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After winning the X-Prize, Edison2 decided the next logical step for its Very Light Car was to put an electric engine in it. Well, what is now known as the eVLC has been put through the EPA-certified ringer and come out boasting a jaw-dropping 245MPGe. Using the latest, more stringent, 5-cycle EPA tests the strange looking vehicle posted a miles-per-gallon equivalent almost 250-percent that of the Nissan leaf. The four-passenger eVLC also scored an impressive 114 mile range on its tiny 10.5 kWh battery (the Leaf gets 117 miles out of its 24 kWH battery) and sucked down a full charge in six hours from a standard 110v socket. For a few more details check out the PR after the break.

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We hadn’t heard all that much about Evolio until this summer, when the Romanian company caught our attention with the Neura, a device it happily deemed the “most powerful Android tablet.” The company has re-entered the scene with another bold claim, touting “the lightest notebook in the world.” The 11.6-inch U9 is certainly on the smaller side of things, weighing in at around 2.2 pounds. Inside you’ll find some rather netbooky specs, including a 1.6GHz Cedarview processor, 2GB of RAM and an SSD with either 64 or 128GB of storage. According to Evolio, the U9 is set for a December release.

Evolio’s 2.2-pound U9 to drop softly in December originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on June 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

If you’re keeping track, get out your list of Google Acquisitions for the year and add Zenter to it.  Google just announced that they have acquired Zenter which is software for online slide presentations. I know, some of you are probably recalling their acquisition in April for Tonic whose technology focuses on Java solutions for “presentation creation and document conversion.” It looks like just one presentation company isn’t going to do it for Google, they need a whole line of them.

While both Zenter and Tonic focus on presentations, there’s a reason Google went after Zenter. According to the Google blog, Zenter’s technology will be used to provide presentation-sharing capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets.

Haochi over at Googlified gives his insight saying that Google acquired Zenter because after they purchased Tonic, they realized it would be too difficult for them to make it part of the entire Google suite of apps. Something like “Mission Impossible,” and if they want a presentation app pushed out the door by the end of the Summer, they realized it was going to take another presentation acquisition.

Garrett Rogers over at ZDNet thinks Tonic will be used solely as the exporting engine in the future because they’ve spent a lot of time figuring out how they can be “100% binary compatible with Microsoft Powerpoint.” This would mean that their focus will be saving presentations in a format that would work perfectly with Powerpoint.

While online seems to be the way to go lately, there are still people who prefer desktop applications.  This is where Google Gears could potentially come in handy because Google could take their Online Suite of applications and give them offline capability. I for one, would be more likely to use docs and spreadsheets if there was the capability to take them offline.

Now I just wonder what Google will do with the name.  If they stick with Google Docs, Spreadsheets, and tack on Presentations, it’s getting too long! It’s about time that they come up with a clever new name.

Thanks to everybody who sent this tip in!

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Richard Branson was in London today to announce “one of the most exciting developments of our lifetime.” Right, so that’d be SpaceShipFour, we presume, capable of landing on the moon? No, not quite, but a low-carbon fuel would definitely be our second guess. Virgin Atlantic is partnering with LanzaTech, a company that specializes in carbon re-use technology, to recycle waste gasses from 65 percent of the world’s steel mills. In Branson’s own words, they’ll be “taking much of the s**t from up the chimney stacks and turning it into aviation fuel.” By capturing those gases that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, Virgin would be able to reduce its overall carbon footprint without necessarily reducing the carbon output of its individual aircraft. The airline plans to have the fuel ready for commercial use by 2014, and will begin trials on its routes from London to Shanghai and Delhi around that time — two cities that have become synonymous with pollution. Jump past the break for an audio-less demonstration video — that’s right, there’s nothing wrong with your speakers.

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We’ve already seen Motorola’s new Xoom 2 tablet(s) and Spyder smartphone (otherwise known as the Droid HD) turn up in a few leaked shots, and we’ve now received a handful more that are said to show both devices in their near final form. That includes a Verizon logo on both the front and back of the Spyder for the first time (though that’s not exactly unexpected), and the Xoom 2 (the 8.2-inch version in this case) is said to be in “better shape” than the earlier prototypes, which had apparently been suffering from some rather serious bugs. As you can see above, the Spyder also has what appears to be a slightly more tactile back, which could well be the Kevlar coating that’s been rumored for the phone. Interestingly, our tipster also says that the processor in this particular Spyder is clocked at 1.5GHz, although the final version will apparently indeed be 1.2GHz, as the earlier leaks have suggested. Check out the gallery below for a closer look at both devices.

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