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Star Trek Fish Car Emblem

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Star Trek Fish Emblem Why debate the existence of God with a fish emblem attached to the back of your car when you can show your support for the religion known around the world as Star Trek and pray on the Alter of Roddenberry with this Star Trek Fish Car Emblem.

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (pages 63, 65 and 66) states that the experiments with single and more than two nacelle designs, conducted in 2269, proved that having two nacelles is the optimal configuration for vessel control and power generation as represented by this chrome fish with dual warp nacelles.

So boldly go and proclaim your love for all things Trek. Lament that your car doesn’t have an anti-matter warp core, or is armed with photon torpedoes!

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Price: $7.99
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Deluxe Digital Mini Fridge Cooler & Warmer

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Deluxe Digital Mini Fridge Cooler & Warmer Whether you spend most of your workday confined to your desk or driving around for hours on end, often times grabbing a cold drink or keeping a food dish warm just isn’t convenient. Now there is an answer, the Deluxe Digital Mini Fridge Cooler & Warmer will remain at your side, keeping your drinks and food at the temperature you desire while operating at a whisper quiet level. Simply plug it into an available outlet near your desk or use the car adapter to take it with you on the road. While compact, the clever design still has a 25 Liter capacity, enough to store up to 30 standard cans. The incredible refrigerator will allow you to set the temperature from 36° F to 140° F for optimal food and beverage storage.

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Price: $149.99
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12v Cooling Car Summer Seat

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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 almost instant relief for your tush from that hot summer sun, using your car’s battery or any wall socket to provide a cooling fan.

Just slip the 12-Volt Cooling Car Summer Seat over your seat back, and then buckle and tighten it around the seat securely. Plug the 12-volt car plug into your car’s cigarette lighter socket, and the cushion will start to cool down immediately. Adjust the fan speed for cooler air. You’ll also appreciate the seat’s breathable fabric, which is much more comfortable on hot days than your car’s leather seats.

You won’t forget to turn off the seat’s fan, even if you step away from your desk at work or if you accidentally leave it on at home. The 12-Volt Cooling Car Summer Seat shuts off automatically after an hour of use.

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Price: $59.99
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Lemur EconoDriver

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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 travel and the driver’s “green” score. Installation of EconoDriver is simple and no tools are required. You simply plug the included sensor into the vehicle’s Data Port (or OBD-II Port) available in all vehicles manufactured in 1996 and later. There’s no need to remove EconoDriver every time you exit your car.

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Price: $89.98
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CommuteMate Cell-Cup organizes your gadgets in your car’s cupholder

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CommuteMate Cell-CupHere’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 it can hold: The front slot holds anything up to 72mm x 15mm, while the back slot can handle 69mm x 29mm. The devices can be any height.

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Price: $5.99
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Cruzin Cooler

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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 and hop on. Think how many tailgate sites you could using the Cruzin Cooler. Forget about having to pay to use a golf cart, just strap the clubs on the cooler!

Everyone who sees it goes nuts over it – you will be the life of any party. In testing, Smarthome rode it around the office and brought it to the beach & football games and had hundreds of people come up to us to find out where to buy one.

The Cooler motor changes using a regular 110 plug-in adapter and provides a 15-mile range per charge. This motorized ice chest holds up to (24) 12-ounce cans of your favorite beverages, and thanks to a built-in motor, you can travel at up to 13 miles per hour while sitting comfortably. The Cruzin Cooler is capable of holding over 300 pounds – body weight plus cargo.

This description is for a 500-watt version of the Cruzin Cooler. There is a smaller 300-watt version too that can handle up to a 210 pound person.

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Price: $499

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GPS Angel V4 warns you when approaching dicey intersections

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GPS Angel V4The 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 one.

There are no monthly fees to keep the database up-to-date. Just plug it into your PC via a USB cable. You can also search the list online at www.gpsangel.com.

One other nice feature is the ability to program the V4 to warn you when you are in school zones, parks, etc.

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Price: $117.99
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Heads-Up Displays get Small with Holographic Projection Tech

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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 actually in your side mirror or perhaps your rearview mirror. What may be better or at least additional is a HUD display on the windscreen itself.

via Technology Review

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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