First Smart Suitcase Makes Traveling More Convenient
26 Dec 2014, 09:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Throwing your suitcase in the trunk and driving to destination is the best way of traveling if you ask us, but then again, people also like to party, reason why they’ll get the train or a plan...
NASA Plans Space Mining in About 30 Years
23 Dec 2014, 15:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Space mining isn’t a new concept and those who ventured on the dark corridors of Dead Space’s USG Ishimura, the biggest planet cracker in her class, know what I’m talking about her...
Want to Know Why Driving Backwards is Harder than Forwards?
23 Dec 2014, 13:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Have you noticed that keeping your steering wheel straight while driving forward will see that your car will go straight, but if you do that in reverse you’ll constantly have to adjust the ste...
Google Autonomous Car Gets One Step Closer to Production
23 Dec 2014, 09:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Yeah, it’s hard to believe and it fooled us too at first. The Google autonomous car prototype you see below is different from what you saw earlier. We know, the photo is taken in the same spot...
Tesla Rolls In Battery Swap Program This Week
22 Dec 2014, 15:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / In case of memory loss from all that eggnog you’ve been drinking this time of the year, Tesla showed us last year how its new battery swap technology will work once implemented. After total si...
NASA Wants to Send People to Venus and Fly a Zeppelin There
22 Dec 2014, 13:54 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Yeah, we have plans to colonize Mars a bit in the future, but that’s kinda’ far, reason why the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking towards Venus for a simila...
New Self-Tinting Window Around the Corner, It Also Acts as a Battery
22 Dec 2014, 13:02 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There are two types of tinted windows in the automotive world at the moment - those that are permanently darkened via chemical processes right in the factory and the electrochromic ones that react t...
Old Cars Putting Teen Drivers at Higher Death Risk, Study Says
22 Dec 2014, 10:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / So your son/daughter just passed the driver exam and it’s time for a first car. Better choose carefully, because the older it is, the higher the injury rate gets for the beginner motorist. ...
Google’s Android Auto to Get Rid of the Smartphone Soon
22 Dec 2014, 09:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Smartphones are starting to blend in the automotive world as Google and Apple are working to integrate them into the car’s infotainment system. But it seems that will be just one of the option...
Swedish City Wants to Save 13 Million Gallons Per Year Using Wirelessly Charged Buses
21 Dec 2014, 09:33 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / In case you thought the entire electric vehicle industry is going bankrupt over the sudden price lowering of gas (felt the most in the US), we’re here to tell there still might be hope for fre...
Hankook Made New Morphing Future Wheels Again
19 Dec 2014, 16:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / South Korean tire maker Hankook manages once again to captivate us with yet another set of intelligent morphing wheels that can adapt to multiple conditions. The new concepts are part of the &ldq...
Off-Road Wheelchair? Meet the Tomahawk
19 Dec 2014, 15:21 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As I was telling you in a previous article, all wheeled vehicles are evolving these days and so should wheelchairs. And while that time we looked at an ultra-lightweight carbon fiber wheelchair, it&...
Charging Stations on Wheels to Solve Crowded Parking Problems
19 Dec 2014, 13:55 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Refilling the tank on a normal combustion engined car is simple and few things can go wrong. You put a hose in a hole and try not to cause a spark near it for about 2 minutes. Recharging an electric...
Tesla Model S Getting Free Internet Connectivity in Australia
18 Dec 2014, 13:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You could easily say the Tesla Model S is a computer on wheels. I mean, it’s the only car on the market to receive regular software upgrades and it also comes with a huge 17-inch “carble...
Why Transparent Car Pillars Won’t Stop SMIDSY Crashes
18 Dec 2014, 10:19 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Reading this article on “transparent“ pillars was thrilling, but I just have to express my skepticism as far as how this technology hopes to put an end to the damn SMIDSY accidents invol...
Lunar Mission One Reaches Funding Target, To Begin Development Program
17 Dec 2014, 17:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Thanks to over 7,000 backers, Kickstarter project Lunar Mission One now has enough money to get things going and launch a robotic probe towards the Moon for the first time since the original Apollo ...
Controversial Gadget Detects Police Cars Nearby Using Radio Frequency
17 Dec 2014, 15:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ever been disappointed by your radar detector not doing its job properly and getting you a ticket? First of all, shame on you for speeding and secondly, there’s a new device to detect police c...
KTM Appoints Alex Hofmann as MotoGP Test Rider for Developing the Entire Bike
17 Dec 2014, 14:56 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We knew things are on the move at KTM as the 2017 MotoGP comeback announced by Mattighofen were already under way since the last summer. The Austrian manufacturer has appointed MotoGP rider Alex Hof...
Evelo Omni Wheel Instantly Turns Your Bike into a Pedelec
17 Dec 2014, 13:01 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Meet Evelo Omni Wheel, one of the coolest gadgets we saw this year, and one of the first new-generation electric mobility solution to start production. Of course, ideas like the Copenhagen Wheel or ...
Bloodhound SSC Hybrid Rocket Motor Gets Tested, Set to Beat Land Speed Record
16 Dec 2014, 16:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / In case you haven’t heard about the Thrust SSC, that’s the fastest wheeled vehicle to have traveled on Earth so far. It broke the world landspeed record in 1997, clocking 1,228 km/h (763...