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Reach for the stars every time you touch your ears with these Constellation Earrings. They feature none other than one of the most well-known constellations of all time: the Big Dipper and Little Dipper.

The earrings are crafted using sterling silver, with white topaz chips adorned in all the right places as the stars. You can wear them so that they rest on your lobes or wear them as dangle earrings to change things up a bit.

The Constellation Earrings available from ThinkGeek for $24.99(USD). Here’s to hoping that they’ll make an Orion pair soon.

[via Incredible Things]

With the Ti liberating Vertu from the Symbian shackles, it was only a matter of time before the luxury phone maker released its second Android device. The Constellation, as it’s called (instead of “Constellation V” as listed by the FCC), takes a small but bold step away from Vertu’s usual design language, as it lacks the iconic ceramic pillow on the earpiece. What it gains instead is the largest piece of tough sapphire glass that Vertu — or any phone maker for that matter — has ever crafted, as well as a layer of soft but durable calf leather wrapping around the Grade 5 titanium body. It’ll also come in five colors: dark brown, orange (our favorite so far), black, light brown and cherry.

Vertu’s CEO Massimiliano Pogliani told us that this “less is more” approach is to have a more neutral, less showy offer that he believes will appeal to a larger audience.

“It tested extremely well [in study groups] in China and Russia,” said the exec. “In terms of design and appearance, it is being luxury but not too bling, too wild, too pushy, so I’m very happy and very confident.”

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NASA has always used the desert as its own personal playground, and we’d imagine that its team had a blast in Arizona yesterday, as a mock parachute compartment of the Orion spacecraft was dropped from 25,000 feet above Earth. The dart-shaped object experienced free fall for 5,000 feet, at which point, drogue chutes were deployed at 20,000 feet. This was then followed by pilot chutes, which then activated the main chutes. As you’d imagine, these things are monsters: the main parachutes — three in all — each measure 116 feet wide and weigh more than 300 pounds. Better yet, the mission was successful.

Naturally, all of this is in preparation for Orion’s first test flight — currently scheduled for 2014 — where the unmanned craft will travel 15 times further than the ISS and jam through space at 20,000 mph before returning to Earth. Yesterday’s outing is merely one in a series of drop tests, and yes, it’s important to remove any unknowns from the situation: eventually, humans will be along for the ride.

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