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Google’s Android OS tops the smartphone rankings in the first quarter, as Apple’s iOS holds steady, Symbian sinks, and Windows Phone 7 barely registers.

Originally posted at The Digital Home

This article was written on August 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

On those hot summer days it is always nice to get a little shade and tinting your windows is normally the best way to do that. With a special kind of window from Velux you can tint your windows when you want to at the flick of a button. Even better is that you can setup the windows to tint themselves!

The windows use a process called electrochromism which turns a material in the window dark when an electrical current is applied. This technology has actually been used for years in cars, but not for windows instead it has been used to automatically tint your rear-view mirror.

People with skylights will especially find this useful because they will now be able to avoid the sun beating down on them in the middle of the afternoon. The manufacturer says “[I]t takes less electricity to operate a house full of SageGlass products than to operate a single 40-watt light bulb.” How about that for cost effective.

News Source: Treehugger

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Electric supercars have been hitting some crazy speeds recently, but this is on another level. The Black Current is a Volkswagen Beetle reborn as an electric drag racer. It hits 135mph and demolishes the quarter-mile straight in 9.51 seconds. What’s more, it does it quietly — all you can hear is the delicious screech of sticky rubber. Plug into the video after the break for a taste of what it’s like behind the wheel. And can someone please explain why that other car on the left even bothered to turn up?

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To most of us, Lomo is the camera brand that inspired a gazillion digital knock-offs, apps that mash and mix your cellphone photos into something that would have been rejected by every picture editor in the days of film. Today, Lomo is ready to remind us just how cool the analog approach can still be, with the brand new Lomo LC-Wide.

The new camera looks a lot like the LC-A, but comes with some extras. First is the new lens, which puts the “wide” in the name. It’s a super wideangle 17mm lens, vs the LC-A’s already wide 32mm. To get an idea of how wide this is, once a lens gets to 16mm it is usually a fisheye.

You can also choose some different formats. The regular, longish 35mm full-frame is still there, joined by half frame (for up to 72 shots on a roll) and square (24 x 24mm).

The specs are reassuringly crappy. The shutter speed tops out at 1/500 sec and the maximum aperture is a light-sapping ƒ4.5. ISO settings run from 100 to 1600, but you can still use any faster or slower film should you want to (I recommend Ilford’s Delta 3200 black and white. It has awesome grain and I pretty much always had a roll of it in my old Leica M6).

You also get a hotshoe for flash, a tripod socket, a threaded hole for a cable release, and both program and manual exposure.

The only thing about the Lomo LC-Wide that isn’t cheap is the price. It’ll cost you $390/£350/€350, depending on where you are in the world. I still kind of want one, though.

Lomo LC-Wide [Lomo via Gizmodo’s Kat Hannaford]