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Mitsubishi Plans Ferocious MMR25 Rally Racer for Year 2025
Posted by Wilson Rothman at 12:30 PM on September 27, 2008
In the year 2025, a scant 17 years from now, all cars will be electric. But according to Mitsubishi's entry into the LA Auto Show's latest design challenge, some will even tear up the Salt Flats, looking like bionic insects with the cruelest of intentions. Each wheel of the proposed MMR25 Rally Racer gets eight little wheels for omnidirectional movement, and there's no such thing as windshields in the future, replaced—naturally—by Star Trek tech. Here's the run down, plus the sickest rendering of a non-existent product I have ever seen:

There are plenty of dual-hard-drive outboard storage systems on the market, but SimpleTech's Duo Pro struck me as particularly brimming with awesomeness. It's not a NAS—it's totally local—but you have a choice of USB 2.0, FireWire 400 and 800, and eSATA, which clocks a max transfer speed of 3Gb per second. (That's gigabits, not gigabytes.) You can naturally do RAID 0 or 1, and though the current options are a 1TB total for $US280, a 1.5TB total for $US420 and a 2TB version for $US550, you will be able to choose a 3TB config when the winter winds start to blow. Have a look at the back of this in the photo below the jump. [
You've probably wondered what it takes to become a Genius at an Apple Store. I mean, they're called Geniuses, and it's Apple, and they only deal with Apple products, so they know them to the core, right? Well, in at least one Apple Store, not so much. MacBlogz's Aviv went through the whole process of applying, which
Here's the first look at the final version of the deadly XM25. We learnt this morning about the weapon's
Tonight at 9pm ET the first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama takes place. In the interest of keeping political discussion alive in America, here's a link to
Do you want to learn how to be a ninja? Find a time machine and transport yourself back to 8th century Japan. Alternatively, if you want to learn how to be a "ninja", as in the type of ninja described in
An exploit has been uncovered in Adobe software that could be used to download free copies of movies and shows from
CNet earlier today
This week marked the start of more interesting times for mobile apps. You may have heard, even, that
We hate crapware, you hate crapware, and Steve Ballmer hates crapware. Here's what Ballmer said last night about it.
Just a few days after the new series premiere, RadioShack has announced that it scored exclusive rights to sell
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Good news! Those who pre-order Gears of War 2 Limited Edition at Best Buy will score an R/C Centaur tank free. Bad news! We don't know if the tank is a real, living R/C tank or just some sort of downloadable, in-game content. And this spy shot from a recent Best Buy pre-holiday meeting in Dallas really doesn't confirm things either way. Still, free R/C tank! Never look a free R/C tank in the mouth, etc. [
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Every yup on the block has a fancy TV on their wall, but not too many folks can claim they have six PCs clustered in a render farm, glowing with eye-searing blue LEDs through a wall-mounted, oversized metal and acrylic frame. Installed at the
The Gadget: The Squeezebox Boom from Logitech streams music from your PC or the internet via an 802.11b/g or Ethernet connection. Unlike previous Squeezeboxes, the Boom also throws in a pair of 30-watt speakers.
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Over at NextFest, we came across an entire tree's worth of Xerox's cartridge-less solid ink, a technology we'd heard about but never seen in person. They feel more like a hard, textured plastic than a waxy crayon (which is its most touted analogy), and the ink doesn't rub off in your hand at all. And yes, Xerox, we'll be happy to buy your product that reduces ink waste by 90% if you'd kindly release it to the market.
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If you're running a Windows Mobile phone (more specifically the MOTO Q Music 9m, MOTO Q 9h, Palm Treo 750w, Samsung Blackjack I or Blackjack II), you might want to check out Adobe's new mobile beta site. Hit the link to register. [
"Grrrr.... ahhh" is roughly the sound you'll make as you use this crowbar bottle opener to muscle-off the cap on a bottle of lovely beer. And you'll get to whack the opener menacingly into your palm if you're in the mood to look like a heavy. Just don't be too energetic opening the bottle, else it'll swing back and you'll smack yourself inna teef. Yours for $US25. [
A friendly tipster sent us this training to-do list for Verizon employees, which yields a couple of tidbits. First, training on the BlackBerry Storm has to be finished by Nov. 2, which our tipster says "guarantees" it'll be launched by early November,