You drive a car in the front, with another same (but smaller) car following behind… Do you love that experience? You should, honestly. Priced at $3,695 (so much!!), each trailer made by ACT looks likes small replicas of real cars, while they won’t cost you any fuel at all, but simply draw more attention to you…and your cars and trailers.
One possible new tendency for car manufacturing announced at the beginning of 2012 is the smart fabric seat covers developed by researchers from Polytechnic School in Montreal, Canada. The new fabric has electrical properties that will change depending on where touched, so that it allows the drivers to control their radio volume via merely a simple swipe. It means the fabric might replace the nobs, buttons and dials commonly built in cars in the future, so as to offer us a more convenient way to control the car. As BMW is reportedly interested, we guess it wouldn’t be long for us to see the touch fabric roll out in future car models.
A car, also a moving office, the transformed Mercedes-Benz is deemed as one the most extravagant offices around the world. Apart from its elegantly-decorated interior, the car is equipped with Mac mini, Sony 3D TV, Apple iPads, refrigerator, coffee maker, high quality sound system, PS3, iPod touch and other appliances as well, making it the No. 1 luxury combination of high-tech products nowadays. So what should we do on the car, to rest or to work? After all, the car is too comfortable to work in…
New method is put forward here to keep your cars away from theft, and it’s the Car Seat Identification technology developed by Japanese researchers.
What do you usually do during the boring time caused by traffic jam, to play your iPad, have a chat with beautiful ladies or just sit there without thinking anything? Maybe you should get some better alternatives, such as the Car Bluetooth Rearview Mirror Kit. It includes a 4.3 inch touchscreen, a built-in GPS navigation, multimedia on-the-go, DVR capabilities, and a wireless parking camera, once installed to replace your normal rearview mirror, the device would then allow you to play games in car. Isn’t that great? It offers you great pleasure while never taking up you too much space or costing you too much money.
On the Tokyo Motor Show Toyota has unveiled its Fun-Vii concept, a futuristic vehicle that allows the drivers to change the exterior design “with the same ease as downloading an application”. But that’s not all, because the Fun-Vii also features magical exterior display technology that lets drivers to display information on any places inside the car. To make the Fun-Vii more functional and attractive, the car can even be customized, with many themes and an augmented reality function taking place of the traditional navigation system.
A light signal isn’t functional enough to help you communicate with other drivers? Well, possibly the LED Light Display can. It is composed of mesh grid with about 600 LEDs, which are controlled by an ATmega AT89C51 microcontroller and play the messages you’ve already stored in the system. That means, when driving on the road, you can inform those behind you to back off, go ahead or do other things you may want with words displayed by the LED light. See what? The communication between drivers would become easier and clearer now.
Apparently the Terrafugia Transition Flying Car is an advanced vehicle we’ll use in the future. It is literally a car with folding wings, thus it can both run on roads and flies in the air.
Everybody knows what common vending machines can offer, but they seldom recognize that these machines can also provide some surprising things except for drinks and snacks. Actually, with weird vending machines collected from the world, people would easily get Marijuana, panty, gold, or even alive lobsters too. [Read the rest of this entry...]
1200 bottles of nail polish, 900 fake fingernails and 25 days – all those have resulted in these nail art advertisements for Kia’ new automobile “Picanto”. Fantastic. [Read the rest of this entry...]
On the Goodwood Festival of Speed held in Sussex, UK many visitors were firstly amazed by Gerry Judah’s 28-meter-high Jaguar E-Type sculpture rather than real cars shown there. The steel sculpture is mainly about a Jaguar E-Type car balancing on its front bumper, and it is made of half a kilometer of steel tubes that have a diameter of 1.2 meters. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Jon Salerno’s Habitat Micro Home provides a clever and practical way to expand the area of your living space. It uses a small car docked underneath a 100 square feet house to act as an extra room so that the total reconfigurable space inside the Habitat Micro Home would reach 132 square feet. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Let’s start a green journey—never using any kinds of fuel, but simply relying on wind power. Sounds incredible? Not necessarily, because Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer have already completed a 5,000km journey with their electric vehicle powered by wind. They built their car with both electricity-generating wind turbines and a kite, which produced enough electricity power for use during their 18-day trip. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Use our intelligence. We should do this because we can create innovative or even magical things with our talent, just as Sandy Sanderson makes these mini cars with old cans, metal wires and his imagination. So incredible! [Read the rest of this entry...]
This is a new kind of safety belt that incorporates an air bag and you’ll soon see it in Toyota’s Lexus LFA luxury sports cars. When inflates in a collision, the seat belt will offer you a more safer protection so that you can be kept away from high risks of hurt. [Read the rest of this entry...]
