By Andrew Liszewski
I can’t imagine anything funnier than the look on someone’s face when their home is burning to the ground and they realize that the fire extinguisher they just grabbed is actually a novelty phone! Priceless! You get that on tape and you’ve just won yourself $10,000, no question. Not too mention the fact that this phone appears to set a new benchmark for unergonomics. Are you supposed to stick the nozzle to your ear or something? $22 fromSource: OhGizmo! RSS Feed
Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Legislation and Policy, Green Daily
As part of the 3.8 million vehicle recall that was recently announced, Toyota and the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration are advising owners of all 2004 to 2009 Prius hybrids to remove their driver's side floor mat immediately and not replace it with another brand until further information is offered.
Reports of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles have been heard for the last fewSource: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed
Everett Digital
It’s almost time for the world’s favorite financial parlor game: Parse! That! FOMC Statement!
That’s right, with absolutely no one expecting the Federal Reserve’s to tweak the benchmark Fed Funds rate, the market’s attention will be acutely focused on the bureaucratic prosody of the statement published by the Federal Open Market Committee, the chief rate-setting body at the central bank. It’s due at 2:15 p.m. EDT.
The financial markets areSource: MarketBeat RSS Feed
Filed under: SUV, Crossover, Infiniti
Infiniti EX35 - Click above for high-res image gallery
Infiniti has announced its pricing and options list for the 2010 EX35 lineup this week, and the news is all good. The Japanese luxury brand has mirrored last year's MSRP on all four models, yet spread some additional icing on the cake to sweeten the deal on the 297-horsepower crossover.
The standard rear-drive EX35 rolls with a base price of $33,800 (all prices excludeSource: Autoblog RSS Feed
Image: Phx411
Last night at about 2am EST, Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar released a single, fateful tweet:
If I got my 3000th follower today, I’ll go into a Circle K naked.
It is now almost noon EST. And Joko Anwar has more than 10,000 followers. You can bet he’s getting publicity out of this. Alas, he also has to walk into a Circle K naked.
His follow-up tweets:
1 hour after initial tweet: You perverts!Source: Business Pundit RSS Feed
Filed under: Videos, Ferrari, Toys/Games
Ferrari love in Forza Motorsport 3 -- Click above for high-res image gallery
There are 29 Ferraris in Forza Motorsport 3, from the 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO to today's 599 GTB. And just for good measure, the kind folks at Forza threw in a few dream(ier) rides, including modern FIA GT cars, as well as the F40 and F50 Competizione models. You want more? Done. You'll be able to download the all-new Ferrari 458 Italia just in time for theSource: Autoblog RSS Feed
Here’s a look at the new Golf VII or Golf 7 with a test mule doing the rounds in Germany. While still very similar in style, the new Golf will have a wider wheelbase than the current Golf 6, but more technical details are likely to emerge in the future.
The Golf 6 seems to be a transition model for the brand, and its production end has been earmarked for December 2011, giving it a very short life span. According to leaked reports from Volkswagen, Source: EuroCarBlog RSS Feed
Filed under: Safety
Since 1975, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been recording the number of fatalities on U.S. roadways, and with the exception of 1992, that figure has never dropped below 40,000 deaths per year. According to NHTSA's new figures, that changed in 2008, when 37,261 fatalities occurred in the U.S. - a drop of nearly 10% over the previous year and the largest reduction in both number and percentage since 1982.
The majority ofSource: Autoblog RSS Feed
Associated Press
With the onset of the financial crisis, investors sensibly zeroed in on General Electric’s financial services unit, GE Capital, which had ballooned to nearly half GE’s earnings just before the earthquake hit Wall Street. Credit losses at GE Capital, and concerns about how many more were still to come, drove the company’s shares to 17-year lows earlier this year.
Now, Morgan Stanley analysts say GE’s stock story is changing “and we think manySource: MarketBeat RSS Feed
One of the key tenets of LEED certified building is to try to “source locally.” Here’s an example where that was easy to do, but for a sad reason. The Ann Arbor District Library in Traverwood is sited within an environmental disaster zone. The local forest is being eaten alive by an invasive species of bug that has attacked forests across a wide swathe of the midwest, killing millions of trees in their wake.
InFORM studio, the design architects for theSource: Home Design Find RSS Feed
By David Ponce
This doesn’t get much simpler. The GoGoStand is a plastic card with folds and cutouts. It’s the size of a credit card and fits in your wallet. Whenever you feel the need to watch something on your iPhone, you take it out, fold it and it turns into a stand. It can also be adjusted into three different viewing angles.
It’s all of $5, and we’ve included a video after the jump. It’s also currently sold-out until nextSource: OhGizmo! RSS Feed
We’ll admit that these live pics of the Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari at the Frankfurt motor show make it look more like the Fiat 500 pink, but it is still a head-turning crowd pleaser. Clearly, Abarth likes the attention, setting up its miniature car grenade right next door to Ferrari.
The Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari has a manual transmission with steering wheel paddles, carbon fibre inserts, rear spoiler and, of course, a Scuderia Ferrari red paint Source: EuroCarBlog RSS Feed
Linda McMahon, CEO of World Westling Entertainment, Inc., will resign from her job to run against Chris Dodd in the 2010 Connecticut Senate race. The LA Times has more:
Maybe The Rock and Triple H will serve as campaign managers.
Although not nearly as flamboyant as her husband — WWE Chairman and ringmaster Vince McMahon — Linda McMahon is considered the brains behind the brawn. She has been CEO of WWE since 1997 and is respected on WallSource: Business Pundit RSS Feed
These Reventon Roadster pics live from Frankfurt are to be appreciated for both the hot car and the long-legged Lamborghini girls at the stand. The Reventon Roadster will be made in a production run of only 20 and carries a price tag of 1.1 million euros.
While you may have liked the skirt on the model even shorter, the car is about as extreme as you can get for a open-top supercar, with 661 hp and 660 Nm from the 6.5-litre V12 engine. More pics of Source: EuroCarBlog RSS Feed
Forbes.com announced Monday that it has launched an application for the Palm webOS platform, available now in the Palm app catalog on the Palm Pre phone.
The app delivers news, analysis and opinion, as well as stock market updates to Palm Pre phones.
Users have free access to the latest Forbes.com content, including news from the home page and the site’s editorial channels — Markets, Business, Personal Finance, Entrepreneurs, Technology, Forbes Life,Source: Talking Biz News RSS Feed
Government clients need a BlackBerry without a camera. The reason is simple: when you have such an incredible amount of top secret documents lying around, you can’t have people with cameras entering the facilities. While cameras can be controlled with IT policies, it’s safer to not have the hardware at all.
Government agencies also love a World Phone; in particular, foreign affairs. These two features make the BlackBerry Tour 9630 a great device forSource: BlackBerryCool RSS Feed
The MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde has been presented and the guys at “Al Volante” have already got themselves a test drive before the Frankfurt show presentation. It will be equipped with the 1.4-litre Turbobenzina MultiAir at 170 hp and will take on the role of the sportiest small Alfa before the MiTo GTA turns up.
Features of this MiTo include new 17-inch wheels and in the interior, sports seats and white light instrumentation to give the wholeSource: EuroCarBlog RSS Feed
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Hydrogen, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Natural Gas, Greenlings
2011 Chevy Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery
There has been quite a spate of green car designs in the past few years that seem penned to prove the adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Indeed, some eco-intentioned vehicles appear to be the end result of an ultimate death match between form and function in which form never stood the slightest whisper of aSource: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed
Filed under: Hydrogen, Legislation and Policy, USA
Honda FCX Clarity - Click above for high-res image gallery
United States Energy Secretary Steven Chu doesn't think that hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are the best technology to funnel research and development funds into. Still, Chu doesn't plan to continue fighting with the lawmakers in Congress that voted to reinstate funding into hydrogen projects that he had previously canceled. Says the Energy Secretary:
We will do the Source: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed
For some time I’ve been anticipating regulation to be imposed on behavioral targeting (and possibly more broadly on Internet advertising). The the AP reported yesterday:
Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, is drafting a bill that would impose broad new rules on Web sites and advertisers. His goal: to ensure that consumers know what information is being collected aboutSource: Screenwerk RSS Feed
Filed under: BMW
BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics Concept - click above for high-res image gallery
There's a lot of competition to be seen as the world's greenest automaker - just look at the branding efforts surrounding the Toyota Prius or the Chevrolet Volt for examples - but if you look at the way an automaker designs, builds and recycles its products, then BMW is the top dog.
That declaration comes from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World, which has declared Source: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed
(image found at townnews.com)
Yesterday’s Employment Situation Report from Uncle Sam’s Bureau of Labor Statistics had lots of of dismal news.
One of the bigger disappointments, but sadly not one of the bigger surprises, is that the teenage unemployment rate reached an all-time seasonally adjusted high of 25.5%.
People who know even a little bit about economics should understand why, but an oddly titled New York Times blog post bySource: BizzyBlog RSS Feed
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, Solar, Chevrolet
For the last month, Tom Leitschuh has been cruising around Racine, Wisconsin in a 1981 Chevrolet El Camino without a single worry about his emissions or the price of gas. The reason is that his El Camino has been converted to all electric power and he generates electricity using wind and solar panels at home. This means he doesn't care what the utility rates are, either. Sounds good, doesn't it?
Leitschuh bought theSource: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed
Filed under: MPG, Legislation and Policy, USA
2010 Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery
Ever wonder what actually goes into determining the rated fuel economy of a new car or truck? Anyone with a vehicle that's failed to live up to its EPA estimated figures would surely fit into that camp - especially if the car or truck were purchased in large part to its high mileage rating - and you can add our names to that list as well. As it turns out, the processSource: AutoblogGreen RSS Feed
