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Some really nice graphic work by Markus Hofko.

The music tools made by Roland back in the days have been remade by Hobnox to create a kind of online Reason.

Go make some beautiful music at HobNox Audiotool

Colorful and isometric graphics are part of the brief but very strong Behance’s portfolio of russian illustrator and designer Alexandre Efimov. The freshness of his work speaks by itself.

Today the Motorola Hint QA30 is official announced. It is the Motorola’s new Motorola QWERTY slider
design cellphone, it features includes 2.5″ 320 x 240 screen, stereo Bluetooth 2.0, microSD support up to 8GB. Its slider design reveals a full QWERTY keypad when open, Cool! Motorola Hint QA30 will be available in Q4 2008. It will support CDMA calling and EVDO data. [ link ]

The sight of a dragonfly on the wing is one of the more remarkable that nature has to offer. Here, with the help of some astounding macrophotography, we take a look at the life cycle of the dragonfly as well as its remarkable and unusual physiology.

Have you ever picked up the phone to call someone, only to realize that you didn’t know how to pronounce that person’s name? Have you ever read a name but had no clue how to say it? Is your name commonly mispronounced?

How To Say That Name lets you learn how to pronounce names as a native speaker would say them. Not sure how to pronounce the name ‘Nguyen?’ Listen to a native Vietnamese speaker pronounce it.

Top Gear is an Emmy Award-winning BBC television series about motor vehicles, mainly cars. The programme is estimated to have 8 million viewers each week in the UK.

The show is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig, an anonymous test driver. It is one of the most pirated television shows in the world.

Here are the top 14 Top Gear moments.

Some people have asked me how come the embedded YouTube videos on The Presurfer are of much better quality than the ones you can find on the YouTube site. There’s a little hack I use and it goes like this.

Copy the embed code of the video you want to show from YouTube. Then add ‘&ap=%2526fmt%3D18′ at the places shown in red below.

Man Bra? Yes! A Japan company Wish Room has released the bras for man! I can not read the Japanese from its website, I don’t know what’s benefit for men? The new style for men? For big breast men?

Solace yourself with the limited edition Tom Ford James Bond 007 TF108 Sunglasses ($360). As worn by Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace , these modern aviators, made in Italy, will have you ordering martinis and stirring up the ladies in no time.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints.

Google is digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time. Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, Google will be adding the entire LIFE photo archive — about 10 million photos.

The path to modern-day computing is longer than many suspect, and strewn with interesting nuggets of information. These include:

The inventor of e-mail can’t remember when he got it working.
Pac-Man was modelled on a pizza and called Puck-Man until vandals forced a name change.
The first hard drive had a 5MB capacity and could only be moved by a fork-lift truck.
Deep Blue’s chess victory over Garry Kasparov was described as a ‘psychological triumph’.

Full details of these milestones, and other gems of computing history.

What A Lovely Name is a website for helping you find the perfect name for your baby. You can browse by tradition, or personality trait, or even check out what celebrities are naming their children.

American artist Jason Nelson created Uncontrollable Semantics. Use your mouse to pull together over fifty different sound, image and interactive environments.

Within your mouse flows all directions. Create from your wrist, your hand, a tense and sleepy world. And their shapes arrived missing and rideless in the snow. Play, oh play.

The Kata 3N1 bags designed for the photographers, with three carrying options in one bag: right-handed sling, left-handed sling and backpack. Quick access to a camera has never been faster with a sling that offers a quick release and one-handed bag opening for camera access. It features Thermal Shield Technology to ensure camera protection, and also includes a rain cover into an integrated pocket. When not in a situation that requires quick camera access, convert the 3N1 into an ergonomic and comfortable backpack. You can also check out from Amazon for $100.

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“A DSMC is a camera that shoots stills and motion. Configure that camera any way you want. Select a brain. Configure your body.” Red may have just changed the digital imaging game with the new Scarlet and EPIC cameras, which include options for full-frame 35mm size sensors. The Scarlet is available in 4.9MP, 13.8MP and 24MP. The EPIC is available in 13.8MP, 24MP, 65MP and 261MP. Here’s the big one though - they are available in Nikon and Canon mounts. And even you can select the other add-on includes a 1080p monitoring, flash storage, frames, mounts and more. [ link ]

You may have see many rumors of the USB 3.0 pictures before, today the USB 3.0 Specification is officially announced. It is rate of 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s), it’ll dump a 25GB HD file in about 70 seconds. The bad news, you old USB cables won’t deliver SuperSpeeds, you have to buy the new USB 3.0 gear because the cables have extra pins. It seems different from USB 2.0 at the below pic. You may can see the gadgets with USB 3.0 sometime in 2010…[ link ]

Hu Ming. She is a pioneer in her field being diverse in combining both modem and classical styles. There is a blend of exotic, strange, humorous and above all mysterious in her art. She merges a conscious sense of post modernism and element of sub-culturalism.

Discover the great work of… Jean-Baptiste Mondino