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3D movies and TV shows are really starting to gain momentum now, although viewing them on your phone is yet to become a practical reality. At present, only two phones have been announced with support for stereoscopic 3D – the LG Optimus 3D and the HTC Evo 3D. Stepping in to give other handsets a shot at three-dimensional glory is theTOYin3D. This product from Spanish firm Estado Latente is essentially a small box with a pair of eyeholes in one side....

It’s perhaps not the most likely of companies to go into the social networking game, but Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has announced it’s launching a social networking service of its very own. Asreportedtoday, Toyota is teaming up with San Francisco-based Salesforce.com to launch ‘Toyota Friend’, a Twitter-esque private social network for Toyota drivers. It will be offered first on Toyota’s Electric Vehicles (EV) and plug-in hybrid cars (PHV), due in 2012....

Toyota, one of the world’s largest car manufacturers, has taken to alternative iOS app-store and software repository Cydia to run a series of adverts and offer a sponsored theme, becoming one of the first major corporations to target members of the jailbreak scene. The move was spurred by the Federal Government’s decision to make jailbreaking legal, allowing millions of iPhone and iPad owners to remove restrictions placed on their device but also giving companies a dedicated route by which they could start to engage with the jailbreak community....

The 2021 Toyota Mirai has officially set theGuinness World Records titlefor the longest distance by ahydrogen fuel cell electric vehiclewithout refueling. The Mirai achieved an unprecedented 1360 km (845 miles) driven on a single, five-minute complete fill of hydrogen during a roundtrip tour of Southern California as it set the record. With its only emission water, the journey sets a new distance milestone for zero-emission vehicles. By the end of the trip, the Toyota Mirai consumed 5....

On stage at theAuto Shanghai expo this week, Toyota affirmed plans for the future of its electric vehicles, and it’s going in hard! Motoring pressis this morningreportingthat Toyota has confirmed it will make 70 electrified vehicles by 2025, including 15 BEVs. Seven of these BEVs will be on the company’s newbZ platform. Most notably, Toyota confirmed that it is going to bring hybrid and battery electric drivetrains to its trucks....