Gadgetopia

Gizmodo : Porsche drives: I've written about the Porsche-computer connection before, but I didn't know Porsche Design is behind the VPR Matrix computers that Best Buy sells. Nor that they're coming out with a line of external hard drives. For the record, Porsche Design has the same genesis as the ...

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 ...

Panamera: Two years after we first mentioned it, spy shots of the Porsche Panamera the four door Porsche are starting to come out. We can now clearly see the smooth integration of the rear wing into the Panamera s sloping rear hatch and the spoiler that lifts and extends ...

Extreme Gravity Racing Series: Did you like soapbox racing when you were a kid? Wish you could do it again? Well, you can, although now it has the ominous sounding name of "Extreme Gravity Racing" and some high-powered competitors, like this entry from Porsche. (As much as I like Porsche, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Porsche announces four-door car: Blasphemy! To be called the Panamera, the car will have four doors and four seats but will have a swooping, coupe-like profile. It will have a front-mounted engine driving the rear wheels. Pricing for the car, which is still under development, has not been announced. What's ...

Jet vs Car vs Motorcycle: I wish I had some background on this clip. It's a fighter jet of some kind, what looks to be a Porsche 911 Turbo, and a superbike in a drag race. Fun to watch, but it ends about how you'd expect. The bike beats everyone ...

It is to laugh! A Register article reports that AOL is raffling off a $47,000 Porsche Boxster S that was seized last year as part of a settlement against a busted spammer. The company says the car's original owner made over $1m by unleashing a 1bn email spam tsunami on ...

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, ...

BBC NEWS | Technology | Printers produce copies in 3D: They "print" things. Not pictures of things, but actually, three-dimensional things. "The machines work by placing layers of a powdery material on top of each other to create a real-life model of a digital image. 'With hundreds and sometimes thousands ...

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 ...

Usenet Psychic Wars With Wikipedia: This is absolutely hysterical Unable to accept that Wikipedia's policy of presenting a Neutral Point of View means that an article on Sollog would have to include both pro- and anti-Sollog material, and unable to force other Wikipedia editors to accept his version of reality, ...

I just opened the box on a new LaCie CD writer, and they were kind enough to include a blank CD with it. Not a huge deal, but that CD-R was in a TriggerPack case, which is so cool I hardly noticed the Porsche-designed housing on the drive. One end ...

I'm posting this from the waiting lounge at my auto dealer where I've been paging through the latest Motor Trend. This month, they have a "By the numbers..." section on Top Fuel dragsters (you know, the long, narrow ones). Some insane statistics: The average