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Solar Impulse – World’s First Solar Powered Airplane
Posted on11. Apr, 2010 by kanna.
At last after seven years of hard work world’s first and only solar powered airplane Solar Impulse made its first real flight on April 7 2010. Solar Impulse, a prototype of an airplane designed to fly around the world using only solar power. On Swiss countryside this aircraft powered by 12,000 solar cells flew for 87 [...]
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Kobo’s eReader gets reviewed
Posted on11. Apr, 2010 by kanna.
So, how much e-book reader can $149 get you? Well, Kobo’s eReader might not be heavy on the feature set, but based on the general impressions from Electronista’s review, we’d say quite a bit. In exchange for dropping the 3G, WiFi, color screen and audio playback frills of the Kindle and Nook, Kobo’s barebones device puts [...]
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HP Slate to cost $549, have 1.6GHz Atom Z530, 5 hour battery?
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by kanna.
Well, well — what’s this? We just got our hands on what looks like an internal HP Slate presentation given to cool down some of the iPad hype amongst HP employees, and it just happens to have specs and pricing details on the elusive Windows 7 tablet. As we’d heard, the Slate will run $549 [...]
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ICD’s Tegra 2-powered Gemini is the most feature-complete tablet we’ve seen yet
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by kanna.
Built around the 1GHz Tegra 2 SOC, the 11.2-inch ICD Gemini should provide comparable endurance to Apple’s A4-sporting iPad, while besting it in the grunt stakes with its glorious ability to chew through 1080p video when required. If that wasn’t enough, the rest of this thing’s spec sheet reads like a wishlist. Headlined by a [...]