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What really happened on Aptera's last day: smiles, not destruction

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 02:16 PM PST

What really happened on Aptera's last day: smiles, not destruction


What really happened on Aptera's last day: smiles, not destruction
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Aptera Remember those Aptera-destroying videos that we thought were maybe filmed on the day the company closed up shop but then turned out to be months old? Here's some more context about them and information about what really happened on Aptera's last day. Marques McCammon, Aptera Motors's former CMO, contacted AutoblogGreen to set the record straight and sent over the picture you see above (click it to...

Catching Up With IntoNow Before The Republican Debate (Video)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 01:29 PM PST

Catching Up With IntoNow Before The Republican Debate (Video)


Catching Up With IntoNow Before The Republican Debate (Video)
Social TV these days usually means a companion app on your iPad that lets you Tweet along with your friends and fellow fans while you are watching TV. These apps work best for live events (the one remaining time in the age of the DVR when a large mass of people actually watch an event at the same time)....

Toshiba Thrive 7-inch slate officially drops tomorrow, December 11th

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 01:29 PM PST

Toshiba Thrive 7-inch slate officially drops tomorrow, December 11th


Toshiba Thrive 7-inch slate officially drops tomorrow, December 11th
Just in time for you to get your holiday shopping wrapped up early, the Toshiba Thrive 7-inch tablet will officially go on sale tomorrow, December 11th. Sneaking in before the early December reports that we'd heard pass, the slate will allow you snag a piece of Honeycomb and a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor for "less than $400." While you're deciding between the 16GB and 32GB options, go on and bookmark that...

Mitsubishi Electric's EMIRAI concept goes back to the future, refuses to fly (vi...

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:41 PM PST

Mitsubishi Electric's EMIRAI concept goes back to the future, refuses to fly (video)


Mitsubishi Electric's EMIRAI concept goes back to the future, refuses to fly (video)
The Jetsons were a lie, people. If you want a flying car, glue a parachute to a Matchbox racer. Automotive companies like Mitsubishi Electric have a distinctly different idea about our auto future, one where we'll all be driving in a 1980s-by-way-of-2011 Tron roadster with seatback-embedded (glasses-free) 3D TVs and a big 'ol curved rear projection display....

Belle to make a pass at Symbian handsets early in 2012, Anna pretends to looks t...

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:54 AM PST

Belle to make a pass at Symbian handsets early in 2012, Anna pretends to looks the other way


Belle to make a pass at Symbian handsets early in 2012, Anna pretends to looks the other way
We already know Donna and Carla are waiting in the wings, but you're likely wondering what's the deal with Belle. And no, that Symbian update isn't being held captive by a Beast in a lonely French castle, thank you very much. According to a report on All About Symbian, Espoo's OS refresh -- currently shipping on the trio of handsets pictured above -- is slated to roll out worldwide for a...

Microsoft launches ExcelMashup.com, looks to make spreadsheets both hip and exci...

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 11:07 AM PST

Microsoft launches ExcelMashup.com, looks to make spreadsheets both hip and exciting


Microsoft launches ExcelMashup.com, looks to make spreadsheets both hip and exciting
Most of our day jobs aren't nearly as amusing as life at Wernham Hogg and Excel doesn't make things any more exciting. But, if you're looking to spice up your spreadsheets, Microsoft's ExcelMashup.com may be just what you've been waiting for. The site lets you create apps of your very own using Redmond's various products....

Today Amazon Will Give You $15 To Use PriceCheck and Screw Local Retailers

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:33 AM PST

Today Amazon Will Give You $15 To Use PriceCheck and Screw Local Retailers


Today Amazon Will Give You $15 To Use PriceCheck and Screw Local Retailers
Today, December 10th, Amazon is offering a very special deal you're going to love and your local brick-and-mortar retailer is going to hate. Use its PriceCheck mobile app and get 5% off your purchase, up to $5 at a time, as many as 3 times. Why the discounts to use PriceCheck?...

App review: Infinity Blade 2 (iOS)

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:33 AM PST

App review: Infinity Blade 2 (iOS)


App review: Infinity Blade 2 (iOS)
The 3D duel-fest is back, and attempting to answer some of the questions left over from its first installment (and a few major updates). Infinity Blade has had a huge effect on promoting the iPad and iPhone as valid gaming options, with high quality visuals and intuitive touchscreen controls. Well, Epic hasn't tampered with the formula too much, but has tried to instill some considered expansions and pour even more eye-honey...

Mobile Miscellany: week of December 5, 2011

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 07:09 AM PST

Mobile Miscellany: week of December 5, 2011


Mobile Miscellany: week of December 5, 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 December 5, 2011: C Spire announced this week that it's launching the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play....

Toyota patent hints at sportier iQ

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:16 AM PST

Toyota patent hints at sportier iQ


Toyota patent hints at sportier iQ
Filed under: MPG, Scion Toyota may be hard at work on a new version of the company's iQ microcar. The sleuths at Carscoop have managed to uncover a patent rendering of the fuel-sipping sub-compact wearing some considerably more aggressive bodywork. It's unclear whether these designs are meant for the U.S.-market iQ or its Toyota-badged twin, but we're more than a little intrigued by the vehicle's widebody treatment. The kit looks to include a...

Ofcom releases 2012/13 plan: no UK 4G until you've eaten your vegetables

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:16 AM PST

Ofcom releases 2012/13 plan: no UK 4G until you've eaten your vegetables


Ofcom releases 2012/13 plan: no UK 4G until you've eaten your vegetables
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has released its draft plans for 2012/13 with big changes ahead for nerds on this side of the Atlantic. The auctioning off of the 800MHz and 2.6GHz spectrums for 4G internet is coming as soon as the British FCC has booted off the remaining TV services that still use 'em....

