It’s a terrible dilemma. You’ve got two cars, but only room for one. At last, people have come up with a solution to resolve this extraordinary problem.

With a PhantomPark Lift you can have one garage store two cars. It’s pretty much an elevator for your car; you can store on underground and one above, and then switch the two around.
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Spring, summer, and autumn are great times to to exercise, and there’s nothing quite like the feeling of having the cool wind blow through your face as you tackle a downhill slope on your mountain bike. Have you ever wondered how will you keep to your fitness regime when winter falls? It would be just too chilly to bring the bike out for a spin, and not to mention the fact that is just too much snow on the ground to cycle on. Enter the i-Magic Virtual Reality Trainer from Tacx. This unique exercise machine comes with virtual reality programs that enable you to cycle virtually anywhere in the world from the comfort of your own home.

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Are you a klutz when it comes to reversing? Do you hate parallel parking as you can’t quite seem to get the angle correct, much less getting out of a tight spot that more often than not lands you in hot soup as you gently kiss either bumper on the front and back? Perhaps it is high time you install a reverse parking sensor in your jalopy lest you keep on leaving scrapes and nicks on other people’s vehicles. The AutoAlert is one such device that will greatly boost your confidence when it comes to parallel parking, and you don’t have to ask your partner to alight and manually show you via hand signals how close you are to the pillar.

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The Locate 1 GPS tracker enabled you to track anything that moved, but it required a monthly fee and a pricey unit. If you want to make yourself even sneakier, while still being your cheap old self, check out the CarChip.

CarChip uses the OBDII protocol, which started coming with cars in the US starting in 1996. That protocol allows the CarChip to track all sorts of things about you cars actions, be it the speed, mileage, or even how hard you brake.
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This is probably the best iPod gadget for your car, the 4-in-1 iPod car kit.

The iPod Car Kit includes a cradle to hold the ipod, a charger that’s powered off you cars cigarette lighter, an FM Transmitter so that you can listen to your iPod over the car stereo and a remote control so even rear seat passengers can skip tunes (though if you have kids that class the Crazy Frog as music you may not want to tell them about the remote :))

You can get the 4-in-1 iPod Car kit for $28 from Brando, which is a bit of a bargain IMO.

I don’t condone jumping red lights or speeding (well excessive speeding) but getting flashed and fined sucks so this product could be the answer, Phantom Plate, makes your number plate invisible to speed camera but clearly visible to the human eye and it’s totally legal amazingly enough :).

Perhaps there should be a German version of the popular MTV show Pimp My Ride. German car customizer Mattes Interieurtechnik built a Mercedes CLS with an integrated backseat iMac. Mattes even carefully covered the outer edge of the iMac in leather to help it blend in with the cream colored interior.

Where are the cables? Mattes didn’t want any wires to clutter up his masterpiece, so he made sure to get a wireless mouse and Bluetooth keyboard. I wonder if he integrated the iMac into the speaker system so his passengers can be backseat DJs.

You can check out some more pictures here.

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This Carbon Chassis Velocipede is suppose to be the first vehicle powered by human force that uses that specific material on the monocoque chassis, I don’t know why but companies/products that claim to be the “first” or “world’s smallest” (you get the idea…) always freak me out. Anyway, the material used on this vehicle is the same which is used in Formula 1 cars, that gives you an idea of their intention which is to make it light and “speedish”.

As you can see by the image it as 3 wheels and I suppose only one person can fit in the tiny space, it’s very light only weighting 60 lbs (27kg) and has 20-inch forward wheels to make the high speed turns task easier. The seat is in a “laying down” position that offers comfort and the possibility of a better performance. To give it a real car feeling, it even has some of the real car details such as headlight, tail light and turn signals – these are all rechargeable.
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