Jun 302012
 

Lohan is facing a lawsuit   owing them thousands of dollars in unpaid bills

Reportedly, Lindsay Lohan is facing a lawsuit, this time from bosses at a Los Angeles fashion store who accuse the actress of owing them thousands of dollars in unpaid bills.

The “Mean Girls” star was reported to have not paid up for clothing, jewelery and accessories from the Church Boutique, according to complaints filed by the shop owners David Malvaney and Rodney Burns on Wednesday, June 30.

The two insists Lohan has only paid $180 of a total $17,060 sum she piled up in shopping sprees between November 2009 and February this year. And the store owners said they wouldn’t have let Lohan take the items if they had realized she had “no intention” of paying.

The documents read, “Plaintiff’s reliance on Lohan’s representations (that her business manager would take care of it) were justified due to the celebrity of Lohan and her well-known status as a movie actress with substantial income.”

The shop owners’ attorney Bill Crockett tells E! News, “Filing suit was the last thing we wanted to do, but after six months of not being paid, my clients were left with no choice. They started this business from scratch, and that they have been successful in attracting an elite clientele does not mean they should be abused.”

Jun 302012
 

Tokyo 3D screen Display 2012

Tokyo 3D screen Display 2012

Tokyo 3D screen Display 2012

There are waterfall screens, but what if you’d like your display to be a little more… pristine? Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a display that hits soap bubbles with ultrasonic sound to change the surface. At a minimum, it can change how light glances off the soap film to produce the image. It gets truly creative when taking advantage of the soap’s properties: a single screen is enough to alter the texture of a 2D image, and multiple screens in tandem can create what amounts to a slightly sticky hologram. As the soap is made out of sturdy colloids rather than the easily-burst mixture we all knew as kids, users won’t have to worry about an overly touch-happy colleague popping a business presentation. There’s a video preview of the technology after the jump; we’re promised a closer look at the technology during the SIGGRAPH expo in August, but we don’t yet know how many years it will take to find sudsy screens in the wild.

Jun 302012
 

Kim Kardashian has showed her wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Times Square

Kim Kardashian has showed her wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Times Square

Finally meeting her twin, kim playfully posed next to her, sporting the same outfit, a hot pink Herve Leger bandage dress the wax is wearing.

Before going to see her wax figure, Kim posted about her nervousness on her Twitter page, posting, “Getting ready to see my wax figure! I’m so nervous! Will it be weird? Will it look identical to me?” Once she met her wax replica, she updated her post, tweeting “So exciting. Good morning NYC! Kims big unveiling for her wax figure at Madame Tussauds Wax museum! Woohoo this is amazing.”

When asked about what she thinks about the wax figure, Kim told MTV News, “It is weird! It’s like she’s prettier than I am. It’s so weird, like, my arms and the hands… everything about it is so exact that it’s weird to see yourself.” She added, “So now I can really see from an outsider’s point of view. It’s weird.”

Kim confessed that having her own wax figure at the popular museum has been an honor. She said, “When I first heard I was going to be immortalized, I was so honored. I mean, it’s a pretty cool thing. I called my sisters right away, and it looks so much like me, it’s scary. It’s probably one of the biggest honors, so [my sisters] were so excited for me.”

Jun 292012
 

 Electric car BMW 2013 Launched
New environmental sub-brand will appear in 2013 with the promise of improved range from its batteries.

BMW has unveiled plans for an environmental sub-brand, which will be launched in 2013 on the front of a brand-new two-plus-two-seat, lithium-ion battery car.

The new Megacity Vehicle will have a 134bhp, all-electric driveline with a single-speed electric motor revving up to 12,000rpm. It will also feature an aluminium chassis containing the wheels, suspension, battery and electric motor, and a separately-formed carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic passenger cell.

The new brand and car is born out of BMW’s “Project i” research scheme launched in 2007, which has examined the consumer feedback from the 2008 electric MINI E and the 2009 Active E vehicles. Feedback shows that as usage patterns for the MINI E were not significantly different from that of a normal car, the most effective area of improvement would to be its 93-mile range.

To that end, BMW is working with partner SB LiMotive on more energy-dense batteries and with SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers on lightweight body materials. The company has not ruled out using a small 40bhp petrol engine as a range extender, in the mannr of the petrol engine fitted to the forthcoming Chevrolet Volt/Vauxhall Ampera hatchback. It has also admitted that there will be larger versions of the Megacity Vehicle.

The Megacity project is designed to provide environmental transport for the growing number of urban conurbations with 10 million-plus populations, of which there were 83 in 1950 and 468 in 2007.

The United Nations estimates that the 2010 urban population of 3.2 billion will have grown to 5 billion by 2030, when three in five people will be city dwellers. Problems associated with such urban pressure includes: air pollution, traffic congestion, urban sprawl, slums and huge pressure on resources.

