pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/glassy-glassy-cellphone.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="431" style="display:block;" /This isn't the first cellphone concept to a href="http://gizmodo.com/359359/sliding-glass-phone-is-low-on-features-high-on-glass-in-your-face"incorporate glass/a, but I'll be dammed if it isn't one of the prettiest. There aren't any details on functionality, but it is clear that designer Mac Funamizu's a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/20/the-mac-is-back-with-a-double-dose-of-glass-phone-style-design/""Glassy Glassy"/a concept takes minimalist design about as far as it can go without ditching the physical phone altogether and implanting communication devices directly into our brain./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/glassyglassy-2.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="371" style="display:block;" //p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/glassyglassy3.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="494" style="display:block;" /[a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/20/the-mac-is-back-with-a-double-dose-of-glass-phone-style-design/"Yanko/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=98a83d8a23c1f3ba714a0838bca85172p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=98a83d8a23c1f3ba714a0838bca85172p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=98a83d8a23c1f3ba714a0838bca85172" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=7ZRh9cq7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=qCQkBlEf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Mk1uLpn6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=Mk1uLpn6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=Cia6a5so"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=Cia6a5so" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/L0Vc5BgfSyM" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/conceptcars/" rel="tag"Concept Cars/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/la-auto-show/" rel="tag"LA Auto Show/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag"Motorsports/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mazda/" rel="tag"Mazda/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2008-la-design-challenge-mazda-kaan/1108388/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/mazda_03_l_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr / div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"smallClick above for more renderings of the Mazda KAAN concept/small/spanbr //div br /It wasn't the number one pick of our readers (earning the silver medal in your voting), but Mazda managed to take the top honors at the LA Design Challenge with its KAAN concept. The design itself is a fanciful look into a future where all the roads in California are paved with... um, sub-level electro-conductive polymer (m'kay), which provides juice to the electronic tires that allow the KAAN to reach speeds of up to 250 mph. Up to 30 KAANs would travel together in formations that would cheat the wind, so MAZDA designed the vehicles so that they could fit tightly together in the peloton. br /br /The theme of the competition was to depict what motorsports would be like in 2025. Chuck Pelly, director of Design Los Angeles, said that the choice was made because Mazda's entry was "the most innovative and artistic design," and that the KAAN "ultimately brought unique styling back to motorsports." Unique? That seems like a major understatement to us. See all of the contenders after the breakbr /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2008-la-design-challenge-mazda-kaan/"2008 LA Design Challenge: Mazda Kaan/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2008-la-design-challenge-mazda-kaan/1108388/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/mazda_01_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2008-la-design-challenge-mazda-kaan/1108390/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/mazda_02_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2008-la-design-challenge-mazda-kaan/1108389/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/mazda_03_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2008-la-design-challenge-mazda-kaan/1108387/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/mazda_04_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2008-la-design-challenge-mazda-kaan/1108386/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/mazda_05_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: a href="http://www.laautoshow.com/DesignChallenge.html"LA Auto Show/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008-mazda-takes-top-honors-in-design-challenge/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emLA 2008: Mazda takes top honors in Design Challenge/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008-mazda-takes-top-honors-in-design-challenge/"LA 2008: Mazda takes top honors in Design Challenge/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008-mazda-takes-top-honors-in-design-challenge/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1378656/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008-mazda-takes-top-honors-in-design-challenge/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fUYycRX077LSgCL9CyOuYuvFrdI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fUYycRX077LSgCL9CyOuYuvFrdI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=bnrBkZwz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=bnrBkZwz" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=4wRP3V5A"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=4wRP3V5A" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/I3ESSYpPHzo" height="1" width="1"/

When we first wrote about Genwi a year ago, it was asocial feed reader with content feeds that could be organized by different categories (blogs, news, videos, music, podcasts) and shared with your friends. Today, it is relaunching with a completely new design that takes into account what your friends are doing across the Web as well.

You can think of Genwi as a combination of Google Reader and FriendFeed with sophisticated search, auto-categorization, and filtering features. As before, Genwi is a super RSS feed reader. It suggests feeds by category, or you can add your own (via search or by importing an OPML file from another reader). You can also invite your friends by giving Genwi permission to match its members to your contacts in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, AOL, Outlook and elsewhere (although it does not have Facebook integration yet).

