Month: January 2020

While you were busy prepping for the holidays, Hilary Duff got married in the backyard of her home wearing a beautifully modern Jenny Packham wedding dress. Now, she and her new husband, Matthew Koma, have traveled to a dream honeymoon destination: South Africa. From the looks of Duff’s Instagram, the over-20-hour journey from Los Angeles has yielded plenty of memorable moments, including spotting all of the Big Five animals while on safari. 

So what did Duff pack for her honeymoon? It boils down to three of the easiest essentials in existence: T-shirts, denim shorts, and bikinis. How can you go wrong? In a series of photos Duff has shared on her Instagram feed and on Instagram Stories, she’s offered us glimpses at the casual outfits she’s packed. Scroll down to see Hilary Duff’s best Instagrams from her honeymoon in South Africa and shop similar pieces. 

Next, statement sleeves desperately needed a revamp—and 2020 is delivering. 

Cristiano Ronaldo recently sported the most expensive Rolex ever made and was just named as the second highest-paid athlete of the last decade, but the international soccer icon isn’t too vain to use a 10-year-old MP3 player in public.

TMZ first reported that the Juventus superstar was seen wearing an iPod Shuffle, a device that Apple discontinued in 2017, as he greeted fans before his team’s match with Cagliari Calcio. What’s more, the music player appears to from the 4th Generation, which Apple first released way back in 2010 with a price tag of $49 and a 4GB capacity for storage of up to 1,000 songs. You can currently snatch up a used one online for less than that. 

Business Insider reports that Ronaldo has a net worth of a staggering $450 million. It’s unclear if he clipped the 4GB music player to his stylish fitted suit’s black tie as a goof, or because he really enjoys shuffling through his library without being able to select a specific track.

Whatever the case, eagle-eyed Twitter users sure got a kick out of Ronaldo’s obsolete technology. 

Juventus went on to blow out Cagliari 4-0, with three of those goals scored by Ronaldo. Whatever he was jamming to on his antiquated Shuffle clearly pumped him up. 

And now for my favorite topic: shoes. For some reason, it seems as though I can never have too many pairs—one for every occasion, you know? I’m almost positive that I’m not alone here, which is why I thought I’d take the time to highlight all the shoes that are lingering in my cart right now because there so many—err, 23 to be exact. From retro sneakers to of-the-moment ankle boots, my shoe edit is filled with all the top trends of the season, and to top it all off, they all clock in at under $100. If it sounds too good to be true, it almost is because affordable shoes that are this cute hardly stay in stock for very long.

I’ve fallen in love with each of the below pairs and truth be told, I’m shopping them now for fear that they’ll completely sell out by the time I check back later. If you’re with me, continue on to see all the gloriously affordable shoes that won’t be around for much longer.

Next up, six winter accessory trends that will outperform all the others.

It was probably predictable that folding screens would be the rage at this year’s CES. Or at least that we’d see new ones introduced. Lenovo set things off, coming hard out of the gate this week with its Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold, intended to be the first practical folding PC. 

In a news release, Lenovo described the X1 Fold as ushering “in a new era of mobile computing.” 

Seems like a big claim to make, so here’s how they back that up:

Designed to offer unprecedented productivity, it will offer a ground-breaking new form factor that will reimagine mobile computing. As it morphs through multiple modes, from a small footprint device into a fully flat 13.3-inch display, X1 Fold will deliver laptop efficiency with smartphone portability.

Built from a combination of lightweight alloys and carbon fiber and covered in a luxurious leather folio cover, the X1 Fold will offer the durability and reliability users expect from any ThinkPad. Co-engineered with Intel, the Always Connected PC is powered by Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® Hybrid Technology and will initially be available with Windows 10 in mid-2020.

Lenovo is planning on offering ThinkPad X1 Fold with Windows 10X at a later date for an enhanced foldable user experience. Furthermore, optional 5G connectivity will enable new ways of working wherever, whenever and however you want.

As impressive a technological achievement as it still may be to create a usable–and more importantly, durable–folding OLED screen, it might just be the option to have 5G connectivity that truly sells the “new era” claim. 

The Verge gave the X1 Fold a test run and zeroed in on what works:

In portrait mode, meanwhile, there’s an additional option to bring up an on-screen keyboard at the bottom, which lets you fold the display up at an angle and type like you would on a laptop.

The X1 Fold also comes with a Bluetooth keyboard that magnetically snaps onto the bottom half of the display if you’re going to be doing a lot of typing. As you’d expect from Lenovo, it feels pretty good to type on. Another bonus is that the keyboard fills in the gap between the two halves of the screen when the device is folded up.

So it does come with a real-world keyboard but is also equipped to work as one big folding screen, which might drive touch-typists crazy but admittedly looks cool as hell.

The biggest plus, according to The Verge?

The main advantage of this design is — no pun intended — flexibility. A tiny laptop is cool, sure, but it’s not something you’ll want to use all the time. With the X1 Fold, though, you can open up the screen to its full size, prop it up with the built-in kickstand, use the keyboard wirelessly, and get more or less the same experience that you would with a laptop.

(Actual lap usage excepted.) There’s even an easel-style stand that elevates the X1 Fold into what feels like the world’s smallest all-in-one PC. In theory, this is a lot of capability for something that’d take up about as much room in your bag as a reasonably short hardcover novel.

A PC you could conceivably tuck in a big coat pocket only to use it at full-size once you need to? That’s amazing to anyone who ever used a laptop computer that made your legs numb and overheated after hours of use.

Other factors are unknown at the moment, like overall performance–speed, memory, battery life (Lenovo claims an impressive 11 hours, but who knows?). 

The public will begin finding out just how well the Thinkpad X1 Fold truly does its job when it is available for sale around late Spring or early Summer 2020. And at a suggested retail price of $2,499, consumers will definitely expect it to do its job well.

Though the Tesla Cybertruck won’t arrive until 2021, Anicorn is already working on a futuristic watch inspired by the electric pickup’s style, much like other crossover timepieces that salute the Nissan GT-R, Ferrari and Aston Martin.

The Hong Kong-based company is currently crowdfunding its Cybertime concept inspired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s latest EV “and its memes.” For example, a limited edition “non-bulletproof” version, of which only 50 will be produced, features a face with two areas of starred shattered glass in reference to the failed demonstration of bulletproof windows that unfolded at the Cybertruck’s official unveiling. 

The watch’s stainless steel case also has the same polygonal shape and metal-finished look of the futuristic pickup. The display is activated by the tap of a finger, revealing time and date presented vertically from top to bottom. Other features include a battery with a one-year life, 3ATM water resistance, and a 20mm-wide black stainless steel bracelet. 

The Cybertime is only inspired by the Cybertruck, much like the bunker-esque “Cyberhouse” conjured by architects at Russia’s Modern House. These concepts join Tesla-approved Cybertruck add-ons like these trailer and camping setups, as well as the  “Cyberquad” electric ATV that’s been confirmed by Musk himself. 

You can help bring the Anicorn Cybertime to fruition by making a $250 preorder/pledge here. If the watchmaker hits its $12,500 goal, the first examples will arrive in late 2020 with a $280 price tag.