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Tesla code hints Model 3 might get 100kWh battery and Ludicrous Mode
Tesla's Model 3 might get features normally reserved for its larger, more expensive siblings. Code sleuth Green has discovered references in Tesla's software to a number of potential improvements to the 'entry' EV, most notably a 100kWh battery. It's hard to say if this would deliver the range and acceleration of the Model S, but you'd certainly get closer. Accordingly, Green also found code suggesting Ludicrous Mode might reach the Model 3 to provide extra-quick launches.
Tesla's Model 3 will be sold with a Ludicrous Mode option
The Model 3 might be Tesla's most affordable electric car, but that doesn't mean it's going to be slow off the starting line. Tesla founder Elon Musk has confirmed that the new vehicle will be available with a Ludicrous Mode option, vastly improving its acceleration. The exact change in performance? For now that's still a mystery, but as means of comparison the standard Model 3 can go from zero to 60MPH in "under six seconds." Anything faster and it'll be competitive with the base-level Model S.
Tesla Model S Ludicrous Mode: Brits react
#fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-933929{display:none;} .cke_show_borders #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-933929, #postcontentcontainer #fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-933929{width:100%;display:block;} try{document.getElementById("fivemin-widget-blogsmith-image-933929").style.display="none";}catch(e){} If you put down big money for a Tesla Model S, one of the features you'll never get bored of is Ludicrous Mode. All it requires is a single press on the car's 17-inch touchscreen and the car gains the ability to go from a standing start to 60MPH in just 2.8 seconds. You can't be told how fast that is -- you need to experience it for yourself. That's exactly what 15 Brits did one April evening, when I took the Tesla's fully electric car onto some unrestricted roads and recorded their reactions.
Gresso's Las Vegas Jackpot phone costs a million dollars, seriously
When you make it your business to deliver outlandish new looks for mobile telephony, it can sometimes be a challenge to just outdo your last effort. So Gresso's decided the only way forward is to collect all the fine materials it had lying around -- black diamonds, pure gold, diamond-cut sapphire crystals, and 200-year old African Blackwood -- sprinkle them atop an otherwise nondescript featurephone, and slap on the spectacular price tag of $1,000,000. Only three Jackpots are being made, while there'll be a Las Vegas handset without the black diamonds and sapphires for the more mundanely rich among us, priced at $20,000. Oh Gresso, just one tip: next time, try to align your earpiece to your fancy designs, we hear wealthy folks appreciate some attention to detail.
TweakTown slathers four Radeon HD 5870s in liquid nitrogen, crushes some benchmarks (video)
The PC hardware community recently discovered that quad-SLI was a huge waste of cash, so when we heard that TweakTown were stringing together four Radeon HD 5870s in a similar CrossFireX configuration, we figured they were about to throw away their time, too. Boy, were we wrong, because the hardware site never intended to seriously benchmark the rig as a viable gaming PC -- their intent was to make our jaws drop, and right now they're somewhere around our ankles. The contraption brought 3DMark03 to its knees with a soul-shattering score of 200,000 and achieved average framerates approaching a ludicrous four digits in Devil May Cry 4. How? Liquid nitrogen, of course. By attaching LN2-filled copper pots to each of the four already-powerful graphics cards and physically tacking on extra capacitors to direct the voltage, they bumped the Core i7-980X CPU clock to 5.8GHz and each GPU to 1250MHz, in what we think you'll agree is a healthy jump from 3.06 3.33GHz and 850MHz, respectively. Watch them build the mean machine after the break, and remember kids, don't try this at home. Update: The Core i7-980X runs at 3.33GHz, or 3.6GHz in Turbo Mode, not 3.06GHz. Our bad!
New Halo-themed Ecko shirts rival everything for ugliest anything, ever
Ecko Unlimited has revealed a series of six extremely overpriced Halo-themed t-shirts, and boy are they ugly. To demonstrate, here is a list of things not as ugly as the shirts in the series: The Florida Recount Bill Nighy's "Davy Jones" in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End The Nazi at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark Sonic the Hedgehog's Metacritic average Tron Guy The ending of Halo 2 They aren't just ugly, they are a kind of genetically altered super-ugly and you should never buy them.[Thanks, Michael]
