The Higgs Boson still hasn’t made an appearance, but in an even more stunning discovery, apparently the Large Hadron Collider has been responsible for creating the new 2012 Range Rover Sport. That’s $US9 billion well spent right there. More »
Certainly you’ve assembled a piece of IKEA furniture and experienced that special kind of frustration that comes with realising the screw holes don’t line up and you have to take everything apart and put it together it again. Now imagine this problem at 230m in the air with massive steel girders instead of particle board. When those holes don’t line up, it’s a whole different kind of frustration. More »
It’s certainly a safety improvement, but Mercedes’ new active seat belt buckle should also eliminate the utterly annoying game of trying to find the connectors that have inevitably gotten stuck in-between the back seat cushions of a car. More »
Students at Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Art and Design were tasked by General Motors to come up with a way to “help rear seat passengers, particularly children, have a richer experience on the road”. Judging by this video, I’m guessing they stared at the rear seat windows, then their smartphones and then back at the windows and thought “Hey, why not whack some Angry Birds on there and call it a day?”. More »
MIT’s city car concept has been in the pipeline for a long time, but until now there’s been nothing other than illustrations and half-size models. The real thing is here, and it’s about to go into testing in Europe. More »
Google is already testing its autonomous cars on the roads of California, and plenty of other manufacturers are starting to muscle in on the act too. But when they hit the roads, how do you go about policing a city full of self-driven cars? More »
Everybody’s working on self-driving cars! Google, Ford, Volvo and now even the ultimate driving machine, BMW, is trying their hand at hands free driving. BMW’s self-autonomous system uses four types of sensors, radar, cameras, laser scanners and ultrasound distance sensors and can even change lanes to zoom past a slowpoke car. BMW. The ultimate lazy-driving machine. More »
If you ever wanted to see a man in a go-kart hit close to 100km/h in 3.4 seconds, then you’ve come to the right place. More »
Holy Batman’s pants, check out this Bootmobile. These guys created a truck that is a boot that is a truck that is a boot. Pedal to the leather to the metal! I’m so excited I can go like this all day. More »
Yesterday the feds shut down MegaUpload. They’ve also seized an awful lot of the founders’ possessions, including Kim “Dotcom” Schlitz’s rather expensive car collection. Here’s what towing away his millions of dollars of cars looks like. More »
