Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 1:07pm
We're familiar with wearable tech that tracks our health, but a new device brings the same kind of personalized data tracking to our cars.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 3:48pm
This Volkswagen is unreal: it looks like the future, and drives like it to, achieving a staggering 261 MPG. And you'll be able to buy it.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 10:22pm
Mercedes-Benz's latest E-Class can embarrass most supercars on the track, but it still has plenty of space for a trip to Costco.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 2:46pm
I'll bet you didn't know that aluminum (the same stuff that keeps your soda in the shape of a can) has more than twice the energy density of gasoline. Combine powdered aluminum with water at high temperatures, and you'll get heat, hydrogen and aluminum oxide. In other words, you get enough clean car fuel to take you 1,500 miles per tank.
Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 12:47pm
The inherent lack of functionality in car door mirrors is baffling. They're designed to do one thing, but since they all have dangerous blind spots, they're doing a consistently terrible job at that thing. A math professor from Drexel has just gotten a patent on a system to fix this: it's not a fancy blind spot detection system, it's just a very clever mirror that doesn't suck.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 1:58pm
I know it looks crazy, but what you see up above is a photograph, not a conceptual render. That's "Level Green," a permanent installation in Volkswagen's Autostadt visitor center at their Wolfsburg, Germany factory built by Berlin-based J Mayer H...
Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 12:06pm
OEM innovator Bosch is looking to bring 3D to your dashboard for GPS applications, replace your mechanical gauges with a customizable LCD and allow for driver and passenger to simultaneously share a screen for disparate uses. The 3-D effect...
Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 9:06am
I lived in Denmark for a couple of years as a kid, and while I loved it, few would argue that the Danish people are Europe's party animals. This tiny Scandinavian country is clearly a design and style powerhouse,...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 8:55pm
With visions of Star Wars' R2-D2 clearly ringing in their heads, the lab wonks at Nissan have unveiled the Biomimetic Robot Car (BR23C). The robot is meant to demonstrate the car maker's new crash prevention technology being shown off at...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 2:25pm
An error in judgment, simply not paying attention, an act of good ol' stupidity — next thing you know you're in an accident. That is, you would have been, if your car didn't take control of the wheel. Nissan is...
