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LG teases LU6200 with 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, 720p HD display, Gingerbread and 75M...

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 02:06 PM PDT

LG teases LU6200 with 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, 720p HD display, Gingerbread and 75Mbps LTE


LG teases LU6200 with 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, 720p HD display, Gingerbread and 75Mbps LTE
We recently stumbled upon the latest smartphone that LG's preparing for its home country, and wow, this plus-sized beauty is sure to turn some heads in South Korea. The device is known only as the LU6200, but it packs a 4.5-inch AH-IPS display at 720p resolution, a dual-core 1.5GHz Scorpion CPU, an Adreno 220 GPU, along with an 8 megapixel AF camera and connectivity to the U+ LTE network (which supports...

Elon Musk: "majority" of vehicles will be electric by 2030

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 01:28 PM PDT

Elon Musk: "majority" of vehicles will be electric by 2030


Elon Musk: "majority" of vehicles will be electric by 2030
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Solar, Tesla Motors The oft-outspoken chief executive officer of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, is chomping at the electric bit again. While speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco recently, Musk, a 40-year-old billionaire recently profiled by Bloomberg Risk Takers, shared an enthusiastic vision of electric cars and solar energy with the room-filling crowd. Musk said that, "Starting a company is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of...

Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 wrap-up

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 12:50 PM PDT

Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 wrap-up


Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 wrap-up
The 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show is still rolling, but as the throngs of eager German motor enthusiasts fill the halls we're grabbing our passports and fleeing back to the States. This year's show had more EVs and infotainment-stuffed cars than ever before and, if what we saw here is any indication, the car of the future will have at least one smartphone or tablet built in there somewhere -- maybe two....

Evolta robot to take on the Ironman Triathlon, conquer the course in a week

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 11:35 AM PDT

Evolta robot to take on the Ironman Triathlon, conquer the course in a week


Evolta robot to take on the Ironman Triathlon, conquer the course in a week
Panasonic's little battery-powered bot that could, the Evolta, has garnered our attention several times over the years. It's already climbed out of the Grand Canyon and walked 500km from Tokyo to Kyoto, but apparently neither was enough to prove it and its namesake batteries' true mettle. This time, Panasonic's putting three of the robots through the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii, and they've got a week to swim 2.4 miles, bike 112,...

Daimler turns to SPX for Smart, Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle charging solutions

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 10:20 AM PDT

Daimler turns to SPX for Smart, Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle charging solutions


Daimler turns to SPX for Smart, Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle charging solutions
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mercedes Benz, SMART, Daimler SPX Corporation has been selected by Daimler AG as the preferred installer of plug-in vehicle charging stations for the German conglomerate's Smart and Mercedes-Benz vehicles. The agreement calls for SPX Service Solutions to provide charging solutions to European consumers and Mercedes-Benz dealerships. This deal follows a pilot program that began in back in April at M-B dealers in five countries across Europe. Tanvir Arfi, president of the...

Shapeways serves up prêt-à-imprimer 3D bones, Lagerfeld stands by for full skele...

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 10:20 AM PDT

Shapeways serves up prêt-à-imprimer 3D bones, Lagerfeld stands by for full skeletal replacement


Shapeways serves up prêt-à-imprimer 3D bones, Lagerfeld stands by for full skeletal replacement
3D printed chocolates? Sure, sounds innocuous enough. But made-to-order 3D printed bones? Now, that's just morbid. For the surgical team at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, however, the tech's come in handy as a budget-priced, pre-operative planning tool. Mark Frame, an orthopedic surgical trainee at RHSC, first came up with the idea to create the osteo-facsimiles after a costly university-made replica, commissioned for a procedure, failed to meet necessary proportion...

Engadget takes over Times Square, courtesy of TS2 (video)

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 09:04 AM PDT

Engadget takes over Times Square, courtesy of TS2 (video)


Engadget takes over Times Square, courtesy of TS2 (video)
Remember when we took over Times Square last month? Contrary to comments-based speculation, we didn't drop several years' salary to see our names and faces (and pets) up in lights. We were actually shooting a segment for the Engadget Show about a new service from Times Square2 (TS2). The NASDAQ / Thompson Reuters alliance is working to increase engagement on the giant electronic billboards it controls in one of the most...

