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2013 DeLorean EV hits the track

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:11 PM PDT

2013 DeLorean EV hits the track


2013 DeLorean EV hits the track
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Videos The electric DeLorean DMC-12 is coming 2013, so says Humble, Texas' reborn DeLorean Motor Company. That was the shocking announcement made by DeLorean in mid-October at the DMC Texas Open House. But what else occurred on that mid-October day? Well, apparently a handful of DeLorean enthusiasts got to test drive DMC's electric prototype....

Computer components may one day recycle their own wasted heat

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:11 PM PDT

Computer components may one day recycle their own wasted heat


Computer components may one day recycle their own wasted heat
Imagine a computer that isn't just designed to "deal" with the heat produced by its components, but one that actually uses that wasted energy to power some of its high-tech internals. That's the potential of a new discovery out of the Physical and Technical Institute (PTB) of Braunschweig, Germany. Researchers discovered what they're calling tunnel magneto thermoelectric voltage, essentially that by heating one side of a magnetic tunnel structure (the types...

RIM Faces Class Action Lawsuit Thanks To BlackBerry Outage

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 03:11 PM PDT

RIM Faces Class Action Lawsuit Thanks To BlackBerry Outage


RIM Faces Class Action Lawsuit Thanks To BlackBerry Outage
Sorry RIM, but it looks like the promise of free apps and tech support weren't enough to assuage the masses. According to the Financial Post, RIM is preparing to deal with a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of users affected by the recent worldwide service outage. Filed in Quebec Superior Court by the Consumer Law Group, the complaint seeks compensation for all of RIM's customers that "were unable to access their...

ASUS Transformer Prime shots leak out, apes the Tao of Zenbook design

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:27 PM PDT

ASUS Transformer Prime shots leak out, apes the Tao of Zenbook design


ASUS Transformer Prime shots leak out, apes the Tao of Zenbook design
Who's ready for a little gadget pr0n? ASUS head honcho Jonney Shih gave AsiaD attendees a first peek at the Transformer's successor just last week. Apart from that distant, dais-based reveal, we now have in the wild shots of the tab to focus our tech lust on. The leaked images, which have since been pulled from the Chinese site that hosted them, show off several angles of the quad-core Prime, its...

Adidas miCoach Speed_Cell measures your dunking prowess and serving skills

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:27 PM PDT

Adidas miCoach Speed_Cell measures your dunking prowess and serving skills


Adidas miCoach Speed_Cell measures your dunking prowess and serving skills
When it comes to sports gadgets, runners seem to get all the good stuff: the Nike+, the Motoactv and even the FitBit. For all the footballers, basketball players and aspiring tennis stars out there, Adidas is spreading the love with the introduction of its miCoach Speed_Cell -- a $69.99 device that measures motion and performance in every direction whether you're into tackling, serving or shooting....

BlackBerry Bold 9790 Caught On Film Ahead Of Dubai Debut?

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:27 PM PDT

BlackBerry Bold 9790 Caught On Film Ahead Of Dubai Debut?


BlackBerry Bold 9790 Caught On Film Ahead Of Dubai Debut?
RIM may be pinning their hopes on BBX, but that doesn't mean they're done churning out classic BlackBerrys. Case in point: the revamped Bold 9790 has been revealed in a new set of photos that doesn't look like someone took them during an earthquake. The 9790′s existence isn't exactly a secret, but these images (courtesy of @moha87_) represent the most up-to-date look at what RIM is working on behind closed doors....

Small Kitchen Contest Cooks Up Some Creativity

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 02:27 PM PDT

Small Kitchen Contest Cooks Up Some Creativity


Small Kitchen Contest Cooks Up Some Creativity
Want to win $500 dollars for pursue your culinary dreams?  First you'll need a small kitchen.  

Car2go bringing 300 electric vehicles to car-sharing in Amsterdam

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:41 PM PDT

Car2go bringing 300 electric vehicles to car-sharing in Amsterdam


Car2go bringing 300 electric vehicles to car-sharing in Amsterdam
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Transportation Alternatives, SMART, Europe/EU, Daimler How much would you pay to drive an electric vehicle? How about 29 cents a minute? That's the rate that Car2go will charge for its EV car-sharing service in Amsterdam that will kick off by the end of November. For this latest expansion, Daimler will put 300 Smart EDs on the streets with the distinctive Car2go blue/white color scheme....

Maingear and Origin PC shove Intel's Core i7 2700K into gaming rigs, overclock i...

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:41 PM PDT

Maingear and Origin PC shove Intel's Core i7 2700K into gaming rigs, overclock it beyond 5GHz


Maingear and Origin PC shove Intel's Core i7 2700K into gaming rigs, overclock it beyond 5GHz
Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock were both unavailable for comment, but we're guessing the pair would be quite pleased to see that the tech world's Need For Speed is hardly fading. Maingear and Origin PC have both announced this week that their high-end gaming desktops are now available with Intel's Core i7 2700K -- a beast of a processor that's clocked from the factory at 3.5GHz....