Once you do that, you can track your the social activity of your friends across the Web, just like on FriendFeed. Anytime a contact does something on Twitter, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, or other social media sites, it appears on Genwi. (The other supported services are Vimeo, Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr, Pownce, Yelp, Upcoming, Last.fm, iLike, del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, Jaiku,Webshots, Picasa, Smugmug, Zoomr, Furl, Reddit, Mixx, and Diigo).

So far, so what. But Genwi has some interesting features that could push the ball forward in the Web filtering/lifestreaming game. Genwi treats the Web as a collection of information objects. An object can be a blog post, a video, a streaming song, a photo, a Tweet, a Digg. Genwi lets you grab the objects you care about either directly through RSS feeds or indirectly by paying attention to what your friends do and presents them all in a manageable, personalized, searchable feed. Explains Genwi co-founder Killian P. McKiernan:

At first a web page was a published document. It has evolved to a collection of objects—wading through all of these objects by searching and loading pages may not be the most efficient way to consume them. It might be better to bring in all the objects that matter to you and create a context enabling you to filter and directly consume what is most interesting.

Once all the objects are ingested into Genwi, it starts to do some interesting things with them. Each post/video/song/object can be filtered by type and category, as well as by most popular, highest rated, and most recent. They can be rated, shared, or added as a favorite. All of your friends favorites show up in your wire (which is what Genwi calls your personal super feed). The most popular items are available in a public wire, which can also be sorted in various ways. When you search for things, favorite items across the network come up top, adding an element of social rank to the searches.

There are other features that noteworthy as well. You can follow other people’s wires without having to “friend” them. If you wan to send a “quick post” to all your friends, it will appear Twitter-like in all of their feeds (FriendFeed has something similar called “messages”). It handles all sorts of media quite adeptly. And it does a better job of showing what’s popular on the service in a very granular fashion.

On the downside, the site takes longer to load than FriendFeed and is not quite as responsive. But it has a few tricks worth checking out.

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/11257?ns=guardianpageName=Life+and+style%3A+Germans+savour+Jamie+Oliver%2C+the+cabaretch=Life+and+stylec3=The+Guardianc4=Jamie+Oliver+%28chef%29%2CFood+and+drink+%28Life+and+style%29%2CGermany%2CCelebrity%2CLife+and+style%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CFood+and+Drinkc6=Helen+Piddc7=2008_11_21c8=1121503c9=articlec10=GUc11=Life+and+stylec12=Jamie+Oliverc13=c14=h2=GU%2FLife+and+style%2FJamie+Oliver" width="1" height="1" //divpIt is the final of Germany's biggest cooking competition and the celebrity judge has called in via videophone from London to wish the contestants well. "Guten Appetit!" says the grinning face looking down at the kitchens from a big screen. The accent is more Essex than Essen, but no one seems to mind. After all, it belongs to Jamie Oliver, and this - Das Jamie Oliver Dinner ("Ein kulinarisches Theater-Spektakel") - is his latest show./ppPremiering last night in a tent pitched by the side of a road in Frankfurt's exhibition district, Das Jamie Oliver Dinner is not actually Germany's answer to MasterChef. Instead, it is a rather curious, big-budget cabaret show endorsed by the 33-year-old chef, who has received a fat fee in return for making a tiny, pre-recorded cameo and allowing his name and face to be plastered on Warhol-style posters all over the city./ppIt's all a long way from teaching young mums to cook in Rotherham. Ostensibly a pastiche of German cookery programmes, the show is part circus, part musical, part panto and part fan convention. Guests pay between euro;89 (pound;75.34) and euro;129 for tickets to the 3frac12;-hour show, which includes a four-course menu designed by Oliver, who is a huge star in Germany, where he has sold more than 2m cookbooks./ppIt is quite a departure from the philanthropic work Oliver has been doing in Britain of late, sorting out Rotherham's eating habits and appearing in front of a select committee telling the government how to curb the nation's obesity crisis./pp"He's very popular in Germany and when this was suggested, everyone thought it would be a fun way of bringing something different to the lovely audiences in Germany," said Peter Berry, Oliver's spokesman, when asked to explain the chef's involvement./pp"He's involved in all aspects of the menu creation and ongoing consultation on the food side. He's also had input on the creative side," Berry added./ppBut one fan attending a preview of Das Jamie Oliver Dinner in Frankfurt this week was disappointed at how little Oliver appeared to be involved. "I love Jamie, I really love him," said Nicole Pittelkow, who attended with husband Eric. "But if it's called Das Jamie Oliver Dinner you expect him to do more than just pop up a few times and read from a script. I do wonder how much creative control Jamie had over it. I really enjoyed the food, but the play was silly."/ppThe script for Das Jamie Oliver Dinner was written by Michael Kunze, who has written several German musicals. But according to the director, Karl-Heinz Helmschrot, Oliver was consulted, and insisted that a scene featuring the Queen was cut. "I met Jamie three times, and he checked everything to make sure it was good for his image. He wanted to make sure it embodied his philosophy," said Helmschrot. But as he can't speak German, it is unclear quite how much Oliver understood when he attended last night's premiere alongside a score of German celebrities - and, curiously, Larry Hagman from Dallas./ppThe idea for Das Jamie Oliver Dinner came from Matthias Hoffmann, a well-known German promoter, who has recently had a worldwide hit with the circus show Afrika! Afrika! Das Jamie Oliver Dinner is scheduled to run until May in Frankfurt, then move on to Hamburg. With the wages of nine actors, seven acrobats, a band, at least 15 waiters and a kitchen of chefs to pay (plus Oliver himself), it is an expensive show. The producers are hoping to do brisk business with office Christmas parties./ppDas Jamie Oliver Dinner is just one of the many projects Oliver is juggling. He has just signed up to design kitchens at a luxury development in Dubai, he is filming a show about travelling across America, and then there are his long-term projects - branches of his social enterprise restaurant, Fifteen, in London, Melbourne, Amsterdam and Cornwall and his Jamie's Italian chain. Plus, his third child is on the way. "Do you think," said his Frankfurt fan Nicole, "he has taken on too much?"/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/oliver"Jamie Oliver/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/foodanddrink"Food drink/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/germany"Germany/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/celebrity"Celebrity/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Lifeandstylecountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227227727788112100421654622"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Lifeandstylecountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227227727788112100421654622" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

