Formula 1, the pinnacle of gas-powered racing, is more often at odds with the eco-conscious electric car movement than in tune with it, but here’s an exception to that rule. The FIA, the sport’s governing body, announced back in December of last year a move to a hybrid four-cylinder turbocharged engine, which is still on track to be introduced in the 2013 season, and Williams boss Adam Parr has now enlightened us on some of the benefits of the new power setup. Noting that future cars’ kinetic energy recovery system will be four times as powerful as on current models, Parr says enough electric juice will be available to power each one-seater through its journey into and out of the pit lane. That would mean that at least for the tame, speed-restricted portions of a race, the F1 gas guzzlers you know and love will be humming along in almost perfect silence while using good old electricity. Unfortunately, it’s exactly that lack of vroom vroom that old timers like Bernie Ecclestone and Ferrari chief Luca di Montezemolo are afraid of, describing the new hybrid stuff as sounding “terrible” and insisting on the sport sticking to its V8 roots. Then again, as Parr says, if you don’t move with the times, the times leave you behind.

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Woah there, Mr. Speedy. We’ve barely caught up with the 10Gbps Thunderbolt interconnect, debuted in the new Macbook Pro, and now Intel’s hyperactive researchers are already chattering away about something five times faster. They’re promising a new interconnect, ready in four years, that will combine silicon and optical components (a technology called silicon photonics) to pump 50Gbps over distances of up to 100m. That’s the sort of speed Intel predicts will be necessary to handle, say, ultra-HD 4k video being streamed between smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes and TVs. Intel insists that poor old Mr. Thunderbolt won’t be forced into early retirement, but if we were him we’d be speaking to an employment lawyer right about now.

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They’re just codenames for now, but you can’t argue against the HTC Kingdom and Rider’s regality—on today of all days. On the left is the Rider, which has a red body and several buttons on the lower part, and on the right is the Kingdom which has a silvery case. Not much else has been offered by these leaked photos, but some people are whispering that the Rider might end up being the GSM version of HTC’s Evo 3D handset. [911Sniper via Recombu via TechRadar] More »

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We may have discovered the secret behind the new white iPhone, and why now, ten months late, Apple finally thinks it will stay white instead of fading to a dirty, stained yellow. Extra paint, and lots of it.The internet is abuzz today with comparison photos showing that the white iPhone is noticeably thicker than its […]

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That badass picture isn’t a still from the new Transformers movie. It’s an actual electrical storm behind the actual space shuttle Endeavor, set to launch on its final voyage today. This is the penultimate space shuttle mission; the curtain will fall on the 30-year-old program when Atlantis returns in June. But then what? More »

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Limited edition usually means there’s a slim chance of getting your hands on the object in question, but in Glock’s 25th anniversary pistol’s case, you could very well be one of 2,500 people to own one. More »

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Chad Hurley and Steve Chen bookmark Delicious into AVOS
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As we approach the expected mid-2011 launch for a few Chrome OS devices, it seems inevitable that some details are bound to slip out ahead of time — here’s looking at you, Acer ZGB and Seaboard. The latest victim outed by a Chromium bug report is the Samsung “Alex,” which sports a 1280 x 800 display (probably at 10 inches as previously rumored; like the mockup above), 1.5GHz dual-core Atom N550, SanDisk SSD P4 of unknown capacity, and 2GB RAM. Also listed are a Qualcomm Gobi 2000 3G card, Bluetooth, WiFi, webcam, and a Synaptics touchpad. Well, not long to go now — perhaps the Alex might even make a cheeky appearance at Google I/O in two weeks’ time? Screenshot of the bug report after the break.

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This is the iPhone case you have been looking for. It is the official Hipstamatic case, and it is called, of course, the HipstaCase.Hipstamatic is an iPhone app which turns your pristine digital shots into something resembling the results from a kids’ toy plastic camera from the 1970s. Low contrast, color casts and light leaks […]

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Two types of people want to buy an Android smartphone: those who simply don’t want an Apple product, and those who want to trick out their phones fancier than a Honda Civic from the set of The Fast and the Furious. If you’re in the latter crowd, you may be familiar with at least some aspects of the hardware-modding community. But what of the layman who wants to pimp his phone and hasn’t a clue where to begin?

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We may have discovered the secret behind the new white iPhone, and why now, ten months late, Apple finally thinks it will stay white instead of fading to a dirty, stained yellow. Extra paint, and lots of it.The internet is abuzz today with comparison photos showing that the white iPhone is noticeably thicker than its […]

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TigerDirect has a new discount going for this D-Link Boxee Wireless 32GB HD Digital Media Streamer which is now just $179.99 + $4.89 Shipping = $184.88! Unlock a brand new and enriching home theater experience that your HDTV deserves! The D-Link Boxee is a new and interesting gadget that brings a nearly limitless supply of […]

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This scrappy-looking bottle cage comes from Mr. Iribe, an apparently mythical Keirin track-frame builder in Japan. When he is not busy making bikes for the Samurai, “he makes a few bottle cages as well”, says the blurb on Compass Bicycles’ (Seattle) website. These hand-made cages are so good, it seems, that they are worth $150 […]

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A cardboard cut-out, really? You pasted a 50-inch rectangle of stiffened paper to the wall in order to preview the flatscreen of your dreams within your new Vitsoe shelving system? For shame. A true nerd, nay, a real man would have cast aside those arts and crafts for Panasonic’s new Viera AR Setup Simulator app. Just grab the wall or pedestal AR marker from the printer and place it wherever you hope to showcase that new Panny. Then watch the app augment your reality through the iPhone’s camera. Don’t cost nothin’ but your time, starting with the 60 second video embedded after the break.

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