Eyes-on with Thunderbolt on Windows at IDF 2011 (video)

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 08:27 AM PDT

Eyes-on with Thunderbolt on Windows at IDF 2011 (video)


Eyes-on with Thunderbolt on Windows at IDF 2011 (video)
Sure, you've seen the announcement of Thunderbolt on the PC, the chips that'll power it and a bevy of compatible accessories, but how about actual proof of Thunderbolt working on Windows? Hidden deep in the recesses of IDF's technical showcase, we found just that and immortalized it on video for all to see....

ViviTouch haptic technology hands-on: electroactive polymer giving a 'high defin...

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 07:11 AM PDT

ViviTouch haptic technology hands-on: electroactive polymer giving a 'high definition feel'


ViviTouch haptic technology hands-on: electroactive polymer giving a 'high definition feel'
Haptic feedback isn't exactly something that'd blow people's mind these days, with most mobile devices and gaming controllers already packing a little vibrator to spice up one's gaming experience. While these motors do the job just fine for delivering the sensation of large engines and explosions, their monotonic performance and relatively high minimum output threshold means they can't reproduce finer vibration....

Modified motorcycle burns vegetable oil in record-setting run

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 06:33 AM PDT

Modified motorcycle burns vegetable oil in record-setting run


Modified motorcycle burns vegetable oil in record-setting run
Filed under: Biodiesel, Green Culture, On Two Wheels, Racing At the Loring Timing Association in Maine, John Petsche drove a highly modified motorcycle into the record books. Powered by a six-horsepower industrial diesel engine and fueled by store-bought vegetable oil, Petsche's two-wheeler hit a top speed of 56.535 miles per hour, sufficient to put Petsche in the record books in the the 350-cc Alternate Fuel class. The donor bike uses a single-speed drive with...

Mobile Miscellany: week of September 12, 2011

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 06:33 AM PDT

Mobile Miscellany: week of September 12, 2011


Mobile Miscellany: week of September 12, 2011
This week was packed with news on the mobile front, so it was easy to miss a few stories here and there. Here's some of the other stuff that happened in the wide world of wireless for the week of August 15, 2011: Vodacom South Africa has joined the data throttling club, though this carrier is taking a slightly different spin: BlackBerry users consuming more than 100MB of data each month will...

Tip Like a Big Shot

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 06:33 AM PDT

Tip Like a Big Shot


Tip Like a Big Shot
Who, what, when and how much?

Kingston's high-performance KC100 SSD is S.M.A.R.Ter than yours

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 05:18 AM PDT

Kingston's high-performance KC100 SSD is S.M.A.R.Ter than yours


Kingston's high-performance KC100 SSD is S.M.A.R.Ter than yours
Good news for secure data fans who aren't fond of moving parts: Kingston's shipping a new line of security-focused solid state drives for all your info-hiding needs. Despite being touted as an enterprise product, the new line will happily sit in any SATA-capable machine you wish, smoothly chugging along thanks to its beloved SandForce DuraClass technology....

Pantech Breakout shows its darling face in the wild

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 04:02 AM PDT

Pantech Breakout shows its darling face in the wild


Pantech Breakout shows its darling face in the wild
The Pantech Breakout, Verizon's least-hyped LTE phone this side of the Droid Bionic, has seen a fair amount of time splayed out on paper without getting its fair share of closeups. This has finally changed, however, now that Droid-Life was able to get its hands on true-blue images of the device....

Mix Master Gloves keep your hands warm, control your iPod. Q-bert mitts still MI...

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 02:48 AM PDT

Mix Master Gloves keep your hands warm, control your iPod. Q-bert mitts still MIA (video)


Mix Master Gloves keep your hands warm, control your iPod. Q-bert mitts still MIA (video)
There's plenty of options for keeping your digits toasty while you peruse the music on your iPhone or iPod, but most of those still require you to fish the device out of your pocket to skip that Audioslave track that sneaked on there. Burton's Mix Master gloves skip all that physical interaction nonsense by sticking a wireless remote in the back of one of the mitts....

