Lexus LFA – Official Pricing Announcement
Its unfortunate that lost in the midst of Toyota’s woes last week was the official pricing announcement on the automaker’s first exotic car, the LFA from its premium brand Lexus. Right after Toyota axed production of its Supra coupe in 2002 (1998 in the US), car enthusiasts have been clamoring for its substitute – a [...]
Porsche 918 Spyder Video from Geneva Motor Show
Edmunds Inside Line gives us a live look at the all-new Porsche 918 Spyder, direct from the Geneva Motor Show. Weighing 3285-pounds, “energy for the hybrid system of the 918 Spyder is stored in a fluid-cooled lithium-ion battery that can be recharged on a standard European household current.” Videos after the break.
Major controls are housed [...]
Kobe Bryant Gets Portable Xbox 360 for the Road
2K Games decided to create a custom portable Xbox 360 specifically for NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, as well as a few other players around the league — Derrick Rose, Chris Paul, Tyreke Evans included. Concealed within the rugged briefcase shell is “a console, controllers, LCD screen, remote control and even headphones, letting the giant men [...]
Multi-Tab concept elevates power strips to an art form
We’ve seen plenty products both real and imagined that promise to improve on the standard power strip, but few as elegantly designed as this so-called “Multi-Tab” concept from designer Soon Mo Kang. Not only is it modular to accommodate as many plugs as you need, but each module also has its own release mechanism to [...]
All black
Do you have a color addiction for your gadgets and accessories? Here are some shots to inspire your next purchase.
How Records Are Made
The machines that make vinyl records today are the same hulking, steaming shapers of goop that were doing it 40 years ago. Very cool. [MAKE]
Gotta Groove Records – “Groove With Us” from Nick Cavalier on Vimeo.
Gesture Cube, the magical, intuitive, theoretical 3D interface (video)
You know how it is — another day, another “magical” and “intuitive” input device — not unlike Immersion’s Cubtile, which we first saw about a year ago. This time around the culprit is Gesture Cube, the heathen spawn of Ident’s “GestIC” electric field sensing technology (for 3D spatial movement tracking) and a couple German design [...]
Canon Rebel T2i rumored for next week
It’s all rumor for now, but Canon Rumors has word from a trusted source that a new Rebel is coming next week known as the T2i. According to its source, we can expect a new, higher resolution LCD, selectable FPS video, new LP-E8 battery and grip in the followup to the Rebel T1i. It also [...]
WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE
LG’s Future Phone
The future of mobile devices is ever changing, pushing the boundaries of innovation, but after the iPhone and Google Nexus One device what can possible be the next big thing? What about a transparent phone made of glass? Yes I said glass! Check out the new mobile device called the GD900 by LG. The [...]
No, You Can’t Blame Your Computer For Distracting You From Work
Here’s the reality of the situation: even when your job is to distract other people all day, you can still be distracted from that. It took me three hours to write this post. Damn you, internet! [CollegeHumor]
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Virgin goes underwater with Necker Nymph aero submarine
Cor blimey! Sir Richard Branson sure is ambitious. Just when you thought conquering the final frontier was all that the Virgin empire was fixated upon, today it announces a new product for its Limited Edition retreats on Planet Earth — the Necker Nymph aero submarine. As the ‘aero’ part implies, the vehicle relies on “downward [...]
Carlsson – C25
The name Carlsson is synonymous with high performance and high quality aftermarket parts for Mercedes Benz. It is a German tuning house with long history in motorsport since the 80’s. Over this period of time Carlsson have developed various models based on factory Mercedes Benz models pushing its limits performance wise and also aesthetically as [...]
8 Things That Suck About the iPad
Its not that I am completely opposed to the new Apple iPad, but I just don’t think the 1st generation is going to be all that great. Here is an article I found that highlights the reason why I think it’s garbage:
A lot of people at Gizmodo are psyched about the iPad. Not me! My [...]
The Google Earth Guys Have a Tough Gig
We’ve seen the ordeal the Google Street View guys were put through in order to photograph every street on Earth. But what about the guys tasked with photographing the entire planet? [CollegeHumor]
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
New (Possibly) Touchscreen BlackBerry Bold Spotted
RIM has already been moving away from the trackball to the trackpad, but this new image of a yet to be released device shows neither. All signs point to the first touchscreen BlackBerry Bold.
There’s not much more information available beyond the picture, but it’s certainly a relief to see an improvement over earlier touchscreen prototypes. [...]
ESPN streaming coming to Xbox 360?
As if you needed another impetus to abandon cable and satellite TV, The New York Times is reporting behind closed door dealings are afoot between Microsoft and Walt Disney Company, with order of business being ESPN streaming via Xbox 360. According to the anonymous source, live streams of sporting events à la the now aptly-titled [...]
Audi – e-tron Detroit Concept Car
This Audi e-tron Detroit Concept Car is rumored to be the production release by the name of R4. Although this concept is battery powered electric car, the production will most likely be equipped with either electric motor or conventional internal combustion four cylinder engine. Audi is currently looking into designing a smaller modular platform based [...]
Light Blue Optics unveils Light Touch: a 10-inch touchscreen pico projector based on lasers (video)
They promised us a device in 2010 and sure enough, Light Blue Optics just announced Light Touch. As the name implies, LBO’s product is a laser projector that turns any flat surface into an auto-focused and image-adjusted 10-inch touchscreen with WVGA resolution thanks to its laser- (not LED) based pico projection engine dubbed HLP (holographic [...]
New Touchless Mobile Interface Could Eliminate Fingerprint Smudging Forever
Tokyo University had developed a touchless interface that can register 3D motion of a human finger using a single camera. Think of it like Project Natal, only with cellphones.
The camera requires video capture at 154 fps—so the handful of cellphones out there with forward-facing cameras will not be able to handle the technology. However, it [...]
Do-It-Yourself PC Builder’s Guide: How Cheap Is Too Cheap?
We asked Maximum PC’s Will Smith to describe the cheapest PC you can build, and he said he’d do it, if only to talk you out of spending so little. Here’s what you gain, and lose, by going ultra cheap.
Over at Maximum PC, we just posted a guide that show’s you everything you need to [...]
Morphie iPhone Credit Card Scanner
You’d think that smartphones would have made traditional credit cards obsolete by now, but since they haven’t (in the US, at least), Morphie’s iPhone credit card reader may be the next best thing.
Its full details will be shared with us next week at CES, but the system will consist of a hardware scanner and a [...]
Playing Half-Life 2 On Microsoft’s Project Natal
You’ve seen the Geometry Wars demo, now watch someone play Half-Life 2 on Microsoft’s Project
Natal. Due to it being an early prototype, the “control scheme seems simultaneously intuitive and awkward.” Video after the break.
Source: TechEBlog
Windows Mobile and Xbox Live coming together, according to Microsoft job ad
The hints were already pretty strong on this one, but now Microsoft has come right out and said it, albeit in a job posting — the Xbox Live gaming platform is extending beyond the console and specifically onto WinMo phones. Seeking a Principal Program Manager who would be responsible for bringing “Xbox Live enabled games [...]
OLPC XO-3: An Impossible $75 Fantasy Tablet I Want to Believe In
The dual-touchscreen XO-2 was a fantastical concept. But it’s nothing on OLPC’s XO-3, a hot, messy wet dream of a tablet: All semi-flexible plastic, multitouch, backlit and reflective ereading modes, thinner than an iPhone and $75.
In other words, it’s everything people have been fantasizing about in a tablet—durable, thin, multitouch, multiple screen modes for computing [...]
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