Vertu Ascent Ti mobile phone launched in India

Vertu has launched the Ascent Ti mobile phone in India.

The Ascent Ti phone’s design has been inspired by high performance sports cars in terms of the material used. Vertu is known for coming out with innovative designs and collector pieces.

The new Vertu Ascent Ti handset has been handcrafted in England and is a quad-band, 3G handset which has a 3 mega pixel camera with built-in flash. It features the clean, sculpted curves of a powerful car, while the onscreen chronograph and offset illumination of the keypad echo precision dashboard instruments.

The Vertu Ascent Ti handset is partly covered in tanned leather and also features a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal face and highly polished ceramic. The Vertu Ascent Ti phone’s chassis has been made from the non-corrosive titanium (Ti) element. So this phone is able to withstand extreme temperatures.

The phone features the ‘Vertu Fortress’ technology, which offers a remote synchronization of contacts and calendar, notes and backs up all stored data to a high security sever. Users will also have access to their private data via a personal account on vertu.com. So, if the user happens to lose their phone, all their data can quickly be re-instated to a new mobile phone.

Also with just a click of a button, users will get access to the Vertu concierge service available 24 hours a day from virtually anywhere in the world. Vertu Concierge helps customers with their queries about local restaurants, theatre booking or even to send a gift around the globe.

The Vertu Ascent Ti handset is available in three colors - black or red leather with a black ceramic pillow or brown with a silver ceramic pillow. This premium phone is priced at an incredible Rs. 3,26,000.

Unusual Whipped Ocean

Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney were transformed into the Cappuccino Coast. (Click on the images to enlarge)

Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards' centre, in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales. One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away.

Tom Woods, 12, emerges from the clouds of foam after deciding that surfing was not an option. It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades. Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. All are churned up together by powerful currents which cause the water to form bubbles. These bubbles stick to each other as they are carried below the surface by the current towards the shore. As a wave starts to form on the surface, the motion of the water causes the bubbles to swirl upwards and, massed together, they become foam. The foam "surfs" towards shore until the wave "crashes", tossing the foam into the air.

The foam was so thick it came all the way up to the surf club. "It's the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a blender," explains a marine expert. "The more powerful the swirl, the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes." In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the substances which form into bubbles. As for 12-year-old beachgoer Tom Woods, who has been surfing since he was two, riding a wave was out of the question. "Me and my mates just spent the afternoon leaping about in that stuff," he said. "It was quite cool to touch and it was really weird. It was like clouds of air - you could hardly feel it."

Brilliant Orange Art

(Click on the images to enlarge)




































Brilliant Orange Art

Shruti Haasan will debut opposite Madhavan

Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan and Hindi actor Sarika's daughter, Shruti Haasan, is all set to make her debut as an actor opposite Madhavan in a Tamil movie which is not titled as yet.

The Madhavan-starrer, for which the 21-year-old Shruti has been signed, may be directed by Nishikant Kamath. It is likely to be produced by Gnanam Films.

Shruti has sung and written songs for films, after completing her course in music from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood.

She sang in the chorus as a child artist in Chachi 420. She has also done a playback number for a dance item by Mallika Sherawat in 'Dasavataram', a film being made by Kamal Haasan.

Scenes involving Madhavan and Shruti will be shot in Jan 2008.

Shruti's highly anticipated independent debut music album may be released before the shooting for the film starts.

It happens only in Japan

Japanese ingenuity. Have a look.
































It happens only in Japan

Hate your job? See what happens at job fair in China

Hate your job? Appreciate it. See what happens at a job fair in China.
(Courtesy: Sunder P.) (Click to enlarge images)

























Hate your job? See what happens at job fair in China.

Danielle Lloyd Bikini Gallery

(Click to enlarge high-resolution wallpapers)

Danielle Lloyd Bikini Gallery

Tanushree Dutta Hot Maxim Scans

(Click to enlarge images)




















Tanushree Dutta, born 19 March 1985, is an Indian film actress and model. She won the Femina Miss India title in 2004.

Khoya Khoya Chand music launch party

The music release function of the film Khoya Khoya Chand was held at Bollywood Mischief Lounge. (Click to enlarge images)

Director Sudhir Mishra's "Khoya Khoya Chand" is a film based on the world of cinema of the 50s and the 60s.

The music launch witnessed a number filmmakers get together. Shekhar Kapoor, Nikhil Advani, Satish Kaushik, Anurag Kashyap, Raju Hirani and all the big names from the world of film-making were present there.

Director Sudhir Mishra said, "It is very difficult to make the music. You can be somewhat like that but you can’t mimic it."

The producer of the movie, Prakash Jha said, "Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. The music is absolutely brilliant."

Music Director Shantanu Moitra said that if the music works, it should be considered as a tribute to musicians of the golden era. He said, "If this music is appreciated then it is really a tribute to those guys."