Much to drool over in the Forbes article “The Most Useful New Gadgets for Your Car.” The list includes:
Alpine eX-10 iPod and Bluetooth Adapter - $200
Let’s drivers play their iPod through the car speakers without those pesky radio transmitters or clumsy tape adapters, which means much better sound quality.
Azentek Atlas CPC-12 - $2,700
A personal computer […]
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Shorty
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Project Green Freedom
Now here’s an interesting idea in the realm of alternative fuels and combating global warming. It’s sort of the, “We put it in the air, now let’s take it out and use it” approach. The Los Alamos National Laboratory is undertaking a project called Green Freedom to develop a way to take CO2 […]
Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Shorty
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Clean burning diesel is all the rage these days. A committee reviewing the old 2001 list of fuel efficient technologies for the NTSA just declared the once maligned fuel as both efficient and worthy of meeting clean air standards.
Personally, when I hear “diesel,” I think “truck,” but the Loremo AG has blown that stereotype all […]
Posted on February 21st, 2008 by Shorty
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Aw, Who Needs a Test Drive, Take My 50K
Not sure how much this falls into the category of car tech, but I find it fascinating all the same. Jaguar has managed to rake up 10,000 orders for its new XF sedan with no advertising and not a single car sitting out there waiting for the […]
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Shorty
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Back in October the local news here in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex was all abuzz about the arrival of a Smart dealerhip. (Click here for a Dallas News article on the subject.) The “Why Guy,” a lovable local dufus on WFAA who does special interest pieces visited the place, a tiny hole in the wall […]
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by Shorty
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This morning as I was pedaling away on a bicycle going nowhere (a bid to get on top of my entirely too sedentary lifestyle), I ran across an article in The New York Times entitled, “More High-Tech Invitations to Take Your Mind Off Road.” (Link may require free subscription.) My own mind instantly flashed back […]
Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Shorty
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My buddy the Wookie recently treated himself to an iPhone. He called me up as an iPod Touch owner to convince him why he “needed” the iPhone. I just laughed. Trust me, this is not a man who needed convincing. We went out to dinner the other night and he showed me some of his […]
Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Shorty
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This piece from Wired has been sitting around on my MacBook’s desktop for several days now. It looks as if Fisker Automotive may build its plug-in hybrid in Detroit with lithium-ion batteries from British Columbia. And you can pick one up for $80,000.
Go on and give it a read. There’s lots of verbiage about how […]
Posted on February 5th, 2008 by Shorty
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