GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - The destruction of the orange sedan with its slapdash paintwork may have been intentional but it was far from wanton. It was all part of Volvo’s bid to create an injury-proof car by 2020.
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Engadget has had a chance to play around with Psystar’s Open Computer and has a few things to say about the controversial machine. “Okay, so we’ve been playing with the Psystar Open Computer for a few hours now, and we’ve formed some early impressions and put together a short video of it in action. We […]
No other dishwasher quite matches the design of the Mural, which “slides along the length of the rack, cleaning as it goes.” Pricing and availability have not yet been announced. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Putting your dirty dishes into a dishwasher to clean them only to move them again to a cupboard for […]
Israel’s $600,000 “Guardium” is an autonomous, 4-wheeled robot that “can be mounted with cameras, night-vision equipment and sensors, as well as more lethal tools like machine guns.” Video after the break.
Following pre-programmed routes, it can navigate alone through cities - the vehicle knows how to deal with intersections, traffic and road markings. It can patrol […]
BoyGeniusReport provides us with the first pictures of RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry “Kickstart” clamshell phone. It sports “a Pearl-esque keyboard, typical trackball navigation, and apparently utilizes both an internal and external LCD screen.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
Ready to have your brain blown out through the top of your head? Look above — you’re […]
For this contest, we’re giving away a Trendnet TEW-632BRP 300Mbps Wireless N Home Router and TEW-621PC Wireless N PC Card (review (/content/view/30382/96/)).
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp on Wednesday launched tools to reduce computer energy consumption as IBM hopes to boost its business of selling power-saving technologies.
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Lucas123 writes “The same Xerox lab that brought us Ethernet, the GUI and the mouse has demonstrated paper that can be reused after printed text automatically deletes itself from its surface in a day. Instead of trashing or recycling after one use, a single piece of paper can be reused up to 100 times. ‘The […]
Exercise can protect against everything from heart attacks and cancer to depression and erectile dysfunction, but the New York Times focuses on how working out also helps with ailments you’re already suffering from—even those that make exercise difficult.
Perhaps the most immediate benefits are reaped by people with joint and neuromuscular disorders. Without exercise, those at […]
esocid writes “Researchers at HP Labs have solved a decades-old mystery by proving the existence of a fourth basic element in integrated circuits that could make it possible to develop computers that turn on and off like an electric light. The memristor — short for memory resistor — could make it possible to develop far […]
