Don’t Forget Me! Pontiac Vibe also included in Toyota recall Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Hatchback, GM, Pontiac, Toyota Pontiac Vibe – Click above for high-res image gallery It is easy to forget that among the debris swirling in the tornado of claims against Toyota, the Pontiac Vibe is really a Toyota Matrix. Hence, the...
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Avatar’ Creeps Up on All-Time Highs It’s fun now to think back to 1997, when Titanic was portrayed not just as a box office mega-hit, but a sort of cinematic freak of nature. Its $600 million domestic total — unthinkable at the time — was the result not just of popularity,...
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Lotus gets animated with its Omnivore engine technology Filed under: Technology, Lotus, Diesel Omnivore : An animal whose normal diet includes both plants and animals. Human beings and bears, for instance, are omnivores. So says Dictionary.com, at least. Ask the engineering boffins from Lotus, though, and they’ll tell you than an Omnivore is an...
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ColdAvenger Mask Heats and Humidifies The Air You Breathe In Designed by a physician and inspired by the US and Canadian militaries, the ColdAvenger not only protects the skin from the elements, it also protects your respiratory system with a removable ventilator. Made of medical grade biocompatible plastic, the ventilator creates a ‘micro-climate’...
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![Clay- and Water-Based Hydrogels: Possible Alternative to Plastic [Guts]](http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_clay_hydrogel-thumb-640xauto-11539.jpg)
Clay- and Water-Based Hydrogels: Possible Alternative to Plastic Plastic polymers are efficient, cheap and easy to make—but not very environmentally friendly. Hydrogels had previously not been really considered a viable alternative, because they’re, well, gels. But by attaching them to clay, that’s all changed. Turns out the water-based (duh) hydrogels had a great...
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One Man, One Mouse, Three Hours It only took graphic designer Anatoly Zenkov a few hours of Photoshop work to log this exhausting, web-like trail with his cursor. Here‘s how he recorded it, and how you can too.
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![[Architecture]:Norway’s Turbine City Concept Should Be The Future of Energy and Tourism](http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/500x_norway12_01.jpg)
Norway’s Turbine City Concept Should Be The Future of Energy and Tourism Norway already boasts the world’s first floating wind turbine, and is apparently the windiest coastline in Europe, making it perfect for even more turbines. Or a turbine city, like On Office‘s proposal which shows a stunning vision of the future. The...
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Windows 7 way hotter than Vista off the line, now more popular than all OS X versions We learned back in November that Windows 7 was having a much (much!) better first few days in retail than Vista did when it launched, but now that the system has had a full quarter and change...
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Ontario and Samsung seal $6.7 billion renewable energy deal Need to know how much it would cost you and your town to generate 2,500 megawatts of pure green energy? Your wind and solar farm infrastructure costs will come to 7 billion CAD (just under 6.7 billion in US currency), which includes a 437 million...
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EntroSys motorcycle air conditioning and heating system now taking pre-orders, we wants it (video) We’ll go ahead and say what you’re thinking: a silver hose running up the front of your jacket doesn’t really augment any established motorcycle style. This thing looks like a canister vac that’s gone rogue and hitched a ride on...
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