Archive for September, 2010

Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Officially Unveiled at Paris Motor Show

The Lamborghini Sesto Elemento has officially been unveiled at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. At 2200-pounds, it boasts a 570hp V10 engine along with “a carbon-fiber monocoque chassis, body, front crash structure, suspension, exhaust, wheels and special one-piece hood / fenders.” Video after the break.
The exhaust here is special as it is made of a [...]

Xmarks launches pledge campaign to stay alive

Xmarks’ announcement that it would be shutting down in the near future is turning into a topsy-turvy saga. Now the Xmarks team has decided to reconsider offering a premium service in order to keep the product alive, thanks to an outcry from Xmarks fans. Here’s the pitch: if you love Xmarks, pledge $10-20 to say [...]

Firefox finally gets “paste and go” in FF4 nightly

Other browsers like Chrome and Opera can do it, and they’ve been doing it for ages. There are add-ons that let Firefox do it, but if it’s such a useful feature, why hasn’t it been included out-of-the-box? “It” is paste and go, and like sync functionality, it has finally been permanently bolted on to Firefox. [...]

Learn Forex Trading with NewForexer

Foreign exchange trading, or forex trading is a complicated business and it usually need you to take many factors into consideration. Of course, it doesn’t mean that you can not make fortunes in the forex market.

Rare Star Trek Communicator Nokia Phone Surfaces

Limited to just 14-units worldwide, this ultra rare Star Trek Communicator Nokia phone is “intended to simulate the iconic voice comms devices of the original TV series.” Video after the break.
Hardware-wise, it’s based on the somewhat less exciting N76 and comes with an external LCD and a trifecta of lights on its front, both protected [...]

Skylon: A Craft That Takes Tourists Into Space at 5-Times the Speed of Sound

Called the Skylon, this British-designed spacecraft “will travel at five times the speed of sound using two internal engines that suck hydrogen and oxygen from the atmosphere to send it 18 miles above the ground – and out of Earth’s atmosphere.”
The Skylon’s innovative engine uses propulsion to reach the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere before [...]

ColorPicker is a powerhouse JavaScript control for working with color

This one’s for the Web developers in the audience. ColorPicker is a very powerful JavaScript … color picker. Okay, so maybe the name isn’t very original (or searchable, for that matter), but it is very descriptive.
In the demo shown on the page, ColorPicker pops up as you click a text field that needs to be [...]

Boxee eyes HTML5 goodness, ditches Gecko for WebKit

Boxee, everyone’s favorite open-source underdog in the emerging entertainment-center-in-a-box market, has been using Gecko for its on-board browser for years now. That’s all about to change, according to Boxee’s Lead Apps Developer Rob Spectre, who told GigaOM that the team was looking to make good use of HTML5, and saw a shift to WebKit as [...]

New iPod Nano Review

Sure, the new iPod Nano may not come with an iWatch wristband from the factory, but is it worth the money? PC Mag says: “Apple’s first misstep in the iPod nano line-up, the sixth-generation model trades its predecessor’s click wheel for touch-screen controls.” Video review after the break.
But an ultracompact form factor means the display [...]

Windows Phone 7 goes RTM

Sure, Apple’s been stealing most of the blog headlines this afternoon, but Microsoft has some pretty big news of their own. Today, Windows Phone 7 was officially released to manufacturing — and the boys in Redmond are pretty stoked about it.
Microsoft’s Terry Myerson certainly sounds pumped in the official blog post. “We’ve had thousands [...]