Some of you may get the advertence aloft and will not even charge to apprehend the afterward abortive accompaniment text. To those who haven't watched the complete alternation of Dragonball Z (yet), apprehend below.

Volkswagon just opened a $38 actor testing ability on Monday that can simulate the affliction acclimate that green-loving allegation Mother Nature can bandy at a car. Temperatures can ambit amid -40 to 302 degrees F in altitude assuming absolute sun acknowledgment and clamminess up to 95 percent saturation. What, no 100%? It doesn't rain? I can simulate that in my $200 shower! German engineering in the house, for real.

Other innovations cover "upstream conditioning boxes", or modular accumulator units that acquiesce VW to analysis up to 50 cars, alert a day. The abode looks like a absolutely nice accumulator rental facility. I admiration if they'll analysis my daybed next. Hit the jump for added pictures.

– Mark Wilson

VW Opens New Climate Center [autoblog]

Read More »

In just a brace years, your MacBook Air or Surface Pro could attending obsolete. Denizens of the approaching will not accept why you accept so abounding broad holes in your machine. Why would you allegation a full-size USB socket, a alluring charging port, and a video achievement if you can allegation them all into a individual tiny plug? Because that's what the VESA standards physique just appear with the new USB 3.1 Type-C jack, advancing appropriate about the corner.

USB 3.1 Type-C is the aforementioned affably capricious miniature USB anchorage we've been cogent you about for a while now, the one that just went into accumulation production this actual fall. It's aswell the aforementioned one that should be able to carry up to 100 watts of power, which sounds like affluence if you accede that accepted MacBook Airs address with a 45W AC adapter.

But here's the coup de grâce: VESA has appear that the Type-C adapter will aswell backpack DisplayPort. That agency it could 1) drive a 4K alien monitor, 2) bear 10Gbps of USB 3.0 throughput for your devices, and 3) allegation your computer all at the aforementioned time. Sound like something you'd want?

As AnandTech explains, not alone will you be able to angle up DisplayPort monitors, there should aswell be HDMI 2.0 adapter cables so you can bung video to your HDTV as well. And if you've got a 5K monitor, you can drive that too—as continued as you're annoyed with USB 2.0 speeds for aggregate else. What's more, the new USB accepted doesn't affliction which administration the video arresting goes: theoretically, you could even affectation your buzz on your laptop's awning at the aforementioned time your laptop accuse your phone. Ars Technica reports that the cable could even accept a PCI-Express mode.

USB 3.1 Type-C sounds like it's abstraction up to be an absurd cable, and it'll be absorbing to see how attenuate laptops get after the added ports. One rumor in fact has a new fanless, 12-inch MacBook Air application the new adapter in the adequately abreast future. Still, it's too aboriginal to say whether the abstraction will succeed: We already anticipation Intel's Thunderbolt adapter was traveling to be the cable to end all cables, but blotchy acceptance has kept it from ubiquity. [VESA]

Read More »

One of the abundant things about Amazon Prime is it lets can beck a lot of movies and TV shows. And now you can do it through an iPhone app too. Amazon Instant Video has existed on the iPad, but the new adaptation is absolutely adapted for the iPhone 5's added bit of absolute estate. [App Store]

Amazon Instant Video Lands on iPad As Prime Members Weep With Joy Amazon Instant Video Lands on iPad As Prime Members Weep With Joy Amazon Instant Video Lands on iPad As Prime Member

The actuality that Amazon's Instant Video service—which, while no Netflix, is starting to catch… Apprehend added Read more

Read More »

The winter may accompany with it adventurous comedies featuring Hugh Grant, but the downside is the bead in temperature. Fortunately, the Webasto Thermo Top E Parking Boiler allows users to forward a argument bulletin to a car area it is installed, which again bliss it into action, ensuring your car is balmy to the blow if you get in. The independent assemblage uses a tiny bulk of fuel, and can aswell be activated by articulation or limited control. The boiler outputs 4.2kW for a best of 60 account at a time. Sure, that would accumulate you from blind like a assumption monkey, but the $1,695 amount tag seems a little on the ample ancillary to us. Remember; it's not algid if it's chargeless cold, whatever that means. [Red Ferret]

Read More »

The new MyPassport Pro from Western Digital is the world's aboriginal bus-powered carriageable harder drive to activity two disks with RAID adequacy for afire fast, grab-and-go storage.

Available in a 2-terabyte archetypal for $300, or a 4-terabyte archetypal for $430, the MyPassport Pro offers speeds up to 233 MB/s. That should be a benefaction to those accomplishing abundant video or cartoon work, or anybody defective to alteration ample files super-duper fast.

The absolute wow-factor lies in the aggregate of accurate portability, acceptation no power-cable, and dual-disk RAID 0 or RAID 1 functionality for a mirrored advancement of your adored data. Previously you would accept to bung a harder drive like this into the wall, and we could all do after the circuitous cables and confused AC adapters.

Adding to the accessibility is an chip wrap-around Thunderbolt cable design, and an aluminum asylum activated for shock resistance. Bear in mind, the drive ability be a bit beefy due to the ample 2.5" drives. There's no solid-state activity here. Also a annoyance is that Thunderbolt is the one-and-only interface featured on the MyPassport Pro. There is no USB anchorage to abatement aback on if faced with an earlier arrangement defective Thunderbolt ports.

The MyPassport Pro is accessible now from the Western Digital store.

Read More »