Targus to release new WiFi PAN-equipped Laser Mouse this September, flips Blueto...

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 01:32 AM PDT

Targus to release new WiFi PAN-equipped Laser Mouse this September, flips Bluetooth the bird


Targus to release new WiFi PAN-equipped Laser Mouse this September, flips Bluetooth the bird
Back in 2008, Ozmo Devices paired up with Intel to get its WiFi PAN (WiFi Personal Area Network) tech into low-power devices. Fast-forward to a few years later, tack on a new partnership with Targus and get ready for the first of those Bluetooth-less peripherals to hit the market. The company's new accessory teammate is planning to rollout a line of WiFi Laser mice that incorporate the OZMO2000 chip, with the...

Oscar winners crowd-sourcing the ocean with The Blu

Posted: 17 Sep 2011 12:16 AM PDT

Oscar winners crowd-sourcing the ocean with The Blu


Oscar winners crowd-sourcing the ocean with The Blu
Love the ocean, but hate holding your for breath for extended periods? Good news: a team of software engineers, composers, Oscar-winning animators and more have come together to recreate Davy Jones' locker in the cloud. Wemo Media is looking for a few thousand good artists for the project, to help create a massive simulation of life under the seas built on its Maker Platform....

Tetris played on 6-foot LED matrix, controlled by DDR mat

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 11:01 PM PDT

Tetris played on 6-foot LED matrix, controlled by DDR mat


Tetris played on 6-foot LED matrix, controlled by DDR mat
Watching two people play Tetris against each other is only slightly more entertaining than watching your stoner friends duke it in marathon Tekken sessions (read: not entertaining at all). But, we gaurantee the video after the break is more interesting than it sounds. A trio of MIT students recreated the classic falling block game with six-foot tall arrays of LEDs (no cutesy Russia-inspired graphics here) and passed control duties off to...

Samsung Focus S wanders through FCC en route to AT&T

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:47 PM PDT

Samsung Focus S wanders through FCC en route to AT&T


Samsung Focus S wanders through FCC en route to AT&T
Charts, diagrams, charts, measurements, and more charts. This summation of nearly every document that passes through the FCC sounds only slightly more fun than staring at the Matrix all day, yet we still find ourselves a bit giddy when seeing highly anticipated phones take their turn getting the Federal nod of approval....

Verizon starts 'optimizing' (read: throttling) network for the most data hungry...

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:09 PM PDT

Verizon starts 'optimizing' (read: throttling) network for the most data hungry users


Verizon starts 'optimizing' (read: throttling) network for the most data hungry users
We can't say we weren't weren't warned, since Verizon updated its data policy way back in February, but it's still a punch in the gut to hear its "network optimization" plan went into effect yesterday. A new policy page pointed out by Droid-Life explains how the policy will affect only the "top 5 percent of data users with 3G devices on unlimited data plans" (LTE and tiered data users are in...

Splitfish FragFX Shark 360 starts shipping for your first-person shooting pleasure

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:56 PM PDT

Splitfish FragFX Shark 360 starts shipping for your first-person shooting pleasure


Splitfish FragFX Shark 360 starts shipping for your first-person shooting pleasure
What better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Halo than the release of a new way to first-person shoot people on the Xbox 360? Splitfish today announced that its FragFX Shark mouse / analog stick hybrid controller device thingie is finally hitting the Microsoft console. The peripheral offers in-controller setup, customizable precision and should give you around 50 hours of play time on two AA batteries....

Taito InvaderCade for iPad brings invasive price tag (video)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:19 PM PDT

Taito InvaderCade for iPad brings invasive price tag (video)


Taito InvaderCade for iPad brings invasive price tag (video)
Sure, Taito is a veritable grandfather of the arcade world, but ¥15,800 ($209) for a nostalgic iPad Space Invaders box with one lonely einzelkind fire button? Atari also has some standing in this business and its worthy alternative costs just $60, while even the genre-founding iCade now seems a bargain at $100....

