Style council

01/06/2006
Overseas Living
We round up all of the latest gadgets, whether you prefer to be in the kitchen or out and about in the city
1 Tojiro’s Gyoto chefs knifeYou’ve seen the film Kill Bill, where the characters swoon over a Hattori Hanzo sword, well, in the kitchen, when it comes to superb performance and style, no one cuts it quite like Tojiro. The special laminated blade makes the knife sharper and holds its sharpness longer than other good kitchen knives. Whether you are just looking for a functional knife that gets the job done or you are fascinated by their aesthetical and unique forgery Tojiro knives is a fantastic choice.
Price: £300
www.tojiro-knives.com
2 BonJour Chateau Deluxe Tabletop Wine Opener
This wine opener resembles the freestanding wine openers used in fine bars and cocktail lounges. Designed to stand on its own, this opener lets you slip a bottle into place, squeeze the rabbit-style handles, and capture the cork by bringing the lever down in one smooth motion. Squeeze and remove the cork from the worm with the same easy motion. So simple and swift that you’ll need no excuse to crack open a second bottle.
Price: £45
www.popeilfamilystore.com
3 Tiger Shark Great White Titanium Driver
A golf club with a name to revere and just like its amphibious cousin
this piece of equipment should be respected. The main advantage of the ‘great white’ is to help seek that
elusive extra distance from the tee.
A 360cc head gives you a mass of confidence at address, along with the proven off-set head design to minimise the chance of a distance sapping slice.
Price: £60
www.country-golf.co.uk
4 Hewlett Packard Photosmart 945
A 5-megapixel model with an 8x Fujinon zoom lens and several innovative features that make this camera very interesting for snap shooters who want an uncomplicated camera that delivers the goods. HP have incorporated a unique feature called Adaptive Lighting Technology. This feature enables photographers to produce photos that look more like what they see with their own eyes.
Price: £249
www.hp.com
5 Research In Motion’s BlackBerry 7230
RIM’s early attempts at mating
its popular wireless email handheld with a mobile phone didn’t turn out as well as the company had hoped. But the BlackBerry 7230, RIM’s first
colour-screen model, is a different story. Offered by T-Mobile, Vodafone and O2 the 7230 combines a GSM/GPRS world phone, a handheld and wireless email capabilities in a slim, 136g unit that doesn’t require an ear bud to talk on.
Price: £200
www.blackberry.com
6 Mobile Extreme Convergence (MXC) Music Player
Quite simply, this is sexy, its brand new, only been out a few weeks and it really is the talk of the town. Essentially it is another alternative to the iPods and Beans of this world, an MP3 player which combines huge memory storage with durability and style. It was designed with technology that is used for mobile phones but allows for a number of wireless radios to be used in conjunction with it, much like Bluetooth.
Price: £125
www.motorola.com
