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Big and powerful Lotus Evora is light and agile

Lotus shows off its new Evora model at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, proving the company can make a car for people over 5' 10". Unlike the Elise and Exige, cars that let short people have all the fun, the larger Evora was designed for less athletic ingress and egress, as Lotus puts it in the press release. And unlike its sister models, the Evora gets some real horsepower courtesy of two extra cylinders. Designed for more than sport driving weekends and track days, the Evora brings useful car technology into the cabin, with a full-featured Alpine system. … Read more

LG Lotus blooms in our glowing review

As we mentioned in our hands-on with the LG Lotus at CTIA earlier this year, we had a really positive first impression of this new messaging phone from Sprint. Now that we've had a chance to really get to know it first-hand, we have to say we're even more impressed. At first we were skeptical about its unusual square shape, but its unique style and fabulous tactile keyboard eventually won us over. The Lotus has a very nice satiny feel in the hand, a vibrant internal display, external music player controls, and the aforementioned keyboard is as roomy … Read more

Tough times at Tesla

Despite a backlog of unfilled orders and lots of good press for its electric cars, upstart Tesla Motors is finding that reaching full production is complex and costly. Late last week, the Silicon Valley company announced cutbacks to conserve cash.

Tesla is closing its recently opened engineering center in suburban Detroit and laying off an undisclosed number of its 200 U.S. workers. The company is delaying development of a new electric sedan as it consolidates operations at its San Carlos, Calif., headquarters.

Production of the Tesla Roadster, which is based on a Lotus sports car, started in March. Fewer … Read more

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue updated with Paris Motor Show vehicles

Usually, car shows like the 2008 Paris Motor Show are look but don't touch affairs. Sure, the cars look nice, but wouldn't it be sweet if you could actually take that Ferrari California out for a spin? Thanks to Polyphony Digital and its Gran Turismo 5 Prologue game for the PS3, you "virtually" can.

Polyphony has released an update for the driving simulator to include three new cars from recent automotive shows, along with a smattering of new features.

If ever there were a great example of "a life gone digital," it's the … Read more

IBM releasing iNotes for iPhone

IBM has released a way to get Lotus Notes e-mail on your iPhone that stops short of full support, but gets the job done.

IBM's iNotes Ultralite (no trademark fight necessary) will be formally released Tuesday for Notes administrators and iPhone users. The software is a Web application that allows you to access Notes mail through the Safari mobile browser on the iPhone. Administrators need to install IBM Lotus Domino Web Access 8.0.2 in order to make the whole thing work.

One of the more popular additions to the iPhone 3G was the support for Microsoft's Exchange technology, … Read more

Dodge EV and Tesla Roadster, separated at birth?

Since yesterday's unveiling of Chrysler's electric vehicle concepts, there have been many parallels drawn between the little electric hot-rod Dodge EV and the electric car that changed our perception of green, the Tesla Roadster. As it turns out, these cars may have more in common than you think.… Read more

Diamonds are a Lotus' best friend

Lotus is taking the idea of its diamond (or 60th) anniversary a little too seriously, releasing a diamond-encrusted version of its Europa sports car. Now, if you're imagining the Europa with a body comprised of the hardest substance known to man, the car doesn't go that far. It merely has diamonds set in the shifter (ouch!), the switchgear, the instruments, and the hood badge.

The car also gets a special paint job which, according to Lotus, gives "the appearance the car has been showered with diamonds." But Lotus actually mixed glass flakes into the paint to … Read more

In cell phone land, is purple the new red?

Remember not so long ago when almost every cell phone was black, gray, or silver? Then, thanks to the Motorola Razr V3, pink was suddenly an "it" color for cell phones. But gradually, red became the new pink, and now it seems that purple is the new red.

Though we don't agree just yet that a purple wave will sweep cell phone land, Sprint is pushing the line that purple is the new hot hue for cell phones. Indeed, two of its new cell phones introduced at CTIA Fall 2008 come in the color of the royals. … Read more

Fierce: Project Runway's Christian Siriano designs scarf for LG Lotus

In an attempt to further tout the LG Lotus as a phone for the fashion-conscious crowd, LG has partnered with Christian Siriano, the winner of Project Runway's fourth season, to develop a special, one-of-a-kind scarf for the Lotus. As we mentioned earlier, the LG Lotus is Sprint's new QWERTY flip phone with a small and square shape. The scarf Siriano designed has a pocket in it made just to fit the Lotus.

The scarf will make its debut on September 11 during New York Fashion Week, and as part of the show, attendees are encouraged to take pictures … Read more