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Toys
Lego DeLorean Is 100% Remote-Controlled Brick Awesomeness
12:30AM Jesus Diaz | Dear Lego: You better make this remote-controlled Lego DeLorean a real product or I will go back to Denmark and burn your factory down. Kindest regards, J. P.S. Don’t forget to check the video after the jump. More »
Vehicles
At Gizmodo Gallery: Back to the Future DeLorean Is Here
6:19AM Jesus Diaz | Hey people! The DeLorean has arrived. From the past to the Gizmodo Gallery, straight from the 80s, like me and my pants! More »
Gadgets
Gallery Today: DeLorean, Meetup, Free Shirts, Deathmatch
4:41AM Brian Lam | Hey, the Gizmodo Gallery is open again, and we’ve got some fun stuff happening today and only today, including a reader meetup with free t-shirts and cheap beer. And a DeLorean. More »
Vehicles
At Giz Gallery: Reader Meetup and a Back To the Future Delorean
7:17AM Brian Lam | We’ve been teasing out a few of our 40+ Gizmodo Gallery gadgets on display next week in NYC, like the 103-inch Panasonic plasma, Apple prototypes and the first Walkman. But did I mention we’ll have a Delorean parked outside the Gallery next Friday night, coinciding with the reader meetup? No? Did I mention its a car with full Back To the Future props. No? Huh, funny. I probably should have told you that earlier. Anyhow, here are the details for the reader meetup, which I hope you can come to. More »
Vehicles
$US100,000 Electric DeLorean Can’t Store 1.21 Gigawatts, Runs at 88MPH
6:30AM Jesus Diaz | This is the Electro DeLorean, a fully electric retrofit of the 1981 iconic Back to the Future car. It’s also a completely wasted opportunity: If there’s a DeLorean version that needed a lightning hook system, this is the one. Still, you can add it yourself, because it is for sale on eBay for $US100,000 right now, including the obligatory flux capacitator prop. According to the seller, this is the “fastest and longest range electric DeLorean” you can buy, capable of doing 88MPH: More »
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Lightning Power For Energy, Time Travel Another Story
10:18AM Sean Fallon | Lightning. It just goes about it’s business – mocking us. We have always known there is potential there for an alternative energy source, but harnessing that power has proven difficult. However, an inventor names Steve LeRoy may be on the brink of changing all that with a device that generates lightning then harvests the resulting energy. The prototype can generate bolts almost metre-long in length, but that is only enough electricity to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb for 20 minutes. However, LeRoy notes that a full-scale version has the potential to power 30,000 homes for a day with just one lightning bolt. Impressive. With that kind of juice you could easily get a Delorean up to 141kph. [Buisnessweek via Sci Fi Tech] More »
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DeLorean Confirms: New Cars to Roll Out in ‘08
4:30AM Charlie White | Just as we mentioned last month, the DeLorean sports car is indeed going back into production, and you won’t even have to go back in time to get one of those vehicles so memorably featured in the science fiction movie Back to the Future. Our beloved blood brothers at Jalopnik spoke to one of the guys who’s going to make this happen in 2008. James Espey, VP of the DeLorean Motor Company, said work will begin on the first car in the third quarter, and delivery of that vehicle will be in the first quarter of 2008 at a price of $57,500. The good news is, it will still look like a DeLorean, with a stainless steel body, gull wing doors and squared-off front end. Let’s just hope they double the horsepower, because those 130 horses under the hood weren’t too impressive back in the day. These cars will be handmade, so that $57,500 price sounds like a bargain. Follow the link for Jalopnik’s exclusive report and gallery. [Jalopnik] More »
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DeLorean Going Back Into Production
11:35PM Seamus Byrne | The DeLorean, the car from Back to the Future with the gull wing doors and gleaming stainless steel finish, has come back to the future, going into extremely limited production thanks to a group of greasemonkeys in Houston who like to refurbish cars. They have about 200 of the original DeLorean 2.8 L V-6 engines on hand, and will start making the cars from scratch next year. More »
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