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GPS Cellphones Used as Traffic Sensors
GPS Cellphones Used as Traffic Sensors

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Nokia, NAVTEQ and UC Berkeley signed a new agreement that enables GPS capable mobile phone owners to act as traffic sensors by sending traffic data to a remote server for processing. The new program...

 
FLIR Brings Night Vision Systems to Any Car
FLIR Brings Night Vision Systems to Any Car

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Night-vision systems have always been attractive for automakers, with several companies, including here Cadillac, BMW, Mercedes and Honda, designing their own technologies supposed to be installed o...

 
RC Sportscar with Video Camera for Adults
RC Sportscar with Video Camera for Adults

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Radio-controlled cars are pretty attractive for both kids and grown-ups, but today's toys are a lot different than the ones we had in our childhoods. The best example is given by Deluxe RC Spor...

 
Daimler and Evonik Partner for Superior Lithium-Ion Car Battery
Daimler and Evonik Partner for Superior Lithium-Ion Car Battery

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Vali Mihaescu / The Germans seem to be determined to make it big in almost every technology branch. In Stuttgart Daimler and Essen AG and Evonik Industries AG are creating a lithium-ion battery technology that the...

 
Titanium Bike, Virtually Indestructible
Titanium Bike, Virtually Indestructible

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Kids are quite rude when it comes to toys so in case you really want to buy your son one that would be able to face his “abuses”, titanium-made products would be a smart choice. Today�...

 
Textile Company to Revamp Automotive Carbon Fiber Industry
Textile Company to Revamp Automotive Carbon Fiber Industry

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / A Japanese textile company said that it found the way to ease the process of building carbon fiber cars, although auto manufacturers from all over the world invested millions of dollars in similar r...

 
Bravo to Get Fiat's eco:Driving
Bravo to Get Fiat's eco:Driving

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Fiat's eco:Drive software technology will be expanded to Bravo in the first months of 2009, the Italian carmaker said in an email sent to registered members. The application was initially avail...

 
Turn your iPod into a Portable LCD DVD Player
Turn your iPod into a Portable LCD DVD Player

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / iPods are extremely popular nowadays and recent figures do nothing more than to support this statement. Moreover, a recently-conducted study has shown that future cars, starting with the ones manufa...

 
Intelligent Headlamps
Intelligent Headlamps

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Andrei Ursu / Headlamp manufacturer company Hella is well known for developing and supplying headlights for major car manufacturers such as BMW or VW. Their latest creation is an intelligent headlight system call...

 
Opel, GM to Demonstrate Car-2-Car Communication
Opel, GM to Demonstrate Car-2-Car Communication

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Car-to-car communication services tend to become must haves in today's vehicles as both car and motorcycle manufacturers rely on this type of technologies in order to prevent or minimize the co...

 
Infant Incubator from Car Parts to Serve the Poor
Infant Incubator from Car Parts to Serve the Poor

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / Humankind is surely inventive when it comes to survival matters. Hardly could we have imagined a baby incubator built from vehicle parts coming from junkyards. But Dr. Jonathan Rosen, now at the...

 
Stop/Start Helps Mahindra Reduces Fuel Consumption
Stop/Start Helps Mahindra Reduces Fuel Consumption

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Indian car manufacturer Mahindra recently announced that new variants of Bolero and Scorpio models will include a stop/start technology, especially introduced to reduce the overall fuel consumption....

 
Say Hello to the MultiDrive RS Driving Simulator – Drive A Car in Your Bedroom
Say Hello to the MultiDrive RS Driving Simulator – Drive A Car in Your Bedroom

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Today's racing games are incredibly well-developed and are capable of providing a shockingly realistic atmosphere, even if they require a huge amount of hardware resources. But even so, playing...

 
The Seeker Vehicle Recovery Protects Your Car
The Seeker Vehicle Recovery Protects Your Car

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Anti-theft systems are mandatory these days, with most car manufacturers installing such devices as standard on the majority of their models. However, sometimes you may need even more than a simple ...

 
The GPS Tracker with SMS Messages
The GPS Tracker with SMS Messages

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Tracking your car or your motorcycle is more difficult than it sounds in case the vehicles are not equipped with last-generation tracking or navigation devices. Just think about one of the most comm...

 
Breathalyzer UMPC Providing GPS Instructions
Breathalyzer UMPC Providing GPS Instructions

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Even though there are million of GPS devices out there, Korean company UMID has come up with a pretty innovative GPS-capable gadget that also includes... breathalyzer functions. Although the manufac...

 
Power Your Laptop with the Coffee Cup Inverter
Power Your Laptop with the Coffee Cup Inverter

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / What do cars, laptops and coffee have in common? Most drivers enjoy having a cup of coffee while being stuck in traffic while some people choose to browse the web using their laptops. However, there...

 
Abarth Launches Eye-Candy Intel Gaming Desktop
Abarth Launches Eye-Candy Intel Gaming Desktop

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Abarth has just launched the so-called “Powerplay Extreme”, the result of a new collaboration between Fiat's Abarth and Intel that comes in the form of a gaming desktop capable of &...

 
Mr Bond is Asked to Pick Up His Aston Martin DBS& Jaeger LeCoultre Watch
Mr Bond is Asked to Pick Up His Aston Martin DBS& Jaeger LeCoultre Watch

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / Power, beauty and soul, all join the Jaeger LeCoultre Watch created especially for Aston Martin DBS in the James Bond-like video commercial. The 18-carat pink gold AMVOX DBS Transponder now plays it...

 
Corum Made a Watch to Resemble Rolls Royce Cars
Corum Made a Watch to Resemble Rolls Royce Cars

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / It's not only Breitling that is producing watches as a tribute to Bentley, as it appears that someone else has done a similar thing even earlier. In 1976 Corum did the same thing for Rolls-R...