Transportation

You never know what you’ll find when playing around with the 360-degree street view feature on Google Maps. For example, here is something spotted that we’re sure isn’t an experience that is to be remembered as a happy one. For some reason, someone (a woman no doubt) decided to slam her Mercedes into a pole, exactly where the panorama camera ...

The Marion Hyper-Sub Submersible Powerboat is not your average sea bearing vessel. The Hyper-Sub can operate as both a boat and a submarine, both equally well. And it can look pretty sweet while doing it too. Creator Reynolds Marion enlisted the help of his mechanical engineer neighbor to help create the schematics for the Hyper-Sub, and as it turns out, ...

You are sure to have a friend who is very protective of their car. Maybe you are that person. Either way, you know that look that means “Lay a finger on the hood and I’ll shove a jack up your ass.” Much like a real life Bubble Boy, the CarCapsule domes your vehicle in an anti-static and flame retardant layer ...

Most GPS units come with a stock robotic voice which dictates directions to you in an awkward and mispronounced fashion. YourPND is a service which allows you to record your own voice, and than download the audio files to use for your GPS device. So far, the service only works for TomTom devices, but so many people who use GPS ...

A GPS is a GPS is a GPS. Most GPS devices are seemingly carbon copies of each previous one. Mio plans to change the 2D road schematics of in-car GPS platforms and add in a 3D twist, featuring topographic maps and 3D displays of landmarks. The new Mio C620 and C620T devices both offer a 4.3 inch display, based around ...

Looking for a creative gift for a friend who collects car models? We aren’t either, but we do happen to think these “Urban Collectibles” cars are a nifty change on the usual spic and span version of model cars. Each model looks like a demolition car gone bad. Maybe even one of the cars used for a monster truck smash ...

Snowboarding and skiing are pretty ancient on the whole scheme of things. While we’ve seen some interesting uses of snowboard integration, this is a first for a totally new snow ride concept. The Brenter Snobike C4 adds in the functionality of bicycles for the slope. Even though it’s called a Snowbike, don’t expect to see any wheels. The system uses ...

Sony has developed a CMOS camera to be integrated into the Nissan “around view monitor”, which displays an overhead view of a vehicle with four cameras video system. The 23.4 � 23.4 � 21.7mm camera will offer 1.3 MP, 30 frame rate per second, with a 186.2� view in a horizontal direction and 147� in a vertical direction. We guess ...

Toyota has announced that they have created a world-class driving simulator which will “effectively analyze the driving characteristics of average drivers”.� Located at TMC’s Higashifuji Technical Center in Susono City (wherever that is), the simulator apparently offers the most realistic driving experience without being in a car. We must ask, wouldn’t it have been a lot cheaper just to use ...

The Segway has been used in many ways, even as a mobile baby carriage pusher (or as I like to call it, the lazy bitch mobile), but we’ve yet to see some real custom Segway rides. SegwayJunkyard has put together some impressive custom Segway devices, including the Night Rider (pictured left) and a special Segway made for LG (pictured right). ...