IRL: Kingston Wi-Drive, Dyson DC35 and being an Ubuntu fanboy

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:41 PM PDT

IRL: Kingston Wi-Drive, Dyson DC35 and being an Ubuntu fanboy


IRL: Kingston Wi-Drive, Dyson DC35 and being an Ubuntu fanboy
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. The lively comments in yesterday's Nest thermostat post got us thinking: for all our talk of smartphones and Ultrabooks, it's the mundane, not-glamorous stuff that we're spending most of money on....

Mercedes Phasing Out V6 Engines

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:41 PM PDT

Mercedes Phasing Out V6 Engines


Mercedes Phasing Out V6 Engines
Stuttgart gears up to swap its V6s for straight sixes by 2015.

Nexus One denied Ice Cream Sandwich, becomes official relic of Android's yestery...

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:58 PM PDT

Nexus One denied Ice Cream Sandwich, becomes official relic of Android's yesteryears


Nexus One denied Ice Cream Sandwich, becomes official relic of Android's yesteryears
If you're still clinging fast to Google's first ever Nexus device, now might be the time to start eyeing an upgrade. While the search giant's solidly confirmed an Ice Cream Sandwich destiny for owners of its penultimate Android flagship, the Nexus S, the same cannot be said for its HTC-made progenitor....

BYD says electric e6 delayed due to lack of U.S. plug-in infrastructure

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:14 PM PDT

BYD says electric e6 delayed due to lack of U.S. plug-in infrastructure


BYD says electric e6 delayed due to lack of U.S. plug-in infrastructure
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, USA, BYD It's coming in 2010. Scratch that. How about 2011? Oh shucks, that's impossible, too. Let's shoot for 2012. BYD Auto constantly alters the U.S. launch date of the electric e6 crossover. But this latest bit of info should relieve us of reporting further delays. When BYD announced its U.S....

DirecTV's iPad app updated with live TV streaming, as long as you stay at home

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:14 PM PDT

DirecTV's iPad app updated with live TV streaming, as long as you stay at home


DirecTV's iPad app updated with live TV streaming, as long as you stay at home
DirecTV debuted its iPad app in February with an impressive suite of remote control and content browsing options, but one of the few missing features was the ability to watch TV on it, which has now been added. Like similar apps from Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, v1.3.1 adds the ability to watch 38 channels live on the tablet, provided you're connected to the same home network as your DirecTV Plus...

Mythical snow-white N9 spotted at Nokia World

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Mythical snow-white N9 spotted at Nokia World


Mythical snow-white N9 spotted at Nokia World
Is it possible to improve on something as minutely refined as the Nokia N9 simply by adding another color variant? Well, that depends on what color weʼre talking about. Sure, we already have black, cyan, and magenta, but what weʼve been missing -- until now -- is white. Plain, simple, ethereal white....

Crazy Nokia Kinetic Concept Does The Twist

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Crazy Nokia Kinetic Concept Does The Twist


Crazy Nokia Kinetic Concept Does The Twist
What. The. Bleep. Not to say that Nokia's new smartphones aren't interesting, but this crazy flexible smartphone-like device CNET spotted over at Nokia World has to be the coolest thing to grace the showroom floors. Unfortunately, CNET reports that its strictly in the prototype phase, and may never become an actual product that's for sale....

British man's prosthetic arm doubles as Nokia C7 dock

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 11:29 AM PDT

British man's prosthetic arm doubles as Nokia C7 dock


British man's prosthetic arm doubles as Nokia C7 dock
Smartphones have changed our lives, sure, but for those with only one arm, the touchscreen-centric devices can be a downright nuisance. Trevor Prideaux of Somerset, England has worked out of a solution, with help from Nokia and some folks in the medical community. A prosthetist built the 50-year-old catering manager a limb with a cradle for his Nokia C7, allowing Prideaux to operate the phone with a single hand....

Steve McQueen Edition Triumph Motorcycle Ready for a Great Escape

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Steve McQueen Edition Triumph Motorcycle Ready for a Great Escape


Steve McQueen Edition Triumph Motorcycle Ready for a Great Escape
Triumph Motorcycles has introduced a prison camp escape vehicle.

Pioneer PotterNavi: a 3G bike GPS that encourages you to meander

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Pioneer PotterNavi: a 3G bike GPS that encourages you to meander


Pioneer PotterNavi: a 3G bike GPS that encourages you to meander
A GPS that encourages meandering won't be the dish of the day (month, or year) for hypermilers, but might do well in the slightly more genteel world of cycling. Pioneer's PotterNavi sits on the handlebars of your velocipede and can let you decide between straight or scenic routes. The 100 gram device packs a 2.4-inch 240 x 320 LCD screen and fortunate Japanese buyers get two years of 3G data for...

Georgia Man Firebombs Taco Bell Over Chalupa Portion Size

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Georgia Man Firebombs Taco Bell Over Chalupa Portion Size


Georgia Man Firebombs Taco Bell Over Chalupa Portion Size
Cops are hunting an aggrieved customer who firebombed a Georgia Taco Bell because he was unimpressed by the amount of filling in his chalupas.

