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World’s Ugliest Car Gets Unsurprisingly High Gas Mileage

Note to automakers: cars of the future are meant to be fierce. Sure, they may get the equivalent of 100mpg through electric efficiency, but they’d better look like they can decapitate onlookers during the morning commute. This new solar vehicle (that’s still missing a sexy name) may be by the makers of champion solar race…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Dec 31

FuelPod2 Brings the BioDiesel Processing Plant to Your Driveway

I like the idea of Biodiesel because it means cheap, clean-burning fuel. Or in the case of FuelPod2, free, clean-burning fuel. The FuelPod2 takes any used cooking oil you may have, and converts it into usable Biodiesel, which runs in any standard diesel engine. The FuelPod can convert up to 50 litres (just over 13…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 3

Spotlight LED In-Car Torch Finds Fluff Down the Side of the Car Seat

The Spotlight, a tiny little flashlight that charges via your car’s cigarette lighter and allows you to find all the little bits of detritus and ting that manage to fall down the side of the car seat. It comes in a dozen different colors and was runner-up for Best New Interior Accessory prize at SEMA…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Dec 3

Death Race 2000 Remake Has No Balls

A remake of the 1975 cult classic that inspired Grand Theft Auto, Death Race 2000, is on the way next year. But this version has all the testosterone drained out. Gone are the point systems for running over pedestrians, gone is the entire revenge plot that had David Carradine after the President, and gone is…

io9 Kevin Kelly Nov 19

Black Eagle GPS Video Logs Car Crashes

When the Korea-only Black Eagle GPS detects a deceleration of 1.1G or more, it assumes you’ve plowed into a tree or car, and saves an 18-second video clip of the collision. (12 seconds before, pulled from a cache, and 6 seconds after.) It also has sensors for lane changes. I’m not sure I’d want this…

Gadgets Brian Lam Jul 18

Sanyo Easy Streetnav NVM-4070 GPS Nav Does Media Play in Traffic

Sanyo, not the first name you think of when you dream of GPS navigators, just came out with the NVM-4070, equipped with a 4-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, a SiRF Star III receiver, traffic, text-to-speech for reading off street names, 1.8 million points of interest, Video/Photo/MP3/WMA playback and an FM transmitter to get the nav and music…

Gadgets Brian Lam Jul 18

Bose Invades Your Car with Hard Drive-based Media System

Love them or hate them, Bose wants to be your car’s media control center with the just-announced Bose Media System. What’s particularly interesting about their system is the way it’s controlled—via the device’s two knobs (which have built-in proximity sensors). The two-knob set up lets you pick songs or cycle through the unit’s functions, which…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 8

Mobile Fragfest: Gamers Safely Cram Xbox Live into Their Ride?

You love late night trips to the drive-thru at In and Out. You love your Xbox 360 with all the peripherals. And you most certainly love your online 16-man sessions of Lost Planet. Why not safely unsafely combine these three for pure gamer euphoria? These guys over in Google’s hometown of Mountain View use the…

Tech News Alexander Yoon Feb 20

Harman Kardon Guide+Play GPS-500 Does Nav and HiFi

Harman Kardon has announced their GPS-500. This is a small GPS device that also has media functionality. This GPS unit includes a hi-fi music player (with FM transmitter), video player, 2GB of internal storage with optional SD expandability and support for MP3, MP4, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG. The 4-inch touchscreen and software doesn’t look…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jan 8

Pioneer Car Audio Collections

It’s a Pioneer Christmas for the car audio world today, as Pioneer has announced a boatload of new speakers, amplifiers and subwoofers. The TS-A line of speakers start at $65 and are optimized for compressed audio like MP3. In the amplifier realm, the new GM line (GM-3300 through GM-7300) are priced from $100 to $200…

Tech News Karson Thompson Jan 7

Pioneer’s Avic-Z2 and AVH-P5900DVD AV Navigate Into Cars, Acronym Hall Of Fame

Pioneer’s top-end in-car navigation system is the new Avic-Z2, coincidentally a revision of the previous model, the Avic-Z1. Enhanced map features detail major cities down to the road islands, remember your favorite destinations and account for speed limits and turns when planning your route. 3D images and brand-name logos populate the screen’s streets while the…

Tech News Karson Thompson Jan 7

Supreme Commander: Pioneer’s Single-CD Player Lines

For the consumers with tighter grips on their wallets, Pioneer has new lines of single-CD players to meet simpler needs. Starting at $100, the various lines mix and match a laundry list of features including: • XM/Sirius support on all models • Direct iPod control • USB connectivity (in case your “iPod” is a flash…

