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- Make's Redpark Breakout Pack lets you build iOS apps with Arduino assistance
- GE, Lowe's partner to sell WattStation home charger
- Robot band covers Marilyn Manson, renders sullen teenagers obsolete (video)
- Video: BMW kicks off production of the Active E
- Droid 3 disassembled by iFixit Jawas
- Game Changers
- The Resurrection of the Enzo
- Driving the $1.56M Newell P2000i RV
- Trans-Am Metal: The Stuff of Dreams
- Study: Electric vehicles 90% less costly to "refuel" than gasoline vehicles
- It's official: Motorola Titanium coming to Sprint July 24th, mil-spec Eclair can be yours for $150
- VIDEO: Nicolas Prost drives the Exagon Furtive e-GT at Magny-Cours
- HTC's Puccini tablet passes through the FCC, has AT&T written all over it
- Honda's "third pillar" will be solar, gas cogeneration
- Suzuki unveils Every electric van, bead curtains sold separately
- Poll: Spotify is finally available in the US. Now what?
- There's a web browser hiding inside the iriver Story HD, but it's pretty shy
- CNN starts streaming 24 hours of 'news' online and on your iPhone
- Nokia RM-670 swans through the FCC, gives us another 'Zeta' portrait to admire
- Video: Keeping your lawn green could make your lifestyle a lot less green
- Amazon rolls out textbook rentals for Kindle, promises discounts up to 80 percent
- GM invests $129 million to boost production of eAssist transmissions
- Asus updates Xtion Pro motion sensor, makes it even more like Kinect
- Motorola XT860 4G is the Droid 3's curling loving cousin for Bell
- Human-derived gelatin spares the livestock, confuses vegans
- Enterprise adds electric vehicle rentals in three West Coast cities
- The Engadget Show returns next Friday, July 25th -- win a ticket to the taping!
- Grundig Digta 7 stakes claim as world's first Bluetooth dictation device, period, line break
- Diesel retrofit systems reduce school bus pollutants outside, but not inside
- Ideum's MT-55 'Platform' multitouch table goes ultrathin, demands but $18,000
| Make's Redpark Breakout Pack lets you build iOS apps with Arduino assistance Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:39 PM PDT Make's Redpark Breakout Pack lets you build iOS apps with Arduino assistance  Make's Redpark Breakout Pack lets you build iOS apps with Arduino assistance In the mood for some homebrew iOS app-building fun? Well, Make's got a kit just for you that bundles the Redpark Serial Cable for iOS with an RS232-to-TTL board and the 60 plus component Minitronics Survival pack for $80. Hailing it as "the first general-purpose serial cable that Apple has approved," this limited supply pack will let you get your Arduino-tinkering hands all sorts of iPhone dirty -- jailbreak not required.... |
| GE, Lowe's partner to sell WattStation home charger Posted: 18 Jul 2011 02:08 PM PDT GE, Lowe's partner to sell WattStation home charger  GE, Lowe's partner to sell WattStation home charger Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, USA Announced today at the Plug-In 2011 Conference, GE Energy Industrial Solutions and home improvement giant Lowe's will team up to offer consumers the wall-mounted, residential-use General Electric WattStation plug-in vehicle charger. Starting in August, Lowe's will stock the GE WattStation at five stores in California. Come September, the WattStation's availability will increase to 60 stores and it will be available to purchase nationwide on Lowes.com. Paul Foody, product general... |
| Robot band covers Marilyn Manson, renders sullen teenagers obsolete (video) Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:37 PM PDT Robot band covers Marilyn Manson, renders sullen teenagers obsolete (video)  Robot band covers Marilyn Manson, renders sullen teenagers obsolete (video) Sure, we've seen robot bands before. But even when insecure and egotistical, they never quite capture the youthful disaffection we want from our mechanical pop stars. Until now. End of Life is a robot band consisting of a cello, and electric guitar, drums, and, for some reason, a flat-bed scanner -- maybe he's the cute one?... |
| Video: BMW kicks off production of the Active E Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:06 PM PDT Video: BMW kicks off production of the Active E  Video: BMW kicks off production of the Active E Filed under: EV/Plug-in, BMW BMW Active E - Click above to watch video after the jump BMW's latest video details the start of production of the battery-powered Active E - the zero-emissions vehicle that, just a few short years ago, seemed no more than a dream to Mirco Schwarze, team leader at BMW's facility in Leipzig, Germany.... |
| Droid 3 disassembled by iFixit Jawas Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:35 PM PDT Droid 3 disassembled by iFixit Jawas  Droid 3 disassembled by iFixit Jawas It's time for the squeamish to avert their eyes. The latest entry in Motorola's popular Droid line has taken a trip to internet Tatooine, getting the classic teardown treatment from the folks at iFixit. As always, there were some interesting findings beneath its shiny, gadgety exterior, including a SIM card and so, so many hidden screws.... |
