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50 Cent Forced to Sell Old Diamonds Before Buying New Ones

When recession hits, it truly spares no one, as rapper 50 Cent has recently revealed in an interview cited by the Telegraph. Some might be tempted to believe that having millions secured in the bank and many side businesses going strong would also mean one can easily buy whatever one sees and wants. Fiddy can guarant...

28 October 2009
11:55 GMT

Blue Diamond Sells for Record $10 Million

A ring like this could easily be any woman’s dream engagement ring but, given its quality, beauty and, ultimately, almost unbelievable price tag, chances are only one most lucky lady will be able to show it off – if at all. According to SwissInfo, a gorgeous blue diamond set on a platinum ring has just be...

13 May 2009
15:41 GMT

Pokemon MMO Out of the Question at the Moment

Pokemon is big business. Games like Diamond/Pearl are huge hits on the Nintendo DS and the developers are certainly aware of the fact that players are thinking that the pocket monsters should be moving on other consoles as well. There are calls online for a Pokemon MMO and for a port of the game on the Nintendo Wii, ...

26 March 2009
05:53 GMT

Pokemon Diamond Unlockables II (DS)

Pokemon Diamond, or Pocket Monsters Diamond, as it is known in Japan, is a role-playing game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo exclusively for its hugely-popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console. The title is part of the Pokemon RPG series, which also comprises releases such as Pokemon Pearl or Pok...

20 February 2009
11:21 GMT

Pokemon Platinum Gets Release Dates for North America and Europe

Nintendo has announced the dates when Pokemon Platinum arrives outside of Japan, where the game has been available since September 13, 2008. The title is set to arrive on March 22 in North American and a full two months later, on May 22, in Europe.Pokemon Platinum is a very weird beast. It's basically a remake o...

13 February 2009
06:44 GMT

HTC Touch Diamond Going to Canada

Great news for all you HTC fans, for one of the most appreciated HTC models, the Touch Diamond, is finally coming your way thanks to Rogers Wireless. Moreover, Rogers will be slapping onto this device some very appealing applications, in order to make it worthy of all the time you spent waiting for it.One of these se...

5 December 2008
03:32 GMT

Life from Diamonds

While it is commonly accepted that life sparked from a pre-biotic state of chemical compounds that somehow mixed up in an organic form, what exactly caused this whole complex process to occur is still subject to speculation. Water and electricity (from thunders) are the two most circulated factors that appear to have...

3 November 2008
06:43 GMT

New Technique Creates Better and Larger Diamonds

A new method for producing artificial diamonds has been developed by the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution. Called chemical vapor deposition (CVD), it enables the science team to virtually grow the diamonds they need for their research from crystals. The process takes place at normal pressure and doe...

28 October 2008
11:14 GMT

ATI Radeon 3870 Cards Reported Failing

Nvidia's failing cards made it to the headlines for a good period of time, and its competitors couldn't have been happier. Yet, things seem to take a sudden turn, as some ATI based cards have been reported to be failing at higher than expected rates as well. The graphics boards in discussion here are 3870, ...

24 September 2008
07:47 GMT

One of the World's Biggest Diamonds Discovered

According to the mining company Gem Diamonds, miners in the Lesotho region of South Africa recently came upon a near-flawless diamond weighing approximately 500 carats, one of the largest ever discovered. The shiny stone was unearthed on September 8 from the Letseng mine, and the experts in Antwerp claim it has ...

23 September 2008
07:10 GMT

White HTC Touch Diamond for a High-tech Christmas

Although Christmas isn't as close as we might want it to be (we still have three more months until then), HTC has prepared a white surprise for all mobile users avid of high-end handsets. More exactly, HTC Touch Diamond will be available in white too, allowing those who don't like the all-black origina...

17 September 2008
07:29 GMT

Unlocked HTC Touch Diamond, Soon from Best Buy

If you're in the US and want to buy an HTC Touch Diamond but don't actually like Sprint (the carrier that will be offering the handset in the near future), Best Buy has the solution for you. The North American retailer is getting ready to sell the Touch Diamond in an unlocked GSM version. Being unlocked (he...

8 September 2008
03:11 GMT

Motorola's Diamond Is Called Jewel

When HTC officially presented its Touch Diamond Pocket PC, the other major mobile manufacturers probably regretted they hadn't come up with a similar idea first. Well, it is still not too late, and Motorola is surely proud to present its latest creation, called MOTOJEWEL. The new handset is a clamshell that...

4 September 2008
04:15 GMT

Athem Announces iPhone 3G Limited Diamond Edition

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

HTC Touch Diamond Gets a Telescope for Improved Photography Performances

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

HTC Presents the S740, a "Long Diamond"

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

Diamonds Could Have Been Life's Best Friend

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

CDMA Touch Diamond Approved by FCC

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

Life Could Have Originated Earlier than Thought

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

Vodafone to Launch HTC Touch Diamond in July

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

Nokia 8800 Arte Heyerdahl Diamond Edition

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

Entanglement Observed in Multiple Particles for the First Time

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

HTC Touch Diamond on Sale Now

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

HTC Touch Diamond the Indian Way

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

HTC Touch Diamond to Cost Less than $800

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

HTC Touch Diamond Presented: Officially Beautiful

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

HTC Touch Diamond Looks Great

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

The Most Expensive iPhone Ever, Out for Sale

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

How Elementary Particles Lose Their Quantum Properties

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

World's Smallest Diamond Ring

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

Blackberry Pearl in Diamonds and Gold

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

New Diamond Cell Phone from Tiffany

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

Get Your Picture in a Diamond Now!

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

Motorola RAZR2 V8 Luxury Diamond Edition - the New Kind of "Bling"

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

Your Bank Account's Doom: Heyerdahl iDiamond Ear Headphones

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

Diamonds Against Cancer, TBC, Viruses

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

Diamond-Encrusted iPhone, a Girl's Best Friend

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

The Most Expensive Diamond: A Blue Vivid

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

MSI X38 Compatible Mainboard Previewed

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

World's Most Expensive Piece of Contemporary Art: Diamond-encrusted Skull Sold for $100 Million!

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

Diamond-made Professional Graphics Cards

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

The River of Blood, Pain, Gold, Diamonds and Coltan

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

The World's Largest Diamond Ever Found!

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

Could Uranus and Neptune Have Diamonds on the Inside?

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

How to Send a 3,106 Carat Diamond by Post!

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

Nanocrystals Made of Diamond-like Cubic Zirconia Could Produce More Efficient Fuel Cells

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

Why Is Mother-of-Pearl Almost as Strong as Diamond?

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

How to Hunt Treasures Using Termites

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

Diamond Detective

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

The Purest Audio Signal - Siegmund Diamond: No Resistors, No Capacitors

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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