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Citroën ë-Berlingo Van now available to order

Green Car Congress

The Control version offers enhanced equipment: manual air conditioning, automatic headlights, hill start assist, remote central locking with Plip system, Citroën Connect Box with SOS & Assistance Pack included, digital DAB MP3 sound system, 5" monochrome touch screen, Bluetooth hands-free kit, 12V socket and a USB port.

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25 Must-Have Accessories for Electric Vehicles

Get Electric Vehicle

A charging cable organizer helps prevent tangling, keeps the cables neatly stored, and makes them easily accessible when needed. Emergency Roadside Kit Preparing for unexpected situations is important for any vehicle owner, including EV owners.

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Continental Demonstrates AutoLinQ and Outlines Plans for Android in the Automotive Industry

Green Car Congress

Continental also announced that it plans to release an AutoLinQ Software Development Kit (SDK) to the Android Development Community in the first quarter of 2010 and intends to unveil an application store in the second half of the year. Android, developed by the Open Handset Alliance, is a mobile software platform.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Open Source Tools and Open Hardware License

Open Source Civic EV Kit

I'm going to start with this as the documentation tool. My next step is to get the structure of the Civic EV Kit Google Group set up and invite several key people in the Civic EV community so we can get this ball rolling. I'm hoping the user-editable web pages will be similar to a Wiki in that any contributing member can edit them.

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Weave Your Own Apollo-Era Memory

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This memory used a form of magnetic core memory , where multiple hair-thin wires passed through tiny ferrite toroids to store 1s and 0s. The work of assembling the AGC memories fell to women at Raytheon who formerly worked with textiles, and once you complete the Core64 kit, you will have a newfound respect for their skills.

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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

Cars That Think

Thus, some of the fascination of retrocomputing lies in its detective element, with systems reverse engineered with modern tools, sometimes down to the silicon level, and old design documents unearthed from retiree's attics. Chris Davis makes a terrific replica kit, the Altair-Duino.

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