CADILLAC URBAN LUXURY VEHICLE CONCEPT

Cadillac has launched the Urban Luxury Concept, a design study exploring a new type of vehicle that offers a luxury experience in a diminutive size. The Cadillac Urban Luxury Concept complements its compact dimensions with the design, features and technology for which Cadillac is known.

“The Cadillac Urban Luxury Concept celebrates its scale with intelligent, innovative content that makes it unique regardless of its size,” said Clay Dean, Director of GM North American Advanced Design and Cadillac Brand Champion. “It has a small exterior footprint, but is roomy inside.”

Engineers have developed a concept hybrid propulsion system for the Urban Luxury Concept that includes a turbocharged 1.0L three-cylinder engine employing electric assist technology, engine start-stop function, brake energy regeneration and a dry dual-clutch transmission. Based on extensive prototype and production experience, a combination of these technologies could offer projected fuel economy of 56 mpg in the city and 65 mpg on the highway, in a vehicle of the size and configuration of the Urban Luxury Concept.

NVIDIA GTX 570 COMING SOON

Guys, here's Nvidia ‘underclocked’ GTX 570, the next in-line arriving as soon as before Christmas probably, since they look very much final anyway. Well, if the GTX 580 is too brutal for you, then this card might just fit nicely.

• Core Clock: 690/1380 MHz
• Memory Clock: 3800 MHz
• Memory Bandwidth: ~153 GB/sec
• Shader Operations: ? MOperations/sec
• Pixel Fill Rate: ? 34 MPixels/sec
• Texture Fill Rate: ? 46 MTexels/sec
• Details
• Max Power Draw: ~230 W
• Noise Level: Moderate
• Memory Size: 1280 MB
• Memory Type: GDDR5
• Memory Bus Type: 64×5 (320 bit)
• DirectX: 11.0
• OpenGL: 4.1
• PS/VS Version: 5.0/5.0
• Process: 40 nm
• shader Pipelines: 480
• Texture Units: 60
• Raster: 40 (48)?

via Expreview

ASSASSIN'S CREED : BROTHERHOOD

Here's probably why Assassin’s Creed is so great. Well, at least for Brotherhood’s title. At times bugs and glitches in games are rather annoying. Either they totally crash your system, or they prevent you from continuing your storyline. But this glitch is awesome! Simply throw the player into the sky, and you’ve got yourself the best view of an entire city! You can’t really compare this to games like Grand Theft Auto or even Counter Strike with zero gravity. This is a game set in the Renaissance, with its whole city crafted out with marvelous graphic. They should’ve provided this view in the game somehow, instead of only climbing up to the tallest building. Now, can somebody tell Ubisoft to whip up the PC version faster?

via Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Flying Glitch

GRAN TURISMO 5 COURSE CREATION TOOLS

Here’s another reason why Gran Turismo 5 is so awesome. The developers have added a new addition to the awesome features, of a new course creator that allows players to generate their own tracks. What that means? Think Blizzard’s Starcraft 2 World Editor, but in Gran Turismo style. Yes, you can now cook up just about any combination of turns, elevation changes and the like by using the 10-percent of your brain power to enhance your creativity, and you might just make a new Nürburgring.

via Joystiq

NEED FOR SPEED SHIFT 2

EA has launched a sequel to their previous Need for Speed: Shift which takes place in track racing will be coming in spring 2011, and it’ll be called Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed. What an underwhelming name. Shift was also never my piece of cake. But if you look at the trailer, the graphic seemed to be rather serious, rivaling those from Polyphony’s Gran Turismo 5 and Codemaster’s Dirt 2 and F1 2010. Though, these are all graphically generated animation, so the final thing might or might not be so beautifully crafted.

The game will most probably retain its serious and heavy simulation approach to racing sim, but will receive a graphical overhaul thanks to a new engine. Need for Speed Shift 2: Unleashed will also include an updated version of Autolog, the multiplayer matchmaking service used in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, which you should be familiar with by now, if you play the game.

GRAN TURISMO 5 BOXES READY IN THIS WEEK

Kotaku has got a teasing picture sent in by their reader named Michael. So I guess it’s safe to say that the real damn thing which has been under 6 years of development will really be coming in this week with no more last minute delay.

via Kotaku

iWATCH CONCEPT BY FAR

Here is obviously not the first time someone took Apple’s latest iPod nano and turns it into a watch, but I’ve to admit that TikTok and LunaTik concepts by Scott Wilson of Minimal Studios are definitely the most stunning out of the iWatch concept haystack. The TikTok features a simple snap-in design for quick wrist-mounting and is tentatively priced at USD$35, assuming that they managed to turn it from a concept to a real deal and ship it. The LunaTik, on the other hand, is marketed as a “premium conversion kit” that secures the Nano in a two-piece CNC-machined aluminum case held together with stainless steel bolts, and should ship for an estimated USD$70.

via Kickstarter

MITSUBISHI VISEO MDT231WG FULL-HD MONITOR

Here’s the Mitsubishi VISEO MDT231WG and 23-inch full-HD monitor. This is a ‘high-end’ monitor because it’s a 120Hz IPS panel with LED back-lighting, utilizing Mitsubishi MPIII and GIGA Clear II image engines. Mitsubishi says it’ll be able to fulfill all your video needs such as video games, movies and basic computer usages. Being a HD monitor, it has an integrated 2×3 Watts speaker and a 5 Watts sub-woofer, which is very rare for a monitor. Though, I still don’t really like integrated audio systems in a monitor as they tend to sound rather awful compared to budget standalone systems. Anyway, both Mitsubishi MPIII and GIGA Clear II image engines deliver better colors, sharper details and more contrast. What’s more, the Mitsubishi MDT231WG also has a 178-degree view angle, a 5.5ms response time, a 350cd/m2 brightness, a 5000:1 contrast ratio, two HDMI ports, a D5 Japanese digital port, an S-Video, Component, D-SUB, DVI-D, analog audio in/out and an optical port.

via Akihabaranews