Fitted with exclusive 19-inch wheels with ample 255/35 tires at the front and 285/30 at the rear catch your eye.

All this is certainly nice looking and sensible, but what you glimpse through the spokes of the aluminum wheel rims is even more exciting: a generously sized fixed caliper brake system with six pistons at the front and four at the rear.

Even when you see it from a distance, you are instantly electrified. As a BMW M enthusiast, every step you take towards the orange painted concept vehicle of the BMW M3 GTS with its numerous matte black applications raises your adrenaline level a little more.

The wheels almost fill out the wheel arches, but if you look closely you discover the next highlight. Yellow springs with a small M logo provide the crucial clue: a threaded suspension, adjustable in compression and rebound. “The rear axle support is bolted in place,” adds the responsible engineer.

The expert will also spot the adjustable front splitter and rear wing. One thing is clear: this car is serious stuff. Not only can a high level of downforce be generated but it also precisely adjustable at front and rear. Fast bends can look forward to welcoming the BMW M3 GTS – but they won’t get to see it for long.

So the BMW M3 GTS concept vehicle puts the scales up to around 1490 kilograms – causing the engineer to give an appreciative nod. And the drivetrain? The heart of the BMW M3 GTS?

The car is fitted with a 7-speed M dual clutch transmission with adapted shift characteristics. But an absolute highlight is to be found under the bonnet. Exclusively for the BMW M3 GTS, the engine builders of BMW M – recent winners of the Engine of the Year Award once again – have developed a power unit based on the M high-performance engine of the current BMW M3: with a capacity of 4.4 litres and an output of some 450 bhp, it will catapult the light BMW M3 GTS into a whole new sphere.

After all, the aim is to clearly beat the lap time of the legendary M3 CSL on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. And test runs certainly give grounds for optimism.

The iBend stand from Widget Factory is a pretty nifty, little accessory for your iPhone or iPod Touch if you use your device to watch videos. The main selling point here is that the stand is superslim. It’s a flat sheet of flexible plastic that you can store in your wallet or the back of your iPhone’s protective cover (slip it between the cover and the back of your iPhone) and bend into a stand when needed.

Use your iBend on a plane, bus, or train – whilst lifting weights, eating breakfast, waiting at the sushi bar, getting your teeth cleaned, at a business meeting, sitting in traffic, serving on a jury or practicing yoga.

The slenderness of the iBend allows you to easily store it in your wallet, pocket or purse so you’ll always have one handy. I personally love all the cool designs that they come in, and the convenience factor of being able to keep one in your wallet. Definitely going to pick a couple of these up to test out. I’ll let you all know how they work out.

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With breathtaking HD graphics and the most advanced vehicle performance modeling in a video game, Forza Motorsport 3 includes a host of driving assists and adjustable skill levels to make the game a gripping pick-up-and-play experience for audiences of all ages and skill levels. Of course this is only available for Xbox 360.

Simply put, Forza 3 is one of the best racers ever made.

It starts with the cars, of course. Forza 3 has more than 400 vehicles you can take for a spin and the crazy part is, they’re all unlocked from the outset. That’s right, with the exception of a few cars available only to those who pre-order Forza 3, every car on the disc can be driven from the get-go. Sure, you’ll need to earn some credits to make your purchases, but if you can drum up a million creds, you can take the Bugatti Veyron for a spin. If you’ve played racing games your entire life, this fact alone may just blow your stack. It goes against everything we’ve ever thought about racing games. You’re supposed to start with crappy cars, suffer through a few hours of slow-paced driving, then graduate to a sleeker class of vehicle. Well, Forza 3 is throwing racing conventions out the window.

BONUS: I will be giving away a free pre-order code for a special edition Audi R8 for a random commenter. Deadline Oct 30th 2009.

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inPulse is a watch which connects wirelessly to your phone by BlueTooth®, alerting you instantly of incoming emails, SMS and Phone Calls. inPulse extends the functionality of your BlackBerry smartphone, so when you’re in a pinch you can check your inPulse instead of fumbling around with your phone.

inPulse features an elegant user interface with 1 button interaction. It grabs important information like, caller ID, text messages, email titles, calendar alerts and displays it on a colour OLED screen. The watch body is crafted from high-grade materials and is fitted to a custom wrist band. It also allows you to read recent Tweets from Twitter, or any updates from your RSS feeds, but i’d rather read them directly off my device, so I wouldn’t look crazy staring at my watch during a meeting.

Now don’t get it mistaken, this is not a BlackBerry Watch, but a watch that connects to your BlackBerry over bluetooth so that you don’t always have to grab your device from your holdster to see who’s trying to contact you.

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The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World tells the story of Arthur Guinness and the Guinness family, from the founding of the brewery and the first Guinness poured through to modern times, focusing on the family’s faith and philanthropy. I just ordered this book, and I can’t wait to read it along side a freshly poured Guinness.

Side-note, for all Twitter user’s I would like to start a trending topic to help out a good friend of mine (Gurp) traveling in India right now. He’s having no luck trying to find our beloved black drank, so please put #getgurpaguinness in your tweets so that we can somehow get him a Guinness! Check out his blog here

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Surface View creates amazing interior prints to transform your environment. Featuring famous and fun images from the National Gallery, Getty Images, Haynes Manuals, and even Marvel. With the ability to have it printed as a mural, blind or a canvas, the hardest part is selecting one of the over 1000 images in their collection.

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Watch out Amazon, Barnes & Noble has released Nook, its Kindle killer. Nook’s screen uses electronic ink, made to read as crisp and clear as a printed page. Its also has a full-colour touchscreen that encourages you to bookmark, add notes, and highlight passages. Nook also has a built-in wireless 3G connection to download your eBooks instantly. With 2GB of space there is enough room for about 1,500 eBooks, but you are not limited to that. With an expandable memory card slot you can also take music and personal files also. B&N also claims that with wireless turned off you can run your Nook for up to 10 days on a single charge.

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It began with iPhone. Then came iPod touch. Then MacBook Pro. Multi-Touch technology introduced a remarkably better way to interact with your portable devices. The Magic Mouse is the world’s first Multi-Touch mouse. And while it comes standard with every new iMac, you can also add it to any Bluetooth-enabled Mac for a Multi-Touch makeover.

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Apple has finally updated its non-aluminum laptop today with the new MacBook. The new introductory MacBook features a polycarbonate unibody design with a non-skid bottom surface, an LED-backlit 13.3-inch display, a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, NVIDIA 9400M graphics, Apple’s latest built-in battery technology for up to seven hours of battery life, and a glass multi-touch trackpad. Now my biggest issue is do I go with an iMac or MacBook?

Technical Specs:

• 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
• 1066MHz frontside bus
• 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB

• Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking² (based on IEEE 802.11n specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible
• Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
• Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory

• 250GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive; optional 320GB or 500GB 5400-rpm drive⁴
• 8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/
  CD-RW)

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The new iMac has come a long way from the first 15-inch iMac. The 27-inch display with edge-to-edge glass covers nearly the entire front of the enclosure. With its new LED backlit display, 16:9 widescreen, and 2560 by 1440 resolution, everything will look astonishing. I really, really want one…

Technical Specs:

• 2.66GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor with 8MB shared L3 cache; Turbo Boost dynamic performance up to 3.2GHz
• 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 8MB shared L3 cache; Turbo Boost dynamic performance up to 3.46GHz; Hyper-Threading for up to eight virtual cores
• 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; four SO-DIMM slots support up to 16GB
• 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive (Optional 2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive)
• ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR3 memory

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