Archive for the ‘Automobile Gadgets’ Category

Ever wondered about having a bike that you can take anywhere? I mean, just about anywhere! Well, this is for you. It’s meant for those elevators, steps and heavy traffic roads where a bulky bike is going to be a hinderance. This bike is made of strong plastic to reduce the weight of the bike.

Sultan of Brunei’s family have hired DC Designs of India to turn a Rolls Royce into something like an Audi. Crazy.

Make sure your Porsche 911 stands out with all the Ferrari’s.Cover it with 18 kgs of gold!! The most expensive tune up your car can go about.

The Saleen Aquada is AquaMan’s baby. No, I’m joking. LOL. Anyway, it can reach speeds upto 40 mph on land and just about the same on water. The Aquada is intended to work as a sports car on the road and a speedboat on the water.
“Simply press a button and drive into the water. The wheels automatically rise and as you press the accelerator nearly a tonne of thrust pushes the Aquada onto the plane. The whole process takes less than 12 seconds. The Aquada can plane at over 30mph.”
The model will be introduced in 2009 or 2010

Sanyo, Japan has announced a new GPS the NV-SD585DT with a 5.8 inch touchscreen along with a resolution of 480×240 pixels. The NV-SD585DT comes with a 4GB SSD drive which is loaded with navigation data. Unlike the GPS units we use it has two antennas one for standard GPS and the other antenna for the One-Seg transmissions so you can watch Digital TV in your car. The 4 GB SSD drive doubles as a DVR as you can record your favorite programs and with support for EPG you can program the GPS to do so. It also has a FM feature.

German car manufacturer Mercedes teams up with the iPhone fan club, and they’ve integrated the iPhone slot into their range of cars. The $249 gadget works with the C-, E-, CLK-,
CLS-, S-, CL-, SL-, M- and R-Class cars, as well as the forthcoming GLK-Class. It connects your phone to the car’s audio system via either the available Media Interface or the retrofittable iPod Interface Kit. Bad luck Nokia… Hurry up with the Tube!

The Ego Street Scoota is an electric scooter that costs no more than a thousand dollars! With an electric fuel cell powering this mean sexy machine and you can save a bundle on fuel and tax! It’s also offering a top speed of 30 mph and a maximum traveling range of 40 miles. It will cost around $0.16 for a full charge, which averages out to approximately half a cent per mile. What are you waiting for??
The Eco Street Scoota will sell for £999.95
We’ve all been mesmerized by the local news coverage of some bad guy fleeing police in a high speed chase. And like watching car racing and hockey, we just wait for the inevitable crash that will end the pursuit. And soon enough, it comes and the foolish perp is taken away in cuffs while his car is a smoldering mass of twisted metal. But lately, police are catching all kinds of flack for pursuing these car chases at the endangerment of the local populace. Some have even taken to letting the guy go, rather than risk a crash and human lives which result in the inevitable bevy of lawsuits. But now, they can track the bad guy, rather than chase him, with a new projectile GPS transceiver which will allow the helicopter and units monitoring to simply hang back and wait for the perp to get where he’s going.
STARCHASE is the name of the d
evice and it fits on the bumper of any current police cruiser. Like a small air powered canon, the Starchase will launch a small dart that has a GPS receiver built in which broadcasts the car’s location in real time. This enables police to either hang back and follow the perp at a safe distance or, triangulate his route and location and send units to head him off at the pass. Either way, this is the promise of new technology. Creating gadgets which, in their James Bond fashion, protect the good guys and catch the bad guys.
Now that’s a cool gadget.