The perfect commuter bike - Hoy Hoy Rats
Yes ~ you’re absolutely right. The name’s got to go! But the bike is a winner. The perfect commuter bike. Weaves through traffic and hits the straights like a Tour de France sprinter on a powder cocktail! It may have one of the most stupid names since Marc Bolan decided to call his son Rolan, but the Hoy Hoy Rats has great promise as a commuting road bike.
Pros Speed. Agility, particularly out of the saddle. Climbing ability. Ideal for long straights and weaving
Cons Slightly harsh response over speed humps, potholes and cobbles. Speed demons could find themselves wanting a wider spread of gears. Seatpost with integrated rear light a bit silly.
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1 Cents or 2 Pence A Mile ZeCar Designed in Wales
With household and other costs escalating in the UK, I don’t know about you but I’m feeling the pinch around the wallet so to speak. Everyday we seem to hear of more things going up: petrol, electricity, gas and food.
But now for the Good News!
A zero-emission car that does the equivalent of 250 miles to the gallon is set to roll off the production line this summer, its manufacturers have said. Stevens Vehicles say their electric cars and vans will cost under 2p a mile to run.
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Toyota Winglet set to take on Segway
Toyota’s has announced that it is developing the Winglet range of human transport devices which will come in three sizes.
The Winglet — still being refined — is one of TMC’s people-assisting Toyota Partner Robots. Designed to contribute to society by helping people enjoy a safe and fully mobile life, the Winglet is a compact next-generation everyday transport tool that offers advanced ease of use and expands the user’s range of mobility.
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Ulimate Gaming Headset from Sennheiser
The Sennheiser Communications PC 350 headset promises ” the most accurate sound positioning and finest sound quality available in the gaming market” these beasts are supplied with a 3m cable and can also be used with your hi-fi, for Skype calls and other PC-based communications. Buy them here Sennheiser PC 350
“A round-the-ear, closed type headset, the PC 350 shuts out disturbing noises from the environment. That combined with the special shaping of the frequency response improves gamers ability to detect where a sound comes from. This helps significantly sharpen reaction time, giving players a built in advantage over the competition.”
Sennheiser PC 350 PRO-Gaming Headset from Sennheiser
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Folding wheels makes bike transport easy
Duncan Fitzsimmons a UK designer, freelance industrial designer and mountain biker has invented a folding wheel made up of carbon fiber. The carbon fiber wheels have numerous hinges, which make it possible to fold the wheel and thus solve the problem of bulk. The completely foldable bike could then be fitted in a bag and conveniently carried along in a train or bus.
Available (soon hopefully)
Via Gizmowatch
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Personal Transportation Concept
This HE Human Electric Hybrid Vehicle concept uses the power of your muscles as well electricity stored in the batteries. It allows smooth and constant velocity both uphill (with the help of the electric motor), as well as downhill (when the wheel acts as a generator and charges the batteries). The vehicle can turn 360 degrees maintaining stability all the time. Additional power is acquired from photovoltaic placed on top of the vehicle as well as during de-acceleration from regenerative braking. Elderly and handicapped people that are unable to provide enough kinetic energy can also charge the batteries directly from the grid.
Via Ecofriend
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AMD launches the Spider Platform - with up to 4 graphics cards
AMD has launched a new PC Gaming Platform, called the Spider Platform.
Spider combines AMD’s new Phenom Quad Core processors, and up to four (yes four) ATI Radeon HD 3800 cards, with CrossFireX, HyperTransport 3.0, AMD OverDrive, AMD AutoXpres, whic is supposed to provide amazing 3D graphics.
AMD is the only company committed to delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience across all the screens of your life,” said Dirk Meyer, president and COO, AMD. “The AMD Spider platform embodies our approach to platform-level innovation and delivers a highly-advanced, feature-rich enthusiast computing experience. Our commitment to energy-efficient design and manufacturing excellence drives an unprecedented performance-per-watt at an amazing price point, putting enthusiast-class platforms in reach for more users than ever before.”
