Worried about all the poor little flowers? Don’t want your children’s children to grow up covered in smog? Still really enjoy driving a big car? A new eco satnav could be the answer.
Pop the new Echo-Enviro0S2, on your Hummer dashboard and it’ll calculate not only the fastest and shortest routes, but the most eco-friendly too.
It’s been cobbled together over the past two years by whiz-kids in the Far East. The most extreme setting will even be frank enough to tell you if you’re better off walking.
In these days of green-tinged, green-fingered, green-coloured greenery, with most companies cutting out the fumes, pollutants and emissions, the Echo is aimed at people who want to make a change without giving up the car.
If nothing else, it’ll keep Bono and Sting quiet should you have the misfortune of giving them a lift.
It seems the latest battle in the war between American evangelicals and the forces of darkness will be fought on the digital page. Citizens Raging Against Porn, a group drawn from followers of the Church of the Latterday Holy Adventists, is to launch The Good E-Book, a Wi-Fi reading device modelled on Amazon’s Kindle, which removes all “unsuitable content”.
Says Church spokesman Ezekiel K Handleschniffer, “As true believers, we do not want harlotry, atheism, murderation and the like vomited into our eyes by the ungodly.
“That is why we are launching The Good E-Book, in a bid to stem the tide of filth from these whorish, so-called ‘writers’.”
The Good E-Book is programmed to seek out key phrases such as “abortion” or “garrotte” from a massive database. When it encounters them, sophisticated software rewrites the offending passage, so for instance, references to “magic” in Harry Potter books are replaced with “God’s work”, while sex scenes are replaced with those involved discussing the importance of waiting until marriage.
The Good E-Book is set for release this summer, priced $220.
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If you thought a Colorware’d DS Lite was the new heat, get a load of this. The company famous for making gadgetry of all kinds look its best has turned its talents on the iconic Guitar Hero axe, and we must say, we’re infatuated. Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 thrashers are all invited, and while users can join the revolution for as little as $198 (that includes the title and a painted instrument), current slingers can send their guitar in and get it colorized for as little as $99. For those on a budget, we strongly recommend not clicking the links below. Those completely unafraid of purging their wallet on impulse buys can go ahead.
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If you thought a Colorware’d DS Lite was the new heat, get a load of this. The company famous for making gadgetry of all kinds look its best has turned its talents on the iconic Guitar Hero axe, and we must say, we’re infatuated. Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 thrashers are all invited, and while users can join the revolution for as little as $198 (that includes the title and a painted instrument), current slingers can send their guitar in and get it colorized for as little as $99. For those on a budget, we strongly recommend not clicking the links below. Those completely unafraid of purging their wallet on impulse buys can go ahead.
[Thanks, Adam]
Read - Colorware’s Xbox 360 guitar
Read - Colorware’s PlayStation 3 guitar
Read - Colorware’s Wii guitar
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April 14th — just like we expected, that’s the date T-Mobile subscribers will gain access to the WiFi totin’ BlackBerry Pearl 8120. Unlike AT&T’s offering, that’s WiFi for voice and data thanks to T-Mobile’s HotSpot @Home service. EDGE data, 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, 3.5-mm headphone jack, SureType keyboard, and microSD / SDHC expansion for your multimedia round out the specs quite nicely. Now all we need is the price, right T-Mob?
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April 14th — just like we expected, that’s the date T-Mobile subscribers will gain access to the WiFi totin’ BlackBerry Pearl 8120. Unlike AT&T’s offering, that’s WiFi for voice and data thanks to T-Mobile’s HotSpot @Home service. EDGE data, 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, 3.5-mm headphone jack, SureType keyboard, and microSD / SDHC expansion for your multimedia round out the specs quite nicely. Now all we need is the price, right T-Mob?
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Aside from planning to axe 400 jobs as part of Sega Sammy’s most recent “turnaround efforts,” the outfit will also be closing the doors to its Korean subsidiary. Currently, Sega Korea is “handling the domestic distribution and sales of video game software, as well as the operation / sales of amusement facilities and machines,” and reportedly, the closure will be executed in the name of “global business optimization.” As it stands, there’s no set date for the branch’s dissolution, but just in case your smile wasn’t turned upside-down already, the company also stated that it would discontinue the development of a ginormous $330m arcade complex slated for construction in Yokohama, Japan — if you couldn’t guess, that one’s being shuttered so the firm can “focus its efforts on its core business to improve its performance” in short order. Seriously though, what the hell kind of company would spend $330m on arcade, anyway?
[Via Joystiq, image courtesy of USMC]
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Just in case you missed it, the Verizon XV6900, Motorola Q9c, and LG enV(2) are all finally launched on Verizon. Head on over to Engadget Mobile for the full details.
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Just in case you missed it, the Verizon XV6900, Motorola Q9c, and LG enV(2) are all finally launched on Verizon. Head on over to Engadget Mobile for the full details.
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Well, would you take a look at that. Right on cue, Dolby and SIM2 are collaboratively showcasing a 46-inch 1080p display built around the former firm’s high dynamic range technology. The HDR-enabled LCD HDTV boasts 1,836 LED-based backlight units (designed / developed by SIM2), a full 1,920 x 1,080 resolution, brightness level greater than 4,000 cd/m2, an “infinite” contrast ratio, 16-bits of luminance and a Xilinx Virtex field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) chipset. Additionally, the prototype employs a design created by Giorgio Revoldini, and while we can’t imagine hearing of a release date anytime soon, the two firms aren’t wasting any time putting the new set on a world tour to presumably wow onlookers. Hey SED, you taking notes here?
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