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Design software maker Autodesk Inc. predicted Thursday that its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings will fall from year-earlier results. Shares of the company, which also posted a third-quarter profit on Thursday that beat analysts' expectations, fell $2.37, or 14 percent, to $14.45 in after-hours trading, after ending the regular session down $1.04, 5.8 percent, at $16.82.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=M9PUN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=M9PUN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=QaRBn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=QaRBn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=McXyn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=McXyn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/460172721" height="1" width="1"/

Design software maker Autodesk Inc. reported Thursday that its fiscal third-quarter earnings rose but also said that it was substantially affected by the economy.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=NqHCN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=NqHCN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=1GgOn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=1GgOn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=ylY1n"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=ylY1n" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/460158974" height="1" width="1"/

Spyre, et al (all our intrepid ATI beta testers who are here to listen)

It is obvious by now that there is a serious problem with cat 8.11 and a pair of 4850s in Xfire.

There have been many who complained of this in the main 8.11 thread. I decided to do some further testing, and was able to replicate it on several motherboards, as well as with clean, and existing installs.

The first set of tests, I had a pair of 4850s (reference design, bone stock, Asus labels) running in xfire in a Gigabyte MA780G-DS3H (780G) mobo. With an existing install (cat 8.10 with the hotfix), I tried both a clean install (using the uninstall manager, then driver cleaner), and upon boot, made it to the little vista circle that shines, then a BSOD and the atimkdag

I also rolled back and tried installiing directly OVER the same 8.10 with hotfix, and that was even more of a trainwreck, as obviously the hotfix doesn't register properly with its .Net database, and windows. This yielded a completely roached machine that was rolled back in safe mode.

I then did move the boards to an Asus M3A78-T (790GX mobo) and did a complete fresh install of Vista 32, did windows update, then did a clean install of the 8.11 package (Cat software suite) and not only did it BSOD after the vista glow thingy, but it also did not see the northbridge, nor the IDE controller.

So in all cases, there seems to be clearly be a problem with 8.11 and the 4850s. Dunno what else to do at this point.

