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Its like Phones and Televisions are taking over the world.... shouldn't it be robots taking over though? At first i thought the iPhone would be #1, but it wasn't anywhere in the top 10, maybe i missed something to think that. To help me out though, there should be names of some laptops up there, maybe they'll show sometime later. I guess ill wait.... and wait.... aaand wait.. =]

Fun, Fun, Fun Till Daddy Takes the X-Bow Away

The tuners at ABT Sportline have taken KTM's wild X-Bow and decided the track-ready racer needs another 60 or so horsepower, bringing it to an even 300 ponies.
To most people, packing that much power into a car that weighs just 1,741 pounds would be enough to have them reaching for a net and that funny jacket with the too-long sleeves. But here at Autopia, it has us asking the guys at ABT to hand over the keys, please.
We’re not saying ABT is crazy in a bad way, we’re saying it's crazy in a fun way. KTM’s X-Bow is sort of like a carbon fiber Ariel Atom and a car we’ve always been keen on and hope to see coming to America soon. It’s a wild ride out of the box, so why is ABT messing with it?
Because it can. ABT has long been one of Europe’s leading tuners, tweaking Audis and Volkswagens and other assorted brands that roll out of the Volkswagen Group. Now that ABT has signed on to be an exclusive outlet for the X-Bow, it's working some magic on it, too.
For the record, a stock X-Bow uses a VW 2.0-liter TFSI mill cranking out 240 horsepower. That's enough to launch the car from zero to 62 mph in 3.9 seconds. Impressive, but ABT thinks it can do better, so its massaging the engine to deliver 300 horsepower.
That’s all the info ABT provided. It promises more details and tech specs once the testing is done, but you don't have to be J. Robert Oppenheimer to figure this one out. A 1,741-pound car with 300 horses should be an absolute hoot to drive.
ABT, you know where to get a hold of us for a test drive.
Photo: KTM

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WOW! There are so many cool futuristic cars coming out now, i don't know which to pick although I'm kinda have my eyes on the Aptera 2e. I like X-Bow because its lightweight but has awesome speed to it. I'm a little worried about crashing into stuff with that speed though.=]

http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/02/abt-ktm-x-bow-3.html

Indie Game: Tag Demands Hand, Eye, and Color Coordination

Finally, a game for those of us who love painting the town red (or green, or blue) but don't want to have to worry about scampering away from pesky law enforcement officials.
Tag: The Power of Paint is a first person platformer, with puzzles centered around spraying your surroundings with paint to navigate around obstacles. Players are armed with a paint gun, and a total of three colors -- red, blue, and green.
Spray a surface or object with green paint, and you'll bounce right off of it, while anything sprayed with red paint will become incredibly slick, granting you a speed boost as you run across. Splatter surfaces with blue paint and they'll become sticky, allowing you to defy gravity and walk across otherwise unreachable surfaces.

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This game looks like it was made for me. Finally, a game where you can splatter paint everywhere and not get in trouble or laundry your clothes everyday. I Like this Game. heeheeheehee... =]

http://blog.wired.com/games/

'Jeopardy': What Is High-Tech?

'Jeopardy' originally used cardboard and magic markers but now broadcasts in HD with a $4.1 million all-digital production. Alex Trebek talks about how the show has changed over the years



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Ahaha, it looked kinda funny in black and white. It is amazing how over the years, this show has changed its appearance, i love seeing things that show you what something is from something before, like Mac products. =]

