 Autocar reports that the car is available with a 3.2-liter, 388 hp V8, good for 0-62 mph in 5.0 sec, while SPEEDTV.com reports a 4-liter, 388 hp V8. Meanwhile, the official specs for the M-series Coupe list only the 3.2-liter inline 6 from the M3, with 343 hp and 0-62 mph in 5.0 sec! And, while Autocar cites both inline 6 and V8 variants of the M Coupe, SPEEDTV.com says the M will be available only with the V8.
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Alienware's new MJ-12 7500 dual core workstations
 So Alienware is busting out their new MJ-12 7500 desktops featuring Intel and AMD's finest dual core chips, along with NVIDIA Quadro FX graphics and a liquid cooling option. The systems start at $1500 and shoot up dramatically from there, with the dual NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 cards jacking the price up $3000. Some systems configurations can reach the 10k mark easily so be mindful of which extras you really need. Read more..!
 Torus Trooper is a fly-through-infinite-space-and-kill-the-baddies top-down shooter for Windows reminiscent of Galaga and Tempest. It's an extraordinarily fast-paced game with gorgeous wireframe graphics and a frenetic techno soundtrack, and not only do you have a constant barrage of baddies and projectiles to contend with, you also have to navigate a twisting, turning playing field that zooms past at lightning speed. Best of all, even on my lousy 32MB video card, Torus Trooper runs at full kick, even at 1280x1024. Read more..!
 The bags are all angles and clean defined lines. Their fall/winter collection is done in embossed crocodile but there are also fabric bags available. The Quadra, shown here has a crocodile-embossed calfskin exterior and a printed cotton fabric interior with a zipped pocket, magnetic snap closure, and four nickel feet on the bottom. It sells for $199. Read more..!
Garyboy DS, GaryCube, GarySP, GaryBox, GaryS2
Gary Brolsma, the reluctant hero best known for chair-dancing to that infectious Numa Numa song, must have been busy. If this video is to be believed, he's released all sorts of Gary-branded game products. Enjoy. Read more..!
Tiret Launches New Debonair Watch Models
 The latest watch from Tiret, the watch company founded by Damon Dash and Daniel Lazar, is the Debonair. Previous Tiret models were heavy on the diamonds and rounded shapes but Debonair is all about transparency and squared shapes. It has an Art-Deco-style case and there are two versions of the watch. The Debonair XL model is a skeleton watch which has a surface treatment that uses a black cold plasma coating with a hardness of more than 2000 Vickers. The movement is an ETA calibre A07.161 with 24 jewels. It has a power reserve of 48 hours.
Debonair model
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Epson Endeavor NT2850 lightweight 15-inch laptop
 Epson's Endeavor line doesn't just include Core Duos. The company also has some lightweight budget-priced models, including the NT2850, which is due out in Japan shortly, and is expected to start at the equivalent of $799. Features include a 15-inch display, a Celeron M 370J at 1.5GHz and up to 2GB RAM. It's available in black, oh-so-fashionable white, and in Japan a Disney-themed versions. Read more..!
"The karaoke of the TAITO appears!" (Only on JP PSPs)
 Taito has launched a song download service for aspiring karaoke masters on Japanese PSPs through Sony's P-TV service. According to GameSpot: "The site only offers about 70 songs at the current time, but Taito plans to expand the available selection to over 10,000 songs by early summer. Each of Taito's Karaoke songs can be downloaded for 105 yen ($.93), and can be played back on the PSP for 15 days."Read more..!
OGLE: The OpenGL Extractor
 OGLE, stands for OpenGL Extractor, it is an app that captures 3D models from any OpenGL app. It's like a screen capture program that works in 3D. Its makers have used it with SecondLife, World of Warcraft, and Google Earth to export 3D models of characters, creatures, and entire cities. They've even used it to create real, physical models of WoW characters. which is pretty brilliant if you ask me. Click through to the OGLE site for much more information, screenshots, and the free Windows download. Read more..!