It is also clear that there is some wierdness with the 8.10 hotfix as it concerns registration and what Vista as well as ATI install utility think is installed. Its definitely a somewhat dirty install.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/la-auto-show/" rel="tag"LA Auto Show/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/convertibles/" rel="tag"Convertibles/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/saab/" rel="tag"Saab/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/special-limited-editions/" rel="tag"Special/Limited Editions/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171971/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---450.jpg" alt="" //abr /small div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"Click above for high-res image gallery of the Saab 9-3 Cabrio 25th Anniversary Edition/spanbr //div /small br /A couple of days ago we told you about this special edition a href="http:// http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/12/la-2008-preview-saab-25th-anniversary-special-edition-9-3-conve/"25th Anniversary Saab 9-3 Cabrio/a. It's a sure sign that there's not much happening when automakers launch these specials in lieu of any real new models. Saab is guilty of this right now. This is the second limited edition of the 9-3 convertible alone this year. At least this one isn't as emcolorful/em as the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/just-in-time-for-the-daffodils-saab-releases-yellow-edition-conv/"Yellow edition/a that came out this summer. This latest special edition 9-3 Convertible is meant to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the very first Saab convertible. Believe it or not that was way back in 1983.br /br /To celebrate the model, this special edition takes some cues from the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/09/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-saab-turbo-x/"Turbo X/a, like the design of the front bumper and steering wheel plus carbon fiber interior finishes and black floor mats with special piping. Also, like the Aero, it sports dual exhaust pipes and an anthracite gray bumper insert out back. Five-spoke, 17-inch alloy wheels will be standard and you can choose Jet Black, Carbon Grey and the new Bright Champagne (above) for the exterior. The standard Saab 2.0L turbo with 210 hp is the only engine. All of that for "just" $46,725. Oh, and those big BioPower stickers on the sides? It apparently can run on E85.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/"LA 2008: 25th Anniversary Saab 9-3 Cabrio/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171971/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171981/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171983/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171972/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/la-2008-25th-anniversary-saab-9-3-cabrio/1171973/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/saab25th93cabrio---05_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /strongsmallLive photos copyright (C)2008 Frank Filipponio/small/strongsmallstrong / Weblogs, Inc./strong/smallpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008-saab-25th-anniversary-9-3-cabrio/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emLA 2008: Saab 25th Anniversary 9-3 Cabrio /em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008-saab-25th-anniversary-9-3-cabrio/"LA 2008: Saab 25th Anniversary 9-3 Cabrio /a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:02:00 EST. 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In recent months we've seen Dell's design department running wild with new colors and art for a lot of their models, such as the Studio 15 and 17 laptops, and the announcement that customizable jobs were on the table for 2009. It probably should come as no surprise, then, to see the Inspiron Mini 9 and 12 get some love, too -- this time in five patterns by artist Tristan Eaton. Otherwise the same under the hood, the paint-jobbed Minis will run you an extra $50 over the base price of each respective model -- $349 for the Mini 9 and $549 for the Mini 12. Check out two more shots of the upgrades after the break.

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div align="center"a href="http://flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/sets/72157609454296669/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/adellinspironmini9-eatonlg3.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="left"In recent months we've seen Dell's design department a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/dell-boils-hip-down-to-699-mike-ming-inspiron-1525-laptops/"running wild/a with a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/17/dells-32gb-inspiron-mini-9-blushes-pink-and-red-in-japan/"new colors/a and art for a lot of their models, such as the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/11/dells-studio-15-and-17-get-art-housed-for-product-red/ "Studio 15 and 17 laptops/a, and the announcement that a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/13/dell-taking-art-house-laptop-made-to-order-in-2009/"customizable jobs/a were on the table for 2009. It probably should come as no surprise, then, to see the Inspiron Mini 9 and 12 get some love, too -- this time in five patterns by artist Tristan Eaton. Otherwise the same under the hood, the paint-jobbed Minis will run you an extra $50 over the base price of each respective model -- $349 for the Mini 9 and $549 for the Mini 12. Check out two more shots of the upgrades after the break. br /br /[Via a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/11/20/dell.mini.9.colors/"Electronista/a]/div /divpa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/dells-inspiron-mini-9-and-12-get-artist-makeovers/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emDell's Inspiron Mini 9 and 12 get artist makeovers/em/a/ppFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/dells-inspiron-mini-9-and-12-get-artist-makeovers/"Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 and 12 get artist makeovers/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:49:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/sets/72157609454296669/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/dells-inspiron-mini-9-and-12-get-artist-makeovers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1378634/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/20/dells-inspiron-mini-9-and-12-get-artist-makeovers/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/DKxu1qfQL_Tm9BKZns98BLN6qT0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/DKxu1qfQL_Tm9BKZns98BLN6qT0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=FRW71WBP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=FRW71WBP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=72CaXqKT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=72CaXqKT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/Qwn51YGAYdQ" height="1" width="1"/

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