HTC announces something “incredible” coming next week

HTC has dropped a tease on us and is making us wait until next week to find out what they have in store. All we know is that HTC appears has something “incredible” for us next week. “Next week, we’ve got some special fun headed your way. We hear it’s going to be INCREDIBLE,” HTC said in a tweet.
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Gear4 speaker dock supports USB audio for Jelly Bean at Google I/O 2012 (hands-on video)

Gear4 speaker dock supports USB audio for Jelly Bean at Google I/O 2012

Another day, another speaker dock. We initially dismissed Gear4's latest accessory at Google I/O 2012 until we noticed that the attached Nexus 7 was playing audio digitally via the USB port instead of simply through the headphone jack (or wirelessly over Bluetooth for that matter). It turns out that Jelly Bean supports USB audio, a software feature that's bound to spearhead a whole new generation of accessories for Android devices. Gear4's universal speaker dock with alarm clock radio is the first to handle USB audio. While the sound for any app can be routed to the USB port in Jelly Bean, the functionality is missing from older versions of Android. Thankfully, Gear4 includes an app with its accessory that can be used to set alarms, sync time, tune the radio and play media over the USB port on legacy versions of Android. Want to know more? You'll find our gallery below and our hands-on video after the break.

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Theme Park Lets You Drive Your Own Tank!

I don’t know about you, but ever since I saw the 1984 movie called Tank with James Garner, I’ve had a desire to drive a tank for myself. I think it would be awesome to drive the tank and if they let me shoot its gigantic gun, I might have a nerdgasm. Well, as it turns out, there’s a park in southern Minnesota that can fulfill your tank-driving dreams.

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The business is called, aptly enough, Drive-a-Tank and offers any driver the chance to get behind the controls of surplus military tanks and other armored vehicles. The park allows you to drive them around an old limestone quarry and you can even smash junk cars.

The tanks used at the park are Cold War era surplus items and there are now 11 different vehicles available on the 20-acre site. The site is 50 miles southwest of Minneapolis if you’re thinking about going. A basic package that lets you drive the tank and shoot a machine gun is $399. You can also go for more expensive packages that let you drive several vehicles and shoot other weapons including assault rifles. If you want to smash your own junker car with the tank, you need to cough up $549. If you want even more, for $3500 you can drive the tank through a trailer house.

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A 1929 Vintage Bentley is the most expensive British car sold at auction

Karanvir Singh:

Worldwide collectors and vintage car enthusiasts witnessed the breaking of several world records at the Bonhams’ Goodwood Festival of Speed sale held on Friday 29 June, which lead on its way to collect an astounding $34.35 million in the festival’s 20th anniversary year. Out of the selection of 80 automobiles that crossed the auction block, the ex-Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin 1929 4 ½-liter supercharged ‘Blower’ Bentley single-seater and ‘The Corgi’, a 1912 Rolls-Royce 40/50hp ‘Silver Ghost’ Double Pullman Limousine sold for record breaking prices of $7.8 million and $7.3 million respectively. Also, we have earlier seen that a right hand drive open-top stunning red Ferrari 275 GTS Spyder, which was expected to fetch a price of $590,000 to $650,000, got sold for whopping $876,930 at this sale. However, Bonhams actually expected that the Goodwood Festival of Speed was the perfect place to sell two of Britain’s most iconic cars.

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A 1929 Vintage Bentley is the most expensive British car sold at auction

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Stair Rover skateboard can apparently travel down a flight of stairs

Asmita Prasad:

Skateboarders really don’t have the word “pain” in their dictionaries since they insist on trying to skate over every known surface in their proximity. Even though most surfaces with clean sharp edges are easily conquered by skateboarders, stairs remain the illusive metaphoric summit. For skateboarders that just don’t have the time to perfect their technique and try and take on stairs with their regular skateboards, the Star Rover skateboard might be just the thing. Created by Po-Chih Lai, a product designer based in London, the Stair Rover is said to be able to navigate the stairs with the same ease as a regular skateboard travels around regular obstacles.

