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Inhabitat's Week in Green: Solar Decathlon, hydrogen jet and a solar LED install...

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 03:21 PM PDT

Inhabitat's Week in Green: Solar Decathlon, hydrogen jet and a solar LED installation


Inhabitat's Week in Green: Solar Decathlon, hydrogen jet and a solar LED installation
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. This week an incredible crop of sun-powered prefabricated houses popped up in Washington DC for the 2011 Solar Decathlon, and Inhabitat was on the scene to bring you exclusive coverage of this year's stunning homes!...

From London to New Delhi in a rickshaw?

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 02:01 PM PDT

From London to New Delhi in a rickshaw?


From London to New Delhi in a rickshaw?
Filed under: MPG, Lightweight, UK, India A three-wheeled, 175-cc rickshaw hardly seems adequate for the 6,338-mile trip from London to New Delhi, India, but that's precisely the type of vehicle Sanjay Sharma, a 44-year-old IT professional from the UK, choose for his epic journey. Dubbed the Flying Rani - a black and yellow rickshaw purchased by Sharma in 2008 - the three-wheeler forged up steep hills and over countless potholes with only one...

Motorola's Xoom 2 tablets pair up for a portrait, both at around 9mm thick

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 02:01 PM PDT

Motorola's Xoom 2 tablets pair up for a portrait, both at around 9mm thick


Motorola's Xoom 2 tablets pair up for a portrait, both at around 9mm thick
There's nothing like a family portrait, and the Xoom 2 brothers have paired up for this year's Christmas card shot -- or at least for an anonymous tipster's latest leak. These pictured tablets give us a better look at the rear-facing buttons we heard about last week, which appear to be a power button and a volume rocker....

Murata wants to take couch potatoes by the hand and do the remote control twist

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 01:23 PM PDT

Murata wants to take couch potatoes by the hand and do the remote control twist


Murata wants to take couch potatoes by the hand and do the remote control twist
We've seen Murata's marketing future and it involves either Chubby Checker, or that '90s Helen Hunt movie. The Japanese electronics maker's cooked up a flexible sensor device that'll let you twist and shout bend your way to remote television control. Dubbed the Leaf Grip Remote Controller, the prototype UI design makes use of a special pyroelectric effect-free piezoelectric film that translates twisting into channel changing, rapid twisting to swap video inputs,...

Make Your Own Choco Dog

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 01:23 PM PDT

Make Your Own Choco Dog


Make Your Own Choco Dog
The San Diego County Fair is known for it's crazy food concoctions. In previous years, fair-goers have been treated to "delicacies" such as deep fried butter and beer battered bacon.

Samsung moves 10 million Galaxy S IIs, pats itself on the back

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 11:24 AM PDT

Samsung moves 10 million Galaxy S IIs, pats itself on the back


Samsung moves 10 million Galaxy S IIs, pats itself on the back
Since its debut in April, Samsung claims to have moved 10 million Galaxy S IIs -- not quite iPhone numbers (which sold 20 million units in Q2 alone), but still quite impressive. It's especially noteworthy since, at the end of July, only five million had passed into customers' hands. In just eight weeks the number of Galaxy S IIs sold has doubled, and Sammy's flagship device has yet to even make...

Refresh Roundup: week of September 19, 2011

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 10:45 AM PDT

Refresh Roundup: week of September 19, 2011


Refresh Roundup: week of September 19, 2011
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix....

Car Charging Group teams with Central Parking System to electrify U.S. parking lots

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 09:26 AM PDT

Car Charging Group teams with Central Parking System to electrify U.S. parking lots


Car Charging Group teams with Central Parking System to electrify U.S. parking lots
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, USACar Charging Group, a Florida-based installer of plug-in vehicle charging stations, announced a potentially massive deal that involves partnering with Central Parking System and its subsidiary, USA Parking System, to install Coulomb Technologies' networked ChargePoint stations at up to 2,200 sites across the U.S. Car Charging Group says it will install charging stations at sites owned by the two parking garage operators....

Autom lady-bot will help you lose weight, love you regardless

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 09:26 AM PDT

Autom lady-bot will help you lose weight, love you regardless


Autom lady-bot will help you lose weight, love you regardless
Aw, this little cutie is so adorable -- until she denies you pizza and cheese fries. Autom, the 15-inch talking droid we first caught a glimpse of last year, is back and available for pre-order. Using the LCD touch screen, hungry dieters are prompted to enter daily calorie consumption and exercise habits -- to which the robot will respond kindly to keep you motivated....

