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If green is the new black, then 100 MPG is new green

Images of the IDEA, plug-in utility vehicle. Courtesy Bright Automotive. And today a car rolled into the heart of the beast, right up to Capitol Hill amidst all that government posturing and power. And this car's makers say THIS IS THE FIRST 100 MPG CAR...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Indiana, Solar Energy, Electric Vehicle, Plug-in, Bright Automotive, Envision Solar, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-21

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Deck the halls with LED

Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Alienware M17x Gaming Laptop Computer (Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300, 500GB HDD, 8GB)

With a brand-new look, and some of the highest-end tech available in a laptop, we're semi-surprised that Alienware has kept the M17x name for its newest 17-inch laptop (even if it loses the X-Files-esq "Area-51" moniker). While the system starts at a reasonable $1,799, you'll need to configure something closer...

Tags: Processors, Alienware, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer, NVidia Corp., hard drive, Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-07-16

Bright idea needs money

Bright Automotive wants to green the delivery truck and corporate vehicle fleets of America. If only they can get some money. I recently blogged about Bright's hope to begin production in 2012, both electric cars and delivery vans. They've teamed with a solar company to turn parking...

Tags: Car, Indiana, Bright Idea, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-02

American cars mandated to get greener

American cars mandated to get greenerJust another nail in Detroit's coffinbut on the bright sideused vehicle sales (especially SUV's) are strong.Force Detroit to stop building the cars people want and they will just repair an old one. The market always finds a way.The government continues to dictate the marketAnother freedom...

Tags: Vertical industries, car, American Cars, government

Discussion threads 2009-03-28

Will the sun power your future iPhone?

Will the sun power your future iPhone?Yes!!That's "Thinking Different"All devices?Give me a small panel that I can put onto any device that charges via mini-USB (not Apple devices though, they have their own connectors. Suckers). Better yet, just start putting this on everything-- it needn't be under the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Solar Powered, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Is Apple under attack from a whisper campaign?

Is Apple under attack from a whisper campaign?I am sorry...What? You'll have to speak up.ntIt's true from a certain point of viewThere is a whisper campaign... and it comes from people who know people who had a non-removable ipod battery die, or who bought a new iPod Touch /...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, Apple Inc., battery

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

TomTom ONE 3rd Edition - First thoughts

I'm a sucker for in-car gadgets, so when I got the opportunity to get some hands on time with a new TomTom ONE 3rd Edition, I snapped up the chance. For the past year my navigational needs have been met by a Garmin Nuvi GPS receiver, which,...

Tags: TomTom, GPS Receiver, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-11-01

2008 Saturn Vue XR

Saturn is on a roll, proving that it can turn out decent models in a variety of segments. Its Aura sedan was voted the 2007 North American Car of the Year at this year's Detroit auto show; its Sky and Sky Redline roadsters have been smash hits; its Green Line...

Tags: Performance management, Vue, Vue XR, Saturn, Saturn VUE, Saturn Vue XR, BMW X3, performance

Product reviews 2007-09-06

Netropa Intellinav 2

There are a number of newcomers entering the U.S. GPS market, trying to loosen the grip that heavyweights Garmin, TomTom, and Magellan have on the industry, and one such company is Netropa. The company's Intellinav 2 caught our eye not so much for its design though compact and shiny but...

Tags: Intellinav 2, Netropa Intellinav 2, Averatec Voya, Averatec, SD card

Product reviews 2007-08-06

Itronix Hummer GoBook VR-1

If there's one symbol of automotive excess that has become a permanent part of our consumer lexicon, it's the Hummer line of vehicles. But just as new technologies filter down to the mainstream, the Hummer audience has expanded from adrenaline junkies to soccer moms, thanks to GM's more user-friendly H2...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, GPS, Itronix, Hummer, Hummer GoBook VR-1, laptop computer

Product reviews 2006-10-04

2006 Honda S2000

The 2006 Honda S2000 roadster was designed with one thing in mind: performance.Honda took a punchy engine, dropped it into a great-looking, lightweight wrapper, then tried to make all the other gubbins fit around it. The S2000 has changed little since its introduction in 1999, and, as advances in in-car...

Tags: Performance management, Honda S2000, Honda Motor Co.

Product reviews 2006-09-22

2006 Audi Q7

Aren't SUVs supposed to be dead? With the introduction of the 2007 Audi Q7, the company's first SUV, Audi is betting that they're not. Even if SUV sales have flattened out, they still represent a significant portion of the American automotive market, and the Q7 was designed with American sales...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Monitors & displays, Backups, Audi Q7, Audi AG

Product reviews 2006-05-25

Microsoft joins OpenDocument group

Microsoft joins OpenDocument groupM$ tries to embrace and estinguishSame old tactic, but they will fail again and again.Fox in the HenhouseSo much for the OpenDocument group. Hmmm, I give six months, maybe a year, and it will be toothless if not toast.Everybody Sing...hat's great, it starts with an earthquake,...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-27

CyberPower Xplorer X64 9700

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in Computer Shopper magazine. (3/17/06)CyberPower's tradition of building flashy gaming desktops in sleek, automotive-style, custom-color cases now extends to notebooks with its Xplorer line, which come in seven bright hues. Our fire-engine-red test model packed a nice feature set for $1,458.At first glance, the...

Tags: Performance management, Notebooks, Cyberpower, CyberPower Xplorer X64 9700

Product reviews 2006-03-17

Microsoft's eye on open source

Microsoft's eye on open sourceThat happens in ALL technologiesIs good to see people talking about this. What he is refering to, happens in Microsoft and any other. It is just natural, when you do things thinking short term, and not thinking the impact on the overall system. Hello? do we...

Tags: Linux, Team management, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

IEEE1394 consumer electronics shipments to equal PC shipments

The consumer electronics CE market is a bright spot for 1394, a high-speed serial bus specification, also called Firewire or i.Link, that is battling with competing technologies in several markets, reports In-Stat. 1394a has increasing penetration in digital television, set top box, and portable digital audio player markets, the high-tech...

Tags: electronics, consumer electronics, specification

Blog posts 2005-06-21

It's time to evaluate Bill Gates

It's time to evaluate Bill GatesMicrosoft OS advancementI can understand people's views on the Longhorn postponement, but I honestly believe it isn't due to complex coding, feature creep, or project sprawl. Look at the industry of OS deployment in major entities. States and large companies didn't move to...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, Pocket PC platform, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Palm Inc., operating system, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2005-01-14

Bye-bye, blueprint: 3D modeling catches on

Bye-bye, blueprint: 3D modeling catches onOld news is NO newsThis type of technology for building systems has been around for a couple of decades. Just not from Autodesk. Not surprising since AutoCAD is the Windows of the CAD world (meaning more work than it is worth, lots of hidden costs,...

Tags: Old News, BIM, CAD, 3D modeling, 3D

Discussion threads 2004-10-04

Navman iCN 650 1.5.0.0 (Windows)

Navman iCN 650 : The iCN 650 boasts a large, bright 9.7cm (3.8in) automotive-rated screen, viewable in most lighting conditions. Inside the rugged aluminum alloy housing is a high quality, integrated speaker that delivers clear turn-by-turn voice-guidance, an internal 2GB hard disk drive with full street-level maps of Western Europe...

Tags: Navman, iCN 650, GPS, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-08-18