The apple store updated its products this morning. Product lines seeing a refresh are the Mac Pro, Mac Mini and iMac. The Mac Pro now features a Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processor. The Mac Mini now sports a much more capable graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 9400M). The iMac now delivers a third more screen for the price.

Although not highlighted, the Macbook recieved CPU upgrades in it’s mid and high level models. Check out the Apple Store for more specs and prices.

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Dr. WooHoo! brings you, In The Mod, an application that will help you create brand new color palettes, keeping the creative juices flowing, rather than coming to a halt. “When I first began the quest to find beautiful color palettes, one of the original objectives was to capture colors as quickly as possible so as not to disrupt the fleeting creative process. One day I was in my office inspired by the colors of my red t-shirt and smoky gray pants and I wanted to capture them right away and begin to design with them without having to take a picture, transfer it to my hard drive, ahhhh! lol. With the ITM: WebCam Edition, you can capture the colors from your web cam images directly into this app, visualize and then extract 1-1000s of colors, and save them to Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator CS3 or as an XML file for Processing.” says Dr. WooHoo!

The other two editions, Flickr Edition and Your Images Edition, are just as simple as the WebCam Edition. Search Flickr or drag-n-drop an image from your computer and click a button and the colors are saved to Illustrator, Photoshop or as an XML file for Processing. How’s that for super efficient color mixing and creating?

Shelby Supercars (SSC) is currently developing an amazing project, the Ultimate Aero EV will be one of the first ‘green’ supercars. Its predecessor, The Ultimate Aero, holds the Guinness World Record for being the fastest production car to date. The EV definitely will beat out all competition since it will be the first 100% Green Supercar to achieve speeds never before seen.

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We [blink] is a system to design patterns on store front windows that react to people passing by and then transmits their graphical representation to other windows around the world. This is an interesting and futuristic idea that could add  interactivity to store fronts. Click here to check out the official site of the we [blink]’s creators: Sigma6.
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Check out the Aurora, an open source DJ Mixer created by the trio of Matt Aldrich, Mike Garbus, & Maro Sciacchitano. This USB powered device features two linear channel faders a single a/b crossfader, eight back lit buttons and twenty four back lit knobs which allow one to control effects. This wonderful, little mixer easily integrates with your favorite midi compatible software, no problem there!

Really good with wiring? The Aurora team provides a list of everything you will need to make one for yourself, if you know that route. Post your ideas or modifications in the Aurora forum and keep it a communal thing that we can all share solutions about.

is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment. Say goodbye to driving with sun in the eyes caused by shiny buildings!The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies supplemented by individually computer controllable pneumatic cylinders. Each metal flake reflects either bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position. When a flake is tilted downwards, its face is shaded from the sky light and appears as a ‘dark pixel’. By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight, the individual flakes act like pixels formed by natural light. This idea seems like a natural combination for solar powered technology that could follow sun light around for a power source.

Thinking of expanding your house? Maybe you’ve been wanting to redo several rooms but don’t know exactly where to start? Take a look at the wonderful Mydeco 3D room planner for some insight.

Mydeco provides you with existing templates of rooms to work with or you can create the exact shape of a room in your home to actual scale. Drag and drop doorways, pick paint colors or wallpaper, add furniture and lighting then view your result in the 3D panel on the side. You can even change the camera angle and rotate 360 to have a look around your new creation.

In love with your result? Save it, post it to you profile and invite your friends to look at it. When you decide it’s time to start redecorating, most of the items are available for purchase through the links provided on the website.

The Cloud is an organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses contextual awareness by using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers. Capable of detecting presence and engaging with users through its multi-fiber touch interface, The Cloud can interact with individuals as well as the local neighborhood and beyond. It can respond to the mood of the city or react to the latest football scores, fostering connections between trade-show visitors, the city, and its residents. This amazing sculpture is located in downtown Florence outside the Fortezza da Basso and part of the “Redesigning Fashion Trade Shows” project launched with MIT Mobile Experience Lab back in January 2007. This long term project will creatively rethink the trade show concept and will propose innovative technologies, perspectives and sensory experiences for fashion trade shows.

Austin based exotic car company, Ronn Motor Company Inc. has just announced their first eco-friendly performance car, the Scorpion. This elusive design will be turning heads with its curvy, hand built poly carbon fiber body which houses the latest Acura V-Tech, V-6, 3.5 Liter, Type S Engine, code for really darn fast.

The Scorpion will run on a 30 to 40 ratio blend of gas and hydrogen, promising around 40 mpg efficiency while still being able to hit 60 mph in 3.5 seconds and capable of producing 450 horsepower with the twin-turbo option. Not so different from its electric cousin, the Tesla Roadster, a lithium-ion battery charged wonder that can accelerate from 0-60mph in 3.9 seconds.

There are two kinds of Hydrogen Hybrid automobiles, a fuel cell vehicle and Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines or HICE. Fuel cell vehicles are electric cars that when hydrogen is pumped like gas, it feeds into the fuel cell where it is then converted into electricity with no combustion, no moving parts and no emissions other than water vapor. A HICE vehicle a vehicle that will burn a combination of hydrogen and gasoline and release no CO2 emissions, exactly what the Scorpion will be.

In the meantime, make your check out for $50,000 U.S. Dollars, a fully refundable deposit that will hold your place in line (complete price tag of $150,000). The first year production of this baby is limited to 200 automobiles and is scheduled to begin in the last quarter of 2008.

More photos after the jump.

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“If it is not beautiful, it does not belong on your face,” claims Yves Behar, chief designer of the new Jawbone Bluetooth® headset. This new design is 50% smaller than the original Jawbone and is operated by ‘invisible buttons’ on the touch-sensitive outer surface. The Jawbone is constructed with ultra smooth medical-grade plastic and available in black, gold or silver with optional leather ear loops. It is the only Bluetooth® headset with a Voice Activity Sensor that touches the skin of the wearer, feeling the speech and distinguishes the human voice from background noise, effectively removing ambient noise from the conversation. We’re happy to start seeing ear pieces that look more like an accesory that works with your sunglasses and your watch than one from the set of Star Trek (we’re looking at you Motorola). Get yours here for 129.99, package includes wall charger, USB Cable, 3 earbuds, and 4 earloops.

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