/green/blue LED backlight, which raises the color saturation to 150%. The image refresh rate is 120 Hz.

Samsung said that it will have a few other products to show at its SID show booth, including an 82” e-board with a “multi-touchscreen” that could replace whiteboards and beam projectors, the company believes, as well as its previously announced 15” blue-phase LCD and a foldable 2.3” e-paper display.

Its crazy how the world is evolving, companies all have incredible technology but they are all waiting to release them at the right time because if not then there won't be a lot of profits, lets say samsung releases 2160p after just releasing full hd 1080p, then samsung will lose lots of money and people will get frustrated that csomething better just comes out after having bought such a nice TV.. time is the only way forward.

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Prostitution- A different perspective

After the New York major incident and after we all found out that he had paid prostitues we have all come to different parts of the debate, some against it and some for it. The big question is, should prostitution be made legal like in the netherlands or should offenders be punished like in Sweden?

I think that prostitution is a growing society, a growing industry where more and more people are getting involved and in eastern countries even small girls are being put in the streets. In countries where prostitution isn't legal the owners of the prostitutes are really harsh to them and they have no medical check up or no "protection" from these people, instead they roam the streets and get paid for doing all kinds of things, they are also sometimes beaten by their owners. In the Netherlands is legal and they all get check ups and they look quite clean, whereas in Sweden whoever pays for sex will get punished by the law since its an offence against the law. What should our society do?

Change in Sports

It started with glory, fame and honor and now all that seems to be in this is “Money”. This has been heard several times, but the answer is no, sports have become more competitive and they have become so large that there is a real business in sports nowadays. Formula one driver and car companies used to earn very little money but now big companies are sponsoring them by adding logos, and symbols on their cars, television companies are also starting to earn much more money because there is a bigger demand for formula then 30 years ago. I’ am sure that you will agree with me that the rules and excitement haven’t change because of the money. Please consider looking at the world, isn’t the world growing? Aren’t there many more companies then 20 years ago? Yes, yes the world is changing at a drastic rate. Imagine a world without any sports, no football, no tennis, just imagine, would it be a better world? I am afraid that sport in overall is the most viewed on TV, and there is such much money in sports that if you eliminate them then hundreds of companies will go bankrupt and millions of fans will be very mad. I speak for you all, every voice is stronger then hundreds of voices, every single voice counts. We all know that sports are not only about money, but also about honor, fame and ambition.

Coffee Industry

America consumes one fifth of the worlds coffee but very few americans know that the people working in the fields (either in Ethiopia or Brazil) get such a bad salary that it is almost worth crying over. After having watched Black Gold I opened my eyes to a new world, this world has never been or never will be fair if we continue like this. Prices per pound is approximately 0.60-0.70 $, which is very low. There is more demand for coffee now so more coffee companies are opening up. The field workers are then paid less as the demand increases and production increases which eventually effects the price and then it falls as well as the wages for the field workers.