Daily Tech and Gadget

I’m no techno aficionado. I like bleeps and bloops. Who cares if they’re acid house or space jam or whatever? But I can tell you this: ” Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat ” is amazing.

SimBin revs up development on new installment in simulation racing series, rubber to hit the road on unspecified platforms in 2011. Last year, gear-headed racing studio SimBin released its first console game, the Atari-published Race Pro for the Xbox 360. While the effort received a positive critical reception , it didn’t fare quite as well as the company’s previous racing sims on the PC. As this GTR Evolution pic shows, the series wasn’t lacking in realistic visuals to start with.

With Splinter Cell Conviction , Ubisoft wants to make you feel like a panther. Ars recently had the opportunity to preview the co-op campaign for the oft-delayed stealth action game at Toronto Comic Con this past weekend, and the consensus amongst the developers on hand was that they want to turn players into predators. And while it’s hard to tell if they’ve fully succeeded given the short amount of time I had with the game, it’s clear that they’re on the right track. Read the comments on this post

Those you you who’ve been following the CrunchPad project since we first announced it in the summer of 2008 weren’t too happy to hear about the recent… hiccups …that we continue to fight through. But never fear, while we continue to clean up the mess that our Asian contractor left behind we’ve been hard at work on a new project that lets anyone create an iPad like device from any laptop screen. It’s called the CrunchPad Kit and it goes on sale now. Best of all, we’re selling this for just $49 as an introductory price.

Do you want TV everywhere? And wonder what might happen after the Comcast-NBC merger is complete? Or want to know how technologists and financiers see the digital-content market evolving? So do we.

At 1:00 a.m. on Sunday morning I was doing routine maintenance on my personal Amazon Web Services account and instead found myself looking at something I had no right to be seeing: A database with 800,000 user accounts to the e-card site CardMaster.com . Along with that were the database passwords and back end of a major U.S. Public Broadcasting Service news show website ( Gwen Ifill’s Washington Week ), including daily updates from panelists on the stories they cover.

Spring has sprung and we’ve freed up a bunch of tickets for our first ever official Twitter conference, Chirp. The event will take place on April 14th and 15th in San Francisco. On the first day, we’ll gather at The Palace of Fine Arts—an historic building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. When you buy a two day pass , you get access to both days of the conference plus the party we’re throwing after.

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: WePay Quick Pitch: WePay makes it easy for groups to collect and manage money online.

Ubisoft’s critically panned rhythm game is a commercial hit, going double-platinum in four months. When Just Dance launched on November 17, 2009, it stood the risk of being crushed by higher-profile releases. However, Ubisoft’s rhythm game found a casual-game niche between high-profile hits like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Dragon Age: Origins, both released during the same month. Despite being critically panned , the Ubisoft Paris-developed title went from being the 20th best-selling game in the US during December to cracking NPD’s top 10 in January and February .

Encoding.com announced today that it now supports HTTP Streaming for both the iPhone and the iPad . For years, different companies have offered publishers and developers the ability to serve content at variable bit rates. That means that when you’re watching a video on your phone or on Hulu , the quality of the video stream adapts to your Internet connection. If you have a solid connection, you can view very high quality video in real-time.

It seems like every day, a new way of producing biofuel is being discovered. Within the past few years, we’ve reported on technology that harvests biofuel from garbage , booze , crop waste , carbon dioxide and wood-munching marine isopods . Now, Arizona State University has announced a new development in the harvesting of biofuel from cyanobacteria microbes – ASU researchers Xinyao Liu and Roy Curtiss have genetically engineered bacteria that literally ooze the stuff out of their skins… Tags: Algae , Bacteria , Biofuel , Enzyme , Microbes Related Articles: This bacteria will self destruct (and improve renewable biofuel production) Bacteria engineered to convert greenhouse gas into liquid fuel Biofuel-powered jet completes transcontinental flight Airbus and Honeywell team up on alternative fuel Air New Zealand completes biofuel test flight Boeing announce plans to accelerate bio-jet fuel development

The world of nanoscale electronics. .. Tags: Electronics , Nanoscale , Nanotechnology , superconductor , World’s Smallest Related Articles: Nanoscale lasers continue to shrink, heralding new era in optical science Thinnest superconducting metal ever may have wide application Scientists stick with silicon to extend Moore’s Law Scientists squeeze more out of light Nanoscale lasers are about to get even smaller Lithium-sulfur batteries could store triple the power of lithium-ion

Artech Studios readying arcade action take on WWII submarine warfare for June 15 release exclusively on Microsoft’s console. The intersection of arcade-style action and submarines is one rarely visited by developers. Underserved fans of the genre can clear off some shelf space next to In the Hunt, Critical Depth, and AquaNox, as 505 Games today announced its own historically themed entry into the market. Everything’s better, down where it’s wetter…

Filed under: Europe , Toys/Games , Humor , Specialty , Design/Style , Luxury The Garia Edition Soleil de Minuit Golf Car – Click above for high-res image gallery Meet the Lamborghini of the Links – the Garia Edition Soleil de Minuit. Aside from that exotic roof, this golf car (don’t you dare call it a cart) boasts a serious pedigree bedecked with names like Porsche , Ducati and Aston Martin . Sort of. See, this little caddy-mobile gets glued together in the same factory that’s responsible for the Cayman , and uses a frame from the same supplier as Aston Martin , Volvo and the like.

Back in October 2008 , Nintendo of Japan showed off a ton of Wii games all at once. They’re still not all out yet. Some, like Cosmic Walker , remain largely mysterious, while we’re only recently hearing renewed discussion about games like Span Smasher (now called FlingSmash ). One of the weirdest games from that already-weird lineup was Kensax , a minigame collection in which competition was based on achieving search engine queries with greater results than your opponents.