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Carbon Motors would like to begin selling this made-to-order police vehicle to your local precinct. No, it’s not just a fancily painted Dodge Charger. It’s a car all on its own, the E7, made specifically for cops. And since it doesn’t exist yet, ex-Ford employees at Carbon Motors are prepared to brag heavily about all…
Put on your tinfoil hats, because according to the findings of XianLi, one of the members of Hackint0sh, the iPhone spies on you. The evidence in the code shows that the Stocks and Weather applications send your IMEI number—the unique number that identifies your iPhone and is tied to your personal information—to Apple, along with…
Information about Asus’s new UMPC, the R50A, is out and about. And, if you like these kind of things, the chunky handheld with a 4.8-inch, 1024 x 600 screen boasts both 3 and 3.5G connectivity. And that’s not all: There’s built-in GPS, a TV tuner, a webcam and microphone. No prices or release date yet,…
I can’t see Aiko, seen here last week at the Ontario Science Center, being the world’s favorite fembot — For starters, she’s a dowdy dresser. And secondly, she will slap your face if you try and get busy with her breasts without chatting her up first. She’s the creation of Le Trung, who has developed…
Helio’s Ocean is getting a free file viewer that can view Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, plain text and html, as well as most major image formats. The Ocean is also gettting Mail for Exchange 1.2 support for calendar sync. Good to see Helio continue to evolve the handset. I hope most of this functionality is…
Jean Nouvel unveiled his design for The Tower at 53rd West 53rd Street this weekend. As well as the now-obligatory apartments and seven-star swank-hotel, the 75-story glass-and-steel structure will have three floors dedicated to housing the overflow collection of the neighboring MoMA. Check the gallery below to see what the skyscraper, whose construction is expected…
AMD has just announced their Spider platform, which they claim is the best PC gaming platform out there. Spider combines AMD Phenom quad-core processors, up to four ATI Radeon HD 3800 cards and the AMD 7-Series chipset, with CrossFireX, HyperTransport 3.0, AMD OverDrive, AMD AutoXpress and Nonobtanium-Enhanced Flux Capacitors to provide massive acceleration for high…
iRiver’s Mplayer, the Mickey Mouse-themed music player, has been given the bling treatment just in time for Christmas. Just 500 of these glittery rodent-redolent MP3- and WMA-compatible players have been made, and they come with lanyard-style earphones. There’s 1GB storage space, and you skip songs by twisting Mickey’s left ear — exactly what I do…
Nokmote is a Symbian S60 free program that will allow you to use motion to control the Nokia N95, similar to what you do with a Wiimote. The usual cynics will call it a “gimmick!” Some other will say “silly!” Others will shout “French!” And you will be right, but it looks to work quite…
These illustrations by Fred Freeman show Wernher von Braun’s concept for a space shuttle in the 1950s. The illustrations can be found in the book Visions of Spaceflight: Images from the Ordway Collection. To provide safety in case of a malfunction of the reusable upper stage – von Braun’s 1950s shuttle concept – crew and…
TEAC’s One-Step DVD/CD Duplicator will rip your CDs, or DVDs, without the need for a connection to a PC. That is enough information for us to decide we like it; it is simple and it can copyright infringe in around 6 minutes flat, thanks to the 48x CD drive read speed / 16x DVD read…
South Korea’s Jump Up Internet Rescue School is the first of its kind, providing rehabilitation to those who cannot escape from the confines of the great interweb. Fittingly, South Korea is the world’s foremost internet connected nation, with over 90% of homes having access to cheap, high speed broadband. Worryingly, this has been the reason…
We ship 50 to 80 percent of the 300k to 400k tons of electronics that actually make it to recycling each year—out of 2 million tons tossed—overseas. The “recycling” part happens when workers in places China, Nigeria and India bust up old gear with hammers, gas burners or their bare hands to pull out metals,…
AT&T wireless CEO Ralph de la Vega mentioning in an interview on Friday that they’d talked to Google about joining the OHA and are “analyzing the situation” might seem like grist for the rumor mill (and headlines), but it probably isn’t news. Of course AT&T and Google have “talked” about OHA—note the past tense, and…
There’s a lot to digest in Newsweek’s seven-page all-out feature. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sums it up: “This isn’t a device, it’s a service.” Kindle starts shipping tomorrow for $399 and is “a perpetually connected Internet device” running off of EV-DO—it calls the service “Whispernet.” It’s totally computer independent: You browse for books (88,000 at…
Not a wealth of goodies at ridonkulously low prices being tossed at shoppers, but Mr. Walton’s got a few deals up his warehouse-sized sleeves. Weirdly, they’ve split them between the B&M and online stores. Heading up the in-store specials is a 42-inch Sharp Aquos LCD—no model number given, par for the course in this ad—for…
Our buddies at IGN have just run a comprehensive review of AG’s RiffMaster Guitar Hero controller. The controller is the best looking we have seen, and does a lot to push our rock star credibility that little bit further. Hit the video to check out the full review: The device has real guitar tuning screws…
You may recall that glowing Mountain Dew trick we showed you last month, and the debunking Snopes gave the trick not long after that. Now here’s a likable guy who gives us an amusing demo of what a fake that glowing Mountain Dew was, showing us how it just doesn’t work. In fact, you don’t…
Atiz has developed a device called the BookSnap, which allow you to accurately rip your books to PDF format. The product is aimed at the individual consumer, which is interesting given its $1595 price tag. Nevertheless, the method of its operation is rather clever, but the BookSnap does have one tiny flaw: Essentially, the device…
A recent lawsuit involving Verizon and Vonage has been settled, and Vonage has been ordered to pay Verizon $120 million due to patent infringements. The fine imposed on Vonage means they are edging closer to bankruptcy, with debts mounting to the sum of some $250 million prior to the court’s decision, it looks like Vonage…