Many adventurers and average street wanders love the thrill of abandoning the gas guzzling car for a ride on the ol’ bicycle. Cheap, easy to manuver and sometimes faster than rush hour traffic, the bicycle can merge your commuter trip ...
Indian automobile manufacturer Tata Motors has launched the new Vista D90 hatchback in Nepal that is powered by Quadrajet diesel engine with variable geometry turbocharger (VGT) technology. The 1.3L diesel engine mated to Euro-tech 2 ...
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To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
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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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Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording and receiving information on the fly. But on the ground at the company's I/O conference for ...
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The Internet Of Things. The last time I remember hearing that phrase, Mariah Carey had the best-selling CD. Heck, people were still buying CD’s. It was all part of the demand-driven supply chain. The idea was that every pallet, case ...
K-TOR, LLC, designer and manufacturer of portable power generators, announced today the release of their second-generation Pocket Socket hand crank generator, the Pocket Socket 2. This affordable human powered generator features a standard ...
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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 ...
A Japanese government institute has warned that satellite transmissions, GPS readings, and power lines could be affected over the next two weeks if a recent spate of solar flares continues. Four large solar flares have been detected over ...
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The major U.S. mobile operators are all putting their weight behind a campaign against texting while driving that will include a blitz of advertising and a driving simulator touring the country this summer. On Tuesday, Verizon, Sprint ...
How do you see what you can’t see? With thermal imaging, you view the radiation or infrared wavelengths emitted by objects. Infrared wavelengths — too long for the human eye to detect — are part of the electromagnetic ...
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Nvidia's Project Shield handheld gaming device, now called simply Shield, will be available for pre-order on May 20 priced at US$349, though it won't ship to customers until the end of June. Shield takes the form of a console game ...
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The New York State attorney general has sent letters to the chief executives of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Samsung asking them for help in combating cellphone theft and hinting he may pursue legal action if they don't cooperate. The ...
Founded in 2006, Liquavista was taken over by Samsung in 2010 Online retail company Amazon.com has bought the producer of a low-power colour-screen display unit, Liquavista, from the Korea-based Samsung Electronics for an undisclosed ...
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The 2013 Budget has been hailed as "sound" for the IT industry but could have been better if certain measures were employed earlier, analysts say. "It's quite a sound budget from an IT perspective," Ovum Australia research director Kevin ...
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