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Viper, a company producing and selling car alarms and remote starters, has launched Viper SmartStart for iPhone and iPod touch. The app works with Viper remote-start systems and can start a car, lock or unlock its doors, open its trunk, or even locate it in a parking lot. Users can also set off a panic alarm. While m... |
14 October 2009
09:44 GMT |
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A recent study by consultant Bain & Co. claims there is a real market for electric cars. Apparently, those already driving expensive, fuel-based cars are becoming more aware of the environmental problems posed by their use.The survey was carried out with the help of 4,000 individuals in eight countries, including the... |
28 January 2009
08:46 GMT |
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Automotive design student Anthony Jannarelly must really like Apple's designs, for his concept of an environmentally friendly vehicle is nothing more than a sturdy iPod on wheels. The iMo even has its own tab / section on the fake Apple website, just between Mac and iPhone. When designing the iMo, Jannarelly al... |
22 December 2008
08:53 GMT |
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The Caterpillar 797 model, weighing 700 tons, is already known as the largest truck in the world and used in tasks that require dimensions that support a load of 240 tons. But such tasks, like mining, for instance, are usually highly dangerous jobs and provide extremely difficult environments to drive through. That&#... |
7 November 2008
06:59 GMT |
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Carbon dioxide emission gets a new bump from the vehicle industry that takes a major step into adding air among the alternative sources of fuel. Based on the idea of Guy Negre, founder and CEO of Luxembourg and France-based MDI SA company, who invented the car and had it developed in his French factories, the America... |
4 November 2008
09:16 GMT |
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A revolutionary system that involves actually being paid when you park your car, for helping the energy industry run smoothly, is currently undergoing development, being in test phase. Moreover, the received sums would be quite substantial, definitely more than what you pay for the parking ticket or than the fines fo... |
30 October 2008
08:22 GMT |
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A 17-year old high school boy from San Antonio, Texas, has put the results of large car companies to shame by building his own electric vehicle with a budget of a little over $10,000 (including the price of the car). And he did it in no more than 150 hours of work time. As top car companies are struggling to dev... |
16 October 2008
04:09 GMT |
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Research conducted by analyst firm iSuppli has revealed that the automotive industry is preparing for a huge demand of iPod integration. 39 percent of vehicle models sold in the US in 2008 expected to offer iPod integration options. In 2009, this will rise to 58 percent of car models, iSuppli claims.Cars boasting iPo... |
10 October 2008
04:34 GMT |
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Phones and cars are often used in the same context and, whether it's just drivers who can't help talking on the phone while on the road, or mobile phones designed in collaboration with famous car manufacturers, the phone - car connections are manifold. Howard Davis, an American businessman who owns a Te... |
21 June 2008
06:34 GMT |
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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 |
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The X Prize Foundation is a non-profit prize institute that designs and manages public competitions for the benefit of humanity. During the course of its past activity, the X Prize Foundation held competitions such as the Ansari X Prize for Suborbital Spaceflight, the Ansari X Prize for Genomics, the Automotive X Pri... |
22 March 2008
04:52 GMT |
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Hybrid electric vehicles present us with a partial solution to alternative renewable energy production, but the problem is that they still run mostly on gasoline fuel and, while some see them as a viable technology for the future, others argue that it is just a cover to bring more money into the pockets of the car ma... |
8 February 2008
06:22 GMT |
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Implementing a replay feature within Halo 3 is truly something that Bungie sometimes feels sorry for and this is one of those moments. According to Halo3Forum and BahamutZero's Cblog, although it isn't very hard to turn a dumpster into an aircraft, it certainly doesn't allow too much maneuverability. B... |
29 October 2007
09:19 GMT |
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There are many advocates for the cell-powered vehicles as an environmentally friendly alternative to the standard gas and other oil-based fuel burning vehicles. But others say that the market won't embrace this variant as these vehicles would be too slow. Now, a group of Japanese students has come to prove the c... |
6 August 2007
05:36 GMT |
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The Shadow Reconnaissance, Surveillance Targeting Vehicle (RST-V) is a prototype vehicle developed by General Dynamics Land Systems for the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).It looks like a heavily modified Hu... |
28 July 2007
05:19 GMT |
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The magic wheel, or magnetic wheel is a wheel that continues to spin for a time, after being started, as if by magic. Cool, huh? This device was invented in medieval Bavaria. It looked like a wagon wheel spinning on an axle, affixed to a base. The superstitious people of the time believed it spun by the power of magi... |
11 July 2007
04:03 GMT |
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The future of air combat will make the classical dogfight obsolete. The times of air aces like the Red Baron - the most successful fighter pilot of f World War I, credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories - are gone, and the next flying aces will be unmanned drones, hunting and killing ground enemies while bein... |
22 June 2007
10:45 GMT |
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Sandia National Laboratories in California are engaged in the development of a new high-caliber self-propelled and lightweight canon system, for the US Army. It's the most advanced program for designing a state-of-the-art canon. Currently, the US Army uses more than twenty types of self-propelled canons and mos... |
22 June 2007
03:38 GMT |
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Many car enthusiasts or Formula One fans around the world have heard the statement: 'A Formula 1 car can drive upside down without falling.' Is it true? And if yes, how do they do it?If you thought abound the car's aerodynamics, you were right, but let's see exactly what are the equipments and th... |
17 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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It's called MAN Takraf RB293 and it's the largest terrestrial vehicle in human history,making the huge NASA Crawler that transports space shuttles to the launch pads look like a Volkswagen Beetle.Bucket-wheel excavators are heavy machines used in the mining industry and civil engineering. They are also som... |
15 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The hovercraft (to hover - to remain floating, suspended, or fluttering in the air; craft - vessel or vehicle) is an amphibious military or civilian vehicle designed to travel over any kind of surface (as long as it's reasonably flat), being supported by a cushion of pressurized air.It may look weird and some o... |
1 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Is it a train? Is it a tram? Is it a bus? Nope, it's Dual Mode AutoTram. All-in-one multi-purpose transportation vehicle.A Japanese company named JR Hokkaido Co. began commercial operations Saturday of its Dual-Mode Vehicle, a minibus with retractable train wheels for use on tracks, on a test basis on the Sem... |
30 April 2007
10:05 GMT |
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I'm sure you've seen lots of police soap operas in which police officers effectively stopped cars using spike trips. Apparently, that resulted in disintegrated tires and pissed off stunt men. Ok, ok, the spikes have also proved to be a good police tool in bringing real cars to a halt. But here's someth... |
27 April 2007
12:26 GMT |
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This machine has the most outstanding set of statics you'll ever see on a motorcycle-like vehicle. Yes, it's road registrable too. It has an extremely low frontal area and the aerodynamics of a bullet. It's much lighter than a Formula one race car, but it has much less rolling resistance. The Acabion i... |
27 March 2007
11:01 GMT |
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