 Spanish companies H2R Design Consulting and Mazel Group's Identity i1 concept car is a mid-engine sportscar said to be powered by a 487 hp aluminum-block V8, driving the rear wheels through a six-speed gearbox. The two-seater features shift-by-wire and brake-by-wire systems, apparently enabling some creative placement of controls in the interior.
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New Zenview offers six 24-inch displays as one
 The new Zenview Command Center Elite from Digital Tigers is a monster array of six 24-inch Samsung displays. Each display sports a 1920x1200 resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, and 6ms response times, all of which, when added up, equals a whole lot of awesome. Now you just have to find yourself some dual DVI graphics cards to run it. Read more..!
Art Lebedev Studios' Mus2 mouse
 Art Lebedev Studios' (maker of the Optimus keyboard, and the mini three) Mus2 is a literally shaped device for all you cursor-jockeys out there that ironically doesn't look all that terribly comfortable in the hand, even despite their reassuring claims that it "doesn't cause any discomfort." And yes, the mousepad says "click". Read more..!
Multi-touch DS patent? And DSOrganize software makes a PDA out of it?
 The DS had some news going on: first, in the form of a patent that surfaced in the USPTO regarding DS multi-touch input, something becoming all the rage these days. Nice, nice, but before we start anticipating too much what the DS might one day do, we'd like to call attention to something it can do now: pretend to be a PDA. Makes perfect sense, though; you carry your DS around with you anyway, and by all accounts it probably has more screen real estate and horsepower than that aging Palm. So why not use DSOrganize, a new homebrew with a calendar app, day planner, vCard support, and (early) handwriting recognition! Because let's not forget your DS has WiFi. Read more..!
 Bamzooki is intended for kids. You create Zooks, or little critters, but in this case, they are 3d, in color, and customizable. Once you're done creating the thing, you can upload it and test the speed and agility of the Zook against others. In fact, there are a variety of tests for your Zook, from time trials around a loop to jumping contests. The tool for creating Zooks is a fun toy in itself. Read more..!
Etro Beaded Leather Drawstring Bag
 Etro's Beaded Leather Drawstring Bag is one of their more tame designs, but nonetheless, still funky. Made of soft calfskin leather, it features brown alligator trim and purple leather piping. The interior is lined with lime green silk. Although there are multiple colors used, they are quite complimenting to one another and to your outfit. The delicate shade of yellow and beautifully crafted beading makes this bag perfect for the Spring. Price: $2,050. Read more..!
Porsche Design Reading Tool
 These sexy readers that are new from Porsche design feature ergonomically designed earpieces made of high-tech plastic and a stainless steel center piece with non-reflecting Rodenstock lenses which are thin light and durable. The glasses are available in four strengths from 1.00 to 2.50 and are currently available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Read more..!
Production-ready Tramontana
 Here's another exotic sports car the Tramontana, an interesting two-seater that has played itself out as a concept vehicle in years past, but now the Spanish vehicle is ready for prime time. The Tramontana, at a weight of just over 2000 lbs., has been blessed with a 5.5-liter, twin-turbocharged V12 engine putting out 720 hp to launch it to a top speed of 182 mph. No word on pricing yet, but they'll likely vary as the company promises to customize them for each new owner. Read more..!
 Gamer's Internet Tunnel allows you to connect separate LAN's together and play online games with less packet loss in theory. As a practical upshot, you can play PS2 online games as well, like TimeSplitters 2. There's a how-to on setting up GIT with TS2 on NeoAvalon. It's a good overview of GIT as well, though you'll need to know a couple of things about networking. Similar projects include XBConnect (for Xbox) and Warp Pipe (for, you guessed it, GameCube). As usual, most of these are betas, but it's nice to see the development progressing quickly. Read more..!
Canon announces DC100 widescreen DVD camcorder
 Canon has a new reason to check out the HD-format with their entry-level DC100 camera. The camera includes a widescreen CCD to record natively to 16:9 instead of merely letter boxing, offering a higher resolution final image for your widescreen TV. The camcorder also sports a 2.7-inch LCD and 25x zoom. Canon will be showing the DC100 at PMA, and should have it for sale at the end of April for $500. Read more..!
