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GM Demos Touchscreen Windows for Interactive Road Trips
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When it comes to road trips, any parent can tell you a few hours spent in a car with a couple kids can feel like days. Kids get bored and cranky after a while, leading to cranky parents. Now, GM is showing a cool concept that takes the windows of… |
January 18th, 2012
Gasoline Fuel Cell Breakthrough May Lead to More Efficient Volt-like Cars
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The only car on the market today that uses batteries and a gasoline-powered generator to recharge those batteries while the car moves is the GM Volt. While the Volt is a highly-efficient vehicle when on battery power alone, its not any more efficient than the average car when the gas… |
December 3rd, 2011
Millennium McQueen Made the Piston Cup in 12 Parsecs
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Like most geeks I have a fond spot for Star Wars. Anything to do with the movie I tend to like pretty well. I also happen to like LEGO bricks and I really dig Pixar’s Cars… flicks too. This one project mashes all those likes up into one spaceship that |
November 24th, 2011
The “World’s Safest Electric Vehicle” Has Air Bags on the Outside
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Parents and teachers have taught us at a young age not to “judge a book by its cover” because sometimes, it’s what’s on the inside that counts – and this doesn’t just apply to people or actual books, either. But it’s pretty hard not to judge this one based on… |
October 29th, 2011
Lazer Stunt Chaser: A Pet You Can Wreck
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Stop trying to make your cat – or dog, iguana, little brother etc. – follow your laser pointer; he’ll never be as awesome or as funny as the other pets on YouTube. Save yourself the effort and get yourself a Lazer Stunt Chaser. Its remote control projects a light that… |
October 24th, 2011
Disney Cars ‘Appmates’ Toys Will Work With Your iPad, Vroom Vroom
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Our iPads do everything these days and now kids will have an extra reason to own one for themselves or use yours. Disney is combining their physical toys with the iPad.… |
September 27th, 2011
Star Wars-themed Lamborghini Murcielago Goes From Here to Far, Far Away in 12 Parsecs
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Okay maybe it’s not that fast, but I dare you to show me geeky car that can go faster than this bad boy. Shane, I see your H-Wing Honda and raise you a Lamborghini Murcielago. The Star Wars-themed vinyl wrap was done by SS Customs for Team Golden Empire. The… |
July 15th, 2011
Car DVR Uses Motion Detection to Catch Your Drive on Film
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Car wrecks aren’t much fun, unless you’re watching them on TV. After the collision is over and you’ve made sure that everyone is alright, there’s something else that goes through your head. Whose fault was it? Sure, you probably have a pretty clear-cut idea of who was at fault, but… |
January 28th, 2011
Twitter-Controlled Car: Turns Out You Can Drive in 140 Characters or Less
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Mercedes Benz engineers are developing a system to control cars via Twitter, and they seem to have nailed it. I must admit when I first saw this video I immediately thought it was fake. First of all, the prototype car was an undoubtedly expensive Mercedes Benz CL 550; you’d think… |
January 24th, 2011
Famicom Toyota Scion: 8-bit Heir
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The boxy, toy-like car you see below is the work of Giant Robot magazine publisher Eric Nakamura and Len Higa of Onimotorworks. Nakamura was asked by Toyota to come up with a design for a custom Scion, and he decided to go with a video game theme. Nakamura says he… |
January 7th, 2011
