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It's been a while since we last discussed bad taste gem-customized Apple devices, so after stumbling upon this Limited Edition iPhone 3G from Knalihs Athem, we thought why not take another swing at the subject?After all, Apple news has been rather boring lately. Everyone's going up and down about third part... |
29 August 2008
06:16 GMT |
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The happy owners of HTC's Touch Diamond Pocket PC might get even happier after finding out that their precious handset can be improved when it comes to photography related performances. This is not done by a ROM update or anything like that, but thanks to a new telescope especially created for the Touch Diamond.... |
27 August 2008
22:46 GMT |
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Lifted high up in the sky by the success of its Touch Diamond and Touch Pro Pocket PCs, the Taiwan-based HTC has announced today a new device that brings obvious design similarities with the two mentioned handsets. The new phone is HTC S740 and, at first sight, it looks like an elongated Diamond. Which it actually is... |
26 August 2008
08:02 GMT |
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Life appeared on Earth several billion years ago. Humans on the other hand, have been around for a little over 250,000 years. We know much about mathematics, physics, biology, etc., yet, one of the biggest mysteries today is related to how life first began on our planet. Now researchers say that diamonds might have b... |
28 July 2008
02:55 GMT |
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HTC Touch Diamond, one of the hottest Pocket PCs unveiled this year, has been approved by FCC in a CDMA version suited for the North American networks (850 / 1900 MHz). This means that, from now on, any of the CDMA carriers from the US can, theoretically, release the Diamond. Of course, there's no word yet on w... |
11 July 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Currently, it is widely considered that life first appeared on our planet approximately 3.5 billion years ago in the outcome of a period that is currently known as the Late Heavy Bombardment, which saw the Earth under a rain of debris coming from out of space. Such an effect would have most likely prevented the evolu... |
3 July 2008
07:18 GMT |
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Vodafone, the second largest mobile operator in the world, will soon offer HTC's Touch Diamond Pocket PC to its subscribers. Not in all the countries where the giant operator activates though (not for now at least), but only in the UK, its home country. Although the Touch Diamond is already available from severa... |
18 June 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Nokia 8800 Arte, a mobile phone that falls by default into the "luxury" category, will soon come in a new Diamond Edition. Although there already is a Diamond Edition of the handset, this new one has more diamonds and it's obviously more expensive. Created by Thomas Heyerdahl, a famous jeweler from Oslo, Nor... |
7 June 2008
05:36 GMT |
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For the first time in history a team of researchers successfully created a system of three entangled diamond nuclei, which they believe to lead to solid state systems that make use of both ions and photons in an entangled state of multiple particles. Entanglement is basically a quantum effect through which the proper... |
6 June 2008
09:54 GMT |
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The official released date of the Touch Diamond was set by HTC for June, but the elegant Pocket PC is available as of now, via several online mobile retailers. Its price, free of any contract, ranges from almost $800 to about $900, as expected. The device can be found, for example, at Welectronics or Popularelect. ... |
28 May 2008
03:22 GMT |
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HTC Touch Diamond, one of the hottest full-touchscreen handsets to be launched this year, will soon be released in India, via Airtel, the largest mobile operator in the country. Officially presented to the world on the 6th of May, in London, HTC Touch Diamond is a stylish smartphone that combines an exclusive desi... |
23 May 2008
06:44 GMT |
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HTC Touch Diamond is definitely one of the hottest mobile devices that will be released this year - hence most of us expect its price to be a high one. Until now, HTC didn't announce how much the Diamond would cost, but it seems the high-end touchscreen phone could even have a retail price of less than $800. Whi... |
19 May 2008
05:08 GMT |
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HTC officially unveiled its HTC Touch Diamond high-end handset during the "May 6 HTC Event" held in London and ended a few hours ago. As expected and as seen in several leaked images appeared yesterday, the new device is slim and compact, having a very nice overall aspect. The rumored diamond-like pattern on the phon... |
6 May 2008
09:05 GMT |
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HTC Touch Diamond (or simply HTC Diamond), one of the newest high-end devices produced by HTC, is now pictured in what seem to be its official images, which come after previously-leaked unofficial shots and details were spotted on the Web. The Italian website Newsmobile has some high-res images of the Diamond and ... |
5 May 2008
07:36 GMT |
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Not a day goes by that someone, somewhere, doesn't face-lift Apple's portables. Not that any of them ever needed a face-lift, but there's always room for better. This week, iPhone fans are introduced to the iPhone Princess Plus. It is currently the most expensive iPhone out there. Australian jeweler Pe... |
18 March 2008
05:57 GMT |
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We live in a highly dynamic universe, no surprise here because, if it wasn't, we probably wouldn't be here at all. However, what is weird is that while at large scale things appear pretty natural to us, at a quantum level interactions between particles look more like stories taken out of a science fiction b... |
