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Steve Jobs’ iCar, an Unfulfilled Dream

J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler reveals in the video embedded below how Steve Jobs had envisioned an iCar, and that Apple has had “living room” plans for a long time now. In the 40-second clip, Drexler can be heard stating, “Look at the car industry; it's a tragedy in America. Who is designing the ...

18 May 2012
07:53 GMT

Apple and the Car Business

Why not? Philip Smith, writing for FixYourThinking, found that Aptera, a concept car with "the most innovative design," would be fit for the Mac maker as an acquisition. Who can look at this picture and disagree?Actually, many can. MacsimumNews, for example, found Philip's idea quite far-fetched, but "intriguing...

16 June 2008
18:11 GMT

How Can a Spark Engine Operate Without the Spark?

Currently available internal combustion engines must achieve ignition in their cylinders to create combustion. Typically engines use either a spark ignition (SI) method or a compression ignition (CI) system.So far, no engine could switch from one ignition type to the other, which is what gave the current gasoline/di...

27 July 2007
10:03 GMT

Have You Tried Polymer Shish-kebab? It's Tasty and...Plastic

Shish-kebab is a tasty meat dish usually made of lamb and beef, but chicken is not excluded. Only pork. Now, a new type of shish-kebab is on the market, but it's made of polymers. And it's not edible.Shish-kebabs are nanoscale structures that form when polymers crystallize during flow, looking like a skewe...

21 May 2007
05:51 GMT

Top 10 Greatest Inventions Ever

What does "greatest" mean?Probably the best definition would be the "most defining of who we are today", something that dramatically changed the life of all humanity, and I will be referring only to inventions and not to discoveries such as the fire or the wheel.10 - The Telescope - It proved for the first time that...

31 March 2007
03:35 GMT

CarPCs Getting Popular

One very popular concept in the United States is the CarPC, this type of hardware being a lot more practical than your car radio, even if it does have a retractable touch-screen. Having the possibility of storing thousands of pictures and melodies, being able to connect to the Internet through a wireless or satellite...

22 March 2007
07:14 GMT


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