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Volkswagen/Apple iCar On Hold, Upper Middle Class Weep

If you’ve been looking forward to a possible Volkswagen + Apple car, or iCar, you’ll have to wait slightly longer as talks between the two companies have just been put on hold. The bad news is that the exploratory talks are at an end, but the good news is that there were exploratory talks to…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 5

R/C Stoner Van Streams Live Video While Truckin’ (Video)

Built and demonstrated by our very own Nick McGlynn, this webcam-mounted R/C Volkswagen bus streams video live via a hidden Sony Vaio laptop with Sprint EV-DO card. Unfortunately for Nick, the camera is fixed facing forward, limiting its upskirt potential. Oh well, there’s always V(W) 2.0. [Justin.tv]

Tech News Wilson Rothman Nov 12

Steve Jobs and VW Chairman Talk iCar

A Volkswagen spokesperson told German magazine Capital that an iCar may be on the way. Steve Jobs and VW Chairman Martin Winterkorn got together in California a few days ago to “plan an intensive co-operation with the building of vehicles.” It might even be called an iCar. This is against a background of chatter we…

Tech News Charlie White Aug 29

LG Dresses Up Its FM37 PMP in Volkswagen Colors

Looking for every angle to avoid commoditization, LG teams up with Volkswagen for a painted-up version of the FM37 PMP first announced last October, a little media player that matches the colors of the VW Beetle. It’ll be available in Salsa Red, Shadow Blue, and Sunflower Yellow, just like the car. https://gizmodo.com/lg-fm37-fm33-and-dmb-t50-portable-media-with-european-230885 In case you…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 12

VW Golf Renamed in Honor of the iPod (We Assume)

Introducing the Volkswagen iGolf. It is the exact same thing as the VW Golf, but it has a fairly convenient iPod dock and a big, fancy, pretty advertising campaign to go with it. We have seen companies of all shapes and sizes slap a lower-case i in front of a product name and the product…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 30

Chinese Artists Take a VW Down the Hershey Highway for V-Day

The Valentine’s Day madness has apparently spread around the world, as evidenced by this chocolate-covered Volkswagen Beetle parked in front of a supermarket in China. After first wrapping the vehicle in plastic, seven enterprising car company employees slathered on 440 pounds of chocolate, resulting in the day’s biggest internal-combustion chocolate truffle. If it didn’t take…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 15

VW Sleds Are Slick, Slippery and Schweet

VWs are in the Gizmodo news these days, where the other day we saw one pulling a Boeing 747, and now here’s a sled carrying the earmarks of the timeless Volkswagen Golf GTI design. Is this one badass-looking conveyance, or what? https://gizmodo.com/vw-towing-a-747-216966 Volkswagen nailed this one. Click to see the variety of beautifully-designed V-Dub sleds,…

Gadgets Charlie White Nov 29

I-Playaz ’59 Volkswagen Beetle, Speakers for Your Kid’s DAP

We’ve had just about enough DAP speakers for one day—or lifetime, for that matter—but this one we just couldn’t resist. Aimed at kids, the I-Playaz ’59 Volkswagen Beetle from Jada Toys lets you plug in any music player, and when you get that music cranking it starts to blastin’ with lights flashin’ as it “moves…

Gadgets Charlie White Oct 13

Design Concept: Comfort Sphere for Captive Audiences

The Comfort Sphere was designed by Volkswagen for trade shows, but might be a great idea to enhance the work and concentration required of writers, think-tankers, and hey, maybe even a blogger or two. Winner of a RedDot Design Award for 2006, it’s a self-contained audio and video womb which invites you into it innocently…

Gadgets Charlie White Aug 9

VW’s Automated Parking Garage

When we first saw these two photos of the Volkswagen’s storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany, we thought this was an artist’s rendition for some sort of science fiction movie. It’s not. This is an actual 20-story car tower that takes up just 20% of the space of a conventional parking garage handling the same number…

Gadgets Charlie White May 11

Audi & Volkswagen Drop XM, Sign Exclusive Deal with Sirius

If you love Howard Stern, this news might make you happy; if you love having choices, this news will make you sad. Audi and Volkswagen recently announced they will be dropping XM satellite radio receivers as an option for their cars beginning with the 2007 models in favor of an exclusive deal with Sirius. Both…

Tech News Gizmodo.com Mar 17

Google and VW Join Forces

Looks like Google and Volkswagen are banding together to work on a vehicle that will use Google Maps/Google Earth in a VW in-car navigation system. Working with NVidia to build the system, it will include three-dimensional graphics and, hopefully, other features like automatic personalized information updates. But don’t hold your breath—there are still no definite…

Tech News Tgrumet Feb 6

Live From CES: DARPA’s Touareg

You may remember “Stanley,” the robotic Volkswagen Touareg which won the $2 million prize at the DARPA’s race back in October. Well Stanford went and brought the champion out here for all to ogle. The Stanford robot Touareg finished the course in 6 hours, 53 minutes, beating everyone else to take the record, so it’s…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Jan 7

VW Goes USB

The center armrest is not just for stashing jewel cases and weapons any longer: Volkswagen is putting a USB port in there too. The car stereo will recognize the memory device once you plug it in, and display up to six music folders. And then the controls work just as they would for a CD.…

Tech News Noah R Sep 13

Volkswagen/Apple iCar On Hold, Upper Middle Class Weep

R/C Stoner Van Streams Live Video While Truckin’ (Video)

Steve Jobs and VW Chairman Talk iCar

LG Dresses Up Its FM37 PMP in Volkswagen Colors

VW Golf Renamed in Honor of the iPod (We Assume)

Chinese Artists Take a VW Down the Hershey Highway for V-Day

VW Sleds Are Slick, Slippery and Schweet

I-Playaz ’59 Volkswagen Beetle, Speakers for Your Kid’s DAP

Design Concept: Comfort Sphere for Captive Audiences

VW’s Automated Parking Garage

Audi & Volkswagen Drop XM, Sign Exclusive Deal with Sirius

Google and VW Join Forces

Live From CES: DARPA’s Touareg

VW Goes USB

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