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The Swiss company Weber Sportscar is planning to unveil a concept car that could snatch Bugatti Veyron's title of "world fastest road car". And they plan to do that during the Top Marques Monaco show, that gathers together some of the fastest and most exclusive sports cars in the world.Interesting design, but looks kind of like a kitch The car is developed entirely by Weber Sportscar. The aluminium and carbon fibre body houses a mega engi...

It's a rhetorical question of course, as booth babes are not for sale, but let's not get into technicalities and get to the point. What I want to show you are pictures of booth babes present at Romania's finest IT show: CERF 2007. It may be a David compared to Goliath (CeBIT), but it's Romania's IT shield, as you can't be a spear if you don't have the muscles to fight. Enjoy!There's not much to say about gadgets presented at CERF, except that...

Are you tired of ads? Even if you are it seems that advertisers don't care, as they always find new ways of getting a pop-up, literally or not, in your face. The newest invention is the landline phone that can display contextual ads. It's been patented and maybe soon it will show for sale, so hackers, do your job and get us a pop-up blocker.One of the main advantages of such phones is that advertisements can be targeted very whell, as the loc...

We all love Apple products, and especially their laptop series, the MacBook. But what if the MacBook would be slimmer, better looking and easier to carry around?Just take a look at this concept, called the Mactab. Designed by Yann Le Coroller, the Mactab could be the MacBook of the future.Mactab, a cool independent laptop concept Like you can see from these pictures, the device is incredibly thin. The screen and the keyboard are not tied...

The "Get a Mac" ads are already famous, but here's a special one, with South Park inspired characters.Althoug having nothing in common with the South Park comedy series or its creatores, it's still nice. So Enjoy ...

One thing miniaturisation does is that it allows putting multiple devices into a single one. It isn't always a good thing, but the guys from Century tried something special: a PDA phone for gamers, the Sutra 1688. We all know that we can play games on PDAs but the main problem is with controls, as the hardware buttons are usually mapped differently from product to product.Century Sutra 1688 solved this problem using a gamepad, that can be att...

The name Brica don't ring me any bell, but after seeing this product, called Brica Wiemart 1000 DVR, i might remember it. We have a multimedia concept that respects the actual line of stuffing as many features as possible in one gadget, and this one has no less then 12.12 functions in 1 tiny gadgetLet's take a look at the capabilities of this device. It can be in the same time:a video recorder that can easily record your favourite...

If you ever felt attracted by the UMPC concept and followed our news about those products you might know we always complain about price. But not things changed, as Samsung released today the Q1 Ultra, which starts from 799 $, a very affordable price point for budget users.The lower model, the one that you can get for only 799 $, has a very respectable Intel Ultra Mobile Processor A100 600 MHz CPU, 1 GB DDR2 400 MHz RAM a 40 GB hard drive and ...

If you're a maniac at least a little you must have dreamed sometimes about a cool workstation, with big LCD screen, two of them at least and a cool operating system that allows natural interaction, without interfering with your other tasks like drinking coffee or eating pizza, and keeps working while you don't.Microsoft apparently shares the same vision and introduced the Center for Information Work (CIW), the giant's vision for productivity ...

For the first time in many years I got the feeling that something is moving in the right direction, in this case the fight to stop global warming.After the first solar thermal power plant from Spain it's time to put a good use on wave kinetic energy, with WaveRoller, a device anchored on sea floor, that uses moving plates to obtain power.This is how WaveRoller works The basic principle, "bottom wave", that made WaveRoller possible is pr...