Skype co-founder's latest company signs deal with LightSquared, promises free br...

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 05:26 AM PST

Skype co-founder's latest company signs deal with LightSquared, promises free broadband and voice services


Skype co-founder's latest company signs deal with LightSquared, promises free broadband and voice services
A mysterious startup promising free wireless broadband and voice services to all Americans should rightly prompt a fair bit of skepticism, but FreedomPop isn't quite your average fly-by-night organization (despite appearances). It's backed by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, and it's just signed an agreement with LTE wholesaler LightSquared to provide the backbone for the service....

iPhone 4S cleared for use in China, sino-Siri coming soon

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 03:50 AM PST

iPhone 4S cleared for use in China, sino-Siri coming soon


iPhone 4S cleared for use in China, sino-Siri coming soon
While Apple fans around the globe have had the iPhone 4S for awhile now, many of our friends in the Far East haven't gotten to enjoy the fruits of their countrymen's labor due to a lack of governmental approval. You see, before a handset makes it onto Chinese networks, it's got to be approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)....

Coby to intro five Ice Cream Sandwich slates at CES, satiate your budget tablet...

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 02:12 AM PST

Coby to intro five Ice Cream Sandwich slates at CES, satiate your budget tablet cravings


Coby to intro five Ice Cream Sandwich slates at CES, satiate your budget tablet cravings
Not prepared to pony up for the ICS-ready Transformer Prime? No worries, Coby has five alternative flavors, each offering its own helping of Android 4.0. The quintet of tablets bear the same model number format as the outfit's Kyros tablets, and all share the same 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU....

Chrono Trigger hits the App Store, lets Square Enix fans turn back time

Posted: 10 Dec 2011 12:32 AM PST

Chrono Trigger hits the App Store, lets Square Enix fans turn back time


Chrono Trigger hits the App Store, lets Square Enix fans turn back time
Square Enix just couldn't resist plucking at our heartstrings -- not to mention willing bill folds. As a timely holiday treat, the company's made good on its end-of-year promise, delivering the SNES RPG epic and cult hit -- Chrono Trigger -- to Apple's App Store. If you're wielding either a third generation and up iPhone or iPod touch, the endless hours of non-linear, time-traveling gameplay can be yours for the re-hashing,...

Aldebaran Robotics announces Nao Next Gen humanoid robot (video)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 10:08 PM PST

Aldebaran Robotics announces Nao Next Gen humanoid robot (video)


Aldebaran Robotics announces Nao Next Gen humanoid robot (video)
Aldebaran Robotics' Nao robot has already received a few upgrades from both the company itself and other developers, but it now has a proper successor. Aldebaran took the wraps off its new and improved Nao Next Gen robot today, touting features like a 1.6GHz Atom processor and dual HD cameras that promise to allow for better face and object recognition even in poor lighting conditions....

Sharp nearing 1 million big-screen TV sales in North America, expanding global m...

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 07:43 PM PST

Sharp nearing 1 million big-screen TV sales in North America, expanding global market


Sharp nearing 1 million big-screen TV sales in North America, expanding global market
Sharp Corporation claims they may top 1 million big-screen televisions (60 inches or above) sold in North America alone by March of next year, and expects growth the next fiscal year. With a stronger hold on the Japanese market then its competitors, the company is expanding overseas to bolster competition and avoid Asia's current market forecast -- a projected $6 billion decline in LCD sales by 2015....

More Bad News for the Fiat 500

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 06:56 PM PST

More Bad News for the Fiat 500


More Bad News for the Fiat 500
The 500 fares poorly in federal crash tests.

ViaSat-1 sends its first words through the stratosphere to cooing stateside rela...

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 06:08 PM PST

ViaSat-1 sends its first words through the stratosphere to cooing stateside relatives


ViaSat-1 sends its first words through the stratosphere to cooing stateside relatives
The ViaSat-1 story seems to be orbiting its way toward a happy ending in time for Christmas. The world's highest capacity telecommunications satellite sent down its first words on December 2nd: sadly it didn't chime a romantic "Mommy!" but a somber collection of high-bandwidth video streams, emails and websites. It'll continue back-and-forth testing, probably sending back pictures of red firetrucks until mid-December, which is when the company will assume "full control"...

Nissan Leaf serenaded by singing sockets for first birthday

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 05:20 PM PST

Nissan Leaf serenaded by singing sockets for first birthday


Nissan Leaf serenaded by singing sockets for first birthday
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan The Nissan Leaf is one year old, and who's there on the happy day to sing its anniversary? Electrical sockets, that's who. More than 20,000 of the little electric buggers have been sold, racking up "more than 32 million gas free miles," according to Nissan Twenty-seven sockets make an appearance in this new commercial to commemorate the occasion - not a bad turnout for a 1-year-old....

Local Motors Going Global

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 05:20 PM PST

Local Motors Going Global


Local Motors Going Global
How a small car company got the world behind it.

Step aside Arduino, TinkerForge is the new sheriff in mod-town (video)

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 05:20 PM PST

Step aside Arduino, TinkerForge is the new sheriff in mod-town (video)


Step aside Arduino, TinkerForge is the new sheriff in mod-town (video)
Does Arduino coding bring you out in a cold sweat? Perhaps what you need is the new open-source gear from TinkerForge. The modular system is designed for even novice users to whip up fully functioning robots in a matter of minutes hours. You start with a 4 x 4cm Brick, which you program over USB, but it won't do anything until you add accessories in the form of Bricklets: switches, joysticks,...

Celebs and Their Classic Cars

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 05:20 PM PST

Celebs and Their Classic Cars


Celebs and Their Classic Cars
Sometimes, the appeal of a classic wins over the latest models.