Archive for June 13th, 2008

US Department of Energy pours $30 million into plug-in hybrids

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Filed under: Transportation While some automakers are already promising to have plug-in hyrbids on the road by 2010, the US Department of Energy is now pouring some cash into a slightly less ambitious joint effort with Ford, General Motors, and General Electric, which would see plug-ins capable of driving 40 miles ...

iPhone 3G must be activated in-store (and other followup questions answered)

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Filed under: CellphonesYesterday we went over a few of the more confusing bits of the iPhone 3G launch -- and let's be honest, the details of this launch are confusing as hell compared to the original go-round. Of course, there were a lot of burning questions to be answered from ...

ASUS LS221H: “world’s slimmest” 22-inch LCD monitor

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Filed under: Displays Just a day after we were graced with Mother Earth's "most energy-efficient monitor" comes the "world's slimmest" 22-incher. ASUS claims that its LS221H is just 248-millimeters (that's 9.76-inches) at its thinnest point, but unless this thing morphs into a CRT at a moment's notice, we're assuming (read: hoping) ...

ChauhanStudio’s Jetsons-esque HAL LCD TV gets real

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment Alright, so we're not really any closer to determining whether or not ChauhanStudio's HAL LCD TV is headed for commercial production, but we do know this: at least one of these bad boys are real. Yep, the mockup we saw a few months back has ...

Genepax shows off water-powered fuel cell vehicle

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Filed under: Transportation We've seen plenty of promises about water-powered cars (among other things), but it looks like Japan's Genepax has now made some real progress on that front, with it recently taking the wraps off its Water Energy System fuel cell prototype. The key to that system, it seems, is ...