When you think of Lamborghini, a sport utility vehicle probably isn’t the first image to pop into your head. After the appearance of the 2018 Lamborghini Urus, it will most likely still not be the first image to pop into your head, but it is a preliminary step in that direction. With off-road features, an interior full of the latest tech and some distinct characteristics that are uniquely Lamborghini, the Urus makes an attempt to carve out its own space in the luxury SUV market.
Sporting a 650hp V8 bi-turbo engine, the Urus has plenty of get-up-and-go, and it also has all of the racing specs you need to have a good time on the track and put up consistently quick lap times. However, if you find yourself cruising down 10th Avenue more often than on the Nurburgring, its high-performance output may be a bit of opportunity loss. The interior is distinctly a product of the manufacturer, with those stylish Italian touches, sharp edges and beautiful materials glistening at every corner. The infotainment system sports two touchscreens, three HD displays and 3D surround sound so you can blast Pavarotti to your heart’s content while tackling traffic jams.
If you’re heading out of town for some adventure, the Urus will be able to keep up. This new addition to the luxury SUV category has three off-road modes: NEVE, TERRA and SABBIA. These modes are for a range of surfaces and traction conditions to keep your ride comfortable, even in some pretty harsh conditions. While not as rough-and-tumble as some of the other vehicles in this category (i.e. Range Rovers, etc.), it can plow through sand dunes and keep its legs underneath it on a slippery corner at high speed, certainly making the Urus worth its salt and deserving of the sport utility title.
While the interior absolutely screams Lamborghini, the exterior is a bit more cryptic in its representation of this legendary automobile manufacturer. It has sharp lines, aggressive styling and a modern,honeycomb-style grill, but it doesn’t particularly look like a Lamborghini. It’s round, and it looks – well – a bit too regular to sit beside the Aventador and Huracan as a family member.
The Urus is a step in a new direction. While the exterior does fall a bit flat, the folks at Lamborghini have manufactured a fun, functional and admittedly luxurious SUV that does everything it advertises as advertised. What more can you ask for?
Learn more about the Urus on the Lamborghini website, and for more auto and tech news, head over to our tech spot.
As much as it may not feel like spring, it’s here. But soon enough the weather be perfect to spend time with friends and family outside. Even on a beautiful sunny day, the city can get to New Yorker’s heads with the loud taxis honking and subways being late. The chance of you wanting to get away isn’t as simple because airfare and effort to travel cause chaos. Well, New York is not only known for the Big Apple but own National Parks to go camping!
Camp at Hither Hills Park is only 2.5 hours away from the city located on Long Island, and the park offers sandy ocean beach, playing fields, a playground and a 189-site campground on the ocean. Minnewaska State Park Preserve an hour and a half in Ulster Country offers 2,000 feet above sea level and is surrounded by hilly, rocky terrain. So many camping parks a New Yorker can travel, but you need the coolest and trendiest gadgets. Camping gadgets to keep you hydrated, hiking and charged for all your camping experiences. Make your experience resourceful with cool camping gadgets. Here are a few of Downtown favorite camping gadgets for spring and summer 2018.
1. The CasusGrill
$11.24 – $43.60 – Available to buy online from The Fowndry.
Eco dining at its best, with this revolutionary 100% natural, 100% disposable instant grill. You’ll be ready to cook up a storm in no time at all with it’s a quick and easy set-up! Friends and family gather round anytime, anywhere, anyplace, offering up to 60 minutes of high heat emitting 50% less CO2 than traditional disposable grills. Once tummies are full dispose of your Casus Grill by simply adding it to your bonfire, leaving nothing behind.
While you’re enjoying the rolling hills and panoramic cliff tops of your surroundings by capturing them with Panasonic Phone Stand. This stand is shake-free with a fold-out stand that allows you to take stunning, high-quality shots on the go. For any budding photographer simply attach your phone, camera or GoPro to the rotating stand, with a full 360-degree rotation pan left or right, fast or slow using the remote control.
The Muncher Titanium Multi Utensil
$57.00 – Available to buy online from The Fowndry.
