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Glowing Extending Buckles Eliminate Seat Belt Hide-And-Seek

5:15AM February 9, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

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 »


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Mercedes Gesture Control Is No Fluffy DICE

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10:30AM January 16, 2012 | Nick Broughall

Cars still have a long way to go before they reach the lofty heights set by science fiction films in the ’80s, but it’s good to know that Mercedes Benz is on the case. At CES last week the German auto company showed off its Dynamic & Intuitive Control Experience (DICE) control system, which could change the way we drive forever. More »


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France Sold Gaddafi An Electronics-Blasting Stealth Mercedes SUV

1:20AM September 20, 2011 | Sam Biddle

What do you buy when you’re an incredible rich, incredible paranoid, oppressive dictator? No, not Scud missiles — you already have those! How about a luxury truck that can’t be tracked and scrambles everything around it? Bien sur! More »


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World’s Biggest Basket Lift Is Taller Than All Of Notre Dame

1:37AM August 3, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

There must be a good reason you’d be in an open air basket 112m above the ground. Besides hot-air ballooning, you might be standing in a Bronto S-112 HLA, repairing hunchback damage atop the world’s most famous cathedral. More »


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The Largest LEGO Technic Ever Is A Unimog

8:00AM June 2, 2011 | Matt Hardigree

The European truck most noted for its complete badassedness is the Mercedes-Benz Unimog – a vehicle so large the company determined Americans would find it offensively huge. Now LEGO is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the truck by building a scale 2000+ piece version that’s the largest Technic set ever sold. More »


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Mercedes-Benz Thinks Cars Can Be Grown In Labs

5:20PM December 1, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

The Los Angeles Design Challenge always brings some crazy idea, but this year one in particular caught our attention: the Mercedes-Benz BIOME concept car. It’s an eco-friendly, biodegradable, ultra-light hybrid vehicle – which would be custom grown in a lab. More »


Software

Mercedes-Benz’s iPhone App Just Got Even Fancier

2:24AM September 8, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Thanks to the mbrace iPhone app, Benzo owners in the US have long enjoyed the ability to find their vehicles and unlock them from their iPhones. MBbrace 2.0 adds access to M-B’s extensive concierge services and more. More »


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The Mystery Of Steve Jobs’s Plateless Benz

2:40AM August 13, 2010 | Bryan Gardiner

If you ranked the things in life that Jobs seems perfectly content to ignore, licence plates would be up there with disabled parking spaces, three-piece suits and customer demands. The proof, as it were, is all over Flickr. More »


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Mercedes F800 Will Run On Petrol, Electricity Or Hydrogen

3:40AM May 18, 2010 | Jim Hill

We jumped inside a Mercedes F800 last week – the car that will offer three flavours of fuel as soon as 2012. Mercedes says that the future is a three-lane highway, with cars running on petrol, electricity and hydrogen. More »


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Luxury Mercedes-Benz EC145 Helicopter Looks Good Enough To Live In

7:51PM May 5, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

It’s the ultimate height in personal travel, inspired by Mercedes-Benz’s R-Class car series. Unlike their sportscars though, this helicopter can carry eight people in style and has a TV, fridge and requisite cup holders. More »