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$300K Cellphone is Worlds Most Expensive

There is not much in the average American’s life that they will spend $300,000 on aside from a house. A few lucky of us may get a nice car or a yacht but never would I imagine spending that much on a cell phone. The Celsius X VI II LeDIX is an over complicated clam-shell cellphone that is absurdly priced. Almost as crazy as spending $26,000 on a computer mouse.

The phone has a flying tourbillon based mechanical watch movement built into the lid. Each time the phone is opened and closed the movement powers the watch for an additional 3 hours, which a total of 120 hours of reserve. The phone has a number of titanium components as well as ebony and carbon fiber.

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iPadPeek Lets You See How Any Website Looks on an iPad

So you didn’t buy an iPad, no big whoop. You can still check out what all your favorite websites look like using iPadPeek.com. Just put in any URL and browse away. Here are some screens:

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Segmentus is the Coolest Clock You’ll See All Day

There are cool clocks and then there’s the Segmentus. This clock designed by Art Lebedev Studios solves the problem of building a digital clock with hands.

Segmentus clock has hands that form numbers like those on a digital display. It’s time for true postmodernism.

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Clean Technologies That Will Change The World

Recently the Mother Nature Network put together an very nice list of clean tech innovations that could change the world. From nanotube power brought to you by the minds at MIT that could provide the same energy output as a lithium-ion battery but at 1/100th the size to vertical farming from companies like Valcent that produces near prefect crops all in less area and using less water.

Check out the entire post here but other innovations include:

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Twitter is Down… Again! (Updated)

UPDATE 10:31am: It’s back up… the blackout seemed to last about a half an hour.

About 10am EST Twitter seemed to have gone down. If you try to access the site, you’ll get either a message saying “Twitter is over capacity” or “Something has gone technically wrong.” No word yet from Twitter as to what’s going on, but we’ll keep you updated.

In other Twitter news:

First Ever Official Twitter Conference “Chirp” is Coming Up
The State of Twitter Spam

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Father of GPS, Roger L. Easton Inducted to Inventors Hall of Fame

Roger L. Easton, pictured at left, is considered to be the pioneer of modern day GPS. As testament to his contribution to the technology is his induction to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He began his work at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1943. He also helped with the MINITRACK system which was the very first satellite tracking technology.

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2,487.5 MPG Eco Car Built By Students

Every year Shell holds an Eco-Marathon with the intent of finding more fuel efficient vehicles. The “race” has two categories, Prototype and UrbanConcept. The Prototypes are built to be the most fuel efficient regardless of aesthetics or road conditions, whereas the UrbanConcepts are geared more towards actual road-worthy transportation.

This year a team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada took the top prize with their concept car that gets a whopping 2,487.5 MPG.

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Skydiver Attempts To Break Sound Barrier at 760 MPH

The first solo skydive a jumper makes, once they are Category 3 (non-tandem), is from 4,000 feet giving you about 10 seconds of free fall. One extreme Austrian man, Felix Baumgartner wants to jump from 120,000 feet and on top of that he wants to break the sound barrier, which would make him the first free faller to ever attain those speeds.

As a note, for a typical free fall a speed of 50% of terminal velocity is reached after only 3 seconds, after 8 seconds you’ll be at 90%, and to reach nearly 99% it takes 15 seconds. It is possible to attain higher speeds by reducing drag, pull in one’s limbs, or increasing the height of fall, reducing density and thus drag. Competition speed skydivers fly in the head down position and have reached speeds of 614 mph, the record held by Joseph Kittinger from a height of 102,600 feet.

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