Tech News Karson Thompson Jan 7

Eclipse AVN2210 Car Stereo With Ejectable TomTom GPS

Eclipse makes clean, powerful car stereos. This one, the AVN2210, is a double DIN sized unit, with an LCD faceplate that is actually a removable GPS system. And get this: The GPS is powered by Tom Tom’s OS. Other perks: Bluetooth, USB port for iPod and thumbdrive docking. Then there’s the optional satellite radio, four…

Gadgets Brian Lam Jan 6

Cobra XRS R9G GPS Radar Detector: Fights the Man by Dodging Red Light Cams

Here’s a gadget for those who learned to drive by watching Mad Max. Cobra’s latest radar detector picks up on standard radar and laser guns used by The Man in speed enforcement. But it also has a GPS and a database of known speed traps and red light cameras. That’s good for slowing down before…

Tech News Brian Lam Jan 5

Garmin 580 GPS: Can Grab Movie Times, Weather, Traffic, and Gas Prices

When we spotted that Garmin Nuvi 680 a few weeks ago, with its MSNDirect data-over-FM service, we didn’t think it would be the only one to get bits of useful data from the airwaves. Here’s the car focused c580. https://gizmodo.com/garmin-nuvi-670-gps-with-msndirect-for-weather-traffic-217857 It does the head-of-its-class GPS navigation that all Garmins do. But like the 680, it…

Gadgets Brian Lam Jan 4

AutoNet Mobile Router: Net Enable Your Hoopty Ride in 2007

Autonet mobile, the company responsible for putting the Internet inside of Avis rentals is selling their WiFi car router to the public this spring. The routers plug into your ciggy adapter, and use what sounds like EV-DO via Virgin Mobile. Interesting. Speeds should hit 400 kbps to 1 mbps, as we reported before. But the…

Tech News Brian Lam Jan 4

Venturi Eclectic: Solar and Wind Powered Electric Car

Venturi, makers of beautiful electric vehicles like the Fetish and the Astrolab are coming out with an electric car that we can afford at $30k, and that will actually be for sale as soon as June 2007. It can be powered by either its photovoltaics, or the wind through a “force wheel”. Too bad it…

Gadgets Brian Lam Dec 21

CNet Editor Awards Lexus a Perfect 10; Apparently Hates the Sensation of Driving

CNet reviews cars, too. And here, Auto Editor Wayne Cunningham gives the Lexus 460L the publication’s only perfect 10 rating. Just one question for you, buddy: Do you hate driving? I don’t want to argue details. We are actually very fond of the self-parking sedan’s endless list of innovations and toys, too. But being a…

Gadgets Brian Lam Dec 12

Tesla Electric Roadster Gets Its First Speeding Ticket

We know the Tesla is fast. And so we also knew it was only a matter of time before the Electric supercar got its first speeding ticket. Zero to sixty in 4 seconds is somewhat impressive, but the fact that the car was doing it nearly silent, save the sound of the whirring tranny and…

Gadgets Brian Lam Dec 6

SEMA 2006: Scion xA Powered by PlayStation 3

Here’s a custom Scion xA with a PS3 stuffed inside. The car has an ~20-inch Sony LCD in the rear window, thirteen LCDs up front, and Sony’s Xplod series of auto subs that take up less space, but make more bass. [lyrics by Valerie] The PS3 is running Gran Turismo on some embedded LCD or…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 3

World’s Ugliest Car Gets Unsurprisingly High Gas Mileage

FuelPod2 Brings the BioDiesel Processing Plant to Your Driveway

Spotlight LED In-Car Torch Finds Fluff Down the Side of the Car Seat

Death Race 2000 Remake Has No Balls

Black Eagle GPS Video Logs Car Crashes

Sanyo Easy Streetnav NVM-4070 GPS Nav Does Media Play in Traffic

Bose Invades Your Car with Hard Drive-based Media System

Mobile Fragfest: Gamers Safely Cram Xbox Live into Their Ride?

Harman Kardon Guide+Play GPS-500 Does Nav and HiFi

Pioneer Car Audio Collections

Pioneer’s Avic-Z2 and AVH-P5900DVD AV Navigate Into Cars, Acronym Hall Of Fame

Supreme Commander: Pioneer’s Single-CD Player Lines

Eclipse AVN2210 Car Stereo With Ejectable TomTom GPS

Cobra XRS R9G GPS Radar Detector: Fights the Man by Dodging Red Light Cams

Garmin 580 GPS: Can Grab Movie Times, Weather, Traffic, and Gas Prices

AutoNet Mobile Router: Net Enable Your Hoopty Ride in 2007

Venturi Eclectic: Solar and Wind Powered Electric Car

CNet Editor Awards Lexus a Perfect 10; Apparently Hates the Sensation of Driving

Tesla Electric Roadster Gets Its First Speeding Ticket

SEMA 2006: Scion xA Powered by PlayStation 3

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