HP is on a mission to manufacture 3D printers more affordable to the masses, but that probably doesn’t include most consumers as its latest Designjet 3D printers cost about $17,500, certainly more than our pocket money for the day. Still, whether you’re filthy rich (or need it for your company), it’s able to turn your 3D CAD drawings into tangible prototypes without having to go through the traditional trouble of sending the drawings to a machinist. The Designjet 3D is only able to print using ivory-colored plastic, but the Designjet Color 3D is able to print using up to 8 different colors.

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There isn’t much data associated with these leaked pictures, but they’re apparently Motorola phones powered by Google’s Android and feature a transparent cover on the front, similar to the Ming series. There are claims that they’re engineering prototypes, and one of them has the cipher name ZN4. Of course, Motorola already has a ZN4, but it doesn’t look anything like that. What do you build of it?

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Soldiers in the future should be getting more and more tech to carry around, and HP is working on some rather cool display technologies to help them. What HP is working on is a prototype of a solar-powered lightweight computer display that is flexible abundant to be wrapped around a soldier’s wrist. The display is only 200 microns thick, and can show useful info such as maps or directions and will be powered by solar cells. Prototypes will be offered to the military early next year, which should be something to look forward too. Said display technology utilizes the popular E-Ink display technology. So it looks like soldiers of the future will all sport a futuristic version of a Dick Tracy watch, eh?

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Forget about those bigwig auto manufacturers in Japan and Detroit – trust a group of students to come up with an eco car prototype that is able to hit a whopping 2,487.5 miles on a gallon (MPG) of fuel – now that’s economy! A team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada picked up the Grand Prize at that year’s Shell Eco-Marathon yet again, improving on their effort last year which clocked up 2,757.1 MPG. Of course, it will take a distant duration before such prototypes are viable sufficient to operate like a standard vehicle you see on the road, but we would gladly take 500MPG whether it could carry four adults comfortably with room to spare in the boot for some baggage.

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While there isn’t any official announcement just yet, word is going around that the latest prototypes of a new Mac mini show that it will sport a HDMI port instead of the legacy DVI connector. To further add credibility to that bit of news, a picture supposedly showing the Mac mini with a HDMI port has surfaced, though there isn’t any way to confirm the authenticity of such a picture, particularly when you take into explanation the Photoshop wizardry that folks can perform nowadays. Have you been looking forward to a HDMI port on your Macs, or are you perfectly happy with your current analog and DVI connectors?

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Granted, pico projectors haven’t really taken off just yet nor anytime in the near future, but that doesn’t mean hardware manufacturers won’t try to incorporate it in their future devices. Take HP for instance – they are working on a tablet PC and notebook that will feature an integrated pico-projector inside each of them. There is no proper prototypes shown off (or leaked) for the tablet just yet, but it could have its roots in the HP Touchsmart tablet PCs from all those years ago. As for the notebook, the projector will be placed on top of its display just like where most webcams are situated. It does assemble us wonder where the webcam will thereupon be placed – perhaps on a swiveling, pivoted segment right beside the projector?

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Want to go one up on your friends? Motorola’s Droid prototype seemed to have made its way to eBay, where bidding starts from $485 upwards. Apparently, that is believed to be one of the five prototypes available, making it all the more rare and exotic compared to other supercars. You get a chrome bezel with that instead of a black one, silver buttons instead of gold and some sort of enhanced LED lighting located on the front buttons.

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Nice to know our men in uniform who proudly and bravely defend our country will be getting prototype versions of flexible AM-Pholeds. It remains to be seen just which part of the battlefield operations will experience action with such prototypes, although we do know that the US Army has its eyes on enabling flexible PHOLED technology to be adorned on a soldier, perhaps to check out real instance directions from the top right on your sleeve without bogging you down with heavy equipment?

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