Category: Vehicles
c,mm,n open source car
At the AutoRAI car show in Amsterdam, the c,mm,n (pronounced "common") car was introduced. It is being touted as the first open source car. All the vehicle's technical drawings and blueprints are available online and everyone is free to…
TAM Rocket Belt
I've been asking "Where's my jetpack?" for some time now – and, it's finally here. The TAM Rocket Belt is a complete rocket pack system which is custom fitted to the exact specifications of the pilot. It can lift…
TALKing BMW (in German)
At CeBIT, BMW unveiled a car using technology from the TALK project, which, for example, will respond to your instruction to put on particular music (or tell you what music is already on). TALK is from Saarland University and…
MiniC.A.T Air Car runs on compressed air
Step over, hydrogen, there's a new chemical superpower in town: compressed air. The MiniC.A.T Air Car runs on a combination of compressed air and fuel (such as gasoline, gas oil, bio diesel, gas, liquidized gas, ecological fuel, alcohol, etc),…
Toyota Hybrid X Concept hits the showroom
The latest green concept car from Toyota is the Hybrid X, sporting curvy lines that reminded one commenter of Back to the Future. The seats are created with injected foam instead of the usual rubber, providing more comfort and…
SameLane makes road rage and/or stalking easy!
Basically, you can call up SameLane from your mobile, punch in the license plate number of someone else, and get their mobile number, as to "commiserate, share a joke, talk football or basketball or even politics, maybe flirt, whatever"….
Renault's Grass Mat protects your technovaluables
Every time I get in the car, I take along my iPod and mobile and a bunch of other gadgets. And then when the car stops suddenly, they all dash from the back seat into the front with me….
FlashFog puts smoke on your (car) mirrors
Instead of a car alarm which we, frankly, all know is useless – they go off so dratted easily that everybody just mentally tunes them out – FlashFog actually temporarily disables your car, by releasing a big dose of…
Car Seat Knows If You're Sleepy
After studying the driving habits of 100 test subjects, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Oita University, the Shimane Institute of Health Science, and Delta Tooling, developed a car seat which can tell if you're about to have an…
Parrot and Intel to launch wireless interface for UMPC and in-car audio systems
Bluetooth specialists Parrot has teamed up with Intel to develop type of in-car entertainment system, hooking up a UMPC to the car's entertainment system. The system will use a Bluetooth Gateway hidden behind the dashboard of the vehicle, allowing the…