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- General Motors signs deal with Westport for advanced natural gas tech
- Space shuttle's final voyage will include recycling urine into sports drink, crafting hilarious brand name
- Report: Is the 2011 Opel Ampera sold out?
- Swype unofficially makes its way to iOS, slides in via Jailbreak radar
- Automakers to void warranties on older cars burning E15 gas
- Android 2.3 Gingerbread Headed To The HTC Droid Incredible 2
- Verizon: unlimited 3G customers can upgrade to 4G, keep data pack and grab $30 tethering
- Motorola Continues Locked Bootloader Policy On Droid 3
- BlackBerry PlayBook gets arrested, finds itself toggling light bars in a police car (video)
- First Look at Infiniti JX Crossover
- GM: Volt reaches 2 million miles, 1.3 million of them gas-free
- Watch Revenge of the Electric Car in Central Park on July 12 for free [w/video]
- MobileCrunch Is Moving, But Just Down The Block
- T-Mobile's myTouch 4G Slide shows off its camera chops (video)
- 2011 Hybrid Scorecard
- Saab to Restart Production Aug. 9
- UN calls for annual investment of $1.9 trillion in "green" tech to avoid "planetary catastrophe"
- Classic Cocktails: Beyond the Gin and Tonic
- AT&T launches USBConnect Force 4G USB modem, offers it for zilch on contract
- Target Slaps Ridiculously Low Price Tags On The Samsung Droid Charge and LG Revolution
- Deliveries of Ford Transit Connect Electric to hit 700 by end of 2011
- iOS 5 Beta Reportedly Sets Man’s iPhone Cable Ablaze
- Droid 3 sadly shipping with locked bootloader
- High oil prices see sheikhs on supercar-buying binge
- Apple seeks to spruce up the real world with interactive augmented reality, has the patent apps to prove it
- Housing Slump? $37.5 Million Apartment Hits the Market in NYC
- Sprint To Finally Launch The Motorola Titanium On July 24th?
- Average fuel economy of vehicles sold in June fell to 21.6 mpg
- The end of an era: what the space shuttle means to Engadget
- LG Struggles Through First Half Of 2011, Cuts Smartphone Sales Target By 20%
| General Motors signs deal with Westport for advanced natural gas tech Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:33 PM PDT General Motors signs deal with Westport for advanced natural gas tech  General Motors signs deal with Westport for advanced natural gas tech Filed under: GM, Natural Gas The 2011 Chevrolet Express pictured above features General Motors' fully integrated compressed natural gas fuel system. Though that CNG setup is exclusive to Chevy Express and GMC Savana cargo vans equipped with the automaker's 6.0-liter V-8 engine, there appear to be more light-duty CNG-fueled vehicles from General Motors in the works. On Tuesday, Westport Innovations, a self-described global leader in alternative fuel, low-emissions transportation technologies, announced that it... |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2011 04:01 PM PDT Space shuttle's final voyage will include recycling urine into sports drink, crafting hilarious brand name  Space shuttle's final voyage will include recycling urine into sports drink, crafting hilarious brand name Just because the space shuttle Atlantis is on its final mission, that doesn't mean NASA's run out of cool experiments. Its latest example? A shiny silver bag -- consciously inspired by the "stillsuits" from Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic, Dune -- that turns astronaut urine into potable drinking water. It's been done, you say?... |
| Report: Is the 2011 Opel Ampera sold out? Posted: 08 Jul 2011 03:28 PM PDT Report: Is the 2011 Opel Ampera sold out?  Report: Is the 2011 Opel Ampera sold out? Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Opel 2011 Opel Ampera - Click above for high-res image gallery Back in November of 2010, General Motors began taking orders for the 2011 Opel Ampera, Europe's mechanically identical cousin of the Chevrolet Volt. The MSRP, a lofty €42,900 in Germany, ($61,123 U.S. at the current exchange rate), or $21,128 more than a 2012 Volt here in the U.S.... |
| Swype unofficially makes its way to iOS, slides in via Jailbreak radar Posted: 08 Jul 2011 02:55 PM PDT Swype unofficially makes its way to iOS, slides in via Jailbreak radar  Swype unofficially makes its way to iOS, slides in via Jailbreak radar Did you finally use JailbreakMe to free your iPhone? Well, if you're also sick of pecking at its virtual keyboard, then Andrew Liu's new Swype iOS port may pique your interest. Although the app's still in the earliest of stages -- version 0.1.0, to be exact -- we can confirm it works, but it did take us two downloads with Cydia and functionality proved limited.... |
