Marc Cameron and Paul “Moose” Curtis, are an artistic twosome that are exceedingly skilled at turning dirt, grime and muck into art. In fact, the pair have teamed up to create our favorite kind of art – the sort that features automobiles as the subject. Starting with a spot on a dirt-covered wall in Munich, Moose and Cameron remove the buildup of gunk in various layers leaving behind their desired image.

It’s called “reverse graffiti” or “grime writing,” and rather than covering a wall in paint, Cameron and Moose actually clean a portion of the area they’re working on. Some stencils, a few helping hands and a high-pressure power washer are the tools at work, and the resulting image not only illustrates how polluted public surfaces can be, it’s also wonderful spin on a form of art that’s typically frowned up.

Click past the jump to watch a reverse graffiti Tesla Roadster come to life, a project Cameron and Curtis coordinated with German’s SZ-Magazin. If you are interested in learning more about Marc’s unique work, feel free to email him – Cameron @ Cameron2210.com or check out his website using the link below.

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With tons of new smartphones coming out every month, it certainly isn’t too often that a company comes out with an innovative design that blows other phones away. Concept phones on the other hand can come in all sorts of different shapes sizes and styles that a consumer could only dream of. This Samsung B&O concept is the perfect example, combining the successful Samsung Galaxy line with the slick style and performance of Bang & Olufsen.

Designed by Antoine Brieux, the Samsung B&O concept features an incredibly thin and sleek design with a slight curve. Some of the dreamed p specifications reveal a modest 1.5 ghz dual-core processor, 4.3 inch super AMOLED screen, 64 GB of internal storage, an 8MP camera complete with LED flash as well as a 2MP front-facing camera, which looks completely legit and not over ambitious for a concept phone.

The specifications are certainly reasonable and similar to upcoming phones, as we’ve seen HTC already having a Sensation XE that’s loaded with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, but the one thing that makes the Samsung B&O concept incredible is its docking station. The Samsung B&O docking station not only charges the phone but also doubles up as a functional Bang & Olufsen speaker. Manufacturers these days are so in-the-box that they don’t make good accessories for their products anymore.

Of course all of this is just a concept but since HTC got together with Beats, maybe a Samsung and B&O partnership might not be out of the picture. Samsung has got to make this phone!

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Wondering what do with those 16 monitors you’ve got lying around your house? Well, the folks over at Shuttle have just come out with a mouthful of a solution, known as the XPC H7 5820S. Shuttle’s latest mini-PC is powered by an Intel Core i7 processor with up to six cores, boasts 16GB of RAM and features a pair of 1TB hard disks. The workstation, compatible with Windows 7, also ships with a Blu-ray burner and packs Matrox’s M-Series multi-display graphics cards, allowing users to work across 16 different displays at once, at resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 per screen. All this goodness is nestled within a box that’s just 7.5 inches tall, though it won’t come for cheap. According to SlashGear, the XPC H7 5820S is now available for a cool €1,446, or about $1,983.

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The edition was announced some time back, but now it has finally made its official debut – the Tata GoldPlus Nano, all Rs 220 million (US$4.6 million) worth of compact car, was unveiled in Mumbai yesterday.

Working on the idea that nothing succeeds like excess, the one-off Nano’s exterior is completely covered by 80 kg of 22-karat gold, 15 kg of silver as well as 10,000 semi-precious stones and gems. It’s all good enough to make the US$220,000 D.C. Design Nano a poor man’s choice. And let’s not even bother to count how many basic Nano‘s you could get for the price of this one.

Unfortunately, all that glitter can’t be bought – the car is to be used for branding and promotional purposes by GoldPlus Jewellery, which happens to be part of Titan Industries, which is a Tata Group company. GoldPlus happens to be the largest jewellery retail chain in Tamil Nadu.

According to Australian Business Traveller all 787s that are being produced – Boeing has 820 orders – as well as aircraft that are being ordered in the foreseeable future will only be available with Android systems from Panasonic or Thales. Airlines have fewer choices to furnish their planes than usual as Boeing only offers very specific equipment to streamline production and cost – which almost sounds a bit silly given the average cost of about $216 million per plane.

The report states that the new touchscreen panels that make their way into 787 are seven to 17 inches in size and have wider viewing angles than the screens in aircraft today. First class and business class screens will not support touch, but feature gesture controls as the screens are too far away from the viewer to be comfortably used via touch, Boeing told Australian Business Traveller.

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Yes, apparently there is a replacement for displacement. If recently-uncovered patent filings are correct, BMW is working on an electrically-assisted turbocharger that combines a traditional turbo with an electric motor-generator. If it works, the system will let smaller engines produce more power, while performing virtually lag-free.

Turbochargers have long been a way to employ “lost” energy, in the form of fast-moving exhaust gases, to create more power by stuffing more air into the cylinders to burn more fuel. The traditional trade-off has been between smaller turbos that spool up quickly, providing good transient response and preventing “turbo lag,” and larger ones that can jam more air down an engine’s gullet at higher RPMs. BMW’s existing twin-turbo setup offsets the issue by using both types. But is the company planning to tie its turbos into the beefed-up electricals of its Efficientdynamics gear? The answer is perhaps.

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Aston Martins often prove capable of tangling with the likes of Ferraris and Lamborghinis. But one thing that sets them apart is that, while their Italian counterparts often place their engines amidship, Astons are always front-engined. Right?

Well, discounting their Lola-built LMP1 Le Mans racer, everything that rolls out of the factory in Gaydon – much as they did before at Newport Pagnell – has its engine up front, even with supercars as exotic as the One-77, V12 Zagato and Vanquish. That’s where HBH comes in.

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