Automotive

12v Cooling Car Summer Seat

Warm summer days evoke certain standards, such as blue ocean waves, long, vacation-filled days, and hot car seats! Since summer clothing shouldn’t have to be adjusted for a more comfortable ride to work or the beach, it’s time to install a seat cooler for a more pleasant ride. The 12-Volt Cooling Car Summer Seat provides [...]

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Lemur EconoDriver

Winner of a 2010 CES Innovations Honors award, the Lemur EconoDriver helps you understand how much you are spending on fuel and how much money you are wasting. You just need to enter the price of fuel and EconoDriver does the rest. The easy-to-read key fob display provides real-time feedback about vehicle mileage, cost of [...]

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Porsche going Hybrid with the 918 Spyder

Porsche is going to build a hybrid. How about that? Yup, the Porsche 918 Spyder, which to date was only a concept car, got the go-ahead from the board at Porsche.  They already have over 1000 people on a buyer’s list. This is a 500hp 3.4-liter V-8 car that gets 78 mpg, has a 198 [...]

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CommuteMate Cell-Cup organizes your gadgets in your car’s cupholder

Here’s another of our ‘no batteries needed’ gadgets that is great for your gadgets that do need juice. The CommuteMate Cell-Cup sits in your car’s cup holder and holds 2 phones/iPods/sunglasses, etc neatly and without rattling around. There are a couple of holes so you can route your phone’s charger cord as well. Here’s what [...]

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Cruzin Cooler

Have you ever thought about attaching wheels and a motor to your cooler? So have I. Unfortunately someone beat us to it and created the Cruzin Cooler. Forget the days where you lug a heavy ice chest to your next picnic site, tailgate party, or boat. Load up the motorized cooler, grab a cold one [...]

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GPS Angel V4 warns you when approaching dicey intersections

The GPS Angel V4 is a red light camera and speed camera warning system that you place on your car’s dashboard. It uses GPS to figure out where your car is and maps that against the built-in database of over 6000 known red light camera and speed camera locations, and warns you when you’re approaching [...]

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Heads-Up Displays get Small with Holographic Projection Tech

Head-up Displays (HUDs) are not exactly a cutting-edge technology any more. However, they still demand a great deal of space. A new HUD based on holographic projection could be squeezed into a space as small as a car’s side mirror. Just imagine being able to see additional data, graphics or other warnings overlaid on what’s [...]

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Viper Smart Start iPhone app – Remotely Start Your Car

Well your AT&T coverage and reliability may not be very good, but hey at least your iPhone is one amazing little smartphone. Automotive gadget maker Viper has taken advantage of that fact to create an iPhone app called Smart Start that pairs with one of their Remote Start products to let you start/stop/lock/unlock your car [...]

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Gadget Gifts – Ideas, Recommendations, Suggestions

We’ve put together a list of gadget gifts for the gizmo-lover in your life. These aren’t just great for the Christmas holiday season but any time of year. For the most part, we’ve tried to stay away from the usual and obvious electronic gadgets like MP3 players, phones and cameras, but instead bring you a [...]

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How to Install a USB Power Port into your Toyota Prius!

Got a Prius? Want a USB port built into the dashboard? No problem, just follow these 9 ‘simple’ steps at Instructables. Yeah, so seriously – unless you’re amazing with a Dremel and know a fair amount about car electrical systems, we wouldn’t advise it!

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