AMD’s Spider platform advances enthusiast computing by delivering the most sophisticated multi-GPU enthusiast platform ever with ATI CrossFireX technology. The combination of the energy-efficient 55nm ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series of graphics processors and the increased system bandwidth of PCI Express® Generation 2.0 and HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology, provide optimal processing power for a scalable HD multi-GPU experience. AMD design and manufacturing innovation has enabled the AMD Spider platform to easily scale to three or four graphics processors and deliver a true gaming supercomputer.
It will be interesting to see how the new platform performs, but four GFX cards at probably a couple of hundred dollars a pop isn’t going to be cheap.
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The DiskGo 32GB USB Flash Drive
If you need a high capacity USB drive then the DiskGo from EDGE Tech Corp is the one for you.
Encased in a sleek, silver housing, the 32GB DiskGO(TM) Flash Drive proves essential for those transporting their digital life. The drive’s vast capacity takes convenience in data portability protection and recovery to a new dimension. To put its storage enormity in perspective, it can hold more than 21,000 pictures, 32 hours of video, 8,000 songs, or 320,000 documents. EDGE offers the most competitive price on the market for a 32GB flash drive.
You can pre order it now from EDGE Tech Corp for $399.95 (about £200), and it will ship on the 26th of October.
via Geek Alerts
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Lego Star Wars AT-AT kit - build your own robot AT-AT
Check out this Star Wars AT-AT kit from Lego
Behold the power of the Empire! For the first time ever, the ultimate Motorized Walking AT-AT is ready to crush the Rebel Alliance at your command. Thanks to the new Power Functions System, the mighty All-Terrain Armored Transport really walks forward or backward into battle!
Here’s the specs
- Features an opening cockpit and rotating laser cannons!
- Motorized Walking AT-AT really walks and its head moves up and down!
- Handle on top allows for easy transport!
- Stands over 12″ (30 cm) tall and over 14″ (36 cm) long!
- Includes AT-AT Pilot, General Veers, Snowtrooper and Luke Skywalker with grappling line and lightsaber!
- Includes battery box and motor!
- Requires 6 AA (1.5V) batteries, not included.
It will go on sale later in the year for $130 (about £65), if you can’t wait till then, check out this video for a sneak peak.
via Techeblog
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Shuttle’s New Barebone XPC With Built In Fingerprint Scanner
Shuttle has released details of another new Barebone PC the Shuttle XPC Barebone SN68PTG6 Deluxe.
The Shuttle XPC Barebone SN68PTG6 Deluxe features an integrated fingerprint scanner, WLAN, Blue-tooth, Dolby Digital Live!, and DTS Connect.
Designed for AMD’s AM2 chips, with an NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV / nForce 630a chipset, this new XPC can support up to 4GB of DDR2-800 RAM.
“Following the successful introduction of the first Intel SFF PC Barebones with HDMI, now come models supporting 64 bit AMD processors,” explains Tom Seiffert, Head of Marketing & PR at Shuttle Computer Handels GmbH. “The suffix Deluxe denotes new XPC Barebones that are especially well equipped.”
A Windows Vista compatible NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV graphics processor delivers rapid onboard graphics, and there’s an HDMI port (DVI via an adapter) and a VGA output for the utilisation of dual monitors. For even greater 3D performance, the Shuttle XPC Barebone SN68PTG6 Deluxe’s PCI Express slot can be loaded with a high performance graphics card.
High connectivity is provided for in the form of WLAN, gigabit LAN, and a Bluetooth module. There’s also the Speed-Link function allowing for direct connection to PCs by USB, and two eSATA ports for additional external drives.
