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You can probably tell from the image above that the Wheego Whip isn’t the fastest automobile to ever hit the streets, but it’ll still be getting Americans from point A to point B before most of those other “concepts” will. The company is currently looking to score dealers that will sell its “electric LSVs (Low Speed Vehicles),” the first of which is obviously the Whip. If all goes to plan, it’ll have 50 dealers across America by May, and given that this is “the best affordable electric car in the world” (that’s the words of RTEV CEO Mike McQuary), we’d say all 50 should be brimming with customers. Unfortunately, we’re not told just how fast slow this thing actually goes nor how expensive cheap it’ll be, but hey, May’s just a few months out, anyway.

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All-electric Wheego Whip hitting America in May… slowly originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony has backed up the Cybershot delivery truck in front of our doors, opened the back and dumped a gazillion new camera models out the back. In total, there are five new Cybershots, and they are fairly indistinguishable in features and, aside from the H20, they all look pretty similar, too.

From left to right (and top to bottom), here are the names: H20, W290, W230, T900, T90 (this last was one of Canon’s flagship SLRs back in the 1980s). We’ll take a proper look at the most interesting, but first, here’s what they (almost) all have in common.

The poor W230 (red) is the only model to lack the "intelligent auto mode", Sony’s stab at letting the camera decide what you are taking a picture of and adjusting appropriately. This is the same as the sports, landscape, portrait etc. modes that compacts have had forever, only the camera picks for you.

The Sony’s go one step further and also flag closed eyes and detect faces for focusing. Similar to iPhoto’s new face recognition feature, two cameras (the W290 and H20 — one and two in the picture)  can be set to remember a face. With this I could set the camera to recognize the Lady and make sure she is in focus in every picture, not one of the gawking bystanders who always stare at her.

It gets more ridiculous: child and adult face priority is available on the W230 (red), and all the others get HD video — 720p at 30fps. Otherwise, things are pretty standard. All cameras are around 10 to 12MP, all have fair zoom ranges (10x with the SLR-shaped H20).

If your head isn’t yet buzzing, you can head over to SonyStyle for the full rundown, but to be honest, you could just pick the one you like the look of — almost every camera today, from any of the big manufacturers will take great pictures. The important thing is to pick one you’ll actually carry with you.

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The Beat DJ has its own look.

(Credit: Samsung)

With so may cell phones on the planet, it’s hard to find a model with a design that stands out from the crowd. Yet, Samsung manages to just that with its new Beat DJ. I caught up with its at …

Originally posted at 3GSM blog

Nintendo today confirmed that the DSi gaming handheld will retail for $170 when it hits U.S. shores on April 4. The official word from the company is in line with widespread rumors that had cropped up last month.

The DSi will initially be available in blue and black models. …

Videogame controllers are typically rated on ergonomics, durability, and responsiveness — though they sometimes get a few bonus points by looking especially cool. The original NES game pad really didn’t have any of those attributes going for it, but that didn’t stop it from becoming a cultural icon, one that has inspired reproductions of all shapes and sizes. The latest one varies not in dimensions but in composition: it’s made of soap. Yes, this controller, which sells for just $8.25, is designed for bath time fun, and what it lacks in functionality it makes up for with natural ingredients and lovely (we presume) fragrances that surely smell a good bit better than those musty hunks of discolored plastic you probably have stuffed in a box somewhere.

[Via Shiny Shiny]

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NES soap won’t help you rescue the Princess, may help you get a date originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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