| Automakers to void warranties on older cars burning E15 gas Posted: 08 Jul 2011 02:23 PM PDT Automakers to void warranties on older cars burning E15 gas  Automakers to void warranties on older cars burning E15 gas Filed under: Ethanol, Legislation and PolicyFuel with a 15 percent concentration of ethanol is headed to America's pumps soon and buyers with older vehicles may want to steer clear. Pumps dispensing E15 will be identified by a large orange sticker and the fuel is only approved for use in vehicles that are from the 2001 model year or newer. Using the 85-percent gasoline mix in older cars, lawnmowers or boats is prohibited... |
| Android 2.3 Gingerbread Headed To The HTC Droid Incredible 2 Posted: 08 Jul 2011 02:23 PM PDT Android 2.3 Gingerbread Headed To The HTC Droid Incredible 2  Android 2.3 Gingerbread Headed To The HTC Droid Incredible 2 If you're a proud owner of the HTC Droid Incredible 2, get ready: your weekend just got a bit sweeter. Android 2.3 Gingerbread is on its way by means of an OTA update, and should bring with it all the goodies of Gingerbread, and then some. The file is 116MB, and according to Verizon, the process should take about 20-30 minutes of your time. Update enhancements include bug fixes to the Mobile... |
| Verizon: unlimited 3G customers can upgrade to 4G, keep data pack and grab $30 tethering Posted: 08 Jul 2011 02:23 PM PDT Verizon: unlimited 3G customers can upgrade to 4G, keep data pack and grab $30 tethering  Verizon: unlimited 3G customers can upgrade to 4G, keep data pack and grab $30 tethering Good Great news for those who managed to snag one of Verizon Wireless' unlimited data plans before they took off into the night earlier this week: if you're rocking a 3G smartphone, you can eventually upgrade to an LTE handset, keep the unlimited plan, and have access to a $30 / month 4G tethering plan.... |
| Motorola Continues Locked Bootloader Policy On Droid 3 Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:50 PM PDT Motorola Continues Locked Bootloader Policy On Droid 3  Motorola Continues Locked Bootloader Policy On Droid 3 Listen up, hackers. This one's for you. Motorola's Droid 3 is finally out and about in all of its tech spec glory, but one thing's missing: an unlocked bootloader. That's right, Motorola's gone and done it again, locking Droid 3 owners in an Android cage, just like Atrix owners, Droid 2 owners, and the list goes on. Luckily, an unlocked bootloader is on its way.... |
| BlackBerry PlayBook gets arrested, finds itself toggling light bars in a police car (video) Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:50 PM PDT BlackBerry PlayBook gets arrested, finds itself toggling light bars in a police car (video)  BlackBerry PlayBook gets arrested, finds itself toggling light bars in a police car (video) Look, there's no question that Canada looks out for its own, but if you reckoned that it also let everything slide... well, think again. One D&R Electronics has apparently thrown a BlackBerry PlayBook into a Canadian Dodge Charger, signified by a red maple leaf and the oh-so-distinct use of the word "ayeouuut." Put simply, the 7-inch slate has been coded up to flip on the overhead / side lights, search police... |
| First Look at Infiniti JX Crossover Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:50 PM PDT First Look at Infiniti JX Crossover First Look at Infiniti JX Crossover Seven-passenger vehicle set for public unveiling in August. |
| GM: Volt reaches 2 million miles, 1.3 million of them gas-free Posted: 08 Jul 2011 01:19 PM PDT GM: Volt reaches 2 million miles, 1.3 million of them gas-free  GM: Volt reaches 2 million miles, 1.3 million of them gas-free Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, MPG, Chevrolet, GM 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-rs image gallery For anyone who thinks that the 2011 Chevy Volt is primarily a gas-powered car with a little EV up front, General Motors has a message: in over two million miles of driving, Volt owners are traveling 66% of the time on electricity alone.... |
| Watch Revenge of the Electric Car in Central Park on July 12 for free [w/video] Posted: 08 Jul 2011 12:18 PM PDT Watch Revenge of the Electric Car in Central Park on July 12 for free [w/video]  Watch Revenge of the Electric Car in Central Park on July 12 for free [w/video] Filed under: Etc., EV/Plug-in, Nissan, USA Revenge of the Electric Car trailer - Click above to watch video after the jump The sequel to Who Killed The Electric Car?, Revenge of the Electric Car, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 22nd, but most of the general public has not had the chance to catch this flick. Luckily, that will change with the screening of Revenge of the Electric... |
| MobileCrunch Is Moving, But Just Down The Block Posted: 08 Jul 2011 12:18 PM PDT MobileCrunch Is Moving, But Just Down The Block  MobileCrunch Is Moving, But Just Down The Block A bit over 3 years ago, I applied for an internship at CrunchGear on a whim. I didn't quite know what I was getting myself into. As luck had it, the powers that be liked my style. I wasn't even too sure I'd hear back regarding the intern position — so imagine my surprise when they countered with a proper, paying job offer.... |
