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...internal combustion engine isn't connected to the driveline," Gauthier says. Instead the internal combustion engine will be used to generate power for the car's electric motors. Over time, as the technology improves, the combustion engine will be replaced by fuel cells, ending fossil fuels' century-old grip on the automobile.- Reported by Joe Szczesny/Detroit and Michael Schuman/Tokyo
...concept of cool hunting-tracking urban trends-dates back more than a decade, but the rules of the game are rapidly changing. Over the past three years, an explosion of blogs, podcasts, websites and newsletters has pried cool hunting from the grip of professional marketers, shifting it to the text-message-happy fingers of amateur trend trackers. Some independent sites focus on broad trends and generational shifts in consumer habits. Others home in on specific styles, foods, brands and gadgets popular among trendsetters. jcreport.com, for instance, focuses on fashion, gizmodo.com on gadgetry and needled.com on tattooing trends. The best hubs...
...Then came action-sensitive vibration, wireless connectivity and an analog stick for 360˚ steering. Now the company hopes to shake things up with a wireless controller for next year's Revolution console that will allow players to apply real-world physical experience to games. The one-handed grip has motion and position sensors, so if you're playing a Ping-Pong game, you just flick the controller like a paddle. Or, to shoot, take aim and tap a button. For more elaborate games, a second piece with analog stick and two triggers (for that extra itchy finger...
...year ago,” Murphy said. “So therefore we just don’t have much margin for error.” The biggest change, though, came from the quarterback position. O’Hagan still had moments that surely made his coaches grip their clipboards in white-knuckled terror. When he dropped back to pass on a third-and-long conversion attempt, you could practically see the Lafayette defensive backs licking their chops with anticipation. “We watched this quarterback on film throw picks right in people’s chests...
...With this backdrop, the story practically writes itself: given their combined smarts, distribution and chutzpah, Sun and Google will produce software products that will finally break Microsoft?s grip on the desktop. They?ve even got a lot of the same corporate DNA. Mark Stahlman, an analyst with Caris & Company, calls Sun and Google ?the same company? because so much of Google's top brass is ex-Sun. Many of those same people, about 15 years ago, hatched a plan to use technology to radically transform the way people manage information. Much of what spun out of their efforts-Java...