BUQUEBUS and CTS Auto in collaboration with the Chinese automaker, Build Your Dreams (BYD) has unveiled the first rapid transit electric bus in Uruguay, South America. The BYD Electric Bus is equipped with two units of the in- wheel ...
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Bucking the BYOD trend, Canadian Tire is issuing BlackBerry Q10 and Z10 smartphones to its corporate employees. An overwhelming majority of the Toronto-based company's 3,000 corporate users requested the Q10, which features a physical ...
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Know someone who's collecting a degree this year? All graduates deserve a reward for making it through school (and before they have to face the rather scary job market that awaits them). Here are some electronics suggestions that should put ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota is planning to boost the production of lithium ion batteries for deployments in its Prius gasoline-electric hybrid sedan. Currently, Toyota's majority of hybrid vehicles deploy nickel-metal hydride batteries ...
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Bluetooth expert SuperTooth (Booth # 1070 @ CTIA) has teamed up with audio specialist VOXX Accessories Corp. (Booth # 2630 @ CTIA) to roll out a co-branded line-up of portable audio accessories under the Acoustic Research brand name ...
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This Underwater Disco Light is sure to liven up that boring old bathtub experience. With just a petite floating light gizmo, bathers are able to turn their bathtub into a light show with multi-colored light sequences. The bottom and the ...
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LIKE several Japanese technology firms, Toshiba has its back to the wall. The vagaries of the yen, decline in demand for TVs and computers and Japan's earthquake and Tsunami in 2011 left manufacturers wounded. Case in point is Toshiba ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Thoratec's HeartMate II Pocket Controller, the safe face of the HeartMate II LVAD System. The Pocket Controller is lighter and compact than the previous LVAD system controllers, and ...
Worldwide capacity of Li-ion batteries for Electric vehicles applications is expected to soar ten times from 4,400 megawatt-hours (MWh) in 2013 to nearly 49,000 MWh by 2020, according to a new report by Navigant Research. According to the ...
A laptop and desktop from Vizio—the Vizio CT15T-B1 Ultrabook and the Vizio CA24T-B0, respectively—are the first computers into our labs with the latest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ac. Though it's up and running, it's still an emerging ...
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The newest tablet in Samsung's lineup, the Galaxy Note 8 ($400) received top marks in our latest Ratings of 7- to 8-inch Wi-Fi tablets. It's largely the Galaxy's versatility that puts it at the top, with its innovative stylus and a feature ...
The final specifications of the Porsche 918 Spyder have been released, confirming that the plug-in hybrid hypercar will be the quickest, most powerful and most fuel efficient vehicle in the brand’s history. Porsche says the 918 ...
Google’s Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in ...
German sports car manufacturer Porsche has introduced the new 918 Spyder hybrid sports car, which is claimed to be the quickest, powerful and fuel efficient model manufactured by the carmaker so far. The new sports car is powered by a ...
Galvanized steel is widely used in all walks of life, the benefits of galvanized steel use in the air to form a dense oxide protective layer of zinc metal to protect the internal steel structure. In the case of welding, scratches, due to ...