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| Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:35 PM PDT The Resurrection of the Enzo The Resurrection of the Enzo Out of the ashes emerges a twin-turbo Salt Flats land speed record car. |
| Driving the $1.56M Newell P2000i RV Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:35 PM PDT Driving the $1.56M Newell P2000i RV Driving the $1.56M Newell P2000i RV Ships Alloy! Newell makes the fanciest aluminum-clad bus you ever saw. |
| Trans-Am Metal: The Stuff of Dreams Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:35 PM PDT Trans-Am Metal: The Stuff of Dreams Trans-Am Metal: The Stuff of Dreams MSN Autos' Sam Smith has a very good weekend at Road America. |
| Study: Electric vehicles 90% less costly to "refuel" than gasoline vehicles Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:04 PM PDT Study: Electric vehicles 90% less costly to "refuel" than gasoline vehicles  Study: Electric vehicles 90% less costly to "refuel" than gasoline vehicles Filed under: EV/Plug-in, USA Mitsubishi i - Click above for high-res image gallery According to Northeast Group (NG), an energy sector research and consulting firm based in Washington D.C., it's "always cheaper to recharge an electric vehicle than to fuel a conventional gas-powered vehicle." In fact, NG claims that in some scenarios, charging a plug-in costs one-tenth as much as fueling a conventional vehicle.... |
| It's official: Motorola Titanium coming to Sprint July 24th, mil-spec Eclair can be yours for $150 Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:04 PM PDT It's official: Motorola Titanium coming to Sprint July 24th, mil-spec Eclair can be yours for $150  It's official: Motorola Titanium coming to Sprint July 24th, mil-spec Eclair can be yours for $150 The Motorola Titanium has certainly made itself no stranger to us, as it was officially announced by Sprint all the way back in May. At the time, no pricing or availability dates were known, so we were left to speculation and leaked screenshots -- you know, the usual routine for new devices.... |
| VIDEO: Nicolas Prost drives the Exagon Furtive e-GT at Magny-Cours Posted: 18 Jul 2011 11:33 AM PDT VIDEO: Nicolas Prost drives the Exagon Furtive e-GT at Magny-Cours  VIDEO: Nicolas Prost drives the Exagon Furtive e-GT at Magny-Cours Exagon Motors Furtive e-GT - Click above to watch video after the jump While many announced electric sports cars get compared to the Tesla Roadster, very few even come close to its performance in terms of range and acceleration. The Furtive e-GT is one of those cars. Put together by race constructor Exagon Engineering, this bit of French sexiness claims acceleration that's slightly quicker to 60 miles an hour than the 3.7-second... |
| HTC's Puccini tablet passes through the FCC, has AT&T written all over it Posted: 18 Jul 2011 11:02 AM PDT HTC's Puccini tablet passes through the FCC, has AT&T written all over it  HTC's Puccini tablet passes through the FCC, has AT&T written all over it Remember that HTC 10-inch Puccini tablet we spotted in May? It just passed through the FCC's gates with the model number PG09410 and from the looks of things, is headed straight for AT&T's network. The rumored Honeycomb tablet's sporting the requisite GSM 850, 1900MHz frequencies and 3G WCDMA 850 and 1900MHz bands, but the real showstopper here are the slate's LTE radios.... |
| Honda's "third pillar" will be solar, gas cogeneration Posted: 18 Jul 2011 10:29 AM PDT Honda's "third pillar" will be solar, gas cogeneration  Honda's "third pillar" will be solar, gas cogeneration Filed under: Etc., Solar, Honda Back on July 14th, Takuji Yamada, Honda's chief operating officer of power product operations, made it known the Japanese automaker sees solar gas cogeneration technology as its "third pillar." What are the first two? Passenger vehicles and motorcycles, which means that cogeneration is about to become a very big deal indeed for Honda. So, what's cogeneration?... |
| Suzuki unveils Every electric van, bead curtains sold separately Posted: 18 Jul 2011 10:29 AM PDT Suzuki unveils Every electric van, bead curtains sold separately  Suzuki unveils Every electric van, bead curtains sold separately Just when you thought the electric van couldn't get any more stylish, Suzuki went out and raised the bar even higher, with its Every van -- a prototype plug-in that has state felony written all over it. Following in the wake of Mitsubishi's Minicab i-MiEV, this love bus is powered by a lithium-ion battery that can be fully juiced in about five hours, with a cruising range of up to 62... |
