Their new Larson Scanner Kit—which requires soldering—only costs $13, and it is a lot more energy efficient that the original, released three years ago. That means that the battery and your nightmares will also last a lot longer. [Larson Scanner Kit via Evil Mad Scientist]

UPDATE: Yes, it's fake.

Turns out it's made up out of 480 distinct LEDs, arranged in three rows of 80 in each row, then divided up into two sides. The idea, similar to the original, was to make the lights look like a heartbeat. We call unrealistic to this, because if they really were going to model the car's heartbeat on Val Kilmer, the new voice of KITT, it would be flashing about 180 times a minute based on how much weight Ice Man's gained in the past five years. [Muscle Car Blog via Jaloppers]

You look at the iPhone and you go—thats the coolest phone out there. It's just a flat screen that you can touch and access anything. So the iPhone interface was actually a big inspiration for the way the interior of this car would look because its very simple, it's very streamlined, it's very clean.

Looks like Bartis is right: aluminum on leather, check. Touchscreen, check. Glossy surfaces, check. Simplicity, check. Almost no knobs, except the new driver, who makes the Hoff looks like Olivier, Marlon Brando, Pacino and DeNiro combined, check. Voice spectrometer that look like an iTunes's visualizer? Check. Apple Bluetooth keyboard? Not checked, but looks like it. What do you think? Is it really iPhone-inspired?

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[Net Car Show, Knight Rider Online, Shadow Flight and io9]

I don't know what is more scary. The case or listening to KITT presenting itself again.

Told you. [product via coolestgadgets]

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[Variety]

And if you're more into the Knight Rider scene, there's also a watch that has a lot of the same functionality. Be prepared to plunk down $285 for the KITT kit and another $50 for the watch, but who can put a price on being Michael Knight? Now all that's left is for Tom Tom to get William Daniels to do some GPS voices. – Jason Chen

Product Page [SamitoElectronics via Red Ferret]

Koenigsegg CCX as KITT [Jalopnik]

If, as a young impressionable child, you always wanted to grow up to be just like Michael Knight, only to find years later that fate had dealt you a cruel hand and you were unable to croon in German or grow luxurious chest hair, perhaps you will find some solace in the fact that while you may never be half the man the Hoff was in the 80s, you can totally still have his car.

All you've got to do is purchase a car from Pontiac's third generation series of Firebirds, track down every single part in the Knight Replicas catalog and then follow their conversion guide. No sweat, right? Not for a cool cat like you. Hell, play your cards right and maybe you'll have your sweet, sweet ride ready in time for the 2006 Knight Nationals & Convention in Dayton this August. Don't forget to send us a postcard from Ohio!

Guide to KITT and KARR [Knight Replicas, thanks Scott!]

Alcatel's new OT-C850 Music Phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 65K color 176 220 screen, plays MP3s (256 MB of memory onboard, plus a MicroSD slot) and EDGE, blah blah blah. Let's be honest now: the most interesting thing about this phone that it looks like it was designed by Knight Industries.

Would you use this phone? Should you buy it? Before you come to a decision, first ask yourself: WWDHD?

Alcatel mobile music phone, looks like a space invader [MobileMentalism.com]