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VP of R&D Admits Electric Engine Helps Porsche Game Environmental Laws

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on VP of R&D Admits Electric Engine Helps Porsche Game Environmental Laws

Image: Porsche 918 Spyder Press Release When Porsche presented the 918 Spyder plug-in electric concept car, it got some leaded blood boiling. A sportscar that can do 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds but gets under 78 miles per gallon (3L/100km)? Brian Merchant deemed it a significant development, one which “will make waves far beyond the crowd concerned with fuel efficiency.” And that is what we want, right? To pull everyone into the green li… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Spyder III, Is a Real Life Lightsaber

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Built with the blue-laser diode of a dismantled Casio Green Slim projector, the $200 Spyder III is the world's most powerful portable laser. It can permanently blind you and set your skin—or anything else, really—on fire almost instantly. The diodes in Casio's new mercury-free Green Slim projectors apparently allow for unprecedentedly powerful portable lasers, and Wicked Lasers has gleefully harvested them for the 1 Watt Spyder III. Comparing it to the $2000 Sonar, the company's reigning portable laser powerhouse, Wicked Lasers explains that the blue Spyder III laser is 2000 times brighter to the human eye, and, at $200, 1/10th the price. http://gizmodo.com/5560206/the-spyder-iii-pro-arctic-is-a-real-life-lightsaber added by: pjacobs51

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