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With the Porsche Design division, the German brand applies its aesthetic ethos to a wide variety of products. That includes a longstanding partnership with Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei, for which it has designed the new Porsche Design Huawei Mate 10 smartphone. Clearly aimed at a higher segment of the mobile phone market, the PD Mate 10 looks as slick as they come – and boasts some serious hardware to back up its cutting-edge design. For starters, it has an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chip that optimizes everything from energy consumption to photography. It also packs 6 gigs of RAM and 256 gigs of storage to store all your favorite tracks and apps and still leave plenty of space for photos and videos captured on the device. That part is handled by optics furnished by none other than Leica – dual lenses with f/1.6 aperture, capturing 12 megapixels in color and 20 in black and white. There's a fingerprint reader on the back, and a pre-installed translator...

At the start of 2016, Porsche Design released a $3,000 soundbar using the backbox and tailpipes of a 911 GT3. Now, the company has released a much more affordable alternative in the form of a Bluetooth speaker which also uses parts from the GT3. Built from high-quality aluminum, the speaker uses black tailpipes straight from a 911 GT3 and surrounded by a bespoke aluminum housing. Not only does the speaker look unlike any other on the market, it is easily identifiable as GT3-inspired, at least to those that know their 911s. Porsche Design says that the Bluetooth speaker outputs 60-watts and delivers a sound signature you'd expect from a larger and more expensive system. What's more, the speaker also offers 24 hours of playback and isn't some cheap, plastic speaker that weighs just a few hundred grams and feels like it'll break at any moment. Instead, it weighs in at a hefty 3.3 kg (7.2 lbs). Priced at 499 euros ($569), it's quite a lot more expensive than ...