Engadget Mobile Podcast 105 - 09.25.2011

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:28 AM PDT

Engadget Mobile Podcast 105 - 09.25.2011



Engadget Mobile Podcast 105 - 09.25.2011
A big week, a very big week for sure. Look at all of those phones, look at all of those news items. We've brought along our good-natured, well-rounded, and slightly-pottymouth'd associate Mr. Christopher Trout to help us make sense of it all with an edgy feel. It's a good one, if we do say so ourselves....

Startup Japan: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Visits Onlab, A Young Japanese Incu...

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:48 AM PDT

Startup Japan: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Visits Onlab, A Young Japanese Incubator


Startup Japan: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Visits Onlab, A Young Japanese Incubator
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Brenden Mulligan, entrepreneur and creator of Onesheet, who is currently traveling around the world meeting startups with his wife and IDEO designer Elle Luna. You can follow him on Twitter here: @bmull. Before coming to Japan, we asked everyone we knew for advice on how to connect with the startup community in Tokyo....

GM opens Advanced Technical center in Shanghai, site to focus on components for...

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:09 AM PDT

GM opens Advanced Technical center in Shanghai, site to focus on components for hybrid vehicles


GM opens Advanced Technical center in Shanghai, site to focus on components for hybrid vehicles
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, GM, Lightweight, China Recently, General Motors celebrated the launch of Phase 1 at its China Advanced Technical Center in Shanghai. The facility, which is adjacent to GM International Operations and GM China Headquarters, is the automaker's latest bid to grab a greater slice of the clean energy vehicle segment. Eventually, the Advanced Technical Center (ATC) will expand to include a design studio, a vehicle development and engineering lab, an...

Skytex licenses ExoPC UI for Skytab S Series Windows 7 tablet

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 04:49 AM PDT

Skytex licenses ExoPC UI for Skytab S Series Windows 7 tablet


Skytex licenses ExoPC UI for Skytab S Series Windows 7 tablet
ExoPC may not have bowled folks over with its own Slate last year (or met its own promise of some all-in-one PCs this summer), but the company did produce an unquestionably unique UI, which it's since been trying to license to others. Now it's found what appears to be its first taker in Skytex, which has adopted the custom touch layer for its new Skytab S Series Windows 7 tablet....

Novatel U679 Turbo Stick delivers 4G LTE to Bell laptop customers for $60, with...

Posted: 25 Sep 2011 01:29 AM PDT

Novatel U679 Turbo Stick delivers 4G LTE to Bell laptop customers for $60, with 3-year contract


Novatel U679 Turbo Stick delivers 4G LTE to Bell laptop customers for $60, with 3-year contract
Do you live in one of Bell's LTE markets and own a laptop? Do you wish your machine could hitch a ride on the Canadian carrier's 4G waves? Well sir or ma'am, may we submit for your consideration, the Novatel U679 Turbo Stick -- an LTE USB modem that can hit a maximum speed of 75Mbps....

Texas Instruments wraps up purchase of National Semiconductor

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 10:15 PM PDT

Texas Instruments wraps up purchase of National Semiconductor


Texas Instruments wraps up purchase of National Semiconductor
In April, Texas Instruments announced its intention to snatch up National Semiconductor for a cool $6.5 billion. Now, almost six months later, the acquisition is complete and TI can tack another few percentage points on to its already market-leading chunk of the analog chip market. At least for now, National will operate as a branch of TI's analog division, which now accounts for over 50-percent of the company's revenue, and keep...

Ask Engadget: most compatible motherboard / components for Ubuntu desktop?

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 07:41 PM PDT

Ask Engadget: most compatible motherboard / components for Ubuntu desktop?


Ask Engadget: most compatible motherboard / components for Ubuntu desktop?
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Everest, who ain't skeered to dip his toes in the Linux sea. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com. "Hey guys!...

eT-shirt from España looks after your heart, minds its bedside manners (video)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 06:24 PM PDT

eT-shirt from España looks after your heart, minds its bedside manners (video)


eT-shirt from España looks after your heart, minds its bedside manners (video)
Spain -- the land of pasión, jamón ibérico and flamenco is throwing a stylish solución towards the medical community's way. Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid have created an intelligent eT-shirt (looks more like a tank top to us) for biomonitoring of hospital patients. The wearable, washable chaleco is embedded with electrodes that monitor its wearer's vitals, and a removable thermometer and accelerometer for the collection of temperature and...

HTC Runnymede spotted in the wild (video)

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 05:07 PM PDT

HTC Runnymede spotted in the wild (video)


HTC Runnymede spotted in the wild (video)
From leak-town to the wild, HTC's Runnymede's getting a whole lot of pre-release love. This Beats Audio-branded handset's just received the quick and dirty hands-on treatment (or so it appears) on YouTube. If you're looking for details on where the phone came from or what's going on here, you've come to the wrong place, but judging from the Vodafone branding on the home screen, we're fairly certain that this is our...