 Adblock Plus is an extension that tries to succeed where Adblock does not. It (as of version 0.6) is a complete rewrite of Adblock that does everything its successor does but adds whitelisting, preferences to control how it behaves, and a sidebar that will show you all of the objects on a page and let you choose what to block. Read more..!
Parappa M-I-Xes flour into a bowl, LIVE!
Andreas Wieslander's bachelor thesis, entitled "IN REAL GAME," is "a project about marketing games through live performances, in order to focus on the games feel, rather than its graphics and sfx."He has chosen the infectious beats and charms of the PlayStation classic Parappa the Rapper to illustrate this concept. They act out the roles of Cheep Cheep and Parappa in a rendition of "Cheep Cheep Cooking Chicken's Rap," complete with seafood cake, live backing band, and Parappa's jerky delivery. "Crack. Crack. Crack. The egg. Into. The bowl." Read more..!
12 things you can get over RSS besides news
 Rich Ziade at Basement.org has made a nice post called Taking RSS Beyond Headlines in which he points to twelve different places you can get something other than headlines and blog posts via RSS. Among them: TV listings, travel and shopping deals, package tracking, and more. Read more..!
ESPN-HD adds 5.1 to SportsCenter
 Dish Network as well as Comcast cable subscribers now get Digital Dolby 5.1 surround sound via ESPN-HD, while DIRECTV customers still have the dual channel stereo feed. Read more..!
Design the next KOTOR title
 Obsidian is still searching for a number of job positions, including senior designer, for an unannounced action RPG game, slated for release on the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Could this be a next-gen sequel to the popular Knights of the Old Republic franchise? What are you waiting for, now's your chance to get in on the action. May the Force be with you. Read more..!
 SlickRun is a very small and simple application launcher, and along with allowing you to assign keywords to applications & launch them, you can quickly navigate to both local folders on your filesystem as well as websites. Simply hit the SlickRun hotkey combination, type your destination and press Enter, and you're there. SlickRun also contains a very useful Jot application for taking notes. It automatically saves so you don't need to remember to, it'll accept any text that is dragged and dropped onto it, and timestamps entries to make finding them again easier. It also contains a Find function. If you're looking for a faster way to get around your Windows system, give SlickRun a try. It's free, and fast, and does what it does. Read more..!
Dynamizer hits the slopes
 Hey, it's no perfect five diamond run or anything, but you just can't deny Dynamizer -- the Robo-One battle-bot -- hitting the slopes for a day in the snow. Read more..!
Feed43: Roll your own feeds for any site
 Feed43 lets you do advanced screen-scraping on any web page, meaning you can get only the information you're interested in whenever it's updated. Be warned, however: This is not for those who are afraid of HTML. To create a feed with Feed43, you have to tell it which parts of the HTML source to look for and how to use it. It's very powerful, but not for the lazy. If you want to see what's involved in creating a new feed, the Feed43 blog has a couple tutorials, including one that shows how to get a feed for the weather from Weather.com. Right now Feed43 is in private beta, but signed up and get an invite. Read more..!
Performancing 1.1 released
 Performancing 1.1 has improved Technorati support, del.icio.us integration, trackback with autodiscovery, ping support, draft support, full metaWeblog API functionality and more, plus the usual bug fixes. Read more..!
 Fuji's FinePix E900 packs a lot of power into a small package, with its 9-megapixel CCD, 4x optical zoom, full manual controls and RAW capabilities. DigitalCameraInfo took a look, and found it to be a "very solid compact camera" with "unusually high resolution, good color and image quality." On the downside, some of those SLR-style features didn't quite work out very well. The reviewer found the E900's manual focus to be "atrocious," and also felt the camera's RAW converter was "extremely limited." Read more..!
Red Hat to bring Linux to Intel Macs
 If the folks at Red Hat have their way, Linux may be running on your iMac and MacBook Pro. The company has announced plans to support the new computers, and will work to develop a boot loader that will work with the Extensible Firmware Interface, which fills in for a BIOS on the Intel Macs. However, Red Hat admits they don't yet have any Intel Macs in house, so it might take them a while to actually get going on this. Oh, and if you think you can get Windows working on a Macintel box, you may be able to collect a bounty; one enterprising fellow has launched a site where he's soliciting donations for a reward to be paid to the first person to dual boot Windows and OS X on an Intel Mac. So far, he's collected over $5,700. Read more..!
