Archive for the ‘gadgets’ Category
Car thieves are a resourceful lot. Despite whatever technical wizardry automakers incorporate to thwart them, they find a way. Of course, they don't just go after the new stuff. Older cars are fair game, too -- many of which are bereft of those pesky security systems the bad guys are masters at defe......
Speed up your refresh rate with carbon fiber desktop wallpaper
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Carbon fiber, that uber-cool mix of graphite fibers and epoxy that used to be reserved for exotic race cars and fighter jets, is seemingly everywhere these days. Lightweight and space-age, the material is now directly associated with speed and performance. If you are an automaker offering a high-per......
Chrysler plans to make vehicle improvements on the fly
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
The interior woes of recent Chrysler products have been well documented, and consumers rightly expect better these days. Chrysler has come to realize this fact and is taking appropriate measures to fix the problem and be sure that its future products come better equipped to face the competition. Whi......
Chrysler plans to make vehicle improvemens on the fly
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
The interior woes of recent Chrysler products have been well documented, and consumers rightly expect better these days. Chrysler has come to realize this fact and is taking appropriate measures to fix the problem and be sure that its future products come better equipped to face the competition. Whi......
robuCab wants to replace taxis in the future
Friday, March 14th, 2008
The taxi business is quickly changing, with the Ford Crown Victoria set to take a permanent buyout, hybrids ready to invade Manhattan by 2012, and now robuCab. The driver-free robuCab was developed in France by Robosoft, and the technology is limited for now. It's a 4WD electric vehicle relying on a......
Will we see (or hear) an XM/Sirius merger decision by months end?
Friday, March 14th, 2008
It seems like forever ago when rumors started about a merger between Sirius and XM satellite radio. The rumors were made slightly more official when the two companies announced the "merger of equals" last year. Where have we heard that before? Nobody expected this $4.2 billion transaction to be a s......
Coming April 27: Mario Kart for the Wii
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Those of you who have been waiting anxiously for a racing game to pop up for the Nintendo Wii will get your wishes granted on April 27 of this year. While some of us may prefer our racing games to be a bit more realistic, we're sure that piloting Mario, Luigi and Yoshi using the included Wii Wheel w......
Forget Gran Turismo, Bus Driver is greatest next-gen driving sim
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Click above for more screen shots of Bus DriverWhen I was in Kindergarten, I rode Bus 11. It was an oil-burning 32-passenger GMC that was ready for retirement by 1982. It was driven by Sarge. I'm not sure why she was called Sarge, but her demeanor definitely lived up to the moniker. Frequent exhorta......
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue releases official track and car list, new features
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
With things like cheap gas and the value of a dollar slowly being taken from us, it's good to see that somebody wants to give us something. For the US release of the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Polyphony has thrown in features the Japanese version didn't get.There's a drift mode that judges drivers on ......
Microsoft sees in-car advertising coming
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Ford's SYNC system is winning friends left and right, with CNET giving it the nod as Coolest New Car Tech and The Detroit News calling it "the best $395 option of 2007". Sales of the Ford Focus, in which the system debuted, are up 22.5% this year, despite the car's iffy redesign. According to Ford, ......