This cool urban bag solves two pressing smartphone problems at once
Gadget owners who have to travel a lot have to deal with two pressing problems: charging all their devices on the go, and accessing various kind of files while away from home and the office. While many bags are able to safely carry electronic gadgets, the Colfax and Colfax PHD urban bags currently raising money on Kickstarter will also deal with power and storage issues on the go.
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This is the closest you’ll get to attending Sony’s E3 Press Conference
If you haven’t had the chance to attend E3, we can tell you from first-hand experience that it’s a mess. A raucously fun mess, but a mess nonetheless. There’s nothing quite like sitting with a crowd of thousands of other gamers and being genuinely surprised by the big announcement that didn’t leak or stifling laughter when a demo bombs.
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The ultimate list of Mac shortcuts for all your favorite Internet services
Mac users looking to get around faster while dealing with various popular online services and apps including Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WordPress, Pocket, Feedly, Google+, Google Docs, Dropbox, Evernote, Spotify, Soundcloud and Tumbler should check out BufferApp‘s extensive list of keyboard shortcuts for OS X devices, which offers users more than 111 shortcuts for these online tools.
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Back up your iPhone’s data right now: Huge iOS ransomware scam hits the U.S.
Now is a good time to make sure all the data on your iPhone is backed up in the cloud. CBS Los Angeles reports that the huge iOS ransomware scam that first popped up in Australia on Tuesday has now made its way to the United States. Hackers have figured out a way to exploit the Find My iPhone feature in iOS to lock up users’ iPhones and iPads and demand a ransom from them if they ever want to use their devices again
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SuperTrapp WaveTech Exhausts
SuperTrapp WaveTech Exhausts (MSRP starts at $186.00) are designed for 4 and 6-cylinder sport compact imports. They are tunable, disc-based mufflers with a polished T-304 stainless steel body that includes a polished stainless steel closed end cap. The core is perforated stainless steel. Four different colors of optional end caps are available and sold separately including polished aluminum TrappCaps.
Select models of SuperTrapp’s WaveTech automotive exhausts include twelve, 4” discs. WaveTech exahusts are available in different lengths and inlet diameters. Visit SuperTrapp.com for specific applications and additional product information.
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Now we know why companies are spending insane money to buy mobile apps
Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp is not going to be the last jaw-dropping deal in the mobile app industry. If you’re looking for reasons why, search no further than Mary Meeker’s epic, 164-slide “Internet Trends” mammoth presentation.
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Installing EFI System into a Lucas Oil Modified
Dave Arce has successfully installed the FIRA FAST EFI system onto his Lucas Oil Modified. The system is to be tested at the first two races and then implemented into the series.
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An $18,000 bounty awaits the first person to root the Galaxy S5 on Verizon and AT&T
Six weeks after the official launch of the Galaxy S5, the mobile community still hasn’t managed to root the Verizon or AT&T models of the phone. Although subscribers from other carriers have been able to root their phones ever since launch day, root access has eluded subscribers of the two biggest phone carriers in the United States. The community has gotten so desperate that they’ve set up a bounty on the XDA Developers forum which currently amounts to just under $18,000 for the first person who can root the phone.
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Compressed Natural Gas – The Future Fuel?
This Bi-Fueled Mustang Muscle Car was unveiled last year at the Woodward Dream Cruise in Royal Oak, MI.
Daryl Patrishkoff of Shelby Township, MI, has a vision for the American automotive industry. He firmly believes that our fuel of choice should be Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), not gasoline. Until the full CNG infrastructure is in place a Bi-Fuel vehicle, fueled by either CNG or gasoline upon the drivers command, is the bridge vehicle that can lead this transition.
Patrishkoff heads up a three-man technical team developing this technology. The advantages are a 40 percent savings in fuel costs at the pump, 25-30 percent reduction in harmful emissions, 100 percent U.S. provided natural gas, and meaningful employment for the US economy.
The most important benefit, however, is that a CNG-powered vehicle runs on fuel that can be mined in America, eliminating the need for foreign oil. “After decades of political rhetoric, these types of vehicles can truly lead the U.S. to energy independence,” he said.
Although CNG is used in more than 15 million vehicles worldwide, acceptance of this alternative fuel has been slow in the U.S. There are only 120,000 CNG vehicles in the country, most of them company fleet and municipal buses which have been in service for decades.
Patrishkoff and his team, known as Performance CNG, LLC, are trying to change all that by demonstrating practical applications on multiple vehicles. On their current project they have converted a 2003 Mustang Street Legal Muscle Car to a Bi-Fuel configuration. It has taken thousands of hours and a significant amount of money to get the Muscle Car developed to automotive engineering standards. It is now a legitimate road vehicle which puts out 470 HP at the rear wheels (over 500 HP at the crank) on either fuel using alcohol injection.
Patrishkoff invested his own money and received support from his partners, local automotive companies, friends and family. This Bi-Fueled Mustang Muscle Car was unveiled last year at the Woodward Dream Cruise in Royal Oak, MI; the world’s largest one-day automotive event, drawing 1.5 million people and 40,000 classic cars.
Since then the Bi-Fueled Mustang has traveled to many universities, community colleges, high schools, industry seminars and alternative energy events to bring awareness to this technology and the value proposition of using CNG as a fuel for many types of vehicles.
Having demonstrated that using CNG does not decrease HP from a gasoline baseline, the next step is to show it can increase HP. For that purpose Patrishkoff needs an additional $55,000 of funding. About $15,000 of this total is needed for high-performance CNG components and $10,000 is required for engine calibration refinements on the Dynamometer. The remaining $30,000 is slotted for EPA 75 testing (emissions, MPG and horsepower).
In order to raise funds for this final phase of this project, Patrishkoff has launched an Indiegogo campaign that can be viewed at www.indiegogo.com/projects/street-legal-muscle-car-running-on-cng/x/7109221.
Depending on their levels of contribution, backers can receive brochures, technical documentation and continued project progress updates of the project. The top donation level also receives two invitations to the grand unveiling event.
But, most of all, they’ll be contributing to a cleaner environment and for the first time a true path to U.S. energy independence that creates long-term meaningful jobs for our economy.
“We’re shattering the various paradigms about the application of Compressed Natural Gas used in real consumer vehicles,” Patrishkoff said. “This final stage of the project will prove the point that CNG is a high performance fuel backed up with real engineering data that complies with global automotive standards.”
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Incredible photographs showcase some of Apple’s earliest prototypes
Apple’s designs have become so ubiquitous over the past ten years that’s it hard to remember a time when the company was struggling to find its identity. Early in Apple’s existence, the rising star of the industry brought in outside help to figure out how to make its products stand out. In fact, Frog, a design firm with studios all over the world, is credited with many of the earliest design prototypes for Apple’s future products. Of course, plenty of the designs were changed significantly from their conception (or scrapped entirely), but as Frog founder Hartmut Esslinger illustrates in his latest book, Keep it Simple, Apple might never have drawn so much attention without the assistance of his team. Among the stories, Esslinger includes some fascinating imagery of prototypes that never saw the light of day. We’ve included a few below, but head over the to The Verge to see the rest.
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