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Hummer Tank: Right In Time for Winter/Economic Crisis

Mark Wilson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:40:00 +0000

In case gas mileage on your Hummer wasn’t spiting Prius drivers everywhere enough, engineers have pooled their talents to add aftermarket tracked belts in place of the “nothing wrong with ‘em” wheels. Needless to say, MPG and top speed will be greatly diminished on this H2. But the tears shed in the face of its general lack of humanity should be voluminous enough to wash away the world’s pollution one or two times over. [Jalopnik]

Military-Grade Hummer Replacement Has Remote-Controlled Gun Turret

Adrian Covert — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:25:00 +0000

I’m sure military enthusiasts will geek out about this IMI Wildcat — A Hummer-replacing 4×4 MPC vehicle that can hold 12 soldiers, protect against 14.5 mm fire and RPGs, cross 900mm trenches, is C-130 transportable, yada yada yada, whoopdie freakin doo. But what makes this thing truly awesome is that it has a gun turret on top that can be remotely controlled from inside.

Called the IMI WAVE, it is a camera mounted next to the gun, soldiers can sit inside and assess the situation from a video control panel that can automatically lock on to targets. Not only is it the only vehicle of its type to have this tech, but it will the risk of soldiers getting hit while standing and firing outside a vehicle. Check out this earlier Discovery Channel clip of the WAVE in action. It’s like the best video game ever. [Aviation Week]

Hummer HT2 Phone Is Smaller, Brighter, Even More Pointless than the Original

Matt Buchanan — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:45:17 +0000

Fifty-thousand people compensating for something bought the Hummer HT1 phone. The new HT2 pulls the same trick as the H2 truck—it shrinks the original and adds a brighter coat of paint, with a fresh splash of asinine. In this case, even more so, because it seems to pack the same ho-hum specs as the HT1. At least the camo paint let you pretend it was invisible—now the sunny brick will make sure everyone knows you’re a jackass. [Idnes via Slashphone]

Hummer with Roof-Mounted Laser Cannon is Pure Intimidation

Adam Frucci — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:09:08 +0000

If you really want to intimidate people and blow some stuff up real good, you can’t go wrong with a Hummer that happens to have a gigantic laser cannon mounted on top of it. The Laser Avenger, which we first reported on back in October, is designed to take out roadside bombs from afar, and I can assure you that you can’t have one. The laser is a solid-state direct-energy beam by Boeing and shoots an “invisible beam just a few centimeters in diameter and 20 times hotter than an electric stovetop.” Yeah, you don’t want to be on the business end of that. [Popular Mechanics]

Modified Hummer Gets 60mpg, Goes From 0-60 in 5 Seconds

Sean Fallon — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:20:09 +0000

H3 Humvees are not exactly the first vehicles that come to mind when you think of saving the environment, which is why this modded 2005 H3 is so freakin’ amazing. According to its creator and green car guru Johnathan Goodwin, when completed this H3 will be able to achieve 60mpg running on biodiesel, 600 horsepower, 2000 foot-pounds of torque, and go from 0-60 in 5 seconds —thanks to the 60,000 rpm 1985 turbine jet engine he plans on installing. The turbine will be used to power a set of “supercapacitor” batteries when the electric motor runs low. The resulting burst of power will charge the batteries in mere seconds and lead to the impressive feat of acceleration mentioned earlier.In essence, Goodwin’s H3 is a “super hybrid,” combining immense power with high levels of fuel efficiency. He even plans on incorporating a a hydrogen-injection system that will cut already low biodiesel emissions in half. Compare that to the 16mpg and 300 horses current H3s are packing.[Fast Company via AutoblogGreen via Neatorama]

Hummer HT1 Phone Gets 9 Miles Per Gallon

Seamus Byrne — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:45:40 +0000

Oh, look, a regular phone that’s very expensive because it’s got some car company’s logo on it. This time it’s a Hummer, one of the more deplorable car brands out there, and it’s got the great “feature” of having a camo finish on it. If you’re in a jungle, it’ll make you look like you have a hole in your head when you’re talking on the phone! Good luck getting cell service in the jungle, though. That’s a conundrum right there.

In any case, for $400 you can be a sucker and have a phone that says “Hummer” on it. The Hummer HT1 has a 2 megapixel camera, an integrated FM radio, a microSD memory card slot, GPRS and GSM support. It’s headed for Europe, where gas is even more expensive and Hummers are even more impractical. Brilliant. –Adam Frucci

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