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Volt’s Wild Ride: A Long Drive In Chevy’s Electric Vehicle

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I had the rare pleasure of driving a brand new Chevy Volt up the Eastern seaboard yesterday, a four hour trip from DC to New York in the driving rain of a dying nor’easter.

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Review: Blackberry Style 9670

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Short Version I'm always wary when marketers use the word "style." Homestyle biscuits are rarely as flaky and buttery as grandma's were and family-style meals at Italian restaurants ignore the fact that I am usually there eating an entire lasagna alone.

Sesame Street Sings “There’s an App for That”

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Greatest song ever made. This week Sesame Street thrusts itself into the modern culture, as it’s always rightfully done, and as always with a lovely little song. Here one of the Street residents tells you all about his brand new device: the iPogo!

UK Prime Minister wants US-style Fair Use Industrial Policy to Spur Innovation

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron is hanging out in East London and yesterday says he admits that UK copyright laws are outmoded and that they’ve chilled innovation on the internet.

Apple’s example Mac app prices land around $15-20

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Reader Shane did a little zoom and enhance on Apple's promo image for the Mac App Store, and divined some potential prices for Apple's official apps.

AT&T announces Samsung Solstice II for $29.99 on a two year contract

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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Cellular Providers In case you’re looking for a solid feature phone with a nice touch screen, consider the Samsung Solstice II that is going to launch November 7 on AT&T. Billed as a quick messaging phone, the Solstice II boasts a 3 inch touch...

Apple TV Hacking: hackers, grooveshark, Bluetooth stack

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Family responsibilities have kept me from posting about many amazing developments going on in the Apple TV hacking community this past week but I assure you that things continue to move ahead quickly and in promising directions. Brian Chen wrote up a great summary of this effort over at Wired.

The Dead Rise: Macintosh SE/30 Brought Back to Life

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Hackers delight. Using a Seagate Dockstar, some USB 2.0 ports, 128MB of RAM, and a small Linux server running a 1.2GHz ARM processor, YouTube user Spritetm has brought a Mac SE/30 back to wonderful, wonderful life. It runs a Mac emulator and works as a server.

Nikon patents back mirrorless cam, wireless photo preview

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Nikon's plans for its first mirrorless, swappable lens camera gained momentum late Thursday with the discovery of a Japanese patent for a prototype design. The body is similar to one seen in earlier patents but suggests it may skew more towards the mainstream.

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Parrot Minikit dock mounts, charges smartphones in cars

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Parrot has expanded its line of vehicle accessories with the new Minikit Smart, a universal docking bay for smartphones. The dock integrates a 2W speaker, which amplifies GPS guidance information or hands-free calls.

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iPhoto ’11 updated, still not up to par

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It's a shame -- iPhoto is likely the most heavily used of all the iLife applications. There are simply more people taking digital pictures than there are using GarageBand or iMovie.

Design Store Moss Seized for Nonpayment of Taxes

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Photo by Alan G. Brake. This is sure to send a wave through the design community: Moss, the influential design store and gallery located in New York's SoHo, has been seized by the State of New York for nonpayment of taxes—foreshadowed in Murray Moss's essay Design Hates a Depression, as...

Need an Android smartphone you can take swimming? Try the Motorola Defy

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Section: Communications, Cellular Providers, Smartphones, Mobile, Web More and more gadgets are coming branded as rugged and water resistant these days, one of which is the recently available Motorola Defy.

Dell Dumps BlackBerry for Android, Windows Phone 7

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Twenty-five thousand Dell employees are about to lose their BlackBerrys. The company will be migrating them over to its own smartphone offering, the Dell Venue Pro.

3D Printing Service Sculpteo Lets You Create Your Own Avatar

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If you've ever wanted a way to make your XBox Live Avatar or your Mii into a real figure that can sit on your desk and keep you company while you work, reminding you of the fun you could be having at home on your console, 3D printing company Sculpteo wants to help.

Tactile+Plus Stickers Add Physical Gaming Buttons to Your iPhone

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Even if Apple has become a major name in mobile gaming, with the likes of the iPod Touch and iPhone hosting some of the most addictive casual games available on the market, there’s still the gamers out there who want nothing more than to have some physical buttons to control their favorite...

FLEXiT Light is a Flexible Sheet of LEDs, Available November 17th

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As we get closer and closer to the holiday shopping season, you’ve probably already begun picking out particular gifts for certain individuals. But, what about the gift for that one person who’s hard to shop for? Or is too picky?

iOS 4.2 to support MIDI

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It's come to light that the upcoming release of iOS 4.2 (due in November) will support all-out MIDI. According to Mike Keller, writing for PC World, Core MIDI on iOS 4.2 should work just as Core MIDI does on Mac OS X, meaning that your iDevice running iOS 4.2 will communicate with other MIDI...

Chimei may pitch in on iPad display production for 2011

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Taiwan's Chimei Innolux may be giving Apple an increasing amount of help making iPad displays next year, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets said on Friday.

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The Dutch Invertuals Transform Medieval Oak Wood into New Design Projects

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Top: 600 year old oak timber. Bottom: Julien Carretero's Matchsticks. This year, the group of designers behind the loose collective Dutch Invertuals had the opportunity to work with a magnificent material: Oak wood that dates back to Medieval Times, forming the foundation to the EIndhoven city...

Is this thing on? Join us on Twitter for our first Friday CrunchGear Writer Interaction Thing

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All of us at CrunchGear love you. Yes, you. We seriously dig our readers — unfortunately, we rarely get the opportunity to talk to you guys.

Early Windows Phone 7 apps nearly as expensive as on iPhone

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An early look at the first wave of Windows Phone 7 apps by O'Reilly has shown that they typically cost much more than on the iPhone. With 1,400 apps now in Windows Phone Marketplace, the mean price for a WP7 app is $6.16, or about 80 percent higher than the $3.43 on an iPhone.

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Mimo Usenet Browser: Now Available For Giganews’ Diamond Members

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Giganews, the biggest Usenet provider around, has a new feature for Diamond members that’s certainly worth mentioning here. They’ve teamed up with Golden Frog—yes, the same people who developed Giganews’ VyperVPN service—to create a brand new Usenet browser.

Netgear unveils faster ReadyNAS Ultra Plus media servers

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Netgear has expanded its ReadyNAS line of home media servers, with the introduction of the Ultra 2 and Ultra Plus series. The Ultra Plus lineup is claimed to deliver 30 percent faster performance when compared to the Ultra series.

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Deal roundup: Mac Pro Quad-Core with Parallels, now $1899

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Today BHPhotoVideo.com has the Mac Pro Quad-Core bundled with Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac for $1899 with FREE shipping. That's about $100 less than what this Mac Pro sells for elsewhere, and about $130 less than buying these items separate.

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Diamond USB Speakers

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These small USB 2.0 desktop speakers, measuring approximately 65 x 65 x 65mm, are designed to look like diamonds and connects to your iPod, iPhone, PDA or any other audio player using a standard 3.5mm stereo audio plug.

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