The electric Think City has been targeting an American release for well over two years now but, like many EVs , those dates just kept on ‘a slipping. Now the cars are finally starting to hit the colonies and, as a reward for the wait, we’re receiving models with more powerful batteries. The cells are supplied by Indiana-based Ener1, a new lithium-manganese pack that offers 25kWh.

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Think City electric car gets bigger American batteries for bigger American roads

So, how do you feel about the look of this myTouch 3G HD we’ve been seeing this week? Haven’t formed a complete opinion yet? Well, maybe this new shot — seemingly of said phone’s backside — will help

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T-Mobile’s apparent myTouch 3G HD gets spied from the rear

After a few years of teasing and smoke blowing , the HomePlug Powerline Alliance has finally released the skinny on major enhancements we can expect to see integrated into the HomePlug AV2 powerline networking specification that’s scheduled for finalization in Q1 of 2011. Chief among them is MIMO (Multiple-Inputs Multiple-Outputs), which will expand home coverage by increasing the throughput speeds, and transmission ranges, without additional signal power or requiring more spectrum — but you knew already that didn’t you, MacGyver

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HomePlug Powerline Alliance reveals features of new HomePlug AV2 spec

Billed as “the Segway ’s little sister,” this self-balancing electro scooter comes from a small German company called Ewee. The idea behind it is pretty simple: file down all the extraneous bits, keep the stuff that keeps you going, and presumably try to sell it to hardy macho types who like the barebones aesthetic

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Ewee-PT is how you say ‘Segway’ in German (video)

Now I know what you’re wondering, “Jesus, GW — are you really posting this just so you don’t have to bookmark the product page to find it again?” And yes, that is 110% why I’m posting this. That and I have a birthday coming up and I have yet to receive a single present .

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Somebody Does Have A Birthday Coming Up: Walking Dinosaur Pencil Sharpeners

Speaking at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a fellow named Barnaby Jack (really!) used custom software to hack Windows CE-based ATMs on stage. After using an industry standard key to gain entry to the machines (apparently many ATM owners are too lazy to install new locks on their machines) Jack was able to load a rootkit on the device using a USB thumb drive.

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Some Windows CE-based ATMs especially generous (and vulnerable to hackers)

One of the few highlights of the refreshed 27-inch iMac is the new SSD option for its second drive bay. This sure is good news for performance addicts carrying some spare cash, but with the 256GB SSD addition costing from $750, some may prefer the DIY route to save a few pennies for that gold iPad . Sadly, it won’t be as straight forward as sliding in a new drive — e-tailer OWC noticed in its teardown that you’ll be needing a mounting bracket and a couple of cables that are only supplied with Apple’s own SSD

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iMac’s latest 27-inch iteration requires special parts for your own SSD in second drive bay

If you’ve got a hankering for some battery-sipping Core i3 ULV processors and live south of a certain 38th parallel line, you’ll probably want to take a close look at one of Samsung’s new designs. We hear on good authority that Sammy’s refreshed its X Series laptops with the 1.2GHz Core i3-330M processor, including the 11.6-inch X180 (with the same 3GB of DDR3 memory, 320GB hard drive and most everything else included in the X170 that came before) and the 14-inch X430, which leapfrogs its predecessor the X420 with dedicated GeForce 310M graphics. Both actually report less battery life than their forbears, as the new laptops are rated closer to eight than nine hours, but in the X430 it’s a small sum to pay to avoid integrated Intel video

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Samsung refreshes X Series laptop lineup with Core i3 ULV chips

Anybots has a new telepresence robot, the QB — and while it certainly seems to be an advance on the QA, which we saw at CES 2009 , we gotta admit that it’s not nearly as cute as its predecessor. Marketed towards CEO-types, this bad boy can be controlled via your PC (or eventually your Mac), and it features WiFi b/g connectivity, 5 megapixel camera, speaker, microphone, and a max speed of 3.5 MPH

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Anybots QB telepresence robot: nag employees remotely for $15,000

This new Bold 9780 is really looking like the real deal, isn’t it?

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BlackBerry Bold 9780 caught on video running OS 6