Motorola Aura is also blessed with Midas touch. The latest gold-plated, diamond-studded Aura is christened as Motorola Aura Diamond Edition. For £3,500 ($5,700), the blinged Aura is plated with 18 carat gold. Moreover thirty of the thirty-four diamonds dazzle on the phone’s circular display. The remaining four diamonds sit on the navigation key on the brown keypad. While the features include quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity, CrystalTalk technology, stereo Bluetooth, Music and video players, email, web browser, 2MP camera and 2GB...

German manufacturers Brinell have brought forth their absolutely elegant external hard drives. After being driven away from the ugliness of those extremely wired up hard drives that had some over performing specs to go with them, we finally have something that’s worth a look. The Purestorage line of hard drives has some really catchy designs that deck up the housing, as opposed to the usually ribbed or heavily branded outsides, the case housing of these devices are made of...

Hell yeah! I loved Death Race and all the twisting and turning of metal as the cars rammed into obstacles and into one another. Though they didn’t really last a whole tide of atrocities, durability was something the makers worked on. That’s because they didn’t have this powerful vehicle armor by German company Mutec that’s been testing and bragging about the effectiveness of their vehicle defense on a Rolls Royce Phantom....

The new bunch of adventurers from Sony Ericsson who are going to brave the terrible conditions with their rugged, water-resistant beings are called ‘Susan’ and ‘Sunny’. The pair of them, though they are smart phones, have a quite a lot to bring about a whole new trend of personifying smart phones. Both phones will be equipped with a 5 MP camera in them and a pretty ‘new’ interface. Susan will be a candybar handset while Sunny will serve as...

Though it may be a kiddie’s toy, aimed at six year olds, the Puchipuchi pudding manages to bring out the best in the whole feel and tell game that kids have. Kids have to simply touch the top surface of these ‘puddings’ to enjoy the softness, as if it were real. What’s more is that there’s a cute chick’s voice that plays every time the pudding is touched. I always wondered why kids reached out and touched cakes before...

The Air Force has a pretty cool trick up its sleeve to make sure that anyone who they’re up against is left with nothing to fight with. The idea is to simply destroy all kinds of electronic war machinery like satellite dishes, radars, etc, with the help of a Microwave that will be focused on them, thus inducing a power surge in unshielded waves. This microwave would most likely be mounted on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The biggest...

Pretty high above the bar that’s raise for ‘good’ phones to fit into the geek’s wish list these days, we have a new entry that’s been pulled onto its deserving stage a bit too early. However, BGR are good with that. But then, when you have something that can offer you what this cool CDMA, Android-powered handset can, you cannot help but yell about it on rooftops. You can safely look forward to the Motorola Droid for it promises...

Though I work on internet and harp but green living, I am clueless about the current total global energy consumption of the internet. How ignorant of me! But the latest study revealed by US Infrastructure has enlightened me with related facts and figures. We all are aware of the soaring energy prices and the attempts by various governments to reduce their carbon footprints. And since internet is a part of our everyday living, its energy consumption is also under...

From Ray Out corp Japan comes the crystal studded Mickey Mouse earphones codenamed RT-DE2. Designed for the iPod Nano the earphones come with a neck strap and are encrusted with a crystal cut in the shape of Mickey. The earphones have a frequency zone of 20Hz - 20KHz and impedance of 32 ohms. It will be made available in three colors blue, pink and silver for 3480 Yen ($ 38). [One more image after the jump]...

Its been a day since Windows 7 has been launched and its pirated copies are already available in the Middle Kingdom. Japan's Fuji TV reports that the copies have been on sale in China since quite some time. It is due to rampant piracy and the blind eye of the authorities that software vendors lose billions of dollars in the world's fastest growing economy. We certainly hope Windows 7 sales will be better than Vista in China. [Japanprobe]...

Blue screen of death, errors, and more errors, yes, you are welcome to the world of Windows. As seen in the above video a TV anchor demonstrates Windows 7 on live TV. He tries to zoom in on the Fuji TV studio, but nothing happens. At the end of the failed test, he concludes that Windows 7 is indeed faster than Windows Vista. [One more video after the jump]...

Acer Japan is offering the S243HLbmii a 24 inch LED monitor which offers a resolution of 1,920×1,080 pixels, has a contrast ratio of 8,000,000:1, brightness of 250cd/m2 and response speed of 2ms. The LED backlight cuts down on power consumption by a good 63% and also gives a slim form factor of 14.5mm. It is available in Japan for 33,000 Yen ($ 300). [Acer Japan]...

At the Dubai Gitex technology week 2009, visitors were wooed visitors with the actions of the Titan robot. To make things clear it is not a robot but an Andriod costume which is worn by performers. The Titan moves about freely in an open area and uses music and comedy to interact with spectators. [Thanks Alex]...

A new version of Windows is always greeted by grand launch parties, events and promotions. Here area few pics commemorating the launch of Windows 7 right from printing the discs, to Ballmer ringing the bell on the Nasdaq and everything in middle. [More images after the jump]...

Apple has three new commercials to take on Microsoft's latest offering. [Two more videos after the jump]...