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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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.

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What's does getting alien complete like? A apprentice at the Royal College of Art in London shoved a dictaphone central a bindle and beatific it off to Helsinki to acquisition out. Here, affably animated, is what it heard. [Motherboard.tv]

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It ability pay to be added accurate about area you abstract up your phone—because a aggregation of advisers from the Georgia Institute of Technology accept put calm a ancestor charger able of installing malware assimilate an iPhone.

The research, which is to be presented at the Black Hat aegis appointment in backward July and was spotted by Forbes, was built-in out of the abstraction of creating innocent-looking accessories which could be acclimated to drudge phone. Describing their allegation as "alarming", the advisers explain:

"Despite the deluge of aegis mechanisms in iOS, we auspiciously injected approximate software into current-generation Apple accessories active the latest operating arrangement (OS) software... All users are affected, as our access requires neither a jailbroken accessory nor user interaction.”

Their charger, Mactans—that's addition name for the Black Widow spider—uses a baby onboard computer to accomplish its clandestine duties. In actuality it's based on a Texas Instruments BeagleBoard, which retails at $45. While the consistent charger measures three inches square—bigger than your boilerplate ability supply—it's still a awkward affidavit of abstraction which could calmly be awkward into a abate anatomy agency if required, just at college cost.

Details are—fortunately!—scant about absolutely how the accessory works, but the advisers affirmation that it can accommodation iOS in beneath a minute, and that the malware infection is assiduous and boxy to spot. So, anticipate alert about what your bung your buzz into. [BlackHat via Forbes]

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Let's say a vodka bottle's adorned characterization doesn't absolutely advertisement how alarming you are for bubbler it. What then? Why, bang a programmable dejected LED ticker on there like Medea did. They also, aristocrat advice us, fabricated an advisory video:

You can affairs up to six letters of up to 255 characters, a lot of of which had bigger cover the chat "bro." [Luxist via CrunchGear]

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Okay, so it's a affliction that every time the littlest affair goes amiss with parents' computer you're their go-to IT guy or gal. But let's be honest: there's something not abhorrent about getting a sci-fi hero—even if the absolute Neo is a seek engine. [TNW via 9gag]

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The apple can be an upsetting place at times. But no amount how abominably your day ability be going, there's one affair that can consistently accompany a little acclamation aback into your life: dogs! Dogs attractive balls, dogs diving in pools, and dogs just getting about alarming at 1,000 frames per second.

Sure, this is just a bartering for Orapup, a lickable argot besom for pups that promises to annihilate dog breath. But it's harder not to buy what they're affairs with an ad like this. Besides, according to Jesus Diaz: "THE WORLD NEEDS MORE HAPPY" and this delivers smiles in spades. [Orapup via Laughing Squid]

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Google is searching for chump abutment professionals to handle its Nexus One phone, a bright assurance it has accustomed that its self-service abutment archetypal has limits.

Digital Inspiration noticed a announcement on Google's job boards searching for a "Phone Abutment Program Manager, Android/Nexus One," to be based at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. "As Buzz Abutment Program Manager for Android and the Nexus One, you are amenable for ramping up and managing operations of Google's blast abutment for our direct-to-consumer Android/Nexus One customers," Google wrote in the ad.

Google has gotten by with a appealing bare-bones chump abutment operation to this point in its history. Forums, FAQs, and e-mail abutment are appealing abundant the admeasurement of what Google offers to anybody added than paid barter of Google Apps.

But afterward the barrage of the Nexus One, Google's abutment forums were abounding with questions from barter who were accepting shipment and abstruse issues. Google attempted to absolute questions to HTC and T-Mobile, its accouterments and carrier ally on the Nexus One, but the Nexus One is getting awash alone through Google at the moment, and it's the aggregation that barter attending to if they accept a complaint.

Google beneath to allotment specific affairs for Nexus One chump abutment provided by reside animal beings, but accepted the job announcement was legitimate.

"We're alive bound to break any chump abutment issues as they appear up, and we are aggravating to be as accessible and cellophane as accessible through our online chump advice forums. We abide to abode all issues in as appropriate of a address as possible, and we're adjustable and able to accomplish changes to our processes and tools, as necessary, for an optimal chump abutment experience," the aggregation said in a statement.

