The OC
It’s felt almost as if the BlackBerry smartphone rumor mill has been a little too quiet — dare we say burnt out — since the Torch hit the scene (BlackPad notwithstanding, of course). That’s all changed with a pair of interesting leaks care of Boy Genius Report. Behold a successor to the Bold 9700, the [...]
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about a few gadgets that had been transformative to me. A reader wrote in and asked if I thought there any categories of products that had changed the world over the last decade. I thought about that for a while and here my list of the some of the [...]
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Filed under: Aftermarket, Motorsports, Budget, Sedan, Suzuki
2010 Suzuki Kizashi takes Bonneville – Click above to watch video after the jump
The crew from Suzuki and Road & Track officially hold the new Land Speed Record for the Blown Gas Coupe Category. The team wheeled out their modified 2010 Suzuki Kizashi to the Bonneville Salt Flats and [...]
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Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Alfa Romeo
2010 Concorso Italiano celebrates Alfa Romeo centenery – Click above for high-res image gallery
The year 2010 marks the 100th birthday of Alfa Romeo, the great Italian automaker that has given us some of the most lust-worthy road and race cars of, well, the last century. It was fitting, therefore, [...]
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Filed under: Technology, Ford
Click above to watch the video after the jump
We’ve seen Internet-equipped vehicles on more than one occasion over the past few years, but most connected cars and trucks aren’t much more than a rolling hot-spot for passengers and (very) distracted drivers. That promises to change over the next decade as automakers and [...]
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As it turns out, industrial-strength robot arms are good for more than amusing hijinks and the occasional assembly line — a team of researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have turned a KUKA KR 500 into the ultimate Formula 1 simulator ride. Outfitting the six-axis, half-ton lifter with a force-feedback steering wheel, [...]
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Filed under: Convertible, Coupe, Performance, Etc., Government/Legal, Specialty
SV Motors 9 Competizione – Click above for high-res image gallery
Exactly a year ago today, we got our first real-life glimpse of the SV Motors 9 Competizione, an American/Italian mash-up built atop the C6 Chevrolet Corvette and coated in custom carbon fiber coachwork. 365 days later and the [...]
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We’ve seen quadriplegic transportation directed by brainwaves, speech and even the occasional Wiimote, but your best bet might be to follow your nose. Israeli nasal researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science unveiled a “sniff controller” this week, that measures nasal pressure to control a wheelchair joystick with surprising precision (see a video after the [...]
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