That’s right, Jeremy Clarkson’s Cheap Car Challenge Mitsubishi Starion sold for just $4,120 on eBay. This car comes “complete with a muscular 2.6-liter turbocharged four and gaffer tape holding the rear louvers in place.” Auction page. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
The seller actually sold the car to Clarkson, then bought it back after the segment was finished in 2005. As Jeremy points out in the clip, this is the last Starion ever registered in Britain.
Apple’s newest iPhone 3G S ad, titled “Share”, shows that there are plenty of apps that let you share photos, contact info, or even a friendly game of Scramble between handsets. Continue reading to watch.
Don’t have enough space for all your displays? Well, you could always go custom. Lifehacker reader Steve Price decided to build “a custom cabinet to fit into the alcove and hold his computers, some peripherals, and tools.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
The entire affair is cooled with large-diameter cooling fans and the heat is exhausted right out the window.
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Top Gear’s James May rides in a Lockheed U2 spy plane to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere and gets very emotional to say the least due to the spectacular views at 70,000 feet. Continue reading to watch.
It was created in the 50s, flying for the first time in 1955, and despite some being shot down over the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China, the fleet is still in use today.
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Developed by Double Helix Studios, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra game isn’t just a direct adaptation of the movie, as it features the original “Yo Joe!” battle cry, amongst Commando, Soldier, and Heavy Weapons classes. Continue reading for GT’s video review.
Consisting of 2-channels — each channel is a 7-foot tall panel, the Ne Plus Ultra speaker system is the world’s most expensive, at a hefty $2-million. That’s not all, the “included system of power amplifiers crank out a total of 31,000 Watts.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
To accommodate two channels of this gargantuan system (that means twelve of these 7-foot panels), you’ll need a 37-foot-wide listening room, and altogether they weigh four tons.
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Samsung has partnered with Sprint to release the Reclaim M560, a cell phone that’s “constructed from ‘bio-plastic’ materials made from corn, is free of PVC, and mostly free of BFR (brominated flame retardants).” It features a 2.0-megapixel camera, 2.3-inch QVGA display, and GPS. Continue reading for one more picture.
Reclaim in “Earth Green” or “Ocean Blue” come August 16th for $50 (after a $30 instant rebate and $50 mail-in rebate) with a two-year contract.
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While many of us have heard of the Boeing 747, not all have gotten the opportunity to ride in one. This time-lapse video provides us with a first-person look. Continue reading to watch.
The Nagoya Robot Ramen system may not be the first ramen-cooking bot, but it most certainly works faster than its predecessor, thanks to a pair of industrial robotic arms. Continue reading for the video.
With such rapid speed, the bots get some downtime, which they fill by performing a little show for their clientele.
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Waterloo Labs decided to play “Half-Life, with a suppressed .22 pistol; using accelerometers and LabVIEW, [they] can triangulate the position of where the bullet hits a piece of drywall and generate a mouse click at that location in the game.” Video after the break.
The intensity of the vibrations in each accelerometer is measured to determine where exactly on the board the bullet impacted, which is fed into the host PC, where the coordinate data is translated into an aimed, ingame shot.
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