The Engadget interview: Peter Skillman talks design

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 10:43 AM PDT

The Engadget interview: Peter Skillman talks design


The Engadget interview: Peter Skillman talks design
Peter Skillman knows a thing or two about making beautiful devices. He's Palm's former VP of design, and he's the man behind Nokia's glorious N9 -- its look, feel and user experience. We bumped into him at Nokia World here today and asked him what went into the N9's -- and by association the Lumia 800's -- design....

Insert Coin: PhaserTape turns your smartphone into a rangefinder (video)

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 10:43 AM PDT

Insert Coin: PhaserTape turns your smartphone into a rangefinder (video)


Insert Coin: PhaserTape turns your smartphone into a rangefinder (video)
In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line. You've scoped that little laser dot on the cabinet at the far end of the room, right?...

2012 Mitsubishi i

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:58 AM PDT

2012 Mitsubishi i


2012 Mitsubishi i
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Mitsubishi, AutoblogGreen ExclusiveLight Weight, Rear-Wheel Drive And Instant Torque Bubble Up There are two simple truths about the Mitsubishi i that should help this funky little electric car sell well in the U.S. once it goes on sale later this year. First, it looks like absolutely nothing else on the road today....

Nokia's kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface (video)

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Nokia's kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface (video)


Nokia's kinetic future: flexible screens and a twisted interface (video)
Hidden within Nokia's Future Lounge, this very flexible display offers up a glimpse of what sort of thing we could possibly be dealing with when we roll up to Nokia World in 2021. The prototype Nokia Kinetic Device, including its display, can be flexed across both the vertical and horizontal planes -- with bending and twisting motions controlling the interface....

LG’s Dual-Screen DoublePlay Smartphone Lands At T-Mobile For $99 On-Contract

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:57 AM PDT

LG's Dual-Screen DoublePlay Smartphone Lands At T-Mobile For $99 On-Contract


LG's Dual-Screen DoublePlay Smartphone Lands At T-Mobile For $99 On-Contract
If you are of the opinion that two screens are better than one, I come bearing good news. LG's new DoublePlay smartphone has today been made available at T-Mobile. We first got a peek at the device back in June, though we were pretty uncertain on details at that point....

Tango video calling service for Windows Phone Mango set to roll out November 7th

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Tango video calling service for Windows Phone Mango set to roll out November 7th


Tango video calling service for Windows Phone Mango set to roll out November 7th
We've already seen Tango video calling demonstrated on a Windows Phone Mango handset, and the company has now confirmed that it will indeed be the first video calling service available for the OS. The app is slated to roll out on November 7th, and it will include both some tight integration with the operating system (aided by some input from Microsoft) and hardware acceleration for smoother video calls....

Social Gaming Network PapayaMobile Coming To iOS

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Social Gaming Network PapayaMobile Coming To iOS


Social Gaming Network PapayaMobile Coming To iOS
The popular social gaming network for Android, PapayaMobile, is announcing today that it's now expanding its gaming platform to iOS. The company is making its social development toolkits available to iOS developers as a beta release, allowing them to connect users on both platforms (iOS and Android) for in-game features including challenges, game invites, leaderboards and more. In addition, developers who have built their social games using Papaya's Social Game Engine can...

Polaris bets big on Brammo, could deal bring electric Indians?

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Polaris bets big on Brammo, could deal bring electric Indians?


Polaris bets big on Brammo, could deal bring electric Indians?
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels, USA While Brammo's production arrangement with Flextronics was a pretty significant deal, their latest strategic partnership may prove even more momentous. Powersports powerhouse Polaris Industries has helped close out its $28 million series B funding round in style and committed to synergistically dipping their vast peanut butter resources into the electric motorcycle maker's technology chocolate....

Hisense Series XT710 TV helps you exercise your La-Z-Boy sans remote

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Hisense Series XT710 TV helps you exercise your La-Z-Boy sans remote


Hisense Series XT710 TV helps you exercise your La-Z-Boy sans remote
You might feel like the king of the couch, but let's face it -- picking up the remote can be exhausting. Hisense is hoping to lighten your load with the launch of its new Android-based Smart TV with hands-free eyeSight gesture recognition technology -- the Series XT710. Slated to launch in China, the TV features a 2D sensor, designed to understand your hand movements and interpret your every channel changing whim....

Droid RAZR pre-orders go live on Verizon tomorrow, ships to Blur fans before Nov...

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Droid RAZR pre-orders go live on Verizon tomorrow, ships to Blur fans before November 10th


Droid RAZR pre-orders go live on Verizon tomorrow, ships to Blur fans before November 10th
Who said there's no such thing as a second chance? After resurrecting the RAZR brand just last week with Motorola's newly minted Droid member, Verizon's now gearing up for a pre-order deluge on the 27th. That's right, starting tomorrow morning at 8AM EST, Big Red's dual-core 4G LTE handset'll ship out to eager subs who plunk down the $299 on contract price before November 10th....