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I will not write another article about the auto parts that are available on the territory of the United States. I've written many articles about this topic and in today's article I want to try something different. I have entered recently on a site named napaonline.com and I have seen that there you can find [...]
Wear your speed on your back
A new product might be hitting a store near you, if this ever gets manufactured on a large scale. In short, the Speed Vest it a biking vest that shows the motorcycle’s speed on the back of the rider, in lighted numbers, while aiming to is improve rider conspicuity while legitimizing bicycle speeds on the [...]
Cool motorcycle case mod wins second place in NVIDIA-sponsored competition
Impressive? You won’t ever see this motorcycle on a road: it’s a PC case mod by Russian Dennis “Xooler” Ilyin. This design was entered in a case modding sponsored by NVIDIA and won second place. Did it deserve first place? I’m not sure, you can check out the entries here (the site is in Russian, [...]
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, [...]
1967 Tote-Gote turned into steampunk electric motorcyle
This impressive motorcycle is the work of Tom Sepe, who converted a 1967 Tote-Gote, one of the first off road motorcycles, into an electric steampunk work of art. The motorcyle was fitted with a 15 hp motor, the kind used in electric motorcycle racing, and a steam boiler made from a fire extinguisher tank. The [...]
African toy cars and motorcycles
These ingenious toy cars and motorcycles come from several parts of Africa, and they are only made from scrap metal, tins, wire and pieces of leather. Nothing much to say, so we’ll leave you with some photos. The wheels are made from spray cans. Made in Ghana. Wire motorcycle from Kenya. Tin cars from Ghana. [...]
Case mod – 911 Twin Turbo Porsche from ‘Gone in 60 seconds’
Case mods are ever-popular, and more than one car lover has tried to turn his PC into something more interesting (and car-themed, of course). One such person is user bschoot on the TheBestCaseScenario boards, who made a mod based on “Tanya”, a 1997 911 Twin Turbo Porsche from the movie Gone in 60 Seconds. What [...]
LED turn signals sewn into biking jacket
An enterprising person called Leah Buechley came up with an ingenious solution for cyclists or bikers: a jacket with turn signals on its back. She used the LilyPad wearable e-textile technology developed by herself, which is especially designed to have large connecting pads so that the LilyPads can be easily attached to clothes. The jacket [...]
RC car hacked to be computer-controlled – the Autonomous Drifter
The Autonomous Drifter is a project from Chris of PyroElectro, who transformed a regular RC car into a computer-controlled car. Only the remote was actually modified (through a process explained in detail over on the site), and by connecting it to a laptop the car can be keyboard-controlled. In order to make it “autonomous” like [...]
Cigarettes can be useful: Lamborghini Reventon made out of cigarette packs
Smoking can kill you, but you might as well do something to get your 15 minutes of fame before you die, right? If the guy who created this smoked all those cigarettes – stop it, dude! But maybe he just gathered the pack, which is sort of eco-friendly – I know my brother used packs [...]