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Doodle Track: Race Along the Black Line

Here’s a high-tech tweak to one of the most popular kids’ toys. With the Doodle Track car, you don’t need to assemble or create race tracks. Just plot and create your own course using a plain black marker.

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Soundracer V12 Makes Your Putt-Mobile Sound Like a Ferrari

Is your car a beater? Do you drive one of those stupid little Smart cars? I bet you wish you had a V12 engine under the hood, don’t you. Well with this fun little contraption, you can’t have that, but you can at least make your car sound like a sports car.

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Auto Finder Helps Track Down Your Parked Car

Do you, or someone you know have a bad habit of losing their car? If you’ve always lived in a small town, you probably haven’t run into the problem of losing your car in a parking space very often.

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Corvette Zr1 Pc Casemod Can Actually Drive

By starting with a 1/6th scale remote-controlled Chevy Corvette ZR1 as the basis for his casemod project, modder Bill Owen managed to create a complete desktop PC on wheels. Under the hood of his “Project blur” Vette ZR1 is a Jetway NC64 Mobile ITX motherboard, housing a Quad Core Q9000 mobile CPU.

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Haloipt Shows Off Tech That Can Charge Electric Cars Without Wires

I am forgetful when it comes to car maintenance. If my car didn’t ding to tell me when I had 50 miles of driving range left on a tank of gas, I would know the roadside assistance dude by name.

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The Borg have Assimilated This Car

I only have one question: why would the Borg bother to assimilate an old car? Does it have some hive-mind abilities that we don’t know about? I don’t know and I don’t think it matters, but Craig Smith has definitely modified his car in an unusual fashion.

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Power Tool Mini Dragster Gets Motivated by Six Circular Saws

You know all is right with the world when geeks have a competition specifically for DIY dragsters that are powered by power tools. Tim Allen must be so proud. The annual competition in the UK is called the Power Tool Drag Racing Championships.

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Chevy Camaro Computer’S Atom Chip Not as Fast as a V8

I have to say that I’m actually a big fan of the recent trend of automakers bringing back the classic muscle cars of my childhood. One of the better looking retro-modern muscle cars is the Chevy Camaro that played a major role in Transformers.

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Vogel Mount Sticks Your iPad Safely to All Sorts of Surfaces

Mounting solutions that hang the iPad for a wall or stand it up on a tabletop are getting to be some of the more common accessories for the tablet. They are popular because people want to be able to view content and read while they are standing or sitting without having to hold the iPad in their hands.

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Epic Call of Duty Black Ops Prestige Edition Includes Working Surveillance Car

I have to be honest with you; I usually look at the people who buy the expensive collector’s edition video games with some amusement. I mean these people pay a lot more for the collector’s edition game to get goofy things like a tin box for the game or DLC clothes and such.

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My First Autobahn Tape Turns Any Surface Into a Race Track

Sure, you could go out and get one of those schmancy Hot Wheels sets and build a race track for toy cars, or you could buy this inexpensive kit that lets you turn just about anything into a track.

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Flash Rods Cram Storage Into Toy Cars

My son has no interest in anything resembling technology at this point in his life unless it has to do with video games or watching Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons on Hulu. He does like Hot Wheels cars though and has collected them since he was really young.

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A Smart Car Can Indeed Get Uglier

Those of you who are really into green stuff may hate me for saying this, but the Smart Car is one of the ugliest vehicles on the road. I mean if I had to choose between the Smart Car and an AMC Pacer, it would be hard to decide.

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Can You Ever have Too Many Gps Units? Yes, You Most Certainly Can.

Crossroads is an interactive art installation that pokes fun at the whole idea of us blindly following directions given by our GPS navigation units. Artist Garvin Nolte mounted 25 GPS nav gadgets on his windshield and dashboard, then let them all give him directions to the same place at the same time.

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LEGO Technic Bugatti Veyron Can Actually Drive, has Real Working Transmission

Although there aren’t many people who can afford the world’s most expensive car, the Bugatti Veyron, there are probably quite a few people who can buy a few LEGO Technic kits in order to build a smaller Veyron – assuming they had the LEGO-building skills.

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3rd Person Driving in Real Life: a Panoramic View of Failure

A lot of gamers – myself included – prefer to use the third-person point of view when driving vehicles in video games. I just find it easier to steer if I can see how far my vehicle is from a turn; in first-person I always end up steering too late.

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Doodle Track: Race Along the Black Line

Soundracer V12 Makes Your Putt-Mobile Sound Like a Ferrari

Auto Finder Helps Track Down Your Parked Car

Corvette Zr1 Pc Casemod Can Actually Drive

Haloipt Shows Off Tech That Can Charge Electric Cars Without Wires

The Borg have Assimilated This Car

Power Tool Mini Dragster Gets Motivated by Six Circular Saws

Chevy Camaro Computer’S Atom Chip Not as Fast as a V8

Vogel Mount Sticks Your iPad Safely to All Sorts of Surfaces

Epic Call of Duty Black Ops Prestige Edition Includes Working Surveillance Car

My First Autobahn Tape Turns Any Surface Into a Race Track

Flash Rods Cram Storage Into Toy Cars

A Smart Car Can Indeed Get Uglier

Can You Ever have Too Many Gps Units? Yes, You Most Certainly Can.

LEGO Technic Bugatti Veyron Can Actually Drive, has Real Working Transmission

3rd Person Driving in Real Life: a Panoramic View of Failure

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