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The home at 106 Shearbrook Drive in Mauldin has 160,000 lights between the home and part of a neighbor’s yard.

March 23, 2007 UK-based bespoke luxury goods creator Luvaglio has created the first million dollar laptop. That’s what the first of their luxury laptops will sell for. Full details of the laptop have not been released at this point, but it is known that it incorporates a 17" widescreen LED lit screen with a specially designed anti-reflective glare coating for clear and brighter image, 128GB of Solid State Disk space and a slot loading Blue-Ray drive. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when...

Video glasses keep porn private in public Thu Jan 11, 1:10 PM ET LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) - Sleek video glasses that turn film viewing into a private affair went on view at the world's biggest porn show on Wednesday, just after they were demonstrated down the road at the planet's largest consumer electronics show. Victor Quitoriano of Body Care Resort coaxed passersby to shut out the bustling activity at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo by sampling an intimate video viewing session complete with audio through an ear piece. He had been demonstrating models of the same glasses at...

Televisions grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday with companies showcasing everything from super-sized models for the red-hot LCD market to technology enabling TVs to play video straight from the Internet. A slew of consumer electronics makers introduced bigger flat-screen TVs, while others highlighted products to enhance viewing, such as a DVD player that could be a bridge between rival formats for next-generation video discs. Sharp Corp showed off a 108-inch high-definition LCD television to rival a 100-inch model introduced only hours earlier by LG Electronics Inc. Sharp said its was the biggest yet among liquid crystal...

Things have come full circle. Location counts again. That's why the East Bay towns — along with a few other places around the state, including neighborhoods in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Pasadena and Silicon Valley — are still reasonably hot. There are more people who want to live in these areas than there are available houses.

There's the the new commercial with the billionaire Maloof brothers. If you have that much, a $6,000 Carl's Jr. Six Dollar Burger Combo Meal is a piffle. For the rest of us, its wretched excess.

Viper-powered Tomahawk to be offered for sale Remember the Tomahawk, which debuted a few years ago on the auto show circuit? Maybe a better question would be: How could you forget it? There had been some speculation that it might actually see limited production, and apparently the-powers-that-be at DaimlerChrysler have given the green light. The 500 hp V-10 Frankencycle will be marketed as the Chrysler (not Dodge) Tomahawk, and will cost a cool $250,000, give or take a few pennies... Don't forget to check out the video on this site. I found it interesting in that they didn't show it...

Wenger, the manufacturer of the classic Swiss Army Knife, has revealed a 9-inch long, 2-pound "knife" which carries 85 instruments, or: almost every tool that has ever been on a Swiss Army Knife, ever. The list includes seven different knives, a golf shoe spike wrench, a bike chain rivet setter, and a laser pointer with a 300ft range (but where's the freakin' USB flash drive?). Presumably this is so seasoned golfers can tune their bicycle's rivets before heading off on a deer hunt / cycling trip armed with blinding lasers and an entire collection of 3-inch knives. An equivalent...

Spears Sculpture on Display Next Month Tue Mar 28, 7:23 PM ET A life-size sculpture of a naked Britney Spears kneeling on a bearskin rug as she gives birth will be on display next month at Brooklyn's Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery. The sculpture is to appear next to a display case filled with anti-abortion materials. It was created by Daniel Edwards, who said he never spoke to the 24-year-old pop star or met her, and fashioned her face and figure from photographs. "I admire her. This is an idealized figure," Edwards said Tuesday in a phone interview from his...

Check out this guy's Christmas lights: http://jamphat.com/xmas.wmv Then be glad you don't live across the street from him!

Model seeks record breasts A Mexican model is hoping to make the record books after having 13 breast implant operations. The model, who calls herself simply Sabrina, has insured her 42GG breasts for £550,000. She's already had nine operations on her chest and is planning four more to get up to 42XX, reports Infobae.com. She is facing her next operation in a month's time, after which she hopes to make it into the Guinness book of records. "I don't care how many times I have to be operated on, I just want to be the record holder," Sabrina said.