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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
6:20AM Mark Wilson | If we’d known living in Tron were this easy, well, let’s just a lifelong disfigurement from ramming head-first into a Battlezone cabinet may have been avoided. More »
Decorating Tip: Tron-ify Everything
6:20AM Mark Wilson | If we’d known living in Tron were this easy, well, let’s just a lifelong disfigurement from ramming head-first into a Battlezone cabinet may have been avoided. More »
Entertainment
Tron Legacy Trailer Released, Makes Me Want A Light Cycle
12:00PM Don Nguyen
The teaser for Tron Legacy was released and the clip looks incredible. It’s hard to judge by a trailer how good a movie will be—ahem, Terminator Salvation—but if this teaser is any indication, the movie will be fantastic. More »
Vehicles
Tron Legacy’s New Awesome Lightcycle Escapes Into The Real World
1:00AM Jesus Diaz
Here’s one of the ultra-sleek I-want-I-want-I-WANT new Tron sequel’s lightcycles, which apparently has escaped the grid to get into the real world. It’s on display at Comic Con 2009, and it gets me as wet as the trailer did. [YouTube] More »
Entertainment
The Valkyrie Meets Star Wars Meets Tron Doesn’t Meet Chuck Jones
2:30AM Jesus Diaz | If you are in LA and like opera, Star Wars and Tron, check this performance of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre. Looks amazing, but Wagner always makes me want to invade Poland.* I prefer Chuck Jones:
Design
Tron 2 Vehicle Designer Daniel Simon Is an Intergalactic Hardware Visionary
12:30PM Wilson Rothman | Daniel Simon, the guy designing the lightcycles and other crazy vehicles for Tron 2, previously published Cosmic Motors, a compendium of otherworldly vessels you will never drive, but spend your life wishing you could. More »
Software
Tron For iPhone’s Multitouch Multiplayer Mode is Awesome: Four Hands, One iPhone
10:00AM John Mahoney | A well-implemented Tron for iPhone is cool enough on its own, but most impressive is this version’s incredibly cool approach to multiplayer: a vertical splitscreen puts both players’ hands in the game at once. More »
Vehicles
Chevy Orlando Looks Like a Minivan from Tron
5:20AM Adam Frucci | No, this isn’t a car from the upcoming Tron sequel. No, it’s the 2010 Chevy Orlando, a concept vehicle due to be shown off at the Paris Motor Show next week. It’s pretty similar to the 2010 Chevy Cruze, but as you can see, it’s got some pretty dramatic blue lighting on its exterior. I’m not quite sure if its completely ridiculous or totally awesome; it probably falls somewhere between the two. I mean, Tron lights are awesome, but Tron lights on a glorified minivan? It’s interesting, at least. Hit the jump for a shot of this with its sunroof glowing, then head over to Jalopnik to see many, many more pictures of this thing. More »
Design
Yamaha Branded Deus Ex Machina Motorcycle Exoskeleton On Video, Looks Tron-esque
3:40AM Jason Chen | We’ve seen this crazy motorcycle exoskeleton before, but its inventor Jake Loniak has just mocked up a video showing what it would be like in motion. Yeah, we’re pretty damn impressed, but the guy gets cocky: More »
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