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Honda P-NUT is Most Savoury

by Jay Garrett on December 4, 2009

honda-p-nutMmmmmm……….. peeeeeeeeeeeeeanuuuuuuts……. Peanuts and beer……. beeeeeeeeeer…..

Ahem – you’d better not be thinking beer if you’re going to use this P-NUT from Honda.

Yup – The Honda P-NUT.

This is the Japanese manufacturers glimpse into the future and there’s not even a snack-tray in sight.

The Honda P-NUT (Or Personal-Neo Urban Transport) has just been unveiled at the LA Auto Show and, like so many other concepts, is specifically designed to be “ideal for use in cities and tight urban areas,” – in other words it’s designed to be stood in traffic and squeeze into parking bays that are actually too small.

Honda has opted for the central driving position option which has been seen before but I’m digging that modular engine slot which means you can take out that battery-powered motor for some old-skool petroleum spirited horses.

I quite like the futurist exterior but when you get into the drivers seat you’ll notice the lack of dials, just a speedometer on a stalk which may be multi-use but the P-NUT uses the windshield as a display for navigation, and can even dish out picture in picture views from the rear camera.

Word is that this is just a concept and is likely to remain so – but would you be proud to tell your buddies in the pub that you arrived in a P-NUT?

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bingIt’s official: Bing.com is Microsoft’s new Web search.

Instead of handing you with a list of links, Bing is designed to work out what you were thinking and organise your results into handy categories.

Features include best match, page previews viewed by hovering over links, and instant answers – which provides quick results in the body of the first search results page.

Apparently there’ll be “more functionality in key consumer areas” such as shopping and travel.

Bing launches in beta today in the UK, with a dedicated search technology team headquartered in London.

So, could it be any less like Google?

Bing! will be Microsoft’s first use of online shopping portal and price comparison site Ciao, which the big M bought back in October last year.

It’s not quite up just yet but there is this groovy demo video.

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Wolfram Alpha Opens on 18th May

May 11, 2009 Click to read more →
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The date has now been set for the launch of Wolfram Alpha, the Google-baiting search engine.
In a blog post, the company has confirmed: “We plan to launch late next week, with the official date now set for May 18″.
As y’all should know by know, Wolfram Alpha is a “computational knowledge engine” created by British [...]

As Wolfram Alpha Comes Close to Release: All You Need to Know About Wolfram|Alpha

May 2, 2009 Click to read more →
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Wolfram—the magical search engine that will channel all kinds of groovy data to give you fatabulous answers is planned for release this month.
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, gave a webcast about Wolfram|Alpha at Harvard this week (why not check out Bobbie Johnson of the Guardian’s piece, First look: Wolfram Alpha shows itself in public)?
There’s also [...]

Apple Search Engine – True or False?

November 13, 2008 Click to read more →

Word over at TechCrunch is that Apple may be working on a search engine of its own.
This isn’t wholly unreasonable when you see that its Safari web browser has 6-7% market share but uses Google as the search engine for both the computer and iPhone/iPod versions.
And they can’t be overly happy with Google’s competition to [...]

Engine Block USB

July 28, 2008 Click to read more →

Are you a geek that’s also a petrol-head?
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For the tiny sum of £29.99 you get a hub that shakes, revs and changes gear.
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