2010 Porsche 911 GT3

The all-new 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 may look similar to its predecessor, but that’s where the similarities end. Its engine “now displaces 3,797cc, delivering 435 horsepower at 7,600 rpm and 317 pound-feet of torque at 6,250 rpm.”

When you see the little wires attached to the engine mounts, you’ll realize just how hard Porsche has thought about this car. For $1,000, you can specify the Engine Dynamic Mounts, engine mounts that contain a fluid that changes its viscosity according to an electric current.

[via Edmunds]

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The Single Most Expensive Suit in the World

Luxury designer Alexander Amosu, whose London-based design house is mostly known for gem-studded phones and accessories, has done something a little different this year—he’s created the world’s single most expensive suit.

The fabric of the single-breasted suit is made from vicuña wool, the most expensive wool in the world due to its scarcity and stringent regulations on wool-gathering, and qiviut, luxury wool made from the coats of muskoxen. It’s also threaded with 18-karat gold and its single button features pave set diamonds.

This fantastic suit took a total of 80 hours to make and has already been sold to an anonymous buyer for an equally fantastic price of £70,000—over US $100,000.

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Report: Nokia’s Comes With Music not selling very well in the UK

After hearing initial reports that Nokia’s Comes With Music subscription service was doing “okay,” word on the streets is now… even less good. According to estimates released by Music Ally at an Association of Independent Music conference in London, Nokia’s gotten about 23,000 subscribers to the service since it launched last October. That’s not a great number, if it’s anywhere near accurate… though Nokia has “refused to confirm” whether or not it is. Tim Grimsditch, head of Nokia’s product marketing division added that it’s “a very new business model, we’re live in five markets and the numbers only mention one. We’re going to continue to develop the model and fine tune how we market it.” That said, the report can’t be terribly heartening either way you slice it, and is rather reminiscent of N-Gage’s niche market status if you ask us.

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T-Mobile-branded HTC Touch Pro2 appears in the wild

It’s really no secret that the Touch Pro2 is destined to arrive in the States on T-Mobile, but this is the first time we’ve seen the T-Mo edition not, uh, drippings with goo. And yes, that’s a US-spec keyboard and the “fewer dots” US T-Mobile logo, so this looks like the real thing — hopefully that means a launch is imminent.

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EagleTec Nano flash drive makes losing data easier than ever

Still haven’t found a USB drive small enough for your needs? Then you might want to consider EagleTec’s new Nano flash drive now available from the ever dependable folks at Brando, which measures an impossibly tiny 19 x 15 x 6 mm and weighs in at a mere three grams. Despite that size, however, you’ll still get a fairly generous 4GB or 8GB of storage ($22 and $33, respectively), and an included lanyard that’ll let you attach it to something you’re less likely to misplace, though you’re on your own keeping the drive’s cap from wandering off.

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Samsung’s M7 500GB laptop drive can take a licking

While we’ve seen plenty of 500GB hard disks for laptops but Samsung’s SpinPoint M7 is the first with the guts to call itself “rugged.” The dual-platter, 2.5-inch drive spins at 5400rpm and features a 400G operational shock tolerance — that’s about 50G better than the claimed tolerances of other 500GB drives and 75G better than Sammy’s own Spinpoint M6. Expect to see the M7 ship sometime this month.

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Fujitsu’s 10.1-inch LOOX M netbook looks good, positively average

Not that Fujitsu’s totally new to the netbook arena or anything, but we’ve got to hand it to the outfit’s design team on this one. The newfangled LOOX M netbook is definitely handsome, even though the innards contain a list of hardware components that we could rattle off in our sleep. Ready? Here goes. A 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB hard drive (yawning yet?), WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, three USB 2.0 sockets and a multicard reader. If you’re suddenly overcome with déjà vu, you’re definitely not alone — ’tis a shame Fujitsu has the nerve to charge ¥59,800 ($611) for something that’s no more advanced than the original line of Eee PCs.

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