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 [...]
While some of us are watching for production models of the plug-in versions of the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape, and others are following the news of Subaru’s recently announced EV offering, the R1e, many people still see electric and solar-electric cars as something limited to the garages of hobbyists and backyard tinkers, rather than [...]
Last week I had occasion to spend some time researching the CLEVER (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport.) It’s a fascinating two-seater fueled by compressed natural gas being developed by nine European partners (with BMW in the mix) at the University of Bath. The specs are respectable. It’ll make 60 mph and accelerate from [...]
Real life demands that updates here will now be posted on Tuesday and Thursdays. I hope that’s going to allow me to collect interesting items and put together lengthier updates with more digest-type content so you’ll still be getting pointed in a lot of directions, but with fewer actual postings. I’m working on getting that [...]
In all the slew of droolable techy goodness to come out of the Consumer Electronics Show this week, Microsoft slipped in an upgrade of the Ford Sync system powered by the Auto 3.0 operating system. Microsoft has made it clear that there’s no reason why you can’t have a fully functional PC sitting in your [...]
These days unless your car has a really smart box collecting and dispensing some kind of data from the dashboard, why bother? Big whoop if you have a radio or even a CD changer. You need data, Dude. How the heck are you going to drive without data? That’s right, the information-age car has to [...]
Last Friday Engadget reported on eight Goodyear branded GPS units expected to show up at CES. They’ll be produced by a company in New York called NCC, which stands for The National Christmas Company. Yep, got their start in Christmas lights but in recent years have been making stuff for Westinghouse and Stanley. The units [...]
Okay, time for some odds and ends that have just been sitting in my RSS reader demanding attention:
- On the 20th, AutoblogGreen had an interesting tidbit about a concept mobile phone Nokia has in the works. The thing (dubbed the Eco Sensor) has an air analyzer built into it that can detect such noxious stuff [...]
Back on the 20th, Wired carried a story about a futuristic outfit in Switzerland called Rinspeed. They’re working on a concept for an amphibious car, the sQuba. There’s one we’ve heard before and seen before — at least from Hollywood — but these folks seem to have a working prototype of an ultralight vehicle with [...]
Although I think owning an iPhone would be great fun, I don’t have the extra bucks and I’m really happy with my current carrier and have been for years. There’s no question, however, that an iPhone is one of THE fashion accessories of the year. They’re showing up as props on TV shows where [...]