| Poll: Spotify is finally available in the US. Now what? Posted: 18 Jul 2011 10:29 AM PDT Poll: Spotify is finally available in the US. Now what?  Poll: Spotify is finally available in the US. Now what? We waited and we waited and we waited some more, and now Spotify has finally arrived in the US. As announced earlier, the popular European music streaming service will offer up the free version that helped make it such a hit in Europe, as well as two pricing plans at $4.99 and $9.99, the latter of which will let users stream music to Android and iOS devices.... |
| There's a web browser hiding inside the iriver Story HD, but it's pretty shy Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:58 AM PDT There's a web browser hiding inside the iriver Story HD, but it's pretty shy There's a web browser hiding inside the iriver Story HD, but it's pretty shy Looking for a way to surf the web on your new iriver Story HD? The Digital Reader's got you covered, with a nifty, albeit not totally satisfying hack. As it turns out, the Story HD's much-ballyhooed Google eBookstore operates as a mobile version, rather than an app, meaning you can use it to access other pages -- if you know the trick.... |
| CNN starts streaming 24 hours of 'news' online and on your iPhone Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:27 AM PDT CNN starts streaming 24 hours of 'news' online and on your iPhone  CNN starts streaming 24 hours of 'news' online and on your iPhone Still trying to scratch that itch left by the slow fade out of the Casey Anthony drama? Well, good news kiddies, CNN is pointing its 24-hour news hose straight at your face over a little thing we like to call the internet. The OG cable news network is finally returning to the streaming fray (die-hard Blitz-heads may remember a little service called CNN Pipeline) and offering live feeds of CNN and... |
| Nokia RM-670 swans through the FCC, gives us another 'Zeta' portrait to admire Posted: 18 Jul 2011 09:27 AM PDT Nokia RM-670 swans through the FCC, gives us another 'Zeta' portrait to admire  Nokia RM-670 swans through the FCC, gives us another 'Zeta' portrait to admire We first saw the Nokia RM-670 (aka the N7 or 700 Zeta) in a batch of unflattering spy-shots, then in some leaked publicity poses, and now we also have an exquisite line drawing courtesy of the FCC. Sure, it's not the most detailed of portraits, but it's the first absolutely concrete evidence we have that the RM-670 exists and may be headed to the New World.... |
| Video: Keeping your lawn green could make your lifestyle a lot less green Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:56 AM PDT Video: Keeping your lawn green could make your lifestyle a lot less green  Video: Keeping your lawn green could make your lifestyle a lot less green Filed under: Etc., Green Culture Lawn mower emissions test - Click to watch video after the break In my garage there's a push mower. I don't mean one with a gasoline engine, or even electric. I mean a push mower, a heavy thing with spiral metal blades that looks not unlike the ones that get pushed around in old Peanuts strips.... |
| Amazon rolls out textbook rentals for Kindle, promises discounts up to 80 percent Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:56 AM PDT Amazon rolls out textbook rentals for Kindle, promises discounts up to 80 percent  Amazon rolls out textbook rentals for Kindle, promises discounts up to 80 percent Students can already save a few bucks by opting for a digital version of a textbook over a hardcover, and they can now save even more courtesy of Amazon if they aren't too intent on hanging onto the book after they're done with it. The company has just announced textbook rentals for Kindle, which promises to let students save "up to 80 percent" off the list price of those often pricey... |
| GM invests $129 million to boost production of eAssist transmissions Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:25 AM PDT GM invests $129 million to boost production of eAssist transmissions  GM invests $129 million to boost production of eAssist transmissions Filed under: Hybrid, Manufacturing/Plants, Buick, Chevrolet, GM 2012 Buick LaCrosse eAssist technology - Click above for high-res image gallery General Motors' powertrain facilities in Toledo, OH and Bedford, IN - the ones that make transmissions for Buick and Chevrolet models equipped with fuel-saving eAssist technology - will get the bulk of a $129-million investment GM announced on Tuesday. More specifically, Toledo gets $83 million for enhancements to a six-speed transmission already manufactured there... |
| Asus updates Xtion Pro motion sensor, makes it even more like Kinect Posted: 18 Jul 2011 08:25 AM PDT Asus updates Xtion Pro motion sensor, makes it even more like Kinect  Asus updates Xtion Pro motion sensor, makes it even more like Kinect Remember the Xtion Pro and Wavi Xtion motion sensors that Asus showed off at CES? Well, fast-forward six months and there's already an updated model on the market: the Windows- and Linux-compatible Xtion Pro Live. The new version complements the original's IR and depth sensors with a Kinect-like VGA webcam and a pair of microphones, while also jacking up the bill to a distinctly un-Kinect-like 175 Euros ($300).... |
