Monthly Archives: May, 2009
Old-School Batmobile Spotted in Orange County
The 1966 Batmobile Dragster was recently spotted in the wild, evidently stopping crime at a Newport Beach car wash. We’d like to think each waxing motion was accompanied by a “WHAM!” The Dragster was the fourth model designed for the campy ’60s “Batman” show and was used to race on drag strips around the country. [...]
Electric Bike Offers Decorative Pedals, Carbon-Free Laziness
At $1,500, this cruiser from Zoomicosts the same as a really nice mountain bike, but does the work for you. Called the Monterey Electric Bike, it goes to 20 mph (unassisted by pedals), but you can add speed by working those shiftless legs. The battery will get you to 30-plus miles on a single charge. Unfortunately, [...]
Mercedes Sends Employees Back to the Future
This is why employees-in-training aren’t allowed to design cars: They end up looking like a bicycle crossed with a pitchfork. New employees at Mercedes-Benz were tasked with creating a totally new vehicle, at least so everyone could get a good laugh. They designed the F-CELL Roadster. It took over 150 employees-in-training a year to come up [...]
Blood Flow May One Day Power Cell Phones
Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Scientists are closing in on a technology that would convert flowing blood into energy that could charge personal electronic devices. Tiny zinc-oxide nanowires, some of which are only 1/5000 the diameter of a human hair, are able to produce an electrical current when subjected to low-frequency [...]
With Your Next French Villa Get a Free Tesla
We may have made fun of the Tesla for trying to sell their electric roadster for a eye-popping $110,000, but if you act now you can get a Roadster for free!Â
Internet Is Nearing Maximum Capacity
Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. The Internet may start running out of room in the next year. With bandwidth-hogging Web sites such as YouTube becoming more and more popular, Internet demand is rising at a rate of 60 percent a year. Some experts believe that by 2010 Internet users will start [...]
‘DJ Hero’ to Usher in a New Era of Turntablism
We aren’t quite sure when it’s coming out, but via Twitter we’ve learned of the upcoming “DJ Hero.” Like Activision’s money-printing “Guitar Hero,” it’ll have various settings so that you too can scratch mad beats like DJ Shadow, Q-bert and lots of other people we haven’t heard of but mention to look cool. They’re rolling [...]
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