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What can a million dollars($1,000,000) get you? Well so many things. You could get a house, invest in a start-up... or buy a diamond-encrusted wristwatch if you are anything like world boxing champ Floyd Mayweather. Or you could decide to pay more for a premium driving experience on the 2015 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG--A very  rugged high performance off-roader.

As you may know 2016 will be the year Virtual Reality will go mainstream. All the players in this emerging field are doing everything they can in order to make we love every bit of what virtual reality has to offer. Oculus,HTC,Sony and other lesser known players are expected to release their own VR headsets next year.

I know it won't be long before self-driving cars become the norm on our roads and reduce the number of road accidents, and take the disabled, aged, little children etc. to their destination.And regular vehicles become extinct, literally. But right now I would like to ask you what it feels like to buy your dream car. What does it feel like when you stepped into the car of your dreams for the first time?Knowing fully well you purchased it from your hard-earned money. Share your thoughts in the comments.

This is interesting. If you reside in the Netherlands or Holland, and you are thinking of going for a driving lesson..hear this: Your driving instructor could choose to be paid in sex after a job well-done.And it is No crime at all..in fact it's legal! So you can keep your money if choose to go Dutch!

The Dutch have been put in a bit of a spot over a controversial new law wherein ministers in the government have considered it legal for driving instructors in the country to offer lessons in return for sex.

After such a long wait for it, at last, Christmas is here again. While many have called it the most wonderful time of the year, others call it the most stressful time of the year. Whereas, there is a third group that are of the opinion that it is a bit of both.

I have over the years moved across the three divides. Growing up, I was responsible for few things so I had all the time to enjoy Christmas and my opinion was that Christmas is such a great season. As a grown up now, with the influx of responsibilities and the dynamics of Lagos traffic situation, I soon convinced myself that to say Christmas is a great season is the farthest thing from the truth. Over the years however, I have through constant exploration and ingenuity discover options that helps me strike a balance.

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The Tesla Model S. It is far more practical than the R8, being a 4 door car and all. Overall, it's a largish hatchback coupe that is sleek and very elegant. Performance wise, it is respectable. Garnering 416 horsepower, it can accelerate faster than most cars at this size and price. 0-60 in 5.1 is not bad at all, especially with an electric motor.

Every day the self-driving car gets closer to becoming a reality of our roads. What must have appeared as science fiction 60 years ago is very much becoming science fact today. While we've all heard of the Google Car and various semi-autonomous features being integrated in designs of cars such as the Model S Tesla, the history of the self-driving car actually goes back a lot further than that. It's actually been a long and slow journey from the radio controlled vehicles of the early twentieth century to the dawn of the self-driving car today.

Turn your smartphone into a microscope!* Purchase the shortest focal length lens you can find. I used Thorlabs-LA1116 with adaptor Thorlabs-LMRA6, gluing the two together with clear nail polish (but any other adhesive will work).

We could spend all day counting all of the things that make Android a great platform, but for real smartphone enthusiasts, the operating system’s tweakability is surely somewhere near the top of the list. If there’s functionality you’re looking for that your Android smartphone doesn’t have out of the box, the odds are pretty good that an app or a tweak is waiting to solve your problem.

Google completely self-driving car prototype

Well, I am not surprise at all. In fact I saw it coming. Apple already made it known that it would release its own electric vehicle in 2019.You don't expect Samsung, who always competes with Apple, to fold its hands and do nothing while its archival gets all the attention.

Samsung has announced it will soon begin producing components for autonomous cars. Rather than developing entire cars itself, like Google, Apple and Tesla, Samsung will create parts such as displays and batteries for carmakers to use.

The smartphone is one of the greatest innovations of our lifetime. It is also one of the biggest sources of mindless distraction to afflict us. For the first time in human history, access to all of the information created and accumulated by humanity is available to anyone, instantly, in the palm of their hand. With voice assistant apps like Google Now and Siri, we don’t even have to press buttons or type anymore. We can contact anyone in the world instantly. It is understandable that this kind of power can be very addictive. There is a lot of great, useful information out there. There is also a lot of things that are totally mindless at best and actively destructive to our intelligence at worst.

Sony's PlayStation 2 (PS2) sold some 155 million units over the course of its 12-year lifetime but its title of best-selling console ever could be under threat from the PlayStation 4 (PS4), which has already become the world's fastest-selling console.

Before Wireless we used... wires!

 There were several wired technologies used for decades of network. Some are still in use and they are still evolving. The most common is Ethernet over twisted pair copper wires. By the time of Wi-Fi debut, 10Mbps over Cat3 cables and 100Mbps ("fast ethernet") over Cat5 cables, with RJ-45 or 8C8P Modular connector, using either hubs or switches were of common use. Speed up to 10Gbps are available today and 40Gbps is under development.

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You rarely see litter, cigarette buts or dog mess in the streets of Japan. Having lived in both the UK and Japan I can say that Japan is by far the cleanest country of the two. Indeed, when smokers stand outside offices here in Tokyo, they do with their own portable mini-ashtrays. What's that got to do with cars, you may ask? Well, who would you rather have designing your car ABS system? I'd rather have the engineer who is obsessive about cleanliness and doesn't tolerate faults.

I have good news for you all. Ever since we posted the pricing for Apple's new iPhone models--the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus-we have been receiving a lot of emails and comments as to where to buy the iPhone 6S in Nigeria. We told you at the time that we would update you as soon as they are made available in Nigeria.

Gaining your driving license is a big moment in anyone’s life, and something most teenagers cannot wait to do. But, before you jump in a car or try and book that first test there is much you should consider. You need to look at the cost of lessons and of taking a test.

US automaker Tesla Motors has just revealed the price of its Model X all-electric Sport Utility vehicle. The Californian-based automaker says its new Model X SUV, which was unveiled back in September, will cost as much as $80,000. Well that's for the cheapest model, the 70D.

You have seen the interior of Mercedes-Benz F 105 Luxury in Motion concept and its Vision  Tokyo concept. You have even seen the inside of Nissan's Intelligent Driving system(IDS) concept. However, I don't think you have seen the interior concept of Volvo's self-driving car. Check it out in the GIF below! It will blow your mind.The Interior is what anyone would want in their personal self-driving car.

Reports have it that Apple Inc will release a new, less expensive smartphone known as the iPhone 6C in the second half of 2016. A large number of sources quoted IHC Technology Research director Kevin Wang as saying on his Weibo account that the Cupertino, Calif-based technology juggernaut will launch a 4-inch iPhone 6C handset that will be powered by an A9 chip in the middle of next year.