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Panasonic wants to prove that its AA alkaline Evolta batteries are the best in the world–even though it already has a certificate from Guinness World Records.

Evolta batteries have a 10-year shelf life. Panasonic boasts they’re the longest-lasting batteries of their kind in the world.

Built of carbon fiber over an aluminum frame, the Evolta robot car (more like a tricycle) travels at a blinding top speed of 0.8 mph. It has two small forward motors powered by a pair of batteries in its robot driver’s back, and autonomously follows a lead car emitting an infrared guide signal.

The robot, called “Mr. Evolta” in English, was designed by entrepreneur Tomotaka Takahashi, known for his designs for humanoid kit robots inspired by Japanese animation and science fiction.

Mr. Evolta is no stranger to challenges. Last year, he managed to climb out of the Grand Canyon–it took over six hours but he successfully scaled 1,700 feet after two aborted attempts. Check out the video below.

The Evolta campaign is another illustration of how Japanese manufacturers are willing to use robots as pitchmen in Japan, catering to an innate Japanese love of machines. Honda Motor’s Asimo robot is probably a more effective “spokesperson” than any of its human colleagues.

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If a cheap Ferrari mobile phone is not exactly what you need, maybe a Mercedes Benz fits your tastes better. Of course, such a handset would first need to exist and to be commercially available, but that’s not a problem anymore: a Chinese manufacturer has come up with COOLF5, a mobile phone that mimics the look of the aforementioned famous Mercedes car.

The COOLF5 comes in a fiery white color and, at a first glance, it looks like a toy. However, the device intends to be a serious one, as it packs a set of features targeted at any regular mobile user.

Unlike a real Mercedes car, though, the Mercedes mobile phone is far from being fast. The device only comes with dual-band GSM connectivity (900 / 1800 MHz) and GPRS, hence its owners will not be able to surf the Web or transfer data at decent speeds.

Moving on to the handset’s features, we have: a 2.2 inch TFT display with 260K colors and a QVGA resolution (240 x 320 pixels), dual SIM capabilities, WAP browser, email, SMS, MMS, Bluetooth, Music player, Video player, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, polyphonic ringtones, e-book reader, support for English, Chinese and other languages, calendar, alarm clock, calculator, scheduler, notepad and so on.

The white Mercedes handset measures 120 x 51 x 22 millimeters and weighs 122 grams. Its battery is said to offer between 120 and 500 minutes of talk-time or between 150 and 520 hours of stand-by time.

The COOLF5 Mercedes Benz-wannabe is available for only 999 Chinese yuan, the equivalent of about 145 USD or 95 Euros. Interested users can find the handset at this online retailer from China. Anyway, since the phone’s producer is an anonymous one, we seriously doubt about its proper functionality, hence we don’t advise anyone to buy it unless he/she can test it first.

The device looks as the manipulator of the average size (53 х 108 х 33 millimeters) with scroll and two standard buttons. On free by these elements of a surface of a mousy are located 19 buttons similar to the additional digital keyboard.

NT-MA2 it is focused on owners laptops as the additional keyboard on mobile computers is absent, and the way of inclusion of this function is not so convenient. By calculations of edition The Raw Feed, the digital keyboard on a mousy allows the owner laptop to save till 13,2 seconds at work with figures.

Cost of this hybrid makes 40 euros.

To founders flash-drive to not borrow imagination, but we yet did not meet such accessory. Will agree, the author of such “miracle”, obviously has rich imagination! 

Actually, before us usual flash-drive which is executed in very unusual manner.

The tip is under a head of this nice bear cub. There is such store hardly more dearly usual flash-drives, and its price varies depending on volume of accessible memory.

Apple has dispatched developers the next test assembly of future updating Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 – build 8S2157 for computers Mac with processors Intel and build 8S157 – for PowerPC.

According to sources of web-site AppleInsider, in last assembly there are corrections for web-browser Safari, and at the version for Mac with processors Intel – also improvements of a control system by a feed. Thus, the total of the corrections which are present in Mac OS X 10.4.11, has increased almost up to five tens.

In the accompanying documentation to assembly Apple asks testers to pay special attention for work Safari, cards PCI Express, the devices connected on FireWire, and also USB-audiocontrollers.

Release of the final version of a update, most likely, takes place within a month as in October following version Mac OS X — 10.5 Leopard will be issued.