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Month: April 2012

No Bull: Lamborghini Is Building a 600HP SUV

While the idea of a Lamborghini crossover might be surprising to anyone who wasn’t poring over car mags in their misspent youth, this isn’t Lamborghini’s first ‘ute. That illustrious distinction goes to the LM002 (pictured below). Disaffectionately referred to as the “Rambo Lambo” for its propensity to appear in ’80s-era B-class action flicks, Lamborghini only managed to offload around 300 LM002s to coke-addled movie execs and oil-rich Middle Easterners before the finicky, unreliable off-roader was killed in 1992.


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Cellphones That See Through Walls

If a team of scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas have anything to do with it, your cellphone will be able to scan through solid objects in the not-so-distant future. The team is utilizing an unused wavelength spectrum range known as terahertz band to see through objects much like X-rays.

“CMOS is affordable and can be used to make lots of chips,” said Dr. O. “The combination of CMOS and terahertz means you could put this chip and receiver on the back of a cellphone, turning it into a device carried in your pocket that can see through objects.”

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