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Naturmobil Car requires horsepower….literally

August 18th, 2009 by Ally in Automotive Gadgets, Conceptual Gadgets, Eco Gadgets

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I can’t decide if this horse powered car is moving forward with the times or taking them back to a time before cars.  Yes, you’re in a car and it has wheels, but it’s powered by a literal horse.   Which is not much better than planting yourself in a horsedrawn carriage.  Admittedly this is actually faster than a buggy would be though.  A buggy goes about 5-10 mph, whereas this car concept can go up to 28 mph.  Either way, you’re not exactly going to be flying down the highway.

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The Cooling Car Summer Seat

August 17th, 2009 by Ally in Automotive Gadgets

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There are a lot of cars that come with built-in heaters in the seats and even if your car doesn’t have that, you can always put something in your car to solve that problem.  One thing you don’t see a whole lot is something on the seat to keep you a little more cool.  Which during a long road trip or when you’re stuck in a traffic jam would be really nice.  There are times when the air conditioning just doesn’t cut it.  For those times, there is this seat cooler.

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PSA Shows that Texting while Driving can Kill a friendship

August 17th, 2009 by Mark R in Automotive Gadgets, Coolest Mobile News

signal-30When I took driver’s education in high school, the teacher showed this one film called Signal 30. This film was a no-holds barred look at car accidents, with all the blood-and-guts details. I’ve never been the type who slows down when passing a car accident, because I don’t want to see real-life gore.

Of course, we didn’t have texting and driving when I was in high school, which is the cause of many auto accidents. If we did, then I’m sure my driver’s education teacher would have insisted on showing the PSA video that you can view after the jump.

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Find your tools quickly with RFID tags

August 11th, 2009 by Mark R in Automotive Gadgets, Vehicle Gadgets

tool_linkIf you are in construction, TV reporting, or any other job that requires you to bring expensive tools to another location, then you know the frustration of leaving tools behind. On a somewhat related note, I left a camera behind at a wedding that I went to last week, and all I could think was: “oh, I should have done a quick inventory of my things before I just drove off”.

DeWalt is thinking the same thing when it created Tool Link, a way of keeping track of tools with RFID tags. The system comes with an RFID scanner with software for a truck’s dashboard computer, as well as two RFID antennas for a truck’s bed.

It also comes with 50 RFID tags that can be attached to any tool. So when you leave the job, you can check the computer and see if any tools were left behind, and track down the ones that are missing.

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Halcyon Concept Car: I’ve seen the future, and it’s shaped like this

August 4th, 2009 by Mark R in Automotive Gadgets, Conceptual Gadgets, Eco Gadgets

halycon-concept_pezqg_5965Picture the first cars that were ever assembled, such as the Model T and what not. They look very different than the cars than the cars of today, right? I suppose that automobile design has a certain (for lack of a better word) evolution to it.

So let’s hit the fast forward button to see what the shape of cars will be in the future. I’m not certain what you were thinking, but I never would have come up with this. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that designer Ralph Tayler-Webb’s Halcyon car is ugly, I’m just saying that I wouldn’t have gone with such an indescribable, almost amorphous, shape.

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F1Showcar Motion Simulator uses Real Race Car

August 3rd, 2009 by Mark R in Automotive Gadgets, Gaming Gadgets

f1showcarI had a chance to try out the SimCraft Racing simulator at CES, and I thought that it was a trip. However, just picture how cool it would have been if I had been sitting in a Formula 1 car!

I mean, if you can’t afford to drive a real car on a track, then maybe you can have the car! Okay, I’ll admit that was pretty sarcastic, but at least the car has real tires, racing seat and harness, steering wheel, and pedal system.

The car is mounted on a pneumatically powered motion platform that is similar to the ones used in Flight Simulator training. It has a nineteen inch monitor for viewing the road, which sort of pales in comparison with Simcraft’s wrap-around triple display.

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The CradleVue holds your laptop in the car

July 27th, 2009 by Ally in Automotive Gadgets

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By now just about every single mini van has a small portable DVD player.  The ones that don’t are getting fewer and fewer.  Except there are still several holding out, because it just seems like a ridiculous expense to some of us.  After all, most households own at least one laptop, so why spend the money for something that is only useful within your car?  The down side with the laptop is that it’s difficult to set it up in a vehicle at an angle that makes everyone happy.  Well with this CradleVue, it would hold your laptop up high and you won’t have to spend money on a portable DVD player.

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Jay Leno proves real world applications for 3D printer

July 22nd, 2009 by James in Automotive Gadgets, PC Gadgets, Tech News
Jay Leno uses 3D gadgets to replace obsolete parts in his car collection.

Jay Leno uses 3D gadgets to replace obsolete parts in his car collection.

Jay Leno is more than just a former host of the tonight show, or even a stand up comic. Jay is a car nut, and his has quite an impressive collection of automobiles from sports cars to trucks, to even tank like vehicles which are hybrids. But Jay also has some very old original automobiles with engines that have no replacement parts. And when one recently went down for good, it looked as if one of his cars would never run again. Then he got the idea to use a computer and 3D printer to make his own replacement parts. And it worked.

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