 Here's some shots showing the yet to be released BMW 3-Series Coupe, including the interior. The design seems to strike a nice balance between the pudginess of the E46 and the tautness of the E36.
Read more..!
AOpen shows next-gen mini PC
 AOpen has redesigned the mini PC, and will be showing off the new version at CeBIT. The new version is apparently even more diminutive than its predecessor, with a total weight of about 5 pounds and measuring just 6x6-inches. It's expected to include support for WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, and will be able to run a number of Intel processors, including Core Duo. Read more..!
The Cormorant -- a robotic swimming spy drone for the Navy
 This new robotic-submarine-spy-plane from Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works is just a concept for now. The Cormorant is designed to be launched from the large missile tubes on subs that were originally designed for nuclear weapons. Once ejected, the robotic plane floats to the surface then fires up its rockets to fly its mission, be it a surgical missile strike or surveillance. After completion, the plane returns to the sea and is found by a robotic underwater vehicle which brings the drone back to the sub. DARPA is currently funding tests of a few of the systems proposed for the Cormant, and will then decide whether to build a prototype. Read more..!
Space Invaders wall decals invade your living space
 blik surface graphics is selling these 13" blick INVADERS for your walls. They come in packs of 8 for an unreasonably steep $45, leading us to ponder who their intended market is. What would one do with these? If they're just decoration, a simple stencil and some cheap paint seems like a far more economical solution; however, since they're decals, it follows that you're supposed to move them around. Every morning, right after feeding the pets and watering the plants, you could remove some of the invaders and drop the rest down a line. Read more..!
Intelligent design; the evolution of Link
 In honor of The Legend of Zelda's twentieth anniversary, here's an evolutionary diagram of Link throughout the years, culminating with Twilight Princess's Link on the right. Someone oughta put this on a shirt. Read more..!
Kate Spade Ashbury-Victoria Baby Bag
 For the mothers out there who would still like to look fashionable but also need to carry around baby bottles and diapers, Kate Spade's Ashbury-Victoria Baby Bag is a great alternative to carrying around multiple bags. The brightly colored, psychedelic-like floral pattern gives it flare, yet its versatile enough that your outfits will still match. Made of nylon for easy cleaning, it features multiple pockets for all the essential baby needs and a polka dot changing pad. The shoulder drop is 11 1/2". Even when you're done with the diaper bag stage, you could still use this as a day bag. Price: $325. Read more..!
Angular Momentum Axis/IX Big Big Date Watch
 The Axis IX/Big Date from Angular Momentum is a 42mm watch featuring the biggest date numerals ever made for a wrist watch, each is over 4mm high and printed in Superluminova. The time is shown by the revolving disk, minute hand and sweep seconds. The stainless steel case has sapphire crystals with a display back. The movement is a Swiss automatic and the watch sells for $2,300. Read more..!
HP Digital Entertainment Center z556 - PC Magazine
 At $1,499 HP's Digital Entertainment Center z556 and has two SDTV tuners to complement the ATSC. No cable or satellite support in the z556, which is unfortunately much too common in the retail systems. On the flip-side, the z556 looks more at home in your home entertainment center with it's component look and feel. An Intel Pentium 4 running at 3.0 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, a 250 GB hard drive and an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GPU is also under the hood; specs that are close to what we cobbled for less. PC Mag gave the z556 four out of five stars, mainly because it does the basic job of recording your OTA high-def and because it's $500 less than last year's overpriced model. Read more..!
uBrowser: Web browsing in 3D
 With uBrowser you can stick your web browser on a virtual 3D surface and spin it around in real time. In truth it's basically a tech demo that showcases Mozilla's Gecko web page rendering engine married to OpenGL. It's not really good for anything, but it is fun to stick your favorite web site on a sphere or a waving flag and turn it this way and that. Since it's based on LibXUL, it's a fully functional web browser, which means you can click on links, check your Gmail, and even play flash games. And it's also open source. Read more..!
How to delete your files when your laptop gets stolen
 Mac Geekery has a cool guide to making your laptop (in this case a Mac) delete your important files in the event that it gets stolen. The meat of the thing is a shell script that periodically checks a remote web server for a file called "youve_been_stolen," and if it finds the file it quietly deletes the files in your home directory. You can also make it alert the new owner that it's stolen and any other shenanigans you can think up. This method could be extended pretty easily to Windows, but you'll have to figure it out yourself. Just make sure you've got your important files backed up somewhere, 'cause even if you get your laptop back you won't be getting the files back. Read more..!