| T-Mobile's myTouch 4G Slide shows off its camera chops (video) Posted: 08 Jul 2011 12:18 PM PDT T-Mobile's myTouch 4G Slide shows off its camera chops (video)  T-Mobile's myTouch 4G Slide shows off its camera chops (video) We've known since its recent announcement that T-Mobile's myTouch 4G Slide will be a mobile photographer's delight and now we get to see the camera UI in action on video. As a quick reminder, the carrier's upcoming Gingerbread smartphone is made by HTC and features Sense 3.0, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, a 3.7-inch WVGA Super LCD display, HSPA+ connectivity on the AWS spectrum, and a trick... |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2011 11:47 AM PDT 2011 Hybrid Scorecard 2011 Hybrid Scorecard Are automakers using hybrid technology to its fullest potential? |
| Saab to Restart Production Aug. 9 Posted: 08 Jul 2011 11:47 AM PDT Saab to Restart Production Aug. 9 Saab to Restart Production Aug. 9 A $40M property sale eases the Swedish automaker's cash crunch. |
| UN calls for annual investment of $1.9 trillion in "green" tech to avoid "planetary catastrophe" Posted: 08 Jul 2011 11:17 AM PDT UN calls for annual investment of $1.9 trillion in "green" tech to avoid "planetary catastrophe"  UN calls for annual investment of $1.9 trillion in "green" tech to avoid "planetary catastrophe" Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Hydrogen, Solar, UK Humanity is close to breaching the sustainability of Earth, according to the recently publish World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation. The report says that a massive technological revolution is needed to avoid a "major planetary catastrophe." According to the report, major global investments will be essential to scale up clean energy technologies, sustainable farming, forestry techniques and to reduce the production... |
| Classic Cocktails: Beyond the Gin and Tonic Posted: 08 Jul 2011 11:17 AM PDT Classic Cocktails: Beyond the Gin and Tonic Classic Cocktails: Beyond the Gin and Tonic Bartenders and mixologists had a field day with gin starting in the 19th century, developing some of the most recognized classic warm weather drinks around |
| AT&T launches USBConnect Force 4G USB modem, offers it for zilch on contract Posted: 08 Jul 2011 11:17 AM PDT AT&T launches USBConnect Force 4G USB modem, offers it for zilch on contract  AT&T launches USBConnect Force 4G USB modem, offers it for zilch on contract You'd better be darn sure AT&T's data service is solid in your neck of the woods before making the leap, but if you've managed to survive this long sans a USB WWAN dongle... well, here's your chance to grow that much more connected to your inbox. Ma Bell has just issued its latest USB modem, the USBConnect Force 4G.... |
| Target Slaps Ridiculously Low Price Tags On The Samsung Droid Charge and LG Revolution Posted: 08 Jul 2011 10:45 AM PDT Target Slaps Ridiculously Low Price Tags On The Samsung Droid Charge and LG Revolution  Target Slaps Ridiculously Low Price Tags On The Samsung Droid Charge and LG Revolution Everybody wants a 4G-capable phone. That's a given. The only issue is that, like all new technology, they cost a pretty penny, especially from good ol' Big Red. As in, way more than we're used to seeing on any smartphone (most high-end handsets cost around $200). Luckily, Target has stepped in to alleviate some of the cost on at least two 4G LTE-capable phones, offering the LG Revolution and the Samsung... |
| Deliveries of Ford Transit Connect Electric to hit 700 by end of 2011 Posted: 08 Jul 2011 10:10 AM PDT Deliveries of Ford Transit Connect Electric to hit 700 by end of 2011  Deliveries of Ford Transit Connect Electric to hit 700 by end of 2011 Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Ford Ford Transit Connect Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery Technically, Azure Dynamics - not Ford - is the manufacturer of record for the Transit Connect Electric. That's why it's AD that's thrilled to announce that sales of the electric van are booming and that production will be ramped up to meet soaring demand. AD says that some 700 battery-powered Transits will be delivered by the end of 2011.... |
| iOS 5 Beta Reportedly Sets Man’s iPhone Cable Ablaze Posted: 08 Jul 2011 10:10 AM PDT iOS 5 Beta Reportedly Sets Man's iPhone Cable Ablaze  iOS 5 Beta Reportedly Sets Man's iPhone Cable Ablaze Oh, the many woes of being an early adopter in the Beta software world. The software might crash, causing you to lose all your work! It may have gaping security issues, leaving an entry way for malicious misdoers! It may… start your stuff on fire? According to developer Gus Pinto (who sum ups his life in under 140 characters as "Pioneering Mac Desktop Virtualization.... |
