pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/ice/" rel="tag"I.C.E./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/" rel="tag"GM/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583252/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/fisker_karma_450.jpg" alt="" //abr / div style="text-align: center;"emstrongsmallClick above for high-res gallery of the Fisker Karma/small/strong/embr //div br /Fisker Automotive has apparently decided that 260 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque should be plenty of power to recharge some batteries. Those 260 galloping ponies will come courtesy of the General in the form of its 2.0L direct injected and turbocharged Ecotec four banger, an engine that we've sampled ourselves plenty of times. We feel well qualified, therefore, to suggest that this is an excellent motor, but it really sounds like a major case of overkill for this particular application. Perhaps that's better than "underkill" (if such a word actually existed) as that powerful engine ought to be able to recharge the Fisker Karma's on-board lithium ion batteries at an extremely brisk pace. The faster the internal combustion engine can charge up the battery pack, the quicker the car can revert back to its native electric-only operation. Plus, that engine is a relatively light chunk of alloy, so the Karma's motor shouldn't be burdened by the gasoline-fed boat anchor too horribly under electric power. br /br /We also find it a bit interesting that Fisker chose GM as its powertrain supplier, which means that the Karma and GM's own Chevy Volt are now even closer cousins than before. Both vehicles will sport four doors, lithium ion batteries and an extended-range electric vehicle drivetrain; and with this announcement, both are now slated to share a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/09/25/gm-officially-announces-flint-mi-production-for-volt-cruze-engin/"four cylinder engines/a from GM. This kinda makes 'em second-cousins through marriage, no?br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/"Fisker Karma/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583462/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive81_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583460/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive87_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583465/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive85_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583328/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/0010fiskerkarma_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/fisker-karma-1/583461/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/01/fiskerkarmalive88_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divpa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emFisker Karma to use GM's 2.0-liter turbo'd four/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/"Fisker Karma to use GM's 2.0-liter turbo'd four/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1379597/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/fisker-karma-to-use-gms-2-0-liter-turbod-four/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/uiMvQTlG-9SlZQ25jVmCoALpP8I/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/uiMvQTlG-9SlZQ25jVmCoALpP8I/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=fzxlh1BU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=fzxlh1BU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=GFImcr6A"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=GFImcr6A" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/vwqCftRe-uk" height="1" width="1"/

Cette start-up américaine affirme avoir développé une génération de batteries lithium-ion plus rapides à recharger, respectueuses de l'environnement et d'une durée de vie de cinq ans. Reste encore à trouver leur place dans des PC portables.

Cette start-up américaine affirme avoir développé une génération de batteries lithium-ion plus rapides à recharger, respectueuses de l'environnement et d'une durée de vie de cinq ans. Reste encore à trouver leur place dans des PC portables.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/fiio_e5.jpg" width="494" height="284" style="display:block;" /This little headphone amplifier unit from Fiio is a pretty much exactly the same shape as an iPod shuffle, presumably so you can clip it to a lapel or bag strap for convenience while it's in use. It'll push out 150mW of audio power into 16-ohm headphones, with a USB-rechargable lithium battery that's good for about 20 hours, and it weighs a mere 26g. There's no release date info yet, though there's an expectation that it's price may be around $20, which may interest those of you with portable audio amp requirements. [a href="http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcasque.generationmp3.com%2F2008%2F11%2F19%2Fceci-nest-pas-un-shuffle%2Fsl=frtl=enhl=enie=UTF-8"GenerationMP3/a via a href="http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/11/20/fiio-e5-compact-headphone-amp/"OhGizmo/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e9bf6fda157573f5c5faceed17d40160p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e9bf6fda157573f5c5faceed17d40160p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=e9bf6fda157573f5c5faceed17d40160" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=SNIPr96k"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=YtLG23Ec"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=F0jqtGFa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=F0jqtGFa" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=HS6SLoAm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=HS6SLoAm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/rVDWNnFcu4s" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/zen_moo.jpg" width="494" height="332" style="display:block;" / Holy cow! Just in time for the upcoming a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_ox"Year of the Ox/a, Creative has released its Zen Moo line of mp3 players and speakers in China. Based on the Zen Stone, you can get either the Zen Moo or the Zen Moo Plus. Both come with 2GB storage, support for MP3 and WMA, a 20 hour lithium battery and a built-in speaker. The Plus adds a translucent blue OLED display, FM radio reception, MIC voice recording and an alarm clock. Prices weren't available on the site, but I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find if you hoof it to China. [a href="http://translate.google.cn/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imp3.net%2F1%2Fshow.php%3Fitemid%3D21443%26page%3D2sl=zh-CNtl=enhl=zh-CNie=UTF-8"iMP3.com/a via a href="http://www.epizenter.net/news.php?extend.420"Epizenter/a] script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('zenmoo', 3, ''); /script/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=637db47be13b27afc2b1bd23672b41b9amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=637db47be13b27afc2b1bd23672b41b9amp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=bwvkfINf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=QR21Lwkf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=ubiN7Jjp"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=ubiN7Jjp" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=yq6mhetO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=yq6mhetO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/2yqKI6VC2bk" height="1" width="1"/

