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Rolls-Royce plans to introduce an electric Phantom in 2010
Last year Rolls-Royce CEO Tom Purves hinted that the luxury automaker might introduce an electric car, but now a source inside the company has confirmed that an electric version of their flagship Phantom is planned for late 2010. This will give them plenty of time before the 2012 London ...
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4Fitness gym might actually fit inside a New York apartment
Keeping fit can be a challenge for city dwellers. Unlike suburbanites with their fancy schmantzy fitness rooms , we apartment residents need fitness gear that takes up the tiniest possible corner of our already tight living spaces. One solution might be the 4Fitness gym system, a recent ...
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Humble webcam turned into impressive 3D scanner
If you're like me, when you think of 3D scanning you probably think of a setup much like they had on the set of the Matrix , with a billion cameras surrounding one object. Well, luckily it's not that complex and, perhaps even luckier, Qi Pan, a PhD student at Cambridge University ...
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First wireless USB hard drive intro'd by Imation
A boon to every cluttered desktop, Imation has started selling a 1.5 TB hard drive, the Wireless HD ProWX that connects to your PC/Mac via wireless USB, as long as you locate the drive within 30 feet of your PC with the included wireless USB dongle jacked in. Imation claims a transfer rate ...
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Large Hadron Collider fully armed and operational
After being stalled by a catastrophic leak , a speck of bread and alleged time travelers , CERN has brought the Large Hadron Collider successfully back online with the full orbit of a proton beam. The 17-mile ring of the facility should continue to see particle beams pulsing through it in both ...
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Sony's Digital Copy: Transfer Blu-ray movies to PSP
Even as Disney plans to put its movies on any device anywhere , Sony is bringing us its own new-and-improved method of multiformat content delivery. The first-ever Digital Copy of a feature film — specifically for use on the PSP — is accessible directly off of the Blu-ray disc, via ...
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PogoPlug lets you access media files worldwide
Gather round, those of you with networked computers, and gaze upon one of the best ways to attach storage to that network and share files at home or anywhere on the Internet. Behold PogoPlug, a $129 network attached storage (NAS) device that was already well worth its relatively low price, but ...
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Augmented reality, coming soon to a Coke can near you
Now that the super-animated almost-real movie Avatar is about to roll out (in theaters 12/18/09), here come the advertisers with spectacular new types of techno-toys to accompany the flick. For instance, if you hold a tricky Coke Zero can up to your webcam, it sprouts a controllable helicopter. ...
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Intel researching channel surfing with your brain
Using a remote control to change channels is just such a pain. I mean, what with you needing to push buttons with your fingers and all. If only there was a better way! Intel is working on it. More specifically, they're working on brain implants that would let you change channels and surf the ...
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Spectacular animation shows off YouTube HD
While you watch this gadget-laden gem entitled Pidgeon: Impossible , notice the exquisite quality of YouTube's HD. As we mentioned to you earlier this week, YouTube video has been been improved once again, and the company is now calling it "1080p." We're not so sure if it's that same 1080p ...
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HOMErgent shelters the needy, with room for Mother Nature
Home is where the heart is. That makes HOMErgent's heart an easily transportable, flat-packed, high-quality shelter designed to house the needy and help the planet. Following a "hexayurt" design and using readily available building materials, HOMErgent uses existing eco-friendly ...
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This steering wheel desk is a flat-out terrible idea
Here's a bad idea: a desk that attaches to the bottom of your steering wheel. Not only does it promote doing work behind the wheel, which is an obvious distraction, but it appears to also make it impossible to really turn the wheel. Sure, in theory this is meant for use while parked. But ...
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Sony builds a 280-inch 3D display
Sony is diving head-first into this whole 3D enterprise, betting the farm on everybody being really excited to wear 3D glasses whenever they watch TV or play video games. Their latest foray into the 3D realm? This 280-inch 3D LED display for public areas. It sure looks impressive, but you've ...
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How Freakonomics author Steven Levitt is wrong about climate change
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Hercules eCafe, a $400 netbook with 300GB of storage*
There are a couple of things we really like about the Hercules eCafe EC1000W netbook, which runs Windows 7 and sports a 10.1-inch screen. It's got a nicely spaced keyboard for its size, and has Wireless N built right into it. There are also areas in which we wished the latest eCafe was a little ...
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Bed-sized alarm clock — hold on, it's an alarm-clock bed
I'm wondering if, this week, DVICE's writers are trying to tell us something: devices for insomniacs equals I am le tired; vibrating alarm clocks must mean I can't get out of bed this morning. Well, maybe it's to do with the run-up to Christmas, and all those parties.
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Viper SmartStart iPhone app: start your car from the other side of the world
Is your car in California? Are you in New York? With the Viper SmartStart iPhone app, you could start the ignition, even from such a distance. That's exactly what Viper showed us in a demo today, using an iPhone in NYC to fire up the VW Bug in California we were watching on a monitor. Now, ...
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LightSleeper: The drug-free solution for geek insomniacs
One the common perils of gaming and cola-fueled geekdom is the ever-present specter of insomnia. Now a UK-based company has produced a solution called the LightSleeper that marries cool device design with a natural sleep aid. The white orb, created by a student at the University of Central ...
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This creepy robot wants to be your personal trainer
This creepy robot wants to be your personal trainer
dvice.com — Bandit, a robotic personal trainer developed by students at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, is designed to walk humans through beneficial workout routines using vocal "encouragement" and articulated arms. I write "encouragement" because, really, ... (more) This creepy robot wants to be your personal trainer
Rumor: Flip video cameras to get Wi-Fi?
Flip cameras, the single-purpose, super-simple video cameras that have experienced a popularity explosion in the last year or two, have a new feature in the works: Wi-Fi. It's just a rumor for now, but it makes sense. In theory, you'd be able to upload videos you shot to YouTube or wherever ...
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