| Droid 3 sadly shipping with locked bootloader Posted: 08 Jul 2011 10:10 AM PDT Droid 3 sadly shipping with locked bootloader  Droid 3 sadly shipping with locked bootloader Well, we hate to be the bearers of bad news but, looks like the Droid 3 will not be shipping with the unlocked bootloader Motorola promised us. According to a Motorola support forum manager the latest, landscape QWERTY slider from the company is not sporting the new unlockable firmware found on the Xoom.... |
| High oil prices see sheikhs on supercar-buying binge Posted: 08 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT High oil prices see sheikhs on supercar-buying binge  High oil prices see sheikhs on supercar-buying binge Filed under: Etc., Middle East Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport L'Or Blanc - Click above for high-res image gallery Bloomberg is reporting that the sale of high-end and exotic cars in countries like the United Arab Emirates may swell by as much as 20 percent this year. The reason? Civilized countries just can't seem to kick their thirst for gasoline, and as a result, the price of a barrel of crude oil continues to... |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT Apple seeks to spruce up the real world with interactive augmented reality, has the patent apps to prove it  Apple seeks to spruce up the real world with interactive augmented reality, has the patent apps to prove it When we go somewhere new, we wish we could spend more time taking in the sights and less time looking at our phone for directions and info about our surroundings. Apple's well aware of this conundrum, and has filed a couple of patent applications to let you ogle your environment while telling you where to go and what you're seeing.... |
| Housing Slump? $37.5 Million Apartment Hits the Market in NYC Posted: 08 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT Housing Slump? $37.5 Million Apartment Hits the Market in NYC Housing Slump? $37.5 Million Apartment Hits the Market in NYC Wanted: A finance mogul, with enough family and staff members to inhabit a 13,779-square-foot penthouse. Must be willing to set a record price. |
| Sprint To Finally Launch The Motorola Titanium On July 24th? Posted: 08 Jul 2011 08:40 AM PDT Sprint To Finally Launch The Motorola Titanium On July 24th?  Sprint To Finally Launch The Motorola Titanium On July 24th? Remember the Motorola Titanium? No? Don't worry: it's been over two months since Sprint announced it. That's, like, a million years in the gadget world. For those who need a recap (I did!), the Titanium is a super-rugged followup to last year's i1, so it's resistant to dust, shock, vibration, extreme temperatures, the opposite sex, low pressure, and solar radiation — oh, and it's Android-powered. As is par for the course these days,... |
| Average fuel economy of vehicles sold in June fell to 21.6 mpg Posted: 08 Jul 2011 08:09 AM PDT Average fuel economy of vehicles sold in June fell to 21.6 mpg  Average fuel economy of vehicles sold in June fell to 21.6 mpg Filed under: MPG, USA Ford F-150 Ecoboost - Click above for high-res image gallery Data compiled by TrueCar exclusively for Reuters suggests that, despite the fact that the going rate for a gallon of gas in the U.S. is $3.59, there's still no rush to purchase fuel efficient vehicles. Take, for example, the month of June, when the average fuel economy of passenger vehicles declined for a third consecutive month to its lowest point... |
| The end of an era: what the space shuttle means to Engadget Posted: 08 Jul 2011 08:09 AM PDT The end of an era: what the space shuttle means to Engadget  The end of an era: what the space shuttle means to Engadget It's hard to even believe these words, but they're true: the last scheduled US space shuttle launch happens today. What started as a frenetic race to another world has ended as program that will forever be remembered for sparking the interest of mere tykes, and if this so-called economy ever gets turned around -- heck, maybe we'll see the hiatus ends.... |
| LG Struggles Through First Half Of 2011, Cuts Smartphone Sales Target By 20% Posted: 08 Jul 2011 08:09 AM PDT LG Struggles Through First Half Of 2011, Cuts Smartphone Sales Target By 20%  LG Struggles Through First Half Of 2011, Cuts Smartphone Sales Target By 20% LG has thrown in the towel, as it were, on its original goal to sell 30 million smartphones in 2011. After having delayed the worldwide launch of it's beastly Optimus 3D smartphone, and losing its smartphone boss to Apple's South Korean unit, LG hasn't exactly been thriving. The new goal for 2011 is 24 million smartphone units sold, and overall handset shipments falling between the 114 to 150 million marks. Thus far,... |
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