diesel
Design
Fit For Jeff Bridges: BMW’s Vision Efficient Dynamics Hybrid Concept
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Jalopnik is right. This see-through concept out of the BMW R&D wing would be best served with a side of Tron and a couple of light cycles. More »
Design
Diesel Spawns a Two-Faced Freak of Nature Watch
10:00AM Mark Wilson | Apparently, half a watch plus half a watch equals one ugly watch.
Gadgets
Diesel DZ9044 Watch Doesn’t Need a Face To Tell The Time
4:40AM Sean Fallon | First there was too many faces, and now diesel has done a 180 with a watch with no faces at all. What’s next? Putting the clock on the back of the watch? More »
Design
X-Ray Coffee Table Reveals a Hidden Life That’s Cooler than Your Real Life
4:30AM Mark Wilson | According to Diesel, your coffee table is obscuring a series of turntables used for your closet DJing habit. In reality, that fossilized trilobite-esque table up top may be more your speed. [Diesel via MoCo Loco] More »
Vehicles
BioBot Makes Bio Diesel at Home!
5:45AM Mark Wilson | You would think that making your own Bio Diesel at home would be a tough, multi-stepped procedure that has a few dangerous spots to misstep. Well before the BioBot, a system that makes Bio Diesel from old cooking oil, you would have been right. Unfortunately, after the BioBot, you would have been right, too. Here is their simple, 8+ step process to make gas at home. And don’t worry, that chemistry beaker is just for show! More »
Science
Free-Piston Engines Are Ultra-Efficient, Could Replace Gas and Diesel
2:30PM Gizmodo US Edition | As we move towards battery and hydrogen cell breakthroughs that could wean us off our addiction to oil, here’s at least one engine design from yesteryear that ought to be examined a bit more. The free-piston engine, first invented in 1920, are cheap to build and roughly twice as efficient as current gas engines. More »
Gadgets
Five-Faced Diesel Watch: Screw You Midwestern States
5:00AM Sean Fallon | So what if you don’t live in the same time zone as New York, LA, Tokyo, Paris or London? Well, that means this Diesel Timepiece would be nothing more to you than a gaudy way to buff up your watch arm. Fortunately, a thinner, daintier version exists for those wishing to forgo the pre-ordained cities for five choices of your own. All you have to do is remember which one is which. Available for US$550 and US$495 respectively. More »
Gadgets
Fuel Checker Gizmo Warns if You’re About to Screw Up Your Engine
9:22PM Kit Eaton | Pumping gas into a diesel engine, or vice versa, is a big no-no that may well screw up your engine. We all know that, don’t we? But for those, uh, “fuel-type challenged” people out there that get it wrong, there’s this new Fuel Checker gizmo. You install it inside your filler flap, and touch the pump nozzle to it before filling up: it’ll check the type and flash green for go, and red for no. No idea how it works, but it comes in gasoline or diesel versions. Or you could, you know… read the label on the pump and double check the colour of the nozzle you’re holding, and save yourself US$40. AU: Seriously? I drive a diesel, and I’ve never ever ever come close to putting unleaded in the tank. Is this a common occurrence? [Red Ferret]
Gadgets
Diesel LED Watches Have Hidden Mirror Displays for Sci-Fi Chic
11:15PM Gizmodo US Edition | Ah, a digital watch with an LED display that’s not impossible to read… fantastic! Even better, the LEDs on these new watches from Diesel are a dot-matrix screen, and are hidden behind a mirror surface that makes the whole package look suitably sci-fi. Like something Luke would’ve worn on his cybernetic wrist. You can even program the display to scroll messages up to 20 characters long. Having “Use the Force…” scrolling past is too much, you think? Available with a mirrored patent strap (DZ7091) or a black leather one (DZ7092) for US$170. [Diesel via Technabob] More »
Science