One disc, every Street Fighter Alpha game -- ever
 For now, Capcom can't touch the fact that Midway is developing a game that will feature every Mortal Kombat character in the series' history, but the company has announced plans to release Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, which will include arcade ports of Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold and Street Fighter Alpha 3, plus Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (aka Pocket Fighter). The collection is due out this summer for the PlayStation 2. Unfortunately, no plans have been announced to release Street Fighter Alpha Anthology on additional platforms or include online play. Read more..!
Asahi robot bartender chills and pours
 Japan's Asahi Breweries company's robot bartender can open a can of beer and pour it into a glass, guaranteeing a perfect head each time. And the bot's body is a fridge that holds a six pack. As part of a promotion, Asahi is giving away 5,000 of the bots. Unfortunately, it's a Japan-only deal. Read more..!
Big O'Reilly hacks directory
 O'Reilly has a page that lists every one of their hacks available online, including sample hacks from their "Hacks" series of books and hacks contributed by readers. There are dozens and dozens of hacks there, from Amazon to XML and Astronomy to Yahoo! If you've ever wanted to know a better way to do most anything with a computer, check here. Read more..!
 Mailbigfile.com doesn't require registration, it's simple (consisting of exactly four fields, two of which are optional), and it has an upload progress bar. Mailbigfile.com let you upload files up to a gigabyte, and is free. Read more..!
 The Swedish Statement is an ultra-luxe ($400,000-$450,000) stereo system. The Marten $250k Coltrane Supreme speakers have 1" diamond tweeters and 2" diamond midranges and lots of ceramic drivers. The cabinets are made out of carbon fiber and wood and the big towers function as subwoofers with 9" drivers. The system has a whole bunch of components that don't make any sense but apparently deliver big rich sound. Sonic Flare has a couple of posts that demystify the worth of the system and the Swedish Statement website describes the system as "five high end producers putting their statement products in one of the worlds finest audio systems."Read more..!
W. Virginia to put DDR in all 765 public schools
 DDR is going to the next level: getting placed in every public school in an entire state. West Virginia is the first state in the U.S. to officially adopt Konami's dancing simulator in all of its 765 public schools. According to SFGate: "The games, which will run on Microsoft Xboxes, will be incorporated into physical education curricula and after-school programs" in an effort to motivate kids to exercise and to fight childhood obesity, a growing problem in the state. Adult supervision will be required to prevent hacking (read: game swapping) and unforeseen health complications. At any rate, buying even one TV-Xbox-dance-pad combo for each school will cost over $550,000 total, though the program's cost is being sponsored by no fewer than one other local group or agency. Read more..!
Yojimbo: Organize your "other stuff"
 A Mac app designed for keeping track of all that miscellaneous information that seems so important but doesn't otherwise lend itself to easy organization: PDFs, product serial numbers, images, and bits of text. It's from Barebones Software, the makers of BBEdit and TextWrangler, which means two things: it's bound to be an excellent piece of software, and it's not free. Yojimbo will cost you $39 for a single-user license. Read more..!
HRP-2 could bring you something from the fridge!
 The bot is now capable of accepting verbal commands to grab a drink from the fridge, aside from the dancing ninja industrial bot abilities it has already. Read more..!
Kenwood HDV-770 GPS/media player
 Kenwood's multi-function GPS units the HDV-770, includes a 7-inch touchscreen display, hard drive, CD/DVD player with MP3/WMA and MPEG playback, TV tuner and iPod connectivity. Due out next month for ¥215,000 ($1,876). Read more..!
 Nabaztag is a WiFi-enabled bunny wabbit, but according to ShinyShiny it looks like it'll be hopping and spreading ambient information soon, and with the ability to sing and talk, no less. Read more..!
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