Sony's eBook Reader gets a price on SonyStyle store
 Sony's Reader (PRS-500) has a price and has shown up on Sony's SonyStyle store site. It was expected any time now for spring 2006 launch between $300 and $400 US, so if you've got the $350 cash in hand that they want for one of these, head on over friends, and get some serious book wormin' done up. Read more..!
 The CCX will come with a reported 806bhp from a twin-supercharged V8. This means that its performance numbers will also remain the same as the CCR’s with a blast to 62 mph taking 3.2 seconds and the party ending around 245 mph, which is well short of the Veyron’s best run of 252.9 mph. David Naylor has pics of the car's official brochure on his blog, and he points out that the CCX does sport significant changes that make it more U.S. friendly, including 50mm more headroom (most likely to increase helmet clearance) and an increase in length of 88mm to aid in US rear crash regulations. The engine has also been retuned to favor the U.S. flavor of 91 octane. Read more..!
SanDisk bumps memory card capacities
 SanDisk has announced three separate capacity boosts. First, in doubling the capacity of the Extreme III Cards for professional digital photographers. Available in March, the new cards include the Extreme III 8GB CompactFlash for $560, the $200 2GB SD, and the 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo for $420 green. The CF and SD cards both feature a minimum read/write speed of 20 MB/sec while the Memory Stick PRO Duo cards manage 19MB/sec minimum read and write speeds. Likewise, SanDisk also announced a capacity doubling 2GB SanDisk Ultra II SD Plus Card (pictured) due in June for $135. Lastly, SanDisk announced their high-speed 4GB Ultra II Memory Stick PRO Duo card available in March for $240. Read more..!
JVC CU-VD10 Everio Share Station enables direct DVD burning
 Using a hard drive-based camcorder like the JVC Everio is great if you're willing to offload your video to your PC periodically and burn it to discs. But if you don't want to deal with that -- or you're on the road without a laptop -- JVC has come up with a simpler solution in the form of the Everio Share Station, a dock with a built-in DVD burner that seems to have been inspired by the printing docks Kodak makes for its Easy Share cameras. The $200 Share Station connects to Everio G-series camcorders via USB, and allows one-button burning of videos to DVDs. It can also double as an external DVD burner for a PC. Read more..!
Pretec 133X Compact Flash card
 Pretec is calling they're 133X CF card the “world’s fastest” CompactFlash card, capable of running at up to 20MB/sec and 14MB/sec for read & write access making it 50% faster than it’s predecessor; the PRETEC 80X. Sure, but Sandisk has been pulling 20MB/sec read/write speeds for awhile now with their Extreme III CF lineup. Anyway, The 133X CF is fully ATA/True IDE compatible and operational in both 5V and 3.3V platforms. No pricing has been announced but expect this professional card to come with a professional price tag. Read more..!
Hitachi's EMIEW getting into the hotel clerk game
 Hitachi's EMIEW (Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate) bot has finally decided on a career- as a hotel clerk. It's unclear which EMIEW model (Pal, Chum, or one of their new Buds) will be working alongside Sheraton Hotel mascot "Penton" at the Grand Tokyo Bay Hotel from March 6th through the 12th, but the unlucky wheeled-droid is in for the most annoying of all job-related tasks: dealing with kids all day. Read more..!
Panasonic's Lumix DMC-L1, first DSLR
 Panasonic's new DMC-L1 features the Venus Engine III, a 2.5-inch live LCD (like in Olympus's E-330), and a 7.5 megapixel "Live MOS" sensor, as they call it -- which they claim has reduced power consumption and more CCD-like image quality. Panasonic has also added Oly's Supersonic Wave Filter dust reduction system, which shakes dust off the sensor before it has a chance to sully the image. The DMC-L1 also includes Panasonic's image stabilization system, and continues Pan's use of Leica-branded lenses. No announcement on price or release date yet, but we aren't expecting this fine motha to run us cheap.
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