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Volvo will begin daily testing of two hybrid refuse trucks ahead of a market launch in 2009. Using a 7 liter diesel engine and an electric motor that utilizes regenerative braking, the trucks are capable of delivery fuel savings of 20 perc

The Zeemote JS1 is a wireless controller that enables what the developers claim is near-console game play on mobile phones. Dave Weinstein reports on the controller at CTIA.

Renault is set to introduce its new electronically-controlled Active Drive chassis with four-wheel steering next month in new GT versions of the Laguna Hatch and Sport Tourer.

The “main mass” of the world famous Fukang Meteorite is to go under the hammer with an expected sale price of US$1 million - an entrepreneurial opportunity of the highest order.

A staggering 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water. In response to this global crisis, a group of inventors from the US developed the Aquaduct Mobile Filtration Vehicle - a tricycle which uses pedal power to both transport and filter clean drinking water.

As anyone who has ever attempted to clip their own hair can attest, doing the job yourself ain't as simple as it looks. Remington's solution is the ShortCut, a unique brush shaped clipper designed to deliver fast, error-free, DIY results.

Philips’s Starsense solution dramatically reduces energy consumption by turning existing streetlight power lines into a reliable communications network to enable remote adjustment light levels based on time, traffic, weather, and othe

Making personal computers more accessible to school students is both a worthy cause and an emerging target market. HP has now entered the arena with the announcement of the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC, a full-function, small-format laptop PC priced from under US$500.

A collaboration between GRO design and Tim modelmakers has resulted in a dazzling football table that aims to inject new life into the game as well as complement modern interior spaces.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will be celebrating its 50th anniversary at a conference in Washington today where it will reflect on the accomplishments of the last 50 years and the challenges of the future. Happy birthday DARPA.

Chemists are investigating ways to use carbon dioxide removed from smokestack emissions to make a raw material for the production of DVDs, CD-ROMs, beverage bottles and other products made from polycarbonate plastics.

Helly Hansen's new helicopter safety suit uses the melting and solidifying processes of paraffin wax to make the suit cooler and more comfortable during the hot working day, but warmer and better insulated if the wearer gets plunged into icy water.