Hasta La Gadget!

The company known as Organic Transit has made an effort this year to show off a vehicle known as ELF, letting it be seen for the first time at the international technology trade fair known as CeBIT. This machine is made to fill a previously un-touched niche between car and bicycle, made to work with users hoping to make their short commutes as easy as possible.

This machine works with a solar-powered motor that assists with pedaling, runs on three wheels, and comes in at a height that’s the same as a sedan. As this vehicle can “go anywhere a bicycle can”, it’s allowed to traverse more than just the road, allowing for cross-over movement that’d be hindered with a motorcycle. As it works with a motor, it’s not as restricting to a rider’s time as a human-powered unit is.

“Many commuters have thought about taking their bikes to work, but worry about staying fresh, falling over, climbing hills, carrying groceries, getting caught in the rain or even safety. ELF takes care of those concerns with a covered body and a solar-powered motor that assists in pedaling. Commuters can use the motor on the way to work and then pedal as a workout on the way home.” – Rob Cotter, CEO, Organic Transit

One way to work, one way back, allowing for more than one method for getting either way. Organic Transit has pushed this unique set of abilities to the public with an initial sales run of 120 ELF cars, all in their first three months. Once limited supply is up, they’ll be able to ship more of their 1,200 pre-orders.

Though the idea that this machine is allowed most places a bicycle can go might surprise those that find the base cost of $4,000 USD to be a bit hindering, but considering the complete lack of a need for gas has had its effect. This machine works with solar power, you must keep in mind, and with the same amount of power “equivalent to one gallon of gas”, this vehicle can travel 1,800 miles.

The company making ELF is located in Durham, North Carolina, and they assemble each unit in a warehouse in downtown Durham “for all to see.” Cotter has made plain his intent to follow this model of downtown urban locations for offices so that the work on these vehicles can be seen by the public.

Let us know if you see an ELF hitting the streets where you live soon – we’ll be trying to track down a few of our own. ELF races, here we come!

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[CeBIT 2013] Yesterday at CeBIT, I met with Duncan C. Walsh, Founder and Director of Mi-Sport Global, the company behind the FX-Sport brand. A former professional squash player, Duncan got the idea of developing custom headphones for athletes 6 years ago.

Like no other headphones, the VR1 is sweat/humidity/rain proof and is also a Mp3 player with 8 GB of internal memory for storing music and up to 64 audio messages recorded via the desktop software provided with the device. Specifically dedicated to professional sport training, the VR1 allows to precisely record workout sessions with encouragement audio messages and music. It is basically a virtual replacement for  your personal trainer.

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As it’d be poor taste to start singing So Long, Farewell from The Sound of Music, we’ll have to settle for a cheery auf wiedersehen and some fond memories of our week in Hannover. Admittedly, this year’s show was hardly a vintage for consumer tech news (something of a trend this year, non?), but we certainly saw a few things that made the trip worthwhile. Dan’s favorite had to be the eye-tracking AR goggles, while Dana had a soft-spot for those Coby tablets. We’re off to load up on chocolate and rindersteak for the flight home — but you can re-live every nail-biting moment of the CeBIT 2013 if you take a trip past the break.

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[CeBIT 2013] Fujitsu launched its new LIFEBOOK E-Series at CeBIT and I had the opportunity to get my hands on the devices. The new lineup comes in three flavors: the E733 features a 13-inch 1366×768 display, the E743 gets a 14-inch 1600×900 display and you can get the 15.6-inch either with a 1366×768 or a Full HD (920×1080) screen.

The new E-series has been built using the same motherboard for the three models, that’s why, as you can see in the picture, all the connectors are located at similar spots on all versions. The unique feature of these notebooks is the modular bay where you can either place a DVD drive, an extra battery, another HDD or the Fujitsu patented bay projector (see picture of the accessory below after the jump). The projector is certainly a convenient option for business travelers who need to perform presentations while on the road.

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Museum owners, public officials and design studio heads are just the sort who would have an excuse to splash out on one of MyMultitouch’s displays. The 84-inch PixelSense-esque table is designed to be used by up to 32 fingers at once, letting groups paw around interactive exhibits on a large scale. This one, in particular, comes with a 3,840 x 2,160 UHD display, infrared-based multitouch and a steel stand that lets you mount it at a wide variety of angles. Since it’s driven by any PC with a 4K-outputting graphics card, you could even use it as your own desktop display, although you’d need to drop €33,000 ($43,100), plus whatever an 84-inch desk would set you back.

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