17 March 2008
07:10 GMT |
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Men around the world can now start celebrating the creation of the world's smallest diamond ring! Now everybody can afford a diamond ring. Too bad it is only 5 millionths of a meter in diameter and bears five-billionths of a carat of diamond, this meaning it can only be viewed through a microscope. The proud inv... |
15 March 2008
04:52 GMT |
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Amosu, well-known for offering various mobile phones in limited luxury editions, recently unveiled its latest creation, Blackberry Pearl Diamond Edition, offering Blackberry's rich fans the chance to show everyone that they are, well, rich. Only 20 Diamond Blackberry handsets will be made and offered with 1... |
20 February 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Luxury cell phones are not a new thing anymore, but they keep on appearing to satisfy the fashion needs of those who have larger bank accounts. SoftBank, a leading Japanese mobile carrier, partnered with Tiffany Japan to bring such a phone, that will be sold for 10 million Japanese Yens, meaning about $93,600. It can... |
1 February 2008
06:14 GMT |
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You haven't yet found a way to preserve your precious pictures of the loved ones? Say no more! Silicon Valley company Gemory LLC stated recently in a press release that it currently has the capability of inscribing high-resolution images onto diamonds and a series of other precious stones, without damaging the s... |
17 January 2008
07:30 GMT |
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The phone industry can come up with pretty expensive phone ideas. One of them was the Motorola RAZR2 Luxury, which was a 18k and 24k gold plated handset. But the Motorola guys didn't stop there. At the very end of the last year, they launched the new luxury phone: the Motorola RAZR2 V8 Luxury Diamond Edition. As... |
3 January 2008
07:05 GMT |
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Well, in case your wife is an audiophile and she also loves diamonds and she finds out about these headphone set... you're fried! Sorry, but these headphones are a real budget-killer, unless you're very, very serious with your earnings: at $6,400 VAT, the iDiamond Ear earbud headphones aren't by far yo... |
17 December 2007
03:24 GMT |
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Ladies know why diamonds are their best friends: because they can turn people healthy. A new research carried at the Northwestern University and published in Nano Letters has revealed that nanodiamonds could be the new class of medical nanomaterials for delivering anti-cancer chemicals to cells without the negative s... |
12 November 2007
02:47 GMT |
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In its most sparkly version, the iPhone seems to have it all: fame, fans, great looks and a huge price tag attached. We've seen it golden and even colored, although the diamond-engraved version of the handset looks like the one with most shinning features attached.From the line of expensive high tech bling-bling... |
31 October 2007
09:48 GMT |
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Perfection is to be found in this stone: a blue diamond sold at $7.98 million, establishing a new record as the most expensive gemstone per carat bought at auction. The buyer is Moussaieff Jewellers of London, a specialist in rare stones and the stone was sold by a private Asian collector at a Sotheby's auction ... |
9 October 2007
15:11 GMT |
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As Intel is supposed to soon launch its high end, high performance chipset X38, a number of important mainboard manufacturing companies including Gigabyte, Asus, BioStar and MSI announced product lines based on that chipset. The top of the line MSI product is called Diamond and the company waits for Intel to start sh... |
15 September 2007
07:51 GMT |
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The head hunters from the rainforest could definitely not achieve this. A diamond-covered human skull made by British artist Damien Hirst was sold to an investment group for $100 million.The skull named "For the Love of God" has a platinum top, 8,601 gemstones embedded on it and it is regarded as the world's mos... |
5 September 2007
16:11 GMT |
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Diamond Multimedia is a well-known and liked hardware manufacturing company in the United States which focuses itself on high-end graphics cards targeted at gamers and related multimedia products. After years of developing both gaming and professional graphics cards, the company retired from the professional market a... |
3 September 2007
05:53 GMT |
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Congo is the fifth longest river in the world, measuring almost 5,000 km (3,000 mi) and the second in debit following Amazon: 42,450 cubic meters of water/second. From 1971, the river is known as Zaire and the indigenous call it "the river that swells all the other rivers". The volume of water dug at the river's... |
1 September 2007
10:46 GMT |
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Diamonds may be a woman's dream but this one would break her neck if put on a necklace: it has the size of two fists, 7,000 carats and doubles what was till now the world's largest known diamond, the Cullinan or "Great Star of Africa", found in South Africa in 1905.The new one has been found by a small mini... |
31 August 2007
13:41 GMT |
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Diamonds are known to form on Earth under very specific conditions, like exposure of carbon-bearing materials to high pressure, ranging approximately between 45 and 60 times normal atmospheric pressure, conditions that can be found in the lithospheric mantle below relatively stable continental plates and at the site ... |
