Lexus to display turbocharged LF-NX Concept at Tokyo Motor Show

Concept cars typically have a short lifespan. They debut at a major international auto show, then make the rounds of the lesser local shows, and that's pretty much it. They might be loaned out for test drives or put on display in a museum, but by and large they've had their fifteen minutes of fame by that point. That said, Japan's automakers have found a way to keep these show cars going and keep them in the news. They're modifying them and giving them a fresh lease on life.

That's what Subaru is doing with the Viziv concept for the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show, and what Lexus is doing as well with the LF-NX concept.

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Valve's first hardware: hands-on with the Steam Controller

Valve's Steam Controller, first introduced in late September, isn't intended to replace the traditional gamepad: It's meant to replace the keyboard and mouse. Games like Portal 2 already work well on an Xbox 360 gamepad (standard issue for PC gaming in the living room). The real issue is making the other 90 percent of Steam games play comfortably in an environment that doesn't support their standard input method of the keyboard and mouse.




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AEV to introduce Dodge Ram Concept at SEMA

American Expedition Vehicles (AEV), the Michigan-based company that has been modifying 4WD vehicles for hardcore off-road duty since 1997, will be introducing an all-new concept at SEMA next week. The prototype, which represents the company's first build with Dodge, is based on the burly 2014 Ram 2500 Crew Cab Diesel. Unlike the company's familiar AEV Jeep Wrangler builds, which are insanely capable off-road but lacking heavy load capacity, the one-of-a-kind Ram Concept pickup provides much greater cargo and towing capabilities with few concessions in terms of off-pavement sturdiness.

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Global Gamer Athene Uses RapidSwitch & CreeperHost for Gaming For Good

Load Balanced Minecraft Servers Help Athene Raise $Millions for Save The Children Maidenhead, UK: Leading UK dedicated server company RapidSwitch is helping the world’s best video gamer Athene to use Minecraft to raise money for Save The Children through his charity Gaming For Good.Athene, whose real name is Bachir Boumaaza, is using Minecraft to help raise more than $6 million for Save The Children.

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Fun with USB On-The-Go gadgets from Brando

If you own an Android device with OS version 3.1 or higher and haven't heard of USB On-The-Go, then you have been missing out on a very useful feature. USB On-The-Go (often abbreviated to OTG) enables you to attach flash storage, mice and keyboards to your Android device through the micro USB port on the device. Brando sells quite a few OTG goodies and sent me several to try so I could tell you all about them. Ready. Let's go.

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2-in-1 micro USB Flash Drive

Available in red or black with silver, the 2-in-1 micro USB Flash Drive looks like a standard run of the mill flash drive.










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Mouse Computer's LB-K600X2-SH 15.6-Inch Notebook

The LB-K600X2-SH is another powerful notebook from Mouse Computer that sports a 15.6-inch 1920 x 1080 LED-backlight monitor, a 2.70GHz Intel Core i7-4800MQ processor, an Intel HM86 Express Chipset, a GeForce GT 750M 2GB graphics card, a 16GB DDR3 RAM, a 128GB SSD, a 1TB hard drive, a webcam, a Blu-ray drive, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 + LE and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The LB-K600X2-SH sells for 129,990 Yen (about $1,323).

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Talend Reinforces Leadership in Big Data Integration with Support for YARN

Latest Version of Enterprise Integration Platform Fully Embraces Hadoop as a Computing PlatformTalend, a global open source software leader, today announced the availability of version 5.4 of its next-generation integration platform, natively optimised to run inside Hadoop by leveraging MapReduce 2.0, also known as YARN.

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