http://www.wired.com/video

Babies See Pure Color, but Adults Peer Through Prism of Language

When infant eyes absorb a world of virgin visions, colors are processed purely, in a pre-linguistic parts of the brain. As adults, colors are processed in the brain's language centers, refracted by the concepts we have for them.
How does that switch take place? And does it affect our subjective experience of color? Such tantalizing questions, their answers still unknown, are raised by this developmental shift in color categorization, described today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To test the phenomenon, a team of British and English researchers asked adults and infants to focus on a briefly flashing target circle.
Sometimes the target appeared in the subjects' right visual fields -- roughly speaking, the right half of a person's field of vision, which is transmitted from the eyes to the brain's left hemisphere, where language processing also takes place. Sometimes the targets appeared in the left visual field, which connects to the pre-linguistic right hemisphere.
When asked to pick out a target against a similarly-colored background -- a more mentally demanding task than distinguishing between different colors -- infants performed better when the target appeared in their left visual fields. Adults, by contrast, had an easier time with targets in their right visual fields.
Over the course of our lives, it appears that an unfiltered perception of color gives way to one mediated by the constructs of language.
Does this mean that adults and infants see the same colors differently?
"We don't know," said study co-author Paul Kay.
But might adults see colors differently? That seems plausible.
"As an adult, color categorization is influenced by linguistic categories. It differs as the language differs," said Kay, who is renowned for his studies on the ways that different cultures classify colors. He cited recent research on the ability of Russian speakers to detect shades of blue [pdf] that English speakers classify as a single color.
How does the switch to a language-bound perception of color take place?
"That's the $64,000 question," said Kay. "We have every reason to believe that learning a language has a lot to do with it -- but [as for] how that works, it's early."

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Hmmmm.. ..... interesting. I wonder if i see colors the right way or not. Maybe this is why people sometimes argue about what color a thing is. I would like to learn more about what language has to do with the colors we see. =]

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/babies-see-pure.html

TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense -- Video

Students at MIT created this cool system that lets Internet act as your sixth sense. Check these videos out about the system.





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This is an awesome system, it would change life as we know it. Now i know we can accomplish things we didn't think possible. I don't know what else to say, i just want it!


To get more info on this, go to http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/ted-digital-six.html

Lenovo ThinkPad W700DS

Just when you thought there are no new tricks left in the laptop world ... along comes something previously deemed impossible.

With its ThinkPad W700, Lenovo offered the first notebook with a built-in pen tablet and a color-calibration system. Now it ups the ante again, with this enhanced version of the W700 — the W700ds — the first laptop to offer a secondary screen, built right into the back of the primary display.

I use the term laptop loosely, of course, because they haven't invented a term to describe what this machine really is. Portable computer might be more appropriate: The 11-pound W700ds would crush the femurs of most undernourished geeks, and it's clearly designed to be parked on a desk (and, given the $5,059 price tag, secured with a sizable chain, too).

If you read our review of the W700, you'll grok our thoughts on the tablet and color-correction features of this machine. Here they seem wholly unchanged, and again the gorgeous, incredibly bright 17-inch display is more than ready to collect your average Pixar animator's drool.

If he's a real spitter, why, just reach to the right side and pop out a secondary display for more real estate — here you get a bonus 10.6-inch LCD, not as beautiful as the primary panel, alas, oriented in portrait mode. While jaws drop when this trick is first performed, in real life the secondary display doesn't have as much utility as you'd think. You can park IM windows here and whatever toolbars you use (obviously this was created with Photoshop jockeys in mind), but it's generally too small for dropping web pages or your e-mail client.

Under the hood, the W700ds has been quietly upgraded to a 2.53-GHz Core 2 Extreme and dual 200-GB hard drives. The 4 GB of RAM, 64-bit version of Vista and Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M GPU remain the same as the pitifully mono-screened W700. With its newly enhanced firepower, the W700ds broke all of our general-app laptop performance records (nearly 15 percent faster than the W700), and it rocked our gaming benchmarks too. For the permanent record the scores on PC Mark05 were 8449 and PC Mark Vantage were 5490.

Ask the W700ds to give you all the power in the world, and it complies. All it asks for in return is, like, all your money. And a ruptured disc or two.

WIRED Secondary screen is a novelty of breathtaking proportions. Loaded with ports, including five USB, full-size DVI out and HDMI out. Unmatched performance in a laptop. 94 minutes of battery life isn't bad for a machine this big.

TIRED If you got room for two displays, is it wrong to think you ought to have room for three? Gargantuan size, weight, price. Smells like burning.

Manufacturer: Lenovo
Price: $5,059 (as tested)

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I'm developing a new attachment to Lenovo day by day now because of its Awesome looking laptops. This one looks pretty techie, especially the second screen, it could come in useful. The tablet looks good too. The thing i don't like about this is that its pretty heavy and i wouldn't be able to drag it everywhere with me and why cant it be free? it has to have a price tag?


http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_lenovo_w700DS