Here’s the Specs
- NVIDIA® GeForce 7050PV/nForce 630a chipset
- Supports AMD® Athlon[TM]64 X2, Athlon[TM]64 und Sempron[TM] series (HyperTransport 1.0) processors
- Up to 4 GB dual channel DDR2-800 RAM (OC to 1066 MHz)
- NVIDIA® GeForce 7050PV graphics with HDMI/HDCP
- 8-channel HD Audio with Dolby® Digital Live! and DTS® Connect
- x PCI-E X16, 1x PCI
- Gigabit LAN
- 2x FireWire, 6x USB 2.0
- 2x SATA2, 2x eSATA
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (Deluxe only)
- 802.11b/g wireless LAN (Deluxe only)
- USB Speed-Link technology (Deluxe only)
- Fingerprint scanner (Deluxe only)
- 250-Watt power supply / 300-Watt power supply (Deluxe only)
- 310(L) x 200(W) x 185(H) mm
It will be available shortly for about £220 (about $440)
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Shuttle’s New Media Centre PC With Blu-ray
Shuttle have launched a new media centre PC the XPC G5 3201M.
This new PC is the first small form factor PC with a Blu-ray drive, for the latest HD content.
Press Release
“High-definition entertainment in SFF PC format has, with this Shuttle XPC, become a reality,” explains Tom Seiffert, Head of Marketing & PR at Shuttle Computer Handels GmbH. “And the use of latest componentry makes possible the playback of full HD material while maintaining a low system load.”
The increased performance, necessary to achieve this, comes in the form of Core 2 series processors, up to 4 GB of RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTS graphics card with accelerator functions. The Shuttle XPC G5 32100M also fully supports HDCP copy protection media, via DVI and HDMI, guaranteeing hassle-free and smooth connections with modern flat screen displays; and the graphics card has the capacity to deliver big picture format entertainment, from the latest PC games, on your home TV.
The system’s basic configuration is based on Windows Vista Home Premium with its integrated media centre software. A practical remote control means that navigation of the system child’s play, while the VFD display in the front panel keeps you informed of what’s going on.
The Shuttle XPC G5 3201M is also highly communicative thanks to its integrated WLAN module, and gigabit LAN. A 7.1 Audio chip puts you right at the centre of the action, whether watching films or playing 3D games, and its audio signal can be transported, via SPDIF, to connected speakers without any loss in quality.
Every fully configured system from Shuttle comes with a 24-month Pick-Up and Return service and a Europe-wide telephone hotline for fast assistance.
The Shuttle XPC G5 3201M is configurable, to your own requirements, in the Shuttle Systems Configurator. Processors, memory, hard disks and TV cards as well as additional Shuttle XPC accessories can be individually selected.
An entry-level price to the world of HD entertainment: €1,419 (without VAT). Available now.
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Adlink’s Integrated Touchscreen PC
Adlink’s NuPPC-0701Y has an integrated LCD touchscreen, which displays at 800 x 480 resolution, a 1GHz Intel Celeron processor, Ethernet, 512MB of Ram, audio in/out, 3 USB ports and a compact flash slot for expansion.
It is designed for applications such as kiosks, factory automation and transportation systems, I am sure a few modders could come up with some cool uses for this touchscreen PC.
No pricing details are available at present.
Via Engadget
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Carbon Hero - The Personal Carbon Use Calculator
The Carbon Hero is one of the winners of this years BSI awards for Sustainability Design.
Designed by Andreas Zachariah, the Carbon Hero is a personal carbon use calculator the size of a keyring, that calculates the exact carbon footprint of the user’s travel habits, by identifying different forms of transport taken.Once the data is gathered it is then downloaded to software on a PC or mobile phone which displays the amount of carbon used and the amount of credits needed to be purchased in order to offset the amount used.
Andreas comments “In an age where consumers are making purchasing decisions based on their environmental impact there’s no reason why they shouldn’t make the same choice about transport, be it public or private, on a daily basis. Online methods for calculating personal carbon footprints fall down on the fact that they rely on the use to estimate usage. Carbon Hero™ uses sophisticated sensors to pinpoint usage thus giving a much more accurate assessment of the user’s impact on the environment”.
Via OhGimzo
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