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Many of you claim that Buick cars are only driven by older people. Whether this is true or not, the average age of the Buick buyers is about to drop, after they launched the incredible Buick Riviera concept, in the Shanghai Auto Show. It was designed in China, but the results are impressing, like you can see from these pictures.The name is borrowed from the legend of the 60's, called... ta-daaam: Buick Riviera. Now that was creative!The B...

Audio cassettes have been replaced with modern media formats, like CDs and DVDs, and are now forgotten by most people. Though, if you weren't born yesterday you'll surely have some old cassettes in some box, hidden in the drawer, that would bring up good memories... To help you relive these memories, some brilliant guys created the Plus Deck cassette bay, meant to be used with a PC.The Plus Deck is inserted in one of the 5.25" slots of your ...

Even if Google hasn't admitted that is working on a Google Phone, rumors hit the web that this mystic product will be available this year, somewhere in Q3. No clues or real specifications have been published, but many think it will use the company's own operating system, that will mimic the functionality of all Google current applications.That's all people needed. They immediately started drawing up concepts of what a Google Phone should ...

Koenigsegg, the Swedish car manufacturer, is already known between automobile lovers as the producer of the Koenigsegg CCX, one of the coolest and fastest car on the streets.Now they are also planning to make a debut with their brand new watches, the Ghost chronograph and the Advance.Like you can see from the pictures, they really seem to be something worth taking into consideration, but i don't really have the courage to think about...

Do you own a Bluetooth headset? What do you hate more of it? Definitely must be the way people look at you thinking you're nuts and talk with yourself. Matthias Lange thinks he's got a solution to make you at least look stylish while doing that. His concept is called Clipset nxZEN, and basically is a headset with retractable earphone.Clipset nxZEN consists of the earphone, of course, a short cable that can be wrapped around the main part, w...

Do you remember hybrid hard-drives? If you don't get a quick look here, it about those special hard disks Microsoft promised a few years ago to increase performance and lower consumption in Windows Vista. Time passed, Vista saw the light of day, but no hybrids in sight. That changed today, when Samsung (today's pioneer in IT industry) launched the R55 laptop, the first production model fitted with a hybrid hard drive.Samsung promises bit t...

The battle for supremacy on the growing external hard drives market is fierce, with some big names fighting over the bone, like Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung. Toshiba was not one of the big guys, but could become one pretty soon, after launching the first 2.5" external drive with 200 GB storage space, and USB 2.0 connectivity for data transfer.The Toshiba drive has unfortunately only a 4200 rpm drive inside, which is a little slow for ...

One of the main concerns of mobile devices manufacturers is increasing the autonomy by using more advanced battery technologies. Fuel cells seem to be the next best thing, but some people think they got a better idea. Those people are from Motorola, and they recently filed a patent about an LCD screen fitted with transparent Solar Cells, which will allow recharging during use, if the LCD is exposed to sun light.All this is possible because of...

Solar energy is clearly a free form of energy, free in the sense that you don't have to pay for it, but you need the right tools to grab it. "The tools" we speak of are solar panels, which, as any technology, are getting cheaper and cheaper every day, becoming more affordable, turning into a viable alternative to get electricity. One building in Manchester UK, the CIS Solar Tower, uses this power to produce a large part of the energy it requires ...

Definitely phone manufacturers have to do something about their security measures, as Sony Ericsson leaked this week photos of its upcoming phones: P700i, W999i and today the W970 Walkman, codenamed Adriana.As I said before, either we have a very poor door guard or a new marketing idea (somewhat different that what Motorola does with Digg these days).What we know now about Adriana is that it will try to focus more on video playback. That...