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That’s not really a “your mom” joke, more of a statement that your mom is pretty neat and has good taste in electric cars — like this here MINI E. BMW just unveiled the first production MINI E to roll out of its magical electricity-imbuing factory, the first in a limited series of 500 for lease in California and metro New York to people way better looking than you. The bad news is that the all-electric MINI is part of what BMW is calling “Project I,” a test of sorts to see how well electrics hold up to real world abuse and to figure out usage patterns of real-life photogenic people — there’s little indication that the car in its current incarnation will be distributed any more widely than this 500 car run. Check out a plethora of sexy unveiling pictures at the read link to help offset the pain.

MINI E ‘unboxed’ in LA to the delight of car nerds, your mom originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Given just how far VUDU has been getting into the custom install game, it’s no shock at all to see it produce a set-top-box that’s less STB and more integrator-friendly. The 1U rack-mountable XL2 sports a classic black motif and plays nice with systems from leading control and automation manufacturers such as Crestron, Logitech, Netstreams, Nevo and Philips. You’ll be able to enjoy the spoils of integrated IP / IR control, a 1TB internal hard drive, optical / coaxial / RCA audio outputs and an HDMI port. Sadly, the XL2 can’t be purchased online, meaning you’ll have to coax a local installer to sell you one for $1,299.

[Via Electronic House]

VUDU XL2 brings on-demand films to rack-mountable enclosure originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Cellphones

Edinburgh’s own The Medical Phone is just about set to unleash the mobile for the true argonaut in the iCEphone. The Windows Mobile-powered “Swiss Army knife of mobiles” is dubbed a micro-notebook by its manufacturer, and while we’re hesitant to go along with that, we can’t deny the utility here. Sporting a Jacob’s Ladder-style hinge and a full QWERTY keyboard, the unit features three independent panels, a 3-inch 400 x 240 resolution touchscreen, a mouse / tracker pad, dual SIM card slots, HSDPA support, quad-band GSM connectivity, GPS, a 3.1-megapixel camera, WiFi and a 532MHz Freescale iMX31 CPU. We’re told that the phone is just weeks / months away from a release in Thailand, and it should be hitting the UK sometime in the March - April time frame for around $1,000. Bonus video coverage after the break.

Continue reading WinMo-powered iCEphone comes to life, looks scary

WinMo-powered iCEphone comes to life, looks scary originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Desktops

The details have emerged today on a couple new LG “high performance” desktops in Asia, so if you’ve been lying awake at night wondering when a new XPION would be hitting the scene, perhaps this evening you’ll rest a little easier. The R20 is a slim form factor desktop PC featuring a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Quad CPU, 3GB memory, a GeForce 9500GS GPU, and a cooling system “based on Multi Direction Platform Cooling, which also makes it run fairly quietly.” Even less is known about the S20, aside from the fact that it’s a standard-sized desktop, sports an Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz CPU and a GeForce 9600GT GPU. That’s all we have at the moment, little dude. So just try and relax — you’ll know more as soon as we do.

[Via Hallyutech]

LG unveils new XPION R20, S20 Core 2 Quad desktops originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Desktops

The details have emerged today on a couple new LG “high performance” desktops in Asia, so if you’ve been lying awake at night wondering when a new XPION would be hitting the scene, perhaps this evening you’ll rest a little easier. The R20 is a slim form factor desktop PC featuring a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Quad CPU, 3GB memory, a GeForce 9500GS GPU, and a cooling system “based on Multi Direction Platform Cooling, which also makes it run fairly quietly.” Even less is known about the S20, aside from the fact that it’s a standard-sized desktop, sports an Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz CPU and a GeForce 9600GT GPU. That’s all we have at the moment, little dude. So just try and relax — you’ll know more as soon as we do.

[Via Hallyutech]

LG unveils new XPION R20, S20 Core 2 Quad desktops originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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