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SteerSafe Smartphone Vehicle Mount and Why we Think it will Fail

SteerSafe Smartphone Vehicle Mount and Why we Think it will Fail

We’re all guilty of it: driving and looking at our smartphone.  It’s dangerous to say the least, and causes numerous accidents and fatalities every year. The Steer Safe Hands Free Car Kit hopes to combat this [...]

Outrun Video Game Electric Car (video)

Outrun Video Game Electric Car (video)

An electric car with a display that renders the real world, as you drive, in in the style of the 1986 video game OutRun by Sega. [...]

Evatran Wireless Car Charging Coming Soon To The Chevy Volt

Evatran Wireless Car Charging Coming Soon To The Chevy Volt

Wireless charging, while not truly wireless in some respects, has emerged for a variety of consumer products thanks to companies such as Powermat.  Unfortunately, there selection of goods is limited to handheld items, which makes logical [...]

LEGO Porsche is Fully Operational (video)

LEGO Porsche is Fully Operational (video)

This to scale LEGO Porsche 911 is absolutely insane.  The roof is not only retractable but motorized, the hood can be opened by pulling a lever from the interior, the doors have real locks and that’s [...]

Monster’s iMotion Adds Gesture Controls To Your iPhone

Monster’s iMotion Adds Gesture Controls To Your iPhone

Ridiculous price aside ($120), Monster’s iMotion is one novel piece of kit for the car. At the core it’s an iPod charger that sports a 30-pin connector and 3.5mm audio output.  So you can plug one [...]

Parrot Asteroid Is A Fully Integrated Android Car Receiver (video)

Parrot Asteroid Is A Fully Integrated Android Car Receiver (video)

In 2009 Parrot made headlines with their iPhone compatible car receiver, the RKi8400.  And once again they’ve drawn attention to their car division by announcing the Asteroid, a single DIN car receiver running the Android platform. [...]

PhotoFast AP1000 AirPlayCar Dongle (video)

PhotoFast AP1000 AirPlayCar Dongle (video)

Plenty of devices for Apple’s new iOS 4.2 and AirPlay are coming to market now that they’ve been available for a short while. Japan’s PhotoFast is making their play with a Wi-Fi dongle that gets plugged [...]

The iDeck Converts Your Car’s Cassette Deck Into An iPod Dock

The iDeck Converts Your Car’s Cassette Deck Into An iPod Dock

I’m waiting on the iKit to come to market, but until that time I might have to survive with the iDeck.  It turns your car’s cassette player into an iPod dock.  There’s no word on if [...]

ThinkGeek’s Power Bullet Charger

ThinkGeek’s Power Bullet Charger

Not too sure why it’s called the Power Bullet Charger, but it actually looks like a decent product.  Effectively allowing you to eliminate a charger from your stockpile, the Power Bullet Charger has both a wall [...]

Simple iPad Car Install (video)

Soundman’s iPad car install made headlines as the first ever.  Now the aftermarket car audio shop is back with their second iPad car install, but this time they’ve gone simple and if you ask me temptingly [...]