Viper ACR Still Rules the Nurburgring

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:19 PM PDT

Viper ACR Still Rules the Nurburgring


Viper ACR Still Rules the Nurburgring
Viper Club reclaims lap speed record with 2010 Viper ACR.

4G Samsung Galaxy S II X coming to Telus, still as Herculean as ever

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:04 PM PDT

4G Samsung Galaxy S II X coming to Telus, still as Herculean as ever


4G Samsung Galaxy S II X coming to Telus, still as Herculean as ever
It looks like the Samsung Hercules name won't live on in mobile infamy, after all. Canadian carrier Telus is now the second (and last) company to shed the Greek God title in favor of the more traditional Galaxy S II moniker -- albeit with its own unique twist, of course....

Ex-Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci joins Lenovo as a consultant

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 06:04 PM PDT

Ex-Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci joins Lenovo as a consultant


Ex-Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci joins Lenovo as a consultant
We haven't heard much from outspoken former Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci since he left the company back in March of this year, but it looks like he's now ready to get back into the PC business in a slightly different role. Lenovo confirmed today that Lanci is joining the company as a consultant to "help develop and accelerate Lenovo's worldwide consumer business." Initially, those efforts will be mostly focused on Lenovo's...

Estonian government offiicials not exactly gung-ho over Mitsubishi i-MiEV

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:27 PM PDT

Estonian government offiicials not exactly gung-ho over Mitsubishi i-MiEV


Estonian government offiicials not exactly gung-ho over Mitsubishi i-MiEV
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mitsubishi, Europe/EU The Republic of Estonia kicked off its drive to lead the world in plug-in vehicles (on a per capita basis, anyway) by inking a deal that had Mitsubishi ship 507 i-MiEVs over to the northern European state in exchange for ten million CO2 credits. In addition, Estonia would install approximately 50 quick-charge stations, allowing the i-MiEV and most other battery-powered rides to be charged to 80 percent...

Windows 8 ain't fussy: runs on Macs, Surface, 128MB RAM, banana peel (videos)

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 05:27 PM PDT

Windows 8 ain't fussy: runs on Macs, Surface, 128MB RAM, banana peel (videos)


Windows 8 ain't fussy: runs on Macs, Surface, 128MB RAM, banana peel (videos)
Downloaders of the Windows 8 Developer Preview have been proving their mettle the best way they know how: by getting it to run on systems it was never really intended for. Brent and the folks at Codesnack win the Real Utility trophy for their successful Boot Camp installs. Josh Blake gets the Damn I Look Good By Candlelight trophy for making the OS run on the MS Surface in his living...

Clearwire announces deal with China Mobile to accelerate TD-LTE deployment

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:50 PM PDT

Clearwire announces deal with China Mobile to accelerate TD-LTE deployment


Clearwire announces deal with China Mobile to accelerate TD-LTE deployment
The world's largest mobile operator and the heretofore scrappy WiMAX provider have linked arms to accelerate the rollout and adoption of time-division LTE (TD-LTE) across China. While there's little chatter about an infrastructure build-up itself, China Mobile and Clearwire have established an agreement "to cultivate a robust device ecosystem that supports multi-mode, multi-band devices with minimum component complexity and cost," with particular emphasis on the common 2.5GHz spectrum....

New PSN user agreement makes it harder to sue Sony: class actions out (sort of),...

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:50 PM PDT

New PSN user agreement makes it harder to sue Sony: class actions out (sort of), arbitrations in


New PSN user agreement makes it harder to sue Sony: class actions out (sort of), arbitrations in
Hmmm, wonder what brought this on? Sony's gone and changed the lingo in its PSN user agreement to require binding arbitration to settle any future disputes -- making it much harder for disgruntled customers to get their day in court. Want to keep your right to sue? You can opt out of the arbitration requirement by sending a letter to Sony's lawyers saying you'll be keeping your courtroom entry card, thank...

First Drive: Mercedes-Benz C-Class

Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:50 PM PDT

First Drive: Mercedes-Benz C-Class


First Drive: Mercedes-Benz C-Class
Mercedes updates the 2012 C-class's engine lineup and interior.