These daily deals sites have officially gone too far! Or perhaps they’re just going to one-up each other until they’re all giving away spaceship rides for pennies on the dollar.
Your car is a big computer of sorts, your cell phone is a small computer of sorts; why not connect the two? That’s the promise of AutoBot, a $300 device that hooks into your vehicle’s OBD-II connector and relays diagnostic information to your cell phone, integrates with mapping functions, and lets you start and unlock [...]
The Ford Motor Company may be a hundred and seven years old, but when it comes to cool gadgetry, it’s impressively spry for a company of its age. For several years, it’s poured effort into its Sync and MyFord Touch ecosystem, which puts a ton of entertainment- and information-related features into the dashboards of Fords [...]
If you own a car and you’re sick—SICK!—of watching it lazily sit out on your street while you’re not driving it, you can make it earn its keep by renting it out by the hour, a la ZipCar.
When is a Pixar movie not a Pixar movie? When it’s produced by Disney-contracted third parties in India, apparently.
Yes, I know that Toy Story 3 is making Disney a lot of money, and that it gave Pixar their most successful opening weekend ever and everything, but the news that Tim Allen is already under contract for a Toy Story 4 fills me with something approaching dread. Can’t three movies be enough?
Auto enthusiasts may know Gordon Murray best as the guy who designed the McLaren F1 but the rest of us will all eventually know him better for the T.25, a $9,000 compact car that measures just four feet wide by eight feet long, can drive two to a lane, and fit three to a standard [...]
Hot damn. This remote control Mario Kart set not only lets you race your favorite characters around on your kitchen floor, but the controllers feature built-in virtual projectiles and power-ups in the form of shells, banana peels, mushrooms, stars, and more.
Welcome to ‘Zombie of the Week,’ folks, where each week we’ll present you with a different brain-eating member of the undead that has captured our fancy. There is no methodology to our Zombie Awesomeness meter, just our own piqued interests. Got a zombie we should see? Comment below. No zombie is too small, too short-lived, [...]
I was actually at the last DARPA autonomous car event in 2007. Weird stuff: driverless cars wandering through an abandoned, burned-out Army base in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Junior was there, but I never saw it do anything like this. They’ve come a long way.
Or is it light-car? Light-whip?