Be ready to eat anything on your travel with this multi utensil set. Jam-packed with 10 awesome functions including; spork, serrated knife, fire starter, peeler, can opener, bottle opener, pry bar, box cutter, cord cutter, and flathead screwdriver. Made from quality titanium this gadget couldn’t be more practical with its easy clean finish.
Amplify your favorite tunes, perfect for outdoor entertaining or as a travel speaker, the music will keep on booming as long as you keep partying. The handy rechargeable battery lasts up to 10 hours per charge! It couldn’t be easier, simply place your phone onto the top of your speaker and the sound waves will instantly fill your surroundings.
5. The Cafflano Kompresso
$92.00 – Available to buy online from The Fowndry.
For all those mighty coffee enthusiasts give yourself that buzz of energy to kick-start a day of trekking with the world’s lightest and most compact handheld espresso maker! Perfect for on the go this doesn’t mean you should compromise on an average cuppa as your sure to enjoy the tastiest brew around with this smart system. Wherever you go so goes your Kompresso.
Whether you’re hiking, camping or traveling, this is the perfect portable solar charger for those tech enthusiasts who also love the wonders of the outdoors. Providing a surge of energy to all your beloved gadgets and simply open it up and place in direct sunlight for optimum charging potential. It’s shower-proof and lightweight and works for both IOS and Android devices. There won’t be any chance of you feeling unconnected from the world.
Designed for the toughest weather conditions around, summer or winter, this lightweight and waterproof backpack come with a compact storage bag which even shrinks down to the size of a pair of socks when you’re not carrying around your prized possessions. But once in use, this nifty backpack offers 16 liters of capability, so no matter what your day has to throw at you be sure to have this backpack at the ready.
It’s no longer a fight against the clock for sunlight when you have this handy camping lantern to guide the way. As a high quality, compact and durable piece of kit enjoy the great outdoors by day and by night as the nifty design packs down to next to nothing in your camping bag. Simply leave it out with the solar panels facing up by day, and by night the lantern will cast off a beautiful glow. Perfect for camping and traveling no matter where the road takes you.
Simple and rugged personal water filter designed to provide safe, clean drinking water. Handy to put in your emergency kit, hiking, or for use when traveling.
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 07: Longines launches the Conquest V.H.P. at the Longines Boutique at Westfield World Trade Center on November 7, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images for Longines)
The NYC World Trade Center’s Oculus, designed by famed architect Santiago Calatrava, is home to a cornucopia of upscale brands, including the likes of Dior and John Varvatos. Joining these and other fashion and upscale staples are a very special handful of luxury watches from the heritage timepiece manufacturer Longines.
Longines, who has been in business since 1832, has become one of the most prominent names in the luxury timepiece market by producing classic, Swiss technology-driven timepieces that deserve a place in every collection. Let’s take a look at some of Longines’ distinct luxury watches and collections that are now available in their NYC Westfield World Trade Center boutique:
Heritage Chronograph 1940
With some handy identifiers built right into the name, this historic, reissued luxury watch takes its inspiration from one of the Longines originals and features pink indices, a silver-tone dial and a timeless black alligator strap.
Master Collection
The Longines Master Collection is characterized by its elegance and approachable price point. Introducing new, blue-hued additions to their collection, Longines is bringing bold straps and faces to their already striking assortment of luxury watches.
Conquest VHP Collection
In the midst of the heritage and tradition that comes along with the Longines’ name, a sporty model may seem miles away – but that couldn’t be further from the truth. With their Conquest VHP (Very High Precision) models, Longines offer a more athletic silhouette, which is accompanied by some of the sharpest timepiece tech out there, with a stunning accuracy of +/- 5 seconds per year.
All New Yorkers know that you can’t knock the Big Apple – now it’s backed by data. Nestpick, a Berlin-based search engine for furnished apartments, has conducted and released its second annual study of the top places in the world to live for millennials, in which New York City placed at #8.
