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The 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Touring Berlinetta owned by American Jon Shirley has been awarded this year’s Louis Vuitton Classic Concours Award, a highly coveted award that avid classic car enthusiasts yearn for year in and year out. Restored using original parts, the stunning car has also been a proud recipient of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este held at Lake Como last year.

Not only did Steve Jobs make an appearance at tonight’s Oscars, but Apple’s iPad also got some screentime. The ad is everything you’d expect from the boys in Cupertino and then some. It avoids showing the video playback in motion, which we’re not too surprised about but what was shown looked flawless. The Apple iPad is due to hit stores on April 3rd, with pre-ordering to begin in the coming days.

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Luxury Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer has teamed up with Tesla Motors for this one-of-a-kind car, which includes an interior created by Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen. To be revealed in Basel on March 18, the car features a TAG Heuer Meridiist mobile phone as well as a one-fifth second Heuer Limited Edition Stopwatch. The special timepiece pays homage to the 1860 founding of the company and evoques the mythic revival of the brand’s vintage stopwatches.

You can catch a glimpse of the 2010 TAG Heuer Tesla Roadster at this year’s Geneva Motor Show from now until March 14th.

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Today at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona, Microsoft launched the Windows Phone 7 Series OS that looks to ditch all the work of versions past. Starting from scratch is no easy task but they have manager to Windows Mobile and brought a product that the masses may actually want to use (including us). Don’t look for the Start button because there isn’t one. Instead, the design is more like that of the Zune HD interface, but with much more depth. Along with the newly crafted home screen and user interface experience, there’s also robust Xbox LIVE and Zune integration, and freshly improved social networking tools.

Much of the focus is on social networking, but Xbox LIVE is looking to be a legit addition — LIVE games, avatars, and profiles. The Zune integration looks to be a carbon copy of the standalone device’s features (including FM radio).

Expect the 7 Series army to be a large one with carrier partnerships including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom AG, Orange, SFR, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telstra, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone, and  hardware partners including Dell, Garmin-Asus, HTC, HP, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Qualcomm.

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With the continuation of Curated by Arkitip, artist and designer Evan Hecox displays his fascination with the urban landscape on Incase products, presented as the sixth installment of the well-received collaborative effort. “Available today, the Evan Hecox series has been issued in three limited editions: London, New York and Tokyo. As the project’s first artist to present a series of products, Hecox brings to life nontraditional depictions of the famed cities and their associated national emblems on our signature MacBook Sleeve and iPhone Slider Case. Hecox filters the mundane into captivating illustrations of London, New York and Tokyo seemingly filled with narratives beyond the images themselves, and applies them to MacBook Sleeves. The Hecox Slider Cases complement the three Sleeves, bearing instantly recognizable national symbols of the three cities. Hecox re-imagined the symbols through his stylistic approach, resulting in artistic interpretations that are both familiar and new.”

All products from Hecox for Curated by Arkitip are available now at Arkitip, Incase, better boutiques and Apple Store locations worldwide.

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Nikon‘s S8000 is a beauty. It’s slim and sleek and it packs a punch. Shown above in a fresh black finish, their latest point and shoot’s got a 10x zoom Nikkor lens, crisp 3-inch, 921,000-dot display and a 14 megapixel sensor. All this is great but it’s also got the ability to capture 720p video at 30 fps. Look for the S8000 to hit stores sometime this month for $299.95.

With the success of Quentin Tarantino’s  latest creation, Inglourious Basterds, Hot Toys has created this well crafted figurine of Lt. Aldo Raine, the character played by Brad Pitt. “The figure is 1/6th the size of Pitt and has reportedly taken 3 months longer to create than similar models. From the facial expression to the texture of the skin, this is as real as it gets.”

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The boys in Cupertino have finally officially taken the covers off their newest device. It’ll be called the iPad, a name that’s been floating around for quite sometime. It looks great. The body’s slim, looks pretty comfy in Jobs’ hands. The OS is like an exploded version of the iPhone’s with a few cool features like ability to view YouTube in HD and an email interface with some enhanced aesthetics. Landscape and portrait view are enabled in the majority of uses. You’ve got maps, calendars, built-in iTunes Store, and iPhoto integration with events, places and faces. Movies, TV shows, music videos, audiobooks, just about everything you can watch on your iPhone, you can access through this beauty.

Hardware specs – 1.5 lbs., 0.5 inch thick with a 9.7 inch display, full capacitive multitouch, all powered by the 1GHz Apple A4 chip. Storage can be from 16GB to 64GB of flash memory. The usual suspects are all here – bluetooth 2.1 EDR, accelerometer, compass, WiFi 802.11n, microphone, and speaker. The iPad has a 10-hour battery life with a month of standby time. Wow. (more…)

This Poker Set from Cartier is one that any player will enjoying playing with. Aesthetic details include a red-black outer shell, Alcantara lining on the inside of the container box which embeds 2 card sets, 360 chips in 5 denominations and 5 dice. The price is outrageous though at $10,000, but I’m sure it will catch someone’s interest.

For the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, Leica has steered away from their usual matte black finishes and brought to light this 24 carat gold-plated MP instead. The run is set to exclusive as only 60 will be made, each given a year between 1949 and 2009. Encased in red calfskin, the Golden Camera will also bear an inscription of Mao Zedong’s favorite slogan and will sport a Summilux-M 50mm f/1.4 lens. Of course with something so precious, you’ll also need a wooden box for safe keeping. 199,900 Chinese Yuan (~ $29,300) will get you one, but only in mainland China. If that’s too pricey, fear not as Leica’s also dropping a limited edition M8.2 and D-Lux 4 without the gaudy gold at a more reasonable price.

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