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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You The next time your satnav steers you off a cliff and you follow it, at least your friends and family will be updated on your demise through Facebook or Twitter. So long as your satnav is actually the iPhone running Navigon’s MobileNavigator app.
In Afghanistan, Marines might soon be able to snap together a two-metre tall wall of armour for themselves in under 10 minutes, using no tools or equipment. Inside, they’ll be safe from bullets and frag from grenades, mortars and rockets. Badass.
This screw-in coffin seems very economical, both in saving ground space and not having to have heavy equipment to lower your family members into the ground. Cemeteries have limited ground in meatspace, so putting people in edgewise just makes sense.
My fingers wrapped around the steering wheel as I adjusted the seat and the mirrors and settled back. Foot on the brake (which felt just as responsive as a brake on any other car), I reached over and pressed the power button. The dials in front of me stirred to life, but the car didn’t move – there was no thrum of an engine, no revving, nothing. I looked across at my passenger, as if to enquire whether I’d made a mistake, when the petrol engine kicked in, softly. This was the Aussie-built Hybrid Camry, a mid-sized car with the fuel economy of a compact, and I was ready to drive.
Glasgow’s Dutch-built “amfibus” resumed testing today after being grounded for an unnecessarily deployed airbag. From the video on BBC‘s website, it looks just like a big yellow schoolbus, but runs in liquid and allows writers to make water puns.
Talk about terrible timing. Toyota has announced a recall for all current generation Prius vehicles in Australia just as they’re trying to launch the new Hybrid Camry. Bugger.
