In recent times movie theaters and television manufacturers have been banking on 3D, often with horrible results, but a new system that offers “touchable 3D” could be the virtual answer we’ve all been hoping for.
Racing into the virtual world, we have featured a number of high-end simulators that keep the adrenalin level rushing in utmost reality. The latest is the Atomic A1 motion game simulator from UK-based JoyRide. Delivering a truly exhilarating riding…
We love fast cars and tech toys here at Dvice. so when you wrap both together in one package, the result is an irresistible orgy of Dviceness.
Most people have a drawer full of old empty ink cartridges. So the Ink and Media blog asked local artist Faith Pearson if she could come up with a good use for their pile of expensive trash. The result was these lovingly recreated scenes from classic s…
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of travel retailer DFS, Brown-Forman Duty Free/Travel Retail has come up with a unique idea. Brown-Forman commissioned artists from around the world to turn seven barrels of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whisky into…
Brabus, one of the most respected tuning companies in the world, has now unveiled its latest creation, the Brabus iBusiness. Based on the Mercedes-Benz S600, the Brabus iBusiness four-seater luxury sedan packs in a range of multimedia features,…
With its reputation to beat the best in luxury, the German auto tuner Mansory has transformed a range of already luxurious cars into one-of-a-kind creations. The German tuning house has given us the carbon fiber Aston Martin DBS, blue baby Rolls…
If you think of electric cars as kind of pumped-up golf carts useful for getting around town but not much else, then you probably haven’t encountered the 307-mph Buckeye Bullet 2.5
The picturesque, but snow-capped volcanoes, composing the Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain look suspiciously like an alien world in this August 2010 image from the ASTER camera aboard NASA’s orbiting Terra satellite. The …
A massive 245-hectare fire near the town of Moapa, Nev., did $2.5 million worth of property damage in July and destroyed the Warm Springs Oasis , home to the little-known moapa dace ( Moapa coriacea ), an endangered fish that lives in the …
Clean up the Gulf in just one month, you say? A claim like that would normally have us rolling our eyes, save for the fact that we heard two magic words: “MIT” and “robots.” Lots and lots of robots, all soaking up oil using a special technique.
You say you like the Kindle, but wish it had a color screen? The Sharper Image Literati could be the answer to your prayers, boasting a full color display in a Wi-Fi equipped E-reader that will sell for a not-too-crazy $159. But before you plunk down y…
Idaho Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter kicked off a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, signing a turbine blade that would be part of the state’s 183-megawatt wind farm. That’s a heck of a lot of renewable energy — enough to power 40,000 homes, in fact.
3D has never really tickled my fancy, but I — and I suspect everyone else — could get down with an awesome holographic projection. Complex, Back to the Future 2-style holograms, like full-body teleportation and safe cloning, is something I …
Editor’s Note: Students from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering are working in Tanzania to help improve sanitation and energy technologies in local villages. The student-led group , known as Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP…
Morgan Motor Company celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. Though the world is much different from when the company was first founded in 1909, Morgan still hand assembles every car it builds. It makes just a few hundred vehicles a year, but they are of the highest quality and are some of the most sought after cars ever built.
Despite the exclusive nature of the Morgan automobile though, the company must be admired for its ability to look forward. Hybrids, hydrogen-power, and electric cars are the future, and Morgan doesn’t plan on being left behind. They have announced that they will be building a diesel-electric hybrid car with a 1,000 mile range.
In preparation for its official debut at the 2010 Paris Motor Show next month, Honda released some pics and a few details for the much anticipated Honda Fit Hybrid today (called the Jazz in Europe and Japan). The car will be the first modern subcompact parallel hybrid to reach consumers since the release of the original Honda Insight back in 1999—and it is rumored to cost between $16,500 and $18,600 when it goes on sale in Japan next year. At that price it would be the cheapest hybrid available on the market.
Yet, as the news fans out on the internet today, one bit of info buried rather vaguely in the press release that hasn’t been picked up elsewhere piqued my curiosity. Up till now, speculation about the expected fuel economy of the Fit Hybrid ranged anywhere from 60-70 mpg, but according to Honda, the Fit Hybrid will have about the same fuel economy as the current Insight.
We’ve all seen the sad remains of animals next to busy highways. So how far would you go to prevent that? Across the pond in Europe, they’ve gone as far as to erect three bridges that costs over $290,000 and are only for scurrying little mice.
When anybody says “hybrid”, the first car that comes to mind is the Toyota Prius. For Toyota, this is a good thing, as they have become synonymous with “green” vehicles. The Prius has dominated the hybrid car market for over a decade, and you cannot go anywhere without seeing at least a few of them in a parking lot.
Still, overall sales of hybrids have slowed as gas prices remain low. Consumers are instead, once again, turning towards pickups and SUV’s and shunning hybrids. In light of lower sales, Toyota has lowered its targeted hybrid production for 2011 from 1 million units to around 740,000.
When Honda first announced the CRZ Hybrid, they promised a spiritual successor to the “totally 80’s” CRX Si—a car that set the standard for small, fun-to-drive commuters.
When the final production version debuted, many felt that the CRZ program had failed. The new car was slower, heavier, and fuel economy was lagging behind the 80’s CRX… not exactly a recipe for automotive fun.
ENTER: HKS (let the fun begin!).
Have you ever been sitting in the stands of a football game and wished you could have your own instant replay? Now you can, thanks to FanVision, a portable device that 10 NFL teams will begin using this season to communicate directly to fans at live ga…
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