All the stories tagged with: Transportation
Blaupunkt New Orleans MP58
02/12/2008, This is one car radio like no other from Blaupunkt – it was specially designed to provide users with uninterrupted access to an entire library of MP3s via CDs, USB flash drives and portable hard drives, featuring a no-interrupt browsing [...]
Azentek CPC-1200 in-vehicle PC
02/11/2008, Fancy having a muscular PC in your vehicle while the rest of ordinary folks settle for something lesser like a PSP? Azentek’s CPC-1200 fits the bill perfectly, featuring the following specifications :- Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz processor Intel GMA 950 [...]
Banana Waste To Power Cars
02/10/2008, Who would’ve thought that we’d actually come to a point where banana waste can be converted into biomethane, which will subsequently be used in natural gas-powered vehicles. The commercial plant is still in a prototype stage, so it will take [...]
Digital Video Recording Rear View Mirror
02/07/2008, We have shown interesting rear-view mirrors in the past, but none of them had a video-recording function. Of course, it’s not for TV shows – the Car Camera Recorder Pro records what’s it “sees” from the windshield, so everything that happens [...]
FCC Approves Motorola M990 Smart Rider
02/05/2008, Motorola has sprung a surprise on everyone with its M990 Smart Rider device, touted to be a GSM high tier fixed mobile car phone. It is supposed to offer high speed data services in addition to voice, entertainment, information, advanced [...]
Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications
02/04/2008, Denso will be testing its vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems in Japan from April this year onwards up till March 2011 – that’s a long time of testing, but when it comes to road safety you can never be too careful. This [...]
XM-2000 Electric Scooter
02/04/2008, If you want to go green and don’t have a long commute to work, then the XM-2000 electric scooter sounds like a viable alternative. This vehicle from China is powered by a 2kW electric motor and 60V batteries. Retailing for [...]
Massaud Super Airship
02/03/2008, Now this 700ft super-airship is the stuff of dreams, and is currently being developed by French-based Massaud. This huge airship might usher the Final Fantasy era in albeit slowly, capable of ferrying up to 40 passengers in the sky for [...]
Monitor Traffic Conditions with Cellphones
02/01/2008, UC Berkeley students will participate in an experiment that uses cellphones to monitor road traffic. Many phones already have a GPS chip and it is clear that eventually all phones will have one. So the idea is to save the [...]
Honda Drive Recorder
02/01/2008, Aeroplanes come with black boxes, so why not cars? Apparently, that’s what Honda hopes to change with its Drive Recorder that is capable of detecting impacts while saving information of up to a dozen seconds before and eight seconds afterwards. [...]
Bike Stand Pumps As Well
02/01/2008, I guess this makes perfect sense – a bike stand that not only helps secure your bike whenever you’re not around, but it comes with an integrated air pump to help give those tires of yours a little extra lovin’ [...]
Toyota Anti-Mite Allergen Seat Fabric
01/31/2008, Toyota is the first in the world to release a car seat fabric which prevents mite allergens from becoming active in a vehicle’s cabin. Those who want this new fabric will have to wait for vehicle models that are released [...]
Continental Airlines Offer In-Flight WiFi
01/30/2008, Looks like Continental Airlines will be latest airline to offer in-flight WiFi from January 2009 onwards – that’s one whole year to wait for those who love flying with Continental. Needless to say, no further details are available, and we [...]
