Tech and Amusing Stuff

Germany: Brabus CLS Rocket, is currently the world’s fastest legal sedan with 730hp from a twin-turbo V12 and a top-speed of 225.19mph.

Germany: Porsche 911 Carrera has a 6 cylinder engine and 500hp, it’s capable of over 186 mph & sprinting to 60 mph in just 4.6 seconds.

Italy: Lamborghini Gallardo. ‘Lamborghini donated one of these beauties to the Italian Police back in 2004. They probably liked it as they purchased another one a year later for around $166,000. Top speed: 190mph. Powered by a 5 liter V10 with 500hp.’

Lamborghini Gallardo: UK.

Lamborghini Police Car in London. ‘It a 640bhp Lamborghini Murcielago LP640. No more BMW 535d patrol cars for our boys in blue. Instead they will have a bellowing Italian 6.5-litre V12 and four-wheel-drive at their disposal, good for 211mph and 0-62mph in 3.4 seconds.’

South Africa: Lamborghini Gallardo.
A local Lamborghini importer gave this $200,000 car as a loan to the authorities to use it as an “attention-getting device” to control traffic.

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USA: Dodge Viper.

USA: Hummer H2, 700hp Hummer powered by a 7.0L supercharged V8 for a sheriff in Texas.

Via Crooked Brains

Sanyo in Japan has constructed an amazing solar-collecting building that embodies both clean-energy ideals and awesome architectural design strategies. The so-called Solar Ark has over 5,000 active solar panels generating over 500,000 KWh of environmentally friendly energy.

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GT-R’s are officially arriving in Australia.

And perhaps the very first crashed GT-R, in Honk Kong.

Via 2009GTR

 “Forget all those trips to the kitchen or treks to the cafeteria no you can reheat coffee right at your desk; or nuke some soup for you brown bag lunch or pop some ’corn in the entertainment room. Takes up less than a cubic foot. Plug it in anyplace that’s handy, work or home office; home gym; family room; nursery; wet bar; dorm room; work bench; pool house… anywhere!”

Via RGS

Sandisk says it’s due out in Q2 of ‘08 and expected to be released in laptops later on in 2008.

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