Retro VW van plays records
If you don’t know what to buy for your VW fan friend, you can skip all the modern licensed products this time and go for something old-fashioned and original. Originally launched in the ’70, the Soundwagon Portable Record Player has been reborn. This retro licensed VW van is actually a record player: if placed on [...]
Tribute to Gary Gygax: 20-sided Fuzzy Dice
If you love fuzzy dice and you’re a geek, you’re going to love this. (I think fuzzy dice are atrocius, but this one has a certain something going for it.) It’s a pair of 20-sided Fuzzy Dice, a type of dice well known for RPGers everywhere. You can hang it on your rear view mirror [...]
Hummer launches HT2 mobile phone
After the success of the Hummer HT1 phone (more than 50,000 sold), the ModeLabs Group is launching the new model, the Hummer HT2 phone, smaller than the original and with a new color scheme. It offers up to 500 hours of autonomy in standby, has a built-in modem and e-mail client. It is quad-band and [...]
World’s strongest tire weighs as much as a school bus
If you’re wondering what the world’s strongest tire is (though I don’t know why you would), we have the answer. It’s made at the Illinois Bridgestone Firestone off-road tire plant and it weighs 15,000 pounds. That’s about as much as a school bus, so this is pretty huge indeed. Modern Marvels covered the story, and [...]
Fit your car with a backpack for those luggage-intensive trips
Small cars are good for getting around the city everyday, but a small trunk can pose a problem when leaving on a longer trip. The Auto Rucsack solves the problem. Put simple, it’s a backpack for your car, which can be used as a bag on wheels when you take it off. The manufacturer’s website [...]
Divine personal wax if you want to give your car a $2800 shine
If your car is worth nothing but the best… here’s the best. You’ll probably think again once you see the price. Divine personal wax from Swisswax is custom-made for your car. Made from 60% by volume of ultra pure Brazilian white carnauba, it’s aimed at “a very limited number of collectors and enthusiasts” and it [...]
Hummer H3 built out of losing lottery tickets
What would you do with a lot of losing lottery tickets? Probably throw them away. But not if you’re an artist… Brooklyn-based artists Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was collected $35,000 such tickets and built a car. And not a Smart or a Mini – it is a Hummer H3. Beside looking very cool, the piece, [...]
Virginia Tech students develop new system of braking lights; actually not that new
Businessman Meade Gwinn had an idea when involved in a chain accident: braking lights that show the drivers how fast you’re hitting the brakes. Together with students in Professor Mehdi Ahmadian’s mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, he developed a new system of braking lights. The system features an array of LEDs that glow according to [...]
Smartlets: the future way of charging your EV?
One of the biggest questions concerning plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles is “Where will we charge them?”. A personal charger is one solution, but it limits range and requires the driver to have a garage or a driveway. A California company called Coulomb Technologies says Smartlets is the future solution for this problem. According to [...]
World’s smallest solar powered car – fun demonstration of alternative energy
Some consider solar power the future of electricity, but there are still many issues to be addressed before it can be used on a large scale. So… companies are using it on a smaller scale. Very small, in this case. Dubbed the world’s smallest solar powered car, this toy measures just 3.3 x 2.2 x [...]