Stair Rover, the staircase-friendly skateboard
Stair Rover, the staircase-friendly skateboard

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NASA’s NuSTAR probe snaps first X-ray image of feeding black hole

NASA's NuSTAR probe snaps first Xray image of a feeding black hole

It was Bret Easton Ellis who coined the phrase, "The better you look, the more you see," and it appears the folks down at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab agree. In what's considered a "first," the agency's latest space-scouring probe, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, has turned on its X-ray vision to capture focused images of a black hole, dubbed Cygnus X-1, feeding on a nearby giant star. By tuning into these high-energy frequencies, scientists are getting a peak into a previously unseen side of the heavens at 100 times the sensitivity and 10 times the resolution of any preceding tech. The space agency plans to use the observatory's powerful sight to suss out other known areas of mass X-ray activity like 3C273, an active quasar located two billion light years away and even explore G21.5-0.9, the fallout from a supernova within the Milky Way galaxy. NuSTAR's first tour of galactic duty will span two year's time, during which it'll attempt to record imagery from "the most energetic objects in the universe, " as well as track the existence of black holes throughout the cosmos. Impressed? Yeah, us too.

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Penfolds Wines limited edition Cabernet Sauvignon sells for $168,000

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Known for taking Australian wine to the world on a grand stage and forging a reputation of quality that is without peer, one of Australia’s oldest wineries and a company brand with an extensive product range, Penfolds now celebrates the provenance of truly extraordinary wine and its spirit of innovation and experimentation with the release of a limited edition glass Ampoule. Containing 2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon, a rare wine in a truly distinctive format, the specially packed red wine Ampoule has a recommended retail price of $168,000, making it one of the most expensive Australian wines. We have also earlier seen some of the most expensive wines, besides the recent sale of rare Domaine Romanée-Conti for $105,000.

Penfolds Wines limited edition Cabernet Sauvignon sells for $168,000
Penfolds Wines limited edition Cabernet Sauvignon sells for $168,000

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La Cle customisable car keys for connoisseurs

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For discerning individuals with top money driving around in the exquisite and world’s most expensive cars crafted by noted automakers like Porsche, Maserati, Ferrari, Mercedes, Rolls-Royce and Bentley, to name a few, there’s more to automotive aristocracy. Besides sporting most expensive license car plates and custom luxury interiors, car lovers now also splurge on bespoke high-end car keys studded in crystals and diamonds, as they probably don’t like to carry a bit of plastic in their pockets, when leaving the pride and joy parked. We have earlier seen the world’s most expensive car keys that are designed to look like a miniature car, now we have another bespoke key the “I, Number One” black edition launched at the La Clé yacht party at Monaco F1 Grand Prix.

La Cle customisable car keys for connoiseurs
La Cle customisable car keys for connoiseurs

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Sony Smart Wireless Headset pro hits retail with $150 price in tow

Sony Smart Wireless Headset pro hits retail with $150 price in tow

Don't let the name fool you, Sony's Smart Wireless Headset pro won't clip on your ear. That's because it looks and functions more like a traditional MP3 player, using its powers of Bluetooth 2.0 to communicate with compatible Android devices. The two-tone peripheral comes with a headset, four sets of earbuds, USB cables and a 2GB microSD card pre-installed (expandable up to 32GB) to let you store music. If the feature set stopped right there, this accessory would be just another underwhelming PMP, but factor in its text-to-speech functionality and you get a PDA of sorts to keep you abreast of incoming emails, texts and social media updates. The device will also let users receive incoming voice calls and even dial-out using a recent call list. It's hitting Sony's online and retail shops now, so if you've got a spare $150 and a taste for extraneous peripherals -- by all means, take the plunge.

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10 Gigabit per-second connection between US and China demoed

Internet2You, sir or ma'am, should probably not get too excited. Chances are, this trans-Pacific 10 Gigabit link won't do you any good, personally. On the other hand, researchers working together across the oceanic divide have tons to cheer about. The China Education and Research Network, the National Science Foundation and Indiana University worked together with BGI, one of the largest genomics organizations in the world, to christen the connection by transferring 24 Gigabytes of genomic data from Beijing to UC Davis in under 30 seconds. As a benchmark, the same file was sent between the same locations over the regular ol' Internet and it took over 26 hours. The high-speed link should prove to be a major boon for genetic research and DNA sequencing.

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