RIM has announced that their latest BlackBerry Bold, the Torch (aka 9800) will be launched in August. The Torch is a slide-smartphone with a hidden QWERTY keyboard on a portrait slide. There’s a 5-Megapixel camera with flash (most probably LED) that’ll improve your ‘shooting-on-the-go’ experience. Other major features include Wi-Fi 802.11n support, 4GB of onboard storage, paired with a 4GB microSD card in the package. There’s a 512MB each of ROM and RAM. The Torch has a quadband 3G radio, making it a global smartphone (duh). Read more…

It’s getting very common nowadays to see civic cars having the ‘Start-Stop’ function. What used to be only found in exotic cars are now finding their ways into the heart of mainstream cars. Auto component supplier Continental is very well aware of that, and they’re now researching a more ‘budget minded’ system to cater to budget cars. Read more…

Man, what mad imaginations petrol heads worldwide will have when they hear of this news. Surely this is one of the biggest hints for the resurrection of the legendary Toyota Supra. Last month Toyota has filed, or should I say re-filed, the US Patent and Trademark Office for the ‘Supra’ name on the 16^th of July 2010. The trademark previously expired in 2006, and yeah the company hasn’t done a fart about it till now. Unbelievable, right? Read more…

After some sneaks and snacks, RIM finally removes the curtain for their latest smartphone OS, called the ‘BlackBerry 6’. Besides the obvious name change from “BlackBerry OS” to the very simple “BlackBerry,” the operating system also features numerous updates, most notably new global search functionality through internal indexing, social network aggregation (duh?), WiFi-powered media sync with your desktop music collection, and an all-new (and desperately needed) WebKit-based browser with support for HTML5.

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Liquid-cooling never actually go big in computer enthusiast market. Only a handful would go over the edge to get that few ounce of boost. But Kingston plans to spread the love of liquid-cooling to the mass, well at least more enthusiast and gamers at least. They’ve just given their premium HyperX branch some refreshing drinks with the added ‘H2O’ suffix. Their approach is different from OCZ’s fin-tastic Flex series though, as the new Kingston Hyper H20 modules keep their cool via tube alone, which admittedly means more space in your case as you carefully bump their clocks up from the stock 2,000MHz (or 2,133MHz) and CL9-11-9-27 timings at 1.65 volts.

The new water-edition HyperX modules come in dual-channel (4GB) and triple-channel (6GB) flavours at $157 and $235 respectively. Maybe you should list them in your upcoming Christmas rig’s setup list of hardware choice.

[Kingston via Engadget]

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Did I mention that it’s cute? Ah, nvm… Hey it changes colors too! Maybe because it’s cute, that it won a Red Dot Design Award. This Coway AP-1008 Air Purifier has a 3-stage Hepa filtration system which removes 99.5% of airborne particles. That means dust and germs all gone, nearly. There’s also an illuminated hole that will glow in a specific colour, pending on how filthy your room is. Red indicates high levels of pollution, light purple for medium pollution, purple for low pollution and blue signifies the room is 99.5% clean. Of course that last 0.5% of air pollution could very well contain those microscopic bits that eventually get you, but for $279.99 you’re greatly increasing your odds of not getting sick.

[Coway via Oh!Gizmo]

Created by Shi Jindian, this amazing piece of art is made of wire, modelled according to a Chiangjiang 750 that has a sidecar. It was apparently created in a process where the artist crochets steel wire around an object and then destroys and removes it from the inside, kind of like popping a balloon inside a home-made piñata. Now how he did that with an actual motorcycle is beyond me, but the results are certainly impressive. Destroying a motorcycle using nano-bugs maybe?

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Seriously, who would’ve ever thought about such creative idea? Care to drink from a camera lens? Love to, mate! Make your own breakfast milo from this Canon 24-105mm lens, complete with lens cap lid if you don’t want to lose the heat while you have your bath. Get yourself this Canon Lens Mug from Photojojo for only $24! It even has a ‘working’ auto-focus switch, to make you feel that you’re focusing on your hot milo or hot coffee, which may have Canon’s revolutionary optical beverage stabilization technology with DIGIC X processor.

[Photojojo via Oh!Gizmo]

Master Lock’s 1500iD padlock gives you a new way to lock your stuff up, in a method that hopefully you’ll think it’s easy; a 4-way directional pad instead of the typical spinning tumbler. Especially good for gamers to easily remember their combination, while hoping that those thieves are not gamers themselves.

For non-gamers a set of alternate passcode indicators is also included like letters, numbers, colors, shapes and symbols that can be stuck over the arrows if you find them easier to remember. $12.69 available from pretty much anywhere you can buy school supplies.

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[Funny Padlock via Oh!Gizmo]