Jun 292012
 

iPhone 4.0 Firmware 3Gs 2010 edition

iPhone 4.0 Firmware 3Gs 2010 edition

iPhone 4.0 3Gs Firmware | 377.92 MB

# Multi-touch gestures OS-wide.
# “A few new ways” to run applications
in the background — multitasking.
# Many graphical and UI changes to make navigating through the OS easier and more efficient. We haven’t had this broken down, but we can only hope for improved notifications, a refreshed homescreen, etc.
# The update will supposedly be available for only the iPhone 3G and 3GS, but will “put them ahead in the smartphone market because it will make them more like full-fledged computers” more than any other phone to date. Everyone is “really excited.”
# The last piece of information is the most vague, but apparently there will be some brand new syncing ability for the contacts and calendar applications.

Only compatible with the 3Gs phone, this is what I used to update my phone. Straight from Apple.

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http://hotfile.com/dl/50102251/81f4e17/iPhone_4.0_3Gs.part1.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/50102243/f769c8f/iPhone_4.0_3Gs.part2.rar.html
http://hotfile.com/dl/50102248/72074cc/iPhone_4.0_3Gs.part3.rar.html
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http://hotfile.com/dl/50102248/72074cc/iPhone_4.0_3Gs.part3.rar.html
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http://rapidshare.com/files/401936322/iPhone_4.0_3Gs.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/401936323/iPhone_4.0_3Gs.part4.rar

Jun 282012
 

LG VS950 FCC with Verizon LTE Price Review

LG VS950 FCC with Verizon LTE Price Review

LG VS950 FCC with Verizon LTE Price Review

LG and Verizon have something special in the works, and judging from the information we were able to glean from some mysterious documents submitted to the FCC (and subsequently approved today), it appears to be Big Red’s version of the Optimus Vu. While the docs don’t come out and specifically mention the Vu name or the phone’s iconic 5-inch display, the diagram (seen above) of the LG VS950 shows the exact same speaker grille setup on the lower left as well as the SIM flap on the upper right. But if that weren’t enough to clue us in, you can clearly see something that looks curiously like an antenna on the top left — in the very same place as the Korean Optimus Vu. The VS950 sports NFC and offers LTE band 13 and GSM 850 / 1900. The phone’s already received Bluetooth Certification, so we’re hoping this means it’s in the final stages of testing. Let’s just hope it comes with a newer version of firmware than its Korean counterpart.

Jun 282012
 

Lenovo LePhone K860 Phone Price

Lenovo LePhone K860 Phone Price

Lenovo LePhone K860 Phone Price

This one isn’t fully official just yet, but Blog of Mobile has turned up some pictures and specs for a new Lenovo LePhone K860 that would appear to one-up the company’s existing offerings. Perhaps most notably, this one is said to pack a quad-core, 1.4GHz Exynos 4412 processor (the same found in some variants of the Galaxy S III), along with a 5-inch screen boasting a 1280 x 720 resolution. Otherwise, you’ll apparently get a 2 megapixel camera up front and 8 megapixels ’round back, 1GB of RAM, and Android 4.0 for an OS (no mention of a 4.1 upgade). No indication of a price, but it looks like it will be hitting China in August.

Jun 282012
 

New Modbook Pro iPad

New Modbook Pro iPad

New Modbook Pro iPad

You’d be forgiven for assuming that the ModBook dream died with release of the first iPad. After all, the first version of the hacked notebook predated Apple’s announcement by a couple of years. When the iPad finally hit in 2010, it did a lot to address the desire for a slate device running Apple software. Since then, things have largely remained silent on the Axiotron front. In fact, the last time we heard a significant peep out of the company was back in 2009. Its former CEO Andreas Haas assured us, however, that the real reason for the company’s silence is a bit more complicated than the story of yet another product falling victim to the Apple steamroller.

Jun 282012
 

Nintendo’s 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro

Nintendos 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro

Nintendo’s 3DS XL Circle Pad Pro

Nintendo’s latest oversized handheld not big enough for you? Maybe another Circle Pad Pro will help. According to Japanese gaming publication Famitsu, the Big N is poised to give the freshly announced 3DS XL a second analog slider. Pricing wasn’t covered in the magazine’s Nintendo Q&A session, but gamers in the Land of the Rising Sun should have their thumbs on it later this year. Oh, and in case you didn’t hear, the colossal clamshell is getting its very own charging cradle too, sold separately for 1,200 yen ($15). Mum’s the word on stateside details for the secondary slide pad, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see it show up on foreign shores.

Jun 282012
 

2012 Huawei Ascend D Quad Smartphone

2012 Huawei Ascend D Quad Smartphone

2012 Huawei Ascend D Quad Smartphone

Production of Huawei’s flagship Ascend D Quad smartphone has been delayed due to issues surrounding the handset’s processor. According to the company’s Consumer Business Group boss Yu Chengdong, Huawei’s in-house quad-core chipset “has encountered some technical problems which caused the delays in production.” The Chinese manufacturer is “working hard to overcome them,” however, and it expects mass production of the smartphone to begin some time in August. The Ascend D Quad, which was announced at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, is equipped with a 4.5-inch 720p display and Huawei’s own K3V2 quad-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz. The device also features an 8-megapixel rear-camera that is capable of shooting 1080p video, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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