Lee Noble promises bargain Fenix supercar this year
By Jack Martin
January 6, 2010
One of the world’s most accomplished automotive
designers, Lee Noble, is to once more start his own company, and plans
to produce an ultra light weight mid-engined V8 Grand Tourer supercar.
Two images were released today and that's one of them at right. Noble's
track record is good as it gets, having penned a string of the world’s
best-handling and fastest accelerating supercars including the Ultima
GTR, Ascari Ecosse and Noble M12, but in announcing his new company, to
be known as Fenix, Noble has promised a 1200 kg 638 bhp car with a
0-100mph time of under seven seconds and a price tag under USD125,000.
The car will target serious track day drivers, while also being
completely usable on the public road. Read More
A Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak is one
more step closer to reality thanks to the work of a research team at the
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF)
in the Netherlands, which has successfully harnessed the magnetic field
of light to develop meta-materials that can deflect light in every
possible direction. Read More
Shooting in 3D has traditionally required a
complex, bulky and fragile rig using two cameras and additional hardware
to calibrate and adjust them. Panasonic's straight-forwardly-named
Twin-lens Full HD 3D camcorder looks to radically change the 3D game,
with integrated lenses and dual memory card slots allowing you to
capture 3D footage immediately, with just one device. Read More
In conjunction with Fulton Innovation, Texas
Instruments (TI) will showcase a new contactless charging evaluation kit
at this year’s CES.
The bqTESLA kit will enable designers to develop wireless charging
capability for products such as phones, MP3 players and GPS units. In
the future, this technology could be used to develop compatible wireless
portable devices and conveniently-located charging stations – offering
consumers compatible, convenient, wireless connectivity – just one
charger for all your devices and no power cords! Read More
Picture it: You’re zipping down the road in a
sleek, exotic vehicle that looks like it came straight out of Blade
Runner. You pull up at a red light, and a gawking onlooker asks what
sort of an engine it has. To their amazement, you open the top to reveal
that it’s propelled by nothing but the superhuman power of your own
body. Well, that fantasy can become a reality if you’re willing to spend
several thousand dollars on a velomobile. There are a number of such
vehicles being produced, but perhaps none are more lusted-after than the
German Beyss Go-One3. That model may soon be upstaged, however, as
Beyss is set to release their latest creation, the Go-One Evolution.
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It’s just over 50 years since the shipping
container took its first trip. Though it has changed little in the
subsequent half century, standardised containerisation has dramatically reduced global transportation costs and supercharged international trade.
Containerisation remains a beacon of efficiency only because it exists
within the obscenely inefficient, environmentally irresponsible and
otherwise resistant-to-change shipping industry. Now a new collapsible
composite container is being trialled which is ingeniously more
efficient, lighter, cheaper, more easily trackable, more accountable in
terms of its contents and more environmentally-friendly. Despite a raft
of advantages, it might not go into service because ... Read More
Media streamers
are rapidly gathering momentum as digital media collections grow, and
it should come as no surprise to hear that the technology involved in
streaming a collection of files to a TV is being built into more and
more screens as standard. The Western Digital WDTV Live
demonstrates how it’s possible to fit everything you need into an
extremely small box, and such developments have encouraged VIZIO, the
number one LCD HDTV company in America, to go one step further by adding
lossless 1080p wireless HD support to its new screens. Read More
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, e-reading company Skiff is
previewing its new electronic reader. At a quarter of an inch thick,
the Skiff Reader is the thinnest device of its kind. Not everything
about it is small, however; its 1200 x 1600 pixel, 11.5-inch screen is
the largest and highest-resolution consumer e-reading display yet.
Perhaps its biggest boast, however, is what that display is made of –
Instead of rigid, fragile glass, the Skiff Reader’s display utilizes a
thin, flexible sheet of stainless-steel foil. Developed by LG
specifically for Skiff, the touchscreen foil-display promises an
e-reader that will be much more durable than anything currently
available. Read More
Precision gaming manufacturer Razer
is moving into the console peripheral business with the release a US$50
(EUR45) Onza high-end gaming controller and US$130 (EUR110) Chimaera
headset for the Xbox 360®. The Onza will feature Hyperesponse™ buttons,
analog sticks with customizable tension, a programmable multi-function
button (MFB) and wired connectivity for “virtually lag free gameplay.”
The Chimaera is equipped with a 5.1 Channel Virtual Surround sound
system, a Daisy-Chain cable system and a circumaural design. Read More
There’s been a definite buzz around eBooks and eBook readers in recent times, and despite Asus challenging the price point
last year we’re yet to see what we’d guess to be an affordable enough
solution to break the mass-market. There are some pretty tidy devices on
the shelves though, with Amazon’s Kindle proving popular enough to ‘go global’ last October, a move that has now been repeated with the spacious Kindle DX. Read More
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