Archive for September, 2009

ABB FlexPicker replaces human pancake pickers with amazing effect

Mmm, pancakes. While moms might be responsible for giving us our first taste, it’s the humble robot that makes these golden-brown discs of battered splendor available for mass market binging.


iPhone accessories can download iPhone apps to your iPhone memory

Among the many minor changes included in the 3.0 release of the iPhone OS was one that would enable those myriad of iPhone accessories to work more closely with software. That is to say,


REPORT: Ferrari poaches new design director from Volkswagen

Few lines are as fluid as those between the Italian and German automobile industries. Executives seem to move back and forth between the two faster than the exotic supercars for which they’re responsible, and all the more so when it comes to designers.


GM reportedly ending pilot eBay program, yet claims success

Back in August, General Motors began a pilot program in which it opened up its own eBay mega store. A total of 225 dealers had participated in the California-only pilot, but GM has decided to pull the plug on the program effective today. With the program ending instead of expanding to all of the 50 […]


MP4-12C - Coming to America: McLaren Automotive sets up North American distribution

McLaren MP4-12C – Click above for an image gallery
How many low-production exotic supercars have we had to gaze at longingly from across the ocean? The prohibitively high cost of homologation for the U.S. market has kept more than a few niche automakers away.


Android 1.6 Donut gets jazzy walkthrough, performance and Market tweaks on display

Android 1.6 was just released to dev phones, and while you may not have a suitably configured handset to run it,


Brizzly: full-featured web client for Twitter

Invitations to Brizzly, a new web-based Twitter client, have been flying around all over the place in the past few days, and I finally got a chance to try it out. Brizzly offers a lot that the standard Twitter website doesn’t, but it also introduces a couple of annoyances that ultimately led me to stick […]


Zotac refreshes ION ITX-F Motherboard

ZOTAC has launched its first ION-based Mini-ITX motherboard back May.It recently released a series of new products-ZOTAC ION ITX-F series.


Intel shows off 4-display concept notebook

Intel once showed four-display concept notebook at IDF.The new concept laptop has one main display


Swordfish Net 102 Dual: the first netbook with twin Atom CPUs

Alright, so we’re going to go ahead and caution against buying anything that claims to have a “dual Bluetooth” module, but if you’re feeling froggy, the planet’s first (and probably last) dual CPU netbook has just been launched.