Study by Nestpick
This study included several criteria under four basic umbrellas: the business ecosystem, “the essentials”, openness and recreational opportunity. Nestpick examined 110 cities around the world under the lens of these specific subjects, broken down into smaller individual categories. For example, a city’s “business ecosystem” score is combined from its scores in employment, startup environment and tourism, and ”the essentials” are broken down into housing, food, transport and several other categories. Categories were rated on a scale between 1-10, then weighed against one another for the final listing.
This 2018 study built upon a similar study from Nestpick conducted in 2017, and added 10 more locations. Ömer Kücükdere, the Managing Director of Nestpick, stresses the importance of adapting to the Millennial generation for worldwide economic success. “Millennials grew up in a shrinking world, where the internet opened doors their parents never could have dreamed of, and budget airlines made those avenues real possibilities. It’s now possible to live and work anywhere in the world, and these opportunities are shaping how our planet will look to future generations,” he notes.
New York City not only placed in the top 10 cities worldwide for Millennials – it placed highest on the list of cities in the US for them. But what does that mean for our neck of the woods? If nothing else, it puts the NYC at the center of the action for the next wave of innovations in business, technology and how we live our daily lives.
When we think of futuristic technology, we generally think of new medical treatments, televisions embedded into contact lenses, flying cars and the odd bionic limb – KOHLER revealed something else at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show: smart bathrooms.
Heated toilets aren’t the newest piece of technology, but throw in programmable, voice-activated showers and a mirror that can tell you the news, and you’ve got something special on your hands. KOHLER Konnect™ technology integrates Kohler’s smart bathroom tech with Amazon’s Alexa for an experienced that’s customized and streamlined from shower to shave.
Kohler’s smart bathrooms series features a wide array of different products to update and upgrade our time in the bathroom. From their PerfectFill™ faucets that will run your evening bath at a precise temperature and level, their foot-and-other-things warming Numi™ smart toilet featuring mood lighting and music, and, perhaps most the most practical of the series, their Verdera™ bathroom mirror featuring built-in Amazon Alexa and mood lighting, KOHLER is changing how we view our time in the bathroom. Get latest weather and traffic information while you’re brushing your teeth, hop in one of your several customized showers like “post-workout” or “morning”, and finish up your business with a hands-free flush.
For on-the-go customization, you can change the settings for your shower, faucets, toilet and mirror from a single, integrated app. The app is available for both Android and Apple, and it allows you to prepare the bathroom for your arrival while you’re still in the garage. There are no official prices or release dates available, but expect these products to hit the shelves later on this year.
For notifications on the availability of these innovative products, visit KOHLER.com.
The struggle of low phone battery is over! The OnePlus 5, the latest smartphone designed and created by OnePlus, was launched to the public yesterday and boasts the fastest charging solution on the global smartphone market.
Photo courtesy of broke-ass stuart
With the use of a technology known as Dash Charge, you no longer need to charge your phone overnight. Simply pop it in for half an hour and you’ll have enough power for the whole day.
Photo courtesy of OnePlus 5
Dash Charge offers a shift in power management within your device and re-routes it from the handset to the adapter to keep your phone cooler, as it charges. The 3,300 mAh battery also lasts up to 20 percent longer than the company’s previous product, the OnePlus 3T.
Thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 platform, the technical performance is vastly improved. OnePlus 5 draws up to 40% less power and can run numerous apps in the background without slowing down your phone.
The new smartphone also claims to feature the highest resolution dual-camera system available on the market, with a tailor-made 16MP sensor supported by a 20MP sensor. The telephoto lens can accurately determine the distance between the object and the sensor, the camera aperture of f/1.7 provides faster snaps and improves the overall image stabilization.
Initially, the OnePlus 5 was offered in a drop sale to customers who were given a special code during the product keynote event, as well as in one-day pop-up stores in New York and various locations in Europe including London, Paris and Amsterdam.
Interestingly enough, the OnePlus 5 has arrived just ahead of Apple’s 10-year anniversary for the launch of the first iPhone, which will be celebrated by the tech giant tomorrow.
Online sales for opened yesterday with two options to choose from: the Midnight Black with 8GB RAM and 128 GB storage, priced at $539.00 and the Slate Gray, which offers 6GB RAM and 64GB storage at $479.00.