13 July 2007
10:50 GMT |
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If you're thinking of sending a huge diamond around the world without worrying that it might get stolen, you might not consider the post your first choice. But this is how the world's largest diamond was transported from South Africa to England.It's true, it happened in 1905, but would one really cons... |
13 July 2007
09:03 GMT |
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A new invention could make fuel cells much more reliable and less expensive, using very small crystal sizes to create cubic zirconia and greatly decreasing the temperature at which fuel cells can operate.Though fuel cells could one day replace the internal combustion engine, there are still some technological proble... |
10 July 2007
11:22 GMT |
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For the past century, mankind reached an unprecedented degree of development that would made our ancestors consider us wizards. Technological breakthroughs are in the news everyday, new materials are created that almost defy logic, if not the laws of physics.However, nature keeps surprising us when we least expect i... |
3 July 2007
04:51 GMT |
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Imagine you are in a remote area, lacking infrastructure, on a scorching heat, without equipment or too much manpower. Making geological prospects is extremely difficult in these conditions. And when a layer of sand, soil and gravel tens of meters thick covers all the underlying bedrock, the picture is complete. Stil... |
29 June 2007
14:41 GMT |
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As the week approaches its end, we start to feel the need for a break. Basically, the week-end is the time when we all "come alive". But what happens if the weather messes up some plans?Well, beside reading books, watching TV and some other stuff that can occupy one's time, there is this "mini-game playing" that... |
15 June 2007
09:41 GMT |
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Vacuum tube amplifiers have always worn the "exclusive" tag for the last years. Even if they still represent the simple and almost "innocent" dawn of the electronic era and are looked at by many as the pure expression of old and vintage, the tube amplifiers have gained a lot of fans during their history. From the blu... |
5 June 2007
13:31 GMT |
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The quantum computer is every IT specialist's hope and every gamer's dream. It is essentially a computer that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena for computation, like superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data.A team of physicists at Harvard University have su... |
1 June 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Have you ever wondered what does a tornado look like form the inside? Unfortunately, the few people who have experienced being inside a tornado or a storm are not happy talking about it. Normally, it would be a bumpy ride and a major death risk, to stare at a storm from inside its eye, and not many volunteers can be... |
14 May 2007
16:06 GMT |
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The gameplay of Pokémon Pearl is very similar to that of previous Pokémon RPGs, with several changes and additions. Within each species, Pokémon now feature varying levels of sexual dimorphism, including aspects such as differently sized or absent distinctive physical features. For example, a female Wooper has small... |
24 April 2007
07:43 GMT |
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As expected, the US Pokemon Pearl and Diamond launch went beautifully. New York City's Nintendo Store held a Pokemon launch party, where hundreds of people were present to get their hands on the new games, as 1UP posts today. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl have been met with huge delight in Japan. Two million copies... |
23 April 2007
10:25 GMT |
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Sarah Tolbert, from the University of California at Los Angeles, US, together with Richard Kaner and other colleagues have developed a super-hard material that is tough enough to scratch diamond. Until now, diamond has been the hardest natural material known to humans and the third hardest known material after the ... |
21 April 2007
04:42 GMT |
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A well-designed product usually gets the peoples' attention, if it has remarkable characteristics, it means that it will be appreciated by the general public, but when you say it has diamonds included in its manufacturing process, your mind flies away to some out of the ordinary gadget. This time you could actua... |
13 April 2007
04:10 GMT |
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Diamond is the hardest known natural material, with exceptional hardness and high dispersion of light, that makes it useful for industrial applications, but mostly for jewelry.They are generally small and naturally occur in perfect to semiperfect octahedra, that is a three dimensional geometrical object that has eig... |
30 March 2007
04:15 GMT |
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Almost as hard as diamond, no carbon inside!The name diamond derives from the ancient Greek "adamas", meaning invincible, and have been treasured as gemstones since their use as religious icons in ancient India and in engraving tools in early human history.They are especially renowned due to their superlative physic... |
29 March 2007
08:43 GMT |
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Pokémon Diamond is the fourth-generation Pokémon role-playing video game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo. This is the first of the traditional Pokémon role-playing games for the Nintendo DS video game console. The game was earlier released in Japan in 2006. Pokémon Diamond had the most successful la... |
7 March 2007
08:21 GMT |
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