Flanked by the mountainous Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, the slender state descends from tea plantation-cloaked slopes to golden beaches that edge into vivid blue seas.

BBC: Five family-friendly adventures

In one pastel, Degas evoked the thrilling height of the suspended figure with sketchy indications of the building's iron framework in vivid blue, as in the painting, but he experimented briefly with the position of the feet, pushing the front leg and the pointed foot, in its decorative boot, forward to create an emphatic vertical gesture in the lower part of the image.

WSJ: A Dizzying Artistic Feat | Edgar Degas | Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando | By Karen Wilkin

Nokia is among the few phone makers out there to have brought out a vivid range of devices with a single-color polycarbonate body, meaning scratching the phone leads to blue or pink all the way through.

FORBES: Nokia Designers Hope Color, Simplicity Can Woo Back Customers

Leading up to today's launch, Nokia, Samsung and HTC have announced an array of phones for Windows Phone 8, featuring large, vivid screens, new camera innovations, NFC capabilities, and bold colors such as red, yellow, blue, black and white.2 Each phone offers unique features and comes in a variety of price points.

ENGADGET: Microsoft brings guest user account to Windows Phone 8 via Kid's Corner