Numbler: Real-time web-based collaborative spreadsheet
 Numbler is a web-based spreadsheet app that enables collaboration with others in real time. It works like most any spreadsheet but is has far fewer features, so it's probably best suited for keeping simple data that many people need to access and change at the same time. Numbler spreadsheets are identified by URL alone, so you don't have to register an account and it's easy to invite others to use your spreadsheet. It also has import and export features, including XML and CSV files such as Excel exports. Numbler is of course in beta. Read more..!
Microsoft's Origami project
 Microsoft officially flipped the switch on the buzz machine for their Origami Project, is it the Xbox portable? These pics were detailed as a Microsoft portable media player. However, it's got a keyboard and stylus, and the last time we checked, no microsoft Portable Media Center's(PMC) OS has(known) support for touchscreen and keyboard input.
Read more..!
NetJaxer: Make web apps behave like Windows apps
 NetJaxer is an interesting app that lets you treat your web apps—Gmail, Ta-da List, Writely, etc.—like normal Windows apps. With NetJaxer you can create desktop and quicklaunch icons for them, make them run when Windows starts, and minimize to the system tray. When you run a web app with NetJaxer it's loaded in a NetJaxer window, which is basically a dumbed-down web browser. It sounds handy for people who always have a certain set of web apps running in the background and want an easy way to make them pop up at boot and get out of the way when not in use. Read more..!
Naruto PSP case for pre-orders
 Pre-order Bandai's fighting game Naruto and you could find yourself in possession of a PSP case patterned after the Naruto headband like the one in the picture. A limited edition card for the Naruto card battle game will also be included. But! it looks like only Japanese PSP fans are going to be getting the real deal with this one. Read more..!
Hack your own WiFi web radio boombox
 Here's a custom built WiFi boombox with speakers. This hack, by Isnoop, is Linux based, and uses a USB flash drive for storage, but implements a tiny motherboard to run the show. The boombox sniffs for WiFi networks and then automatically connects to a web radio station. Read more..!
Cheapo PSP batteries that won't wonk out
 Game news site Maxconsole took the chance and gave the 2600mAh MEGA PSP battery a spin. The verdict is MEGA performed just as well if not better than the PSP-branded battery. And all it costs is a $20. The review doesn't specifically give any details about the testing, like if the control unit used (the original PSP battery) was brand new at the time of the experiment, and there's a strong chance that this could just be a promotional campaign cooked up by the website, so exercise caution before you make and definite decisions on introducing a non-Sony branded add-on to your handheld. Read more..!
Jim Lee takes the creative reins of DC MMO
 Jim Lee is giving the Bat one more go on the video-game front by tackling the role of Executive Creative Director on the DC Comics MMO planned for release in 2008. The comics industry veteran and fan of MMOs has worked on the "DC Comics Online Project" since August, and he's now meeting with the folks at Sony Austin weekly in order to make the game "as close to the DC Comics source material as possible." Read more..!
Department of Homeland Security looking to develop super-RFID tags?
 Privacy advocates and Spychips authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre say they have discovered a Request for Information issued by the Department of Homeland Security calling for "significant improvements in performance" over the current tech with respect to "superior remote data capture." Specifically, the document supposedly calls for a solution that can identify individual people sitting among others in a car or bus, without any special action on the part of the surveyed, at distances up to 25-feet. Read more..!
Battlestar Galactica mod of Freespace 2 underway
 A mod of the new Battlestar Galactica with the Freespace 2 game engine is currently underway and making some progress. Click on the image to see the mod's 13MB AVI trailer(Caution direct link). This trailer gives a better sense of how things look than the images on the mod's home page at the moment (as the navigation there is a bit broken right now), but anything to mix a fan-favorite space combat sim with the hottest sci-fi show on TV today is definitely worth a look. Of course, as with any total conversion or unofficial adaptation of a commercial property, there's always a chance this mod will get shut down before it ever gets released. As a retail game was made based on the old BSG continuity, this is a legitimate concern for the community developers trying to put this together. Read more..!
|
-Lytir1
