OLPC For Sale in America and Europe Via Amazon on November 17th
The OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, laptop will be heading to the hands of consumers in both America and Europe on November 17th. Americans and residents of 27 EU nations will be able to pick up the XO laptop at a cost of about £268 / €313 at Amazon.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Rumor - Palm Treo Pro Coming to US Via Sprint
Sprint’s website is noting that the Palm Treo Pro will be arriving to the service sometime in the future. There is no official page for the phone, which is currently available only in Europe. However, it was spotted in a product drop-down menu.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Rolls Royce CEO talks up electric Phantom
It’s easy to imagine electric Honda Civics or Chevy Malibus, but electricity powering the creme de la creme of automobiles? A bit harder to imagine. Not for long, says Rolls Royce CEO Tom Purves.
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love Europe in that special way only someone who’s lived exclusively in the United States for 25-odd years really can. Yet another fabulous reason to love Europe are these solar powered light trees, spotted last October in Vienna (as well as in Milan in November and December). Designed by Ross Lovegrove, each tree has 10 [...]
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I-Garment’s new firefighter "smart" suit was invented to improve the safety of firefighters and aid communications during disaster relief.
This apparel has already been approved by the European Space Agency in field tests involving fire situations.
The "smart" suit can monitor rescue workers’ positions and their vital signs via sensors strategically located on the suit.
Artificial Corneas
Europe’s CORNEA project has developed an artificial cornea at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam and the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Regensburg have created a device that is "based on a commercially available polymer which absorbs no water and allows no cells to grow on it."
When [...]
Hi-Def Laptops
Europe’s Rock is the first company to offer HD DVD as standard on all of its laptops.
The 15.4in Pegasus 670 features the HD DVD reading / DVD writing drive along, a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 processor, up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA’s 512MB GeForce 8600M GT graphics card, WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, and [...]
New 360 Drive
Just a rumor and there is nothing to really substantiate yet, but it is being reported that Mark Bennett (Microsoft’s European HD DVD business director), announced that Microsoft would be shipping a new and improved 360 HD DVD drive in 2008 which would support HD DVD’s HDi interactive features.
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced its PlayTV, a combined TV tuner and Personal Video Recorder for PS3. PlayTV will be available in UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain early in 2008, with other PAL territories to follow.
Equipped with two 1080p tuners (for Europe only now), a program guide, it will allow you to store [...]
Google Phone Rumors Fly
Rumors about about a Google phone are hot again after the Wall Street Journal reported that Google has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in its cell phone project and is negotiating with US and European mobile operators.
Reuters company, Anian, says T-Mobile, owned by Deutsche Telekom, might team up with Google along with France Telecom’s [...]
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