centera href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr/zoom.php?dir=2008/11/iRex/" target="_blank"img title="Prise en main: e-book iRex 1000s" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Prise en main: e-book iRex 1000s" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/11/iRex-1000s-468.jpg" border="0" /br /img src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/fr/img/photo-gallery.gif" border="0" //a/centerbr /strong[DowJones VentureWire Technology Showcase - EuroTech]/strong J'étais heureux de rencontrer le CEO Hans Brons de Irex qui montrait son super e-book à la conférence a href="http://showcase.dowjones.com/"VentureWire Technology Showcase/a. J'étais impressionné par la qualité de l'écran 10.2" qui a l'air bien meilleur que le A href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/09/plastic-logic-ebook.html"prototype Plastic Logic/A que j'ai vu au DEMO. Selon Hans Brons, c'est grâce aux 16 niveaux de gris sur le iRex, le e-book Plastic Logic n'a que 4 niveaux de gris comme le Kindle. L'autre caractéristique unique est la possibilité d'écrire et de stocker des notes sur les documents, le e-book Plastic Logic l'a aussi, mais il n'est pas aussi avancé (que j'ai vu depuis la demo). Le iRex 1000 a été lancé en Septembre, n'a pas de connectivité, mais le iRex 1000 SW, disponible au 1er trimestre (Q1) 2009, inclut le Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, un navigateur web propriétaire et pourrait être Bluetooth et 3G (je dois le vérifier, ce n'est pas sur la feuille de spécifications du produit). La batterie peut durer plusieurs jours en mode de lecture standard (tourne une page par minute). Ce produit est destiné aux personnes qui gèrent des tonnes de documents chaque jour comme les avocats, les professeurs ou les banquiers. Cliquez sur le bouton galerie photos pour voir toutes les images, et vous trouverez les spécifications ci-après. MORE PSTRONGSpécifications du iRex 1000 du fabricant/STRONG/P P UL LIBEcran/B /LI LIAffichage papier électronique 10.2 pouces (diagonale)/LI LIRésolution 1024 x 1280 pixels à 160 pixels par pouce/LI LI16 niveaux de gris/LI/UL P/P P UL LIBEntrée et Sortie/B /LI LIBoutons avec retour optique/LI LIConnecteur Mini-USB/LI LIEntrée des données avec le stylet Wacomreg; penabledreg;/LI/UL P/P P UL LIBStockage/B /LI LICarte SD amovible 1Go (pour mettre des cartes SD de plus grande capacité)/LI LIContient plus de 1000 documents ou imagessup1;/LI/UL P/P P UL LIBAlimentation/B/LI LIBatterie lithium rechargeable/LI LI5 heures de recharge par le port USB/LI/UL P/P P UL LIBFormats média supportés/B /LI LIUnsecured Text: Adobereg; PDF, TXT, HTML/LI LIDRM Text: Mobipocket PRC/LI LIImage: JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and BMP/LI/UL P/P P UL LIBLangues/B/LI LIHollandais, Anglais, Français et Allemand/LI/UL P/P P UL LIBSystème requis/B /LI LIWindowsreg; XP ou Vistareg;/LI LIProcesseur 800MHz/LI LI128Mo de RAM minimum/LI LIDisque dur 25Mo minimum/LI LIPort USB (optimal avec USB 2.0)/LI/UL P/P pmap name="google_ad_map_081120053720" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081120053720?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081120053720" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=5336763717amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081120053720amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2Ffr%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2Fprise_en_main_ebook_irex_1000s.php"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/tpZ1MgGxaU8ZKIrHMOMwr3y3lVw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/tpZ1MgGxaU8ZKIrHMOMwr3y3lVw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ubergizmo_fr/~4/hm6cOb7pvOo" height="1" width="1"/

In his latest column for the Seattle Weekly, the Nirvana bassist reveals the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding his band's classic, head-smashing performance of "Lithium" at the '92 VMAs. It includes unpleasantries exchanged between Axl Rose and Kurt & Courtney, "Rape Me," warm beer, and (spoiler alert) a bloody foreheaded Krist sipping champagne with Brian May. Must love the '90s. (via PopCandy)

Le constructeur coréen Hyundai veut rattraper le retard accumulé durant plus d'une décennie par rapport aux constructeurs japonais les plus avancés. Au Salon de l'Auto de Los Angeles, Hyundai a présenté sa vision de l'architecture du véhicule hybride qui équipera le futur modèle de la Sonata, prévue pour être commercialisée aux Etats-Unis en 2010 (FIG.). Son choix repose sur un système hybride monté en parallèle et dont la principale originalité repose sur une batterie de type Lithium-Ion polymère, (5,3 Ah,...