Ford Showcases 25 Global Mobility Experiments at Consumer Electronics Show · Video
7 Jan 2015, 13:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This year’s CES was a full-on technological offensive from German automakers. The Mercedes-Benz F 015 concept and the BMW M4 Iconic Lights concept were the real showstoppers, but American auto...
Want to Fly? This Bird Simulator Will Give You Wings
7 Jan 2015, 10:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / From the beginning, the man pointed to the sky and said he wants to be like the birds flying above. Many then tried building artificial wings to do that but failed and only when hot air balloons cam...
Le Mans Racer Training With Project Cars for Real Event
6 Jan 2015, 16:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You know you’ve made a great game/simulator when racing drivers use it to hone their skills in preparation for the real race. We’re talking about Project Cars here, one of the most covet...
OnStar Advanced Vehicle Diagnostics Showcased, to Debut on 2016 Chevrolet Models
6 Jan 2015, 15:29 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After introducing OnStar 4G LTE with Wi-Fi capability and the 84-strong recall tally in 2014, General Motors is getting really serious about keeping users of cars manufactured by the company as safe...
GM and Tula’s Dynamic Skip Fire System to Improve Engine Efficiency
6 Jan 2015, 15:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Cylinder deactivation is not quite new around the block, but General Motors said their new technology is much better and when it will reach production vehicles it will decrease their fuel consumptio...
Volkswagen Golf R Touch Concept Vehicle Wows the CES Crowd · Video
6 Jan 2015, 14:35 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / On any normal day, the Volkswagen Golf R is one of the hottest hot hatchbacks around, with 300 ponies sourced from its 2-liter TSI powerplant. Capable of doing a 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) sprint in jus...
Gogoro Electric Scooter Offers Easy, Fast battery Swap
6 Jan 2015, 13:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Taiwan manufacturer Gogoro looks like having solid chances of making it in a new industry niche where others have failed so far. The new Gogoro Smartscooter project is more than yet another EV in th...
Tesla Working on Robotic Snake Cord to Automatically Plug Your Car In
6 Jan 2015, 13:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Don’t know if you see a pattern here, but after the Model S and X were defined by Tesla, the automaker said there will be another model in between them called the “III” (as in thre...
Uconnect Access Suite Enhanced With 4 Additions at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show
6 Jan 2015, 12:49 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This edition of the CES was awash with hi-tech from BMW, Audi and Mercedes, but American automakers also made their presence felt. FCA US Operations headed to Vegas with four all-new Uconnect Access...
Need For Speed: No Limits Gameplay Teased
6 Jan 2015, 10:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Everyone wants a new Need for Speed to bring back the atmosphere from the Underground series or the one from the first Most Wanted. Well, the upcoming NFS: No Limits brings both of them apparently b...
Bumper Bot Will Protect Your Parked Car from Getting Hit By Others
5 Jan 2015, 13:56 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Sure, most of the modern cars come with parking sensors that will assist you while you’re squeezing your car in the lot. But what if the reason your bumper gets bruises is somebody else? What...
NVIDIA Unveils Future Cars’ Computing Platforms at 2015 CES
5 Jan 2015, 09:55 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Apple and Google may want to integrate phones with the car infotainment system but there are other computing companies that want a slice of the niche. Graphics processing units maker NVIDIA just unv...
Amazing CNC Machine Sculpts MX Bike Helmet from 120 KG Aluminium Block
4 Jan 2015, 09:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Wearing a 3.6 kg (7.95 lb) motorcycle helmet is definitely not our definition of safety, and the fact that this helmet is crafted from aluminium entirely is not helping either. Still, this lid serve...
Hyundai Blue Link Debuting Voice Recognition Smartwatch App at 2015 CES
3 Jan 2015, 18:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Although they're on the market for a while now, 2015 could be the year when smartwatches will go mainstream. Multiple smartphone manufacturers are continuing to put them out while automakers tr...
Tesla Model S 85D Range To Increase With New Software Coming in January
3 Jan 2015, 17:40 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The dual motor Tesla Model S is surely the coolest electric sedan you can have, and the most powerful one one the planet to be honest, but fitting the extra electric unit under its skin plays a majo...
Japan’s Grenade-Shaped Throwable Remote Surveillance Robot Is the Future
31 Dec 2014, 17:15 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When Warner Brothers and MGM announced they’re planning a reboot trilogy of the famous Stargate franchise this May, childhood memories suddenly came back. But now, seeing that the world is dis...
Scientists Create Nature-Inspired Robot That's Able to Walk by Itself
30 Dec 2014, 16:37 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A research team at Bielefeld University, Germany have created what could be a world first, teaching the only robot of its kind on the planet to walk. Dubbed Hector, the robot’s shape was inspi...
Lead-Acid Ignition Batteries Will Stick Around for Another Decade or More
30 Dec 2014, 10:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Lead is poisonous if animals and humans ingest it, damaging the nervous system and causing brain disorders. Lead poisoning has been documented from ancient Rome, ancient Greece and ancient China, re...
Unmanned Helicopter Completes First Missions on US Navy Destroyer
29 Dec 2014, 14:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Piloting a helicopter requires an immense mental effort along with perfect hands and feet coordination which could seem next to impossible trying it from a remote location other than the cockpit. Ad...
Toyota to Offer High Performance Solid-State Batteries in 2020
29 Dec 2014, 10:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It looks like Toyota isn’t actually giving up on full electric vehicles. Despite the fact it sees fuel cell cars as the future of transportation along with hybrid vehicles, the Japanese automa...