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DAlH2Orean remote-controlled car goes green
04/18/2011, One of the more noticeable contributors to our landfills would be toys for your kids – how many toys were actually played around with for a couple of weeks or so, before they get discarded due to kids’ super short [...]
Volvo Concept Universe Car Unveiled
04/18/2011, Today at the Shanghai Auto Show, Volvo unveiled its Concept Universe, a “state-of-the-art” luxurious sedan, focusing on a “human-centric” design, according to the Scandinavian company. The Concept Universe is primarily geared to the Chinese market, and, according to Jonathan Disley, [...]
TurtleBot with Kinect Integration by Willow Garage
04/18/2011, Willow Garage is the Silicon Valley-based company behind the open source robotic platform aka ROS (Robot Operating System). We heard about Willow Garage last year when the startup gave away 1 million dollar worth of robots to various research teams [...]
iPhone 5 is dual GSM+CDMA, looks like an iPhone 4
04/18/2011, The iPhone 5 will support both GSM and CDMA with the same hardware, but other than that, expect the design to largely resemble the iPhone 4 says Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at Concord Securities. He also says that the antenna [...]
Macbook Air gets a 25% boost with new SSD
04/18/2011, Reports are surfacing that Apple has introduced new SSD drives -reportedly- from Samsung (SM128C SSD) which replace the former Toshiba TS128C in the Macbook Air. The change gives the computer a boost of 20% in write performance and 25% in [...]
95% More Energy-Efficient Cooling with Liquid-Submerged Computer
04/18/2011, As our computing lives continue moving to “the cloud” (remote data centers), cooling has become an increasingly difficult and expensive task for those who operate data centers. Today, most data centers are air-cooled, except for some mainframes. Green Revolution Cooling [...]
Bang Bang Racing Android game, only for Tegra
04/18/2011, UK Developer Playbox has announced that it was expanding into the Android platform, with a twist: its Bang Bang Racing game will require NVIDIA’s Tegra chip to run. The game was originally created for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and [...]
Zap your brain with electricity to improve your gaming skills
04/17/2011, If you think that your gaming skills has maxed out after getting all the best hardware and peripherals, perhaps there is another way to up the standard through some sort of weird experiment – zapping your brain with electricity so [...]
Binary Chairs by BRC Designs
04/16/2011, When we published about the Binary Low Table, we wished to see a similar design applied to a sofa – although we thought that our rear end would probably not be too appreciative of that “effort” – it looks like [...]
Motorola Droid X2 benchmarked on video
04/15/2011, Motorola has yet to make any official announcement about the successor to the Droid X, the Droid X2, but already, we’re seeing this phone appearing all over the place. Techno Buffalo recently got their hands on the Droid X2, took [...]
Eco-Friendly Samsung Replenish officially launched by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse
04/15/2011, [San Francisco, CA] We knew that it was coming, but Sprint’s has just officially announced the Samsung Replenish, along with three other “green” devices . The Replenish is an entry-level Android smartphone that comes with modest specifications (QVGA display, 2MP [...]
Orange-powered billboard needs no power grid juice
04/14/2011, Those who work in advertising agencies would know that ideas are nothing until they are properly executed. Of course, that would mean making dreams a reality, and sometimes it can prove to be impossible to pull off a particular idea, [...]
WordPress.com got hacked, here’s what to do
04/14/2011, Wordpress hacked - Automattic, the folks behind Wordpress.com got hacked at the "root" level, which means that the hackers potentially had access to *everything* those servers...
