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Wagan Ionic Air Purifies eliminates odors and fumes from your car

Gizmo of the Day, Miscellaneous / By /

Wagan Ionic Air PurifierJust about $10 is a small price to pay to have your air cleansed of unpleasant odors, fumes, bacteria, pollen and dust. The Wagan Ionic Air Purifier plugs into your car’s cigarette lighter. (They really need to give that thing a new name, because honestly, you shouldn’t be using it to help you smoke! Ok, end of soapbox rant!)

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Price: $10.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Viper Smart Start iPhone app – Remotely Start Your Car

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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 from your iPhone from virtually anywhere.

Before there were iPhones, Viper was making remote automobile starter systems that are installed in your car, and that you could then use the accompanying remote control to start your car from varying distances (some products are just local up to 2000 ft while others could go up to a mile). …

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Wagan Heated Magnetic Massage Seat Cushion for your Car or Home

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The mercury has already started to drop across most of the North American continent and you may be dreading another winter of getting into your cold car every morning to go to work.

If you opted to save $10,000 or more for a cheaper car that doesn’t have heated seats, then you might consider just $50 for this gem – a heated seat cushion that by itself might be worth the price alone. But this product from Wagan is also a massaging cushion with 5 motors and a remote control too.

It works via either AC or DC adapters and can of course be used in the home as well. This magnetic seat cushion may be the answers to your prayers if you drive a fair amount.

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Price: $49.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Blueant Supertooth 3 Hands-free Bluetooth Speakerphone

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The BlueAnt Supertooth 3 handsfree speakerphone takes car speakerphones to another cool level. The most interesting feature is that the S3 announces the name or ID of the caller when you get a call and you just have to say ‘OK’ to accept the call. Totally hands-free.

The Supertooth 3 connects to your cell phone via Bluetooth 2.0 and is a full-duplex speakerphone with DSP noise and echo cancellation, as well as automatic sound-leveling. You can upload the contacts from your mobile and it uses text-to-speech to do the announcing of the caller.

Gives up to 15 hours of talk time, and up to 800 hours of standby, and comes with a clip to attach to your car’s sun visor.

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Price: $73.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Lexus HS 250h – hybrid eco-vehicle

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This is one of our pricey gadgets, but boy is it a nice one. Lexus has just launched a brand new hybrid model, the HS 250h. You’ll probably have seen TV ads already, and will notice ads showing up in print and on billboards soon. The ad campaign’s slogan is “Hello Someday” as in someday your car can have all of these various advanced technologies and someday is today. Well at least in the HS, and sure enough, the HS is really chock full of gee-whiz features.

Here are just some of those features:

  • Lane Keep Assist – helps keep your car in its lane by monitoring the lane markings via radar and micro video cameras.
  • Lane Departure Warning – beep if your car wanders and gently steers it back if it does.
  • Heads up Display – windscreen in front of the driver shows turn by turn directions as well as the buttons that the driver is touching on the steering wheel
  • Dynamic Radar Cruise Control – help you stay a pre-set distance from the car in front of you, and automatically applies the brakes and/or accelerator to keep that distance.
  • Pre-Collision System – uses radar to sense imminent collisions and applies brakes and pulls in seatbelts.
  • Voice Command – voice-recognition system allows users to say commands. For example, control the temperature and call someone.
  • Driver Attention Monitor – uses infrared sensors to monitor the driver’s face to ensure they’re paying attention

In addition to the features, the HS touts eco-friendly feature such as recycled materials, ecological plastics and reduced emissions. That is just a sampling of features. Lexus has put together a nice website that shows off these features nicely with videos and more.

The HS 250h starts at approx $35k.

Super Universal Car Mount

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Super Universal Car Mount

The Super Universal Car Mount is a neat idea for those of you who like to have pretty much all your gadgets rigged up in the car – mobile phone, Sat Nav and your MP3 player. The candle-style arrangement allows you to hold up to three of your favorite gadgets and comes with leads to connect all of these up (presumably to your car): iPhones, iPods, Zunes, MP3, GPS, Game consoles (a worrying idea!), PDAs, Phones and more! Pretty cool gizmo; just make sure it doesn’t obscure all of your windscreen!

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Price: $29.99
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

RC MINI Cooper S Convertible

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RC MINI Cooper S Convertible

Don’t you wish you had a convertible as summer is here, perhaps a Mini Cooper Convertible? If you don’t have that kind of cash, then how about a remote control Mini Cooper?!

Our recent round up of spy cameras inspired us to go find some new RC autos. This is the RC MINI Cooper Convertible – costing only $25 and an exact 1:43 replica (body work only – don’t expect to find a tiny BMW engine in there powering it!) of a real one it is almost as good fun as driving around in the real thing!

It has a top speed of 150mph 0.1m/s? plus special turbo boost on the remote and has fully functioning headlines – just like a real one!

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Price: $25.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Tata Motors’ Nano

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It’s not really surprising that a super-cheap car with great gas mileage (approx 50 mpg) would be snapped up, is it? Well certainly not today. And that’s the story with Indian car maker, Tata Motor’s Nano. They have already taken pre-paid orders on over 200,000 units.

This greatly exceeds their capacity, and some buyers will be waiting until next year for their Nano. Delivery of the $2000 Nano does not start until July.

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