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Diamonds
Blancpain's passion for watches takes new shape for Valentine's day 2010
21:44 January 18, 2010 PST
Swiss luxury watchmaker Blancpain has continued its annual tradition of celebrating the most romantic day of the year with a new design set for release on February 14th 2010. This speciality timepiece combines an sinuously-contoured silhouette created by a glittering border of over 500 precious stones. A heart is set into the dial fashioned in white and pink mother-of-pearl and echoed in pink sapphires and diamonds encircling the dial. A heart-shaped diamond appears at 12 o'clock, while the pin buckle is set with a pear-shaped pink sapphire. The straps are satin, and only 14 of these extraordinary limited edition ensembles will be created - the price is unknown, but rest assured, it will represent a whole lotta love! Read More
USD160,000 Diamond-encrusted Nokia Supreme (mobile phone)
By Mick Webb
11:18 January 13, 2010 PST
The folks at Goldstriker International – courtesy of designer Stuart Hughes – have unveiled their latest precious metal-laden creation. Not content to rest on his laurels after crafting the limited edition gold plated Wii Supreme, the English engineer of excess has turned his attention back to mobile phones and bought us the Nokia Supreme. Featuring 12.5 carats of pink diamonds and a 3-carat diamond as the phone’s navigation button, the sparkling unit also incorporates 83 grams of platinum. The price? A cool US$160,000. Read More
World’s most expensive games console – the Wii Supreme
By Darren Quick
17:53 December 21, 2009 PST
Looking for a gold-plated games console to go with that gold-plated iPhone? Then you might be glad to hear that the folk at Goldstriker International have turned their gold dipping attentions to Nintendo’s Wii to produce the Nintendo Wii Supreme. The extravagant creation is once again the work of Stuart Hughes, the man responsible for the iPhone 3GS Supreme. Read More
Toshiba's spintronics transistor and a new storage mechanism in silicon come to life
19:47 December 8, 2009 PST
In a recent issue of the journal Nature, researchers from the University of Twente, Netherlands, explain how they succeeded in transferring magnetically coded information directly into a semiconductor, for the first time at room temperatures. Meanwhile, Toshiba announced at the International Electronics Devices Meeting (IEDM) it has developed a MOSFET transistor harnessing spintronics, demonstrating stable, fast and low-power performance. Read More
iPhone 3GS Supreme – the 3 million dollar mobile phone
By Darren Quick
18:05 November 26, 2009 PST
Goldstriker International, a company which specializes in dipping mobile phones in gold and platinum, appears to have snatched the title of world’s most expensive mobile phone from the iPhone 3G King’s Button with the creation of the iPhone 3GS Supreme. Priced at £1.92 million (approx. US$3.14 million) this is one phone you definitely wouldn’t want to leave on a bus. Read More
Diamonds boost processing speeds in quantum computers
19:19 November 24, 2009 PST
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made important advances in the field of spintronics by demonstrating the ability to electrically manipulate, at room temperatures, the quantum states of electrons trapped in the atomic structural defects of diamond crystals. Despite previous indications to the contrary, such quantum states can be manipulated very quickly, even at gigahertz frequencies, paving the way to significantly faster quantum computing. Read More
Diamonds could soon be used to probe living cells and drug molecules
18:41 September 30, 2009 PDT
While working on their long-term goal of achieving a true quantum computer, a team of researchers from Stanford University, the Joint Quantum Institute, MIT and Texas A&M University has recently discovered that tiny nitrogen impurities in diamonds make outstanding magnetic probes in the cellular and molecular scale, with important applications that could truly benefit medical research. Read More
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- February 10, 2010 @ 00:56 UTC