| Motorola XT860 4G is the Droid 3's curling loving cousin for Bell Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:54 AM PDT Motorola XT860 4G is the Droid 3's curling loving cousin for Bell  Motorola XT860 4G is the Droid 3's curling loving cousin for Bell Looks like someone took the Droid 3, slapped a new name on it, and shipped it north to our friends in Canada, but added one neat twist -- it's now rocking an extra "G." Officially known as the XT860 4G, Bell's version of Motorola's QWERTY slider comes packed with a HSPA+ radio that can handle the 850MHz, 1900MHz, and 2100MHz bands.... |
| Human-derived gelatin spares the livestock, confuses vegans Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:54 AM PDT Human-derived gelatin spares the livestock, confuses vegans  Human-derived gelatin spares the livestock, confuses vegans Vegans are going to be super-conflicted by this one. Researchers at Beijing University's College of Life Science and Technology are pioneering a four-legged creature friendly method for cranking out the 300,000 tons of gelatin produced each year. Their solution: people. Well, not in the Soylent Green sense. No, the process in question here takes "human gelatin genes [and inserts them] into a strain of yeast [producing] gelatin with controllable features." Sound... |
| Enterprise adds electric vehicle rentals in three West Coast cities Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:23 AM PDT Enterprise adds electric vehicle rentals in three West Coast cities  Enterprise adds electric vehicle rentals in three West Coast cities Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mitsubishi, Nissan It's now a piece of cake for residents of Seattle, WA, Portland, OR and San Francisco, CA to drive an electric vehicle without buying one. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a pioneer in renting plug-in vehicles, says it's expanding its Nissan Leaf rentals to Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. Later this year, the 2012 Mitsubishi i will join Enterprise's plug-in fleet, which should number 500 strong by the end of 2011.... |
| The Engadget Show returns next Friday, July 25th -- win a ticket to the taping! Posted: 18 Jul 2011 07:23 AM PDT The Engadget Show returns next Friday, July 25th -- win a ticket to the taping!  The Engadget Show returns next Friday, July 25th -- win a ticket to the taping! After a month-long slumber, the Engadget Show is back! We're taping in just over a week, on Monday, July 25th at 6:00pm! Tim Stevens and Brian Heater will be your guides through the world of all things audible. First up, our own Darren Murph will have a tour of Westone's facilities, showing us how their astonishing buds get made.... |
| Grundig Digta 7 stakes claim as world's first Bluetooth dictation device, period, line break Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:52 AM PDT Grundig Digta 7 stakes claim as world's first Bluetooth dictation device, period, line break  Grundig Digta 7 stakes claim as world's first Bluetooth dictation device, period, line break Grundig reckons its customers still prefer "dictating with a professional dictation device," rather than merely "recording" themselves with a smartphone. Say what? Nevertheless, the company's new Digta 7 Premium BT voice recorder does embrace modernity in its own particular way, by sharing files wirelessly at up to 30 feet with Bluetooth-equipped smartphones and PCs.... |
| Diesel retrofit systems reduce school bus pollutants outside, but not inside Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:21 AM PDT Diesel retrofit systems reduce school bus pollutants outside, but not inside  Diesel retrofit systems reduce school bus pollutants outside, but not inside Filed under: Diesel, Etc. A recent UCLA study analyzed the performance of retrofit systems for diesel-fueled school buses and discovered the systems significantly reduce tailpipe emissions, but had no measurable effect on in-cabin pollution. In a study published in Environmental Science & Technology, Qunfang Zhang and Yifang Zhu found that the concentration of outside air pollutants played a significant role in determining the in-cabin air quality of school buses.... |
| Ideum's MT-55 'Platform' multitouch table goes ultrathin, demands but $18,000 Posted: 18 Jul 2011 06:21 AM PDT Ideum's MT-55 'Platform' multitouch table goes ultrathin, demands but $18,000  Ideum's MT-55 'Platform' multitouch table goes ultrathin, demands but $18,000 It's been a hot minute since we've heard from the fine folks at Ideum, but when the image above floated into our inbox... well, it's safe to say our interest was piqued. We last heard from these guys back in the fall of 2009, and while The Platform is certainly a bit smaller than the 100-inch MT-50 that came before it, it's also a heck of a lot more practical for... |
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