It seems no amount how Google builds out its chump abutment team, it will acceptable do so in its own way. One of the job's responsibilities will be to "define and apparatus scalable business practices that advantage our centralized best practices in one-to-many abutment to actualize efficiencies in high-touch abutment activities through channels such as buzz and chat," according to the post. The being will aswell be amenable for analogous abutment efforts with partners, such as HTC, T-Mobile, and added carriers that will eventually abutment the Nexus One. [Digital Inspiration]

This adventure originally appeared on CNET

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It's apparently accompanying to our bound actuality on this planet, but flesh has an apparent attraction with time. How abroad would you explain all the activity we put into architecture endless clocks advised to beat abroad the seconds, from a simple Timex watch, to this admirable WaterColorBot that paints every casual minute?

The association over at the Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories adapted one of their baptize blush painting robots to instead acrylic a simple analog alarm face announcement whatever time it happened to be if it started its brushwork. And so they didn't accept to accumulate swapping out the canvas every minute, they acclimated a ceramic-coated Buddha Board that shows the wet besom acclamation until they clear away.

It's anesthetic to watch. For a breed so amorous with time, it's amazing how abundant of it we're agreeable to artlessly while away. [Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories via BoingBoing]

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Toy Place is a admirable abbreviate documentary by Ben Churchill that tours the amazing Vermont Toy Building that houses a accumulating of about 100,000 toys. I wish to go there now. We should all go there now.

The building has about 10,000 toys on affectation with the added 90,000 toys in accumulator somewhere. When you aboriginal hit the museum, you see the ancient toys like dice, rope, balls, etc. and again toys from 1900 to 1950 and again toys from anniversary decade. People who grew up in a assertive era would apparently never leave their decade.

There's aswell things like cafeteria boxes, fast aliment toys, cracker jack toys, lath amateur army on the ceiling, dolls, and so abundant more. Watch the documentary and see how Gary Neil (he's the guy who runs the museum) maintains his artless affection for toys in his museum. We should all be so lucky. The Vermont Toy Museum is amid in Quechee, Vermont. [Radio Trip Pictures via Laughing Squid]

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Apparently the handset has been delayed until November. The acceptable news, as BGR credibility out, is that the n900 supports T-Mobile 3G. So bold Project Black agency bargain plans, the timing could in fact plan out able-bodied for -to-be buyers. [BGR]

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What did Bill Gates eat at New York's Tao Restaurant that he said was "a acceptable deal"?

The $24 prix-fixe lunch. Here's what Bill had a best of munching on, via Alley Insider:

Appetizer best of:
Bang Bang Chicken Salad

Satay of Chicken with Peanut Sauce

Bamboo Steamed Veggie Dumplings

Peking Duck Spring Rolls with Hoisin Sauce



Entree best of:
Soy Ginger Salmon

Kung Pao Chicken

Shanghai Scallion Beef

Wok seared NY Sirloin

Vegetable or Chicken Pad Thai

Sushi Roll Trio

Dessert:

Zen Parfait

Fresh Fruit & Tangerine Sorbet

Banana Bread Pudding

I'm cerebration Bill went with the Bang Bang Chicken Salad, the Soy Ginger Salmon and the Zen Parfait. Or maybe that's just what I would get. And acknowledgment to inflation, in 5 years a $24 cafeteria will be a acceptable accord for the blow of us too. [NY Post via Silicon Alley Insider]

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Do not acclimatize your computer screens. There's no botheration with YouTube, added than the actuality that it's accepting a little bleary eyed—by allotment to bless the 57th ceremony of the VCR with a little added analog appearance on its agenda videos.

On plenty of YouTube videos you can currently acquisition a baby VCR button: bang it, and the video you're watching will alpha to affectation some of those admirable (awful?) characteristics that your old cassette amateur acclimated to provide. It's a arbitrary way of adulatory the Ampex VRX-1000—commonly advised the world's aboriginal applied cine recorder if it was launched on April 14th 1956 at the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters Convention. The accessory fabricated a abiding consequence on home entertainment, but acknowledge advantage things accept confused on. [YouTube]

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You can put out a blaze with annihilation added than sound—and it doesn't even accept to be eardrum-deadening, Marty McFly-flattening loud sound. This is Darpa's sonic blaze extinguisher, and it sounds kinda like a foghorn.

The extinguisher was developer to action fires in baby spaces, like even cockpits or address holds. It uses speakers on either ancillary of a aqueous ammunition flame. (It's not bright the decibel akin or abundance of complete required.) Here's how Active explains the demonstration:

The aggregation abiding two speakers either ancillary of a aqueous ammunition blaze to authenticate how blaze can be controlled by amping up an acoustic field. The complete increases air velocity, which again thins the breadth of the blaze breadth agitation occurs, accepted as the blaze boundary. Once the abuttals breadth is thinned, the blaze is easier to extinguish. At the aforementioned time, the acoustics are advancing the basin of ammunition and creating college ammunition vaporisation - this widens the flame, abrasion it out so it is beneath concentrated and air-conditioned abundant to extinguish.

Pretty awesome. Here's searching advanced to the day your beleaguer complete arrangement doubles as your blaze extinguisher. [Wired]

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This is one bind owners of Kindles, Nooks and iPads accordingly face: How the hell can I get my admired columnist to assurance that book I've got stored in my Ebook reader? Sure, you can consistently get him to doodle his signature on the aback of your Kindle in thick, ugly, atramentous marker. If tacky's your style.

Or you could use Autography, which lets you digitally "insert" an author's acclaim appropriate into your Ebook. It works like this: At a book signing, you breeze a account of yourself with the columnist application an iPad camera or addition alien camera. The angel is again transferred assimilate the author's iPad, which he signs with a stylus. Finally, the columnist curtains a button on the iPad and the angel flies through cyberspace to acreage in your email inbox, accessible for downloading into your Ebook (or for simple aloof on Facebook and Twitter).

It's one of the a lot of apprehensible solutions to an accessible problem. In fact, Autography's already been activated at assorted book signings actuality in the US and abroad. [Autography via NYTimes]

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Wildlife photography can be grueling, annoying work, but the adjustment is sometimes you get something as amazing as this British Wildlife Photography Awards winner. It's of gannets (birds), diving into the sea off the bank of arctic Scotland. And it's breathtaking.

The Gannets had been absorbed to the area by columnist Matt Doggett with asleep mackerel, while he waited to get the shot. Here he is talking about his photo, Gannet Jacuzzi:

"I like this image, as about every date of the activity is captured-gannets entering the water, gannets eyeing up the fish, gannets demography the fish, gannets bistro the angle and again assuredly leaving," Dogget said in a statement. "It looks like chaos, but the gannets apperceive absolutely area the added birds are."

Gannet Jacuzzi is the all-embracing champ of the BWPAs this year, but it's in acceptable company. You can check out all the winners over at the BWPA site, and we've aswell included a few added below. [BWP Awards via National Geographic via Get Outdoors]

Winner: Urban Wildlife
Starlings watching the Starlings, by Phil Jones

Winner: HD Video
Raymond Besant, Hoy Fulmars
Runners up:

Ben Tutton, Dippers

Ben Burville, Grey Seals

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Doors are some actively age-old tech but they accept this botheration area they can alone accumulate humans out if they're closed. This camp but able yield on the "revolving door" by a aggregation alleged Barbecan, on the added hand, aims to get you inside, but simultaenously accumulate any ne'er-do-wells out. Specifically ne'er-do-wells with bombs and guns.

This system, which Barbecan calls the "Linear Revolving Door" works by encasing every aspirant to a architecture aural his or her own little clandestine corpuscle on the way in. While they're in there, sensors analysis for accoutrements or bombs or whatever bad account you ability be able to detect, and if the after-effects are positive, the beeline revolving aperture can either allurement the ambition in there, or about-face to discharge him out. It helps to see what it would attending like in action.

While it seems like the Beeline Revolving Aperture could be effective, it's aswell got none of the artlessness of acceptable doors. And man would it blot if the automated doors that are advised to accommodate bombers and apache breach down and will not open. And that's to say annihilation of expense. Still, a arrangement like this could be appealing advantageous in decidedly top accident areas. Don't apprehend to see it any time anon though; Barbecan is just in the patenting date of this one. But if crazy spurts of abandon accumulate up, again you can brainstorm something like this is traveling to appearance up eventually. [Barbecan via Discovery]

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