The Vulture is expected draw on spacecraft design.

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DARPA is close to awarding a contract for the initial development phase of an unmanned aircraft capable of staying aloft for five years at a time, according to the aviation magazine Flight.

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Filed under: CellphonesLooks like the iPhone is launching in Ireland with O2 on March 14th, according to Pocket-lint. It’s supposed to go for the low, low price of €399 (including VAT) on the 8GB and €499 for the 16GB; we haven’t heard anything solid either way, but we’ll let you …

The Aiptek A-HD records 720p video on inexpensive SD cards.

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In the market for a digital camcorder? You could spend $179.99 on one of those Flip Video Ultras, which let you record a whopping 60 minutes of YouTube-quality video. Or you could pay $119 for the Aiptek …

HP is poised and ready to send a barrage of printers to our office, and to that we say, “Bring it on!” This won’t be the first time we’ve been deluged with printers from HP, and we’re eager to get back in the ring. Need proof? Just …

The Latitude XFR D630 from Dell is not sexy.

But that’s not the point. The PC maker’s first ruggedized notebook isn’t having a New York coming-out party with runway models a la the colorful Inspiron and XPS laptops from last summer. But the company does hope that …

DUBLIN, Ireland–There isn’t quite an inch of dust on top of Institutione Catholica, a two-volume theological set of books dating back a few centuries. But it looks close.

The entire top of the volumes are coated in a thick, brown mass. Some of the dust has formed into balls …

The Morgan LifeCar emits nothing but vapor

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Hydrogen fuel-cell projects are usually only the realm of global automakers such as GM, Ford, and Honda, with enormous R&D budgets and a few thousand spare engineers. Boutique British carmaker Morgan is bucking the trend, however, with the unveiling …

BMW's Efficient Dynamics concept study sports special aerodynamic wheels

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From a distance it looks just like a regular soccermom-mobile. But the car that BMW put center stage this morning at the Geneva auto show represents the German automaker’s vision for fuel-efficient technologies over the …

Not made in the USA

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There could not have been a better metaphor. The Pininfarina-designed retractable hardtop version of the Focus Focus on display here on the first morning of the Geneva auto show was unveiled in its full glory before the world’s press, but the …

The XC60 is the smallest crossover from Volvo

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Volvo is making bold claims about its new XC60 crossover. The mini-Ute was touted as “the safest Volvo ever” as it was driven out to make its world debut here today at the 2008 Geneva auto show. Volvo justifies …