Gadgetopia

AAcer presents exclusive Ferrari 3000 notebook: I want to put this right next to the VPR Matrix designed by Porsche that I'll never own. "Acer, Official Supplier to the Scuderia Ferrari racing team, announces the exclusive Ferrari 3000 notebook that perfectly combines the essence of two persistently avant-garde companies with ...

Here's the start of a good story: So one day, this Smart Car drag races a Ferrari... Think you know the ending? Think again. This may be the freakiest thing I've ever seen.

Jet fighter downs Schu: Hats off to people who are willing to waste massive amounts of taxpayer money to do geeky stuff like this. An Italian Air Force fighter jet defeated Michael Schumacher's Ferrari 2-1 today in three races down a military airport's rain-soaked runways. Schumacher's Ferrari F2003-GA proved to ...

tzero: An electric car that will go from 0-60 in 4.1 seconds. That puts it neck and neck with a Ferrari 575M Maranello. The tzero is being readied for production, and is expected to begin deliveries in 2002. The exact timing is not yet determined. It will be priced between ...

As if Wikipedia wasn't useful enough already, it also happens to be a great archive of public domain and Creative Commons-licensed images. I wrote up a post on my personal blog about the future of "downtown." I needed a few pictures to illustrate it with, so, in a stroke of ...

Asus Lamborghini VX1 Review: Your pathetic little Ferrari laptop makes me laugh. PC fans commonly liken the speed of their computers to that of high-performance cars. It's therefore somewhat surprising to note that relatively few hardware manufacturers have released car-inspired PCs. Acer pioneered this phenomenon with its Ferrari laptop range, ...

Two years ago, we posted about C etait un Rendezvous, a short movie shot in 1976 showing a supposedly breath-taking drive through Paris in the early morning. We said this: The entire film is shot from the bumper of the Ferrari (a 275 GTB) as it jams through the streets of ...

The decline of manual transmission cars: Interesting conversation at MetaFilter about the death of the manual transmission. Do you know what to do with a stick and a clutch? Only 15% of new car buyers in the US say they'll consider buying a car with manual transmission, and by 2012, ...

A car that could save the planet -- fast: Here's an in-depth CNN article about the electric car Dave posted about a while back. All of this on batteries? Insane. Last November, Wright towed the X1 to a racetrack near Sacramento to see how his prototype would do against a ...

In 1976, a Frenchman made a film called "C'etait un Rendezvous" consisting solely of some guy driving a Ferrari really, really fast through the streets of Paris. The idea is that the guy wanted to meet his girlfriend (hence the title) and the film ends with him parking the car ...

Cranked car windows are going, going...: This is interesting. This year, Honda became the first of the largest automakers to banish the crank window, moving entirely to power windows as standard equipment. "It's not even so much a luxury touch any more. It's an expectation," says Honda's Sage Marie. "That's ...

ColorWare is an outfit that specializes in customizing Apple products (and lots of others) with most any color you can wish for. Recent reports suggest that they're gearing up to do the Mac mini in color as well! Some of their colors like Wet, Lilac, Envy & Mystique sound ...

Detroit to New York in the Ford GT: This is perhaps the prototypical "dream assignment" for a writer: The people at Ford Motor Co. asked me to do them a little favor. They needed someone to drive a Ford GT -- America's Ferrari, the Motown Millenium Falcon -- from the ...

Bribing Bloggers: This is a really interesting post from Spolsky about the ethics of bloggers accepting free stuff from vendors. Apparently Microsoft offered to send Joel a new Ferrari laptop pre-loaded with Vista, for free. [...] I've decided that from this point forward I'm not accepting anything, full stop. Even ...

I was in the Bay Area couple of months ago for FM s Conversational Marketing Summit, and I needed to go visit a client down in Mountain View (no, not Google, though they were right down the street). I went south on the 101, but that was boring. I was looking ...