Nanotechnology: An Audi that repairs itself

Got a couple of dings and scratches in your car? Paint chipping away a bit? These would never be problem again if a very high-concept Spanish designer had his say.

Daniel Garcia has created a concept for a new luxury Audi that uses nanotechnology to enable the car to literally repair itself.

As profiled on the blog TheDesignBlog.org, The Audi A9 comes equipped with an “electronic painting” system that would sweep over the entire body of the car and make it look like new.

Owners could even change the entire color of the car on the fly, by just pushing one button.

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Hollywood injunction forces Pirate Bay offline

An official injunction has forced Pirate Bay to temporarily take its controversial file sharing site offline.

The injunction – which was obtained by a number of Hollywood studios – reportedly threatened the site’s provider (CyberBunker operator CB3ROB) with “huge” fines.

“The injunction, which was granted without an oral hearing, stated that CB3ROB and Managing Director Sven Olaf Kamphuis were now prohibited from connecting The Pirate Bay website and its servers to the Internet,” wrote Ernesto of Torrent Freak.

“Yesterday Kamphuis officially confirmed receiving the injunction and has decided to stop routing The Pirate Bay’s traffic until his lawyers have carefully read and reviewed the legal documents.

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Vodafone unveils BES Express plan

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Vodafone has rolled out a 10-per-month data plan for companies that want to run Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express software.

RIM announced BES Express a free version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) in February. Vodafone began offering its BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), which it calls the ‘BES Express tariff’, on Thursday.

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Although BES Express can be downloaded and installed on a company’s servers for free, using it through a BlackBerry device requires a BIS mobile data plan.

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ASRock proves that their ASRock App Charger fast charge the iPad with the correct amperage

ASRock demonstrates that the power rating output through the USB is 1.5A after installing the driver on ASRock N68 board. This enables it to charge up the iPad 40% faster than normal. To prove it, they used an osciliscope to measure the amperage. See pictures below.

HTC Hero Gets Long-Awaited Update to Android 2.1

If you’re a Sprint customer with an HTC Hero, you’re living inside a city of aging Android ruins, a forgotten place called Cupcake. Lucky for you HTC just released a time machine in the form of the official update to Android 2.1 for HTC Hero smart phones.

That means several features exclusive to newer Android devices like the Google Nexus One are now ready to be experienced on the 3.2-inch display of the Hero including free Google Navigation, live wallpapers, voice search, and other goodies.

Android 2.1 is known to be a bit faster than previous Android versions but any speed gains may be nulled by the Hero’s 528-Mhz processor, a slow-poke compared to the 1-Ghz Snapdragon CPU found in the Nexus One.  Stil

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