Update: 10th March 2010

It turns out that the coffee powered car hasn’t yet made the trip from London to Manchester, this is happening tomorrow, and the car actually runs on used coffee grounds, so I guess it wouldn’t be all that expensive to run after all.

The Car-puccino is a car that runs entirely on coffee, it was built by the team from the BBC science program ‘Bang Goes The Theory‘, using an old Volkswagen Scirocco from 1988, which was bought for £400.

The car runs completely on coffee granules, the granules are out into a gas cylinder and then heated to 700c in a charcoal fire which makes the coffee break down into hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

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Last week we told you that there was a possibility that Valve would bring their popular Steam gaming platform to Apple Macs. Good news for all the Mac users out there as Valve has officially confirmed that its Steam gaming platform will be available for Macs from April 2010.

Some of the games that will be available on the Steam for Mac platform at launch will include the popular, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series.

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Yesterday we told you that the new Motorola Backflip Android Smartphone had gone on sale at US mobile phone provider AT&T. It turns out that the version of Google Android installed on the Motorola Backflip isn’t the same as other versions available on Android Smartphones.

One thing is missing, the ability to install unofficial applications from the Android Market has been turned off by AT&T, which is quite surprising considering the whole point of Google Android is that the platform is designed to be completely open.

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HP has released two videos featuring their new HP Slate tablet, which take a bit of a stab at the recent Apple iPad advert that was shown during the 2010 Oscars.

The first video looks very similar to Apple’s iPad advert, the video features just a screen and a pair of hands using the tablet, and as you will see from the video the Apple iPad and HP Slate look like very similar devices.

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Some of our readers will remember the Monochron Pong Clock that we featured on Geeky Gadgets last week. Well it seems there is now an ever cooler version of this clock thanks to Dataman who modded the original clock into this cool Space Invaders clock.

Dataman changed the firmware on the original clock, and created this awesome Space Invaders clock.

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This contest is now closed.

The winner will be announced on Monday 15th March 2010

It is time for this weeks Geeky Gadgets giveaway, as usual we have a great prize for you guys a 24 inch LG W2486L LED Gaming monitor (which we reviewed recently), courtesy of the kind people over at LG.

The guys at LG agreed to let us give this monitor away as a prize, on the basis that we made a small donation to charity, so Geeky Gadgets has donated $100 to the Unicef Chile Earthquake Appeal.

As usual the contest is completely free to enter and open to readers from anywhere in the world, just follow the instructions below to enter.

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Sony has launched a new range of PC headsets which are designed to have a dual function for chatting over VoIP and for PC gaming. There are three models in the range, the Sony DR-350USB, DR-320DPV And DR-31DPV.

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We have seen a number of different iPhone stands here at Geeky Gadgets, like our own homemade recycled CD iPhone stand, the latest one is probably the most creative iPhone stand we have seen yet, the Spoon And Fork iPhone Stand.

As you can see from the photos, the Spoon And Fork iPhone Stand looks like it was made by Uri Geller, it was actually made by Etsy seller ForkedUpArt, who is selling them over at Etsy for $30 each.

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A number of people who have ordered Intel Core i7-920 processors from New Egg, have actually received fake ones. The guys over at HardOCP are reporting  that New Egg have been shipping counterfeit Intel processors to a number of their customers.

According to HardOCP around 300 of these fake processors were purchased by New Egg in a shipment of around 2,000 from a company called D&H Distributing.

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Google [Goog] has announced that they will be launching a business version of their Chrome OS. Google software security engineer, Will Drewry announced at this week RSA conference that there is more than one version of Google’s Chrome OS headed our way.

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Pixel QI have designed a new range of LCD screens that use a lot less power than existing LCD displays, it also offers the ability to read the screen in  direct sunlight unlike traditional LCD displays which are hard to read.

These new LCD displays have a number of interesting features, including a reflective mode which switches off the screen backlight and changes the colors to gray scale, giving it a look similar to e-ink displays.

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Porsche has shown off a new concept for a mid engined hybrid sports car which features a 500hp V8 petrol engine, which is paired with two electric engines, the Porsche 918 Spyder.

The two electric engines produce an additional 218hp, which means that it can reach 0-60 mph in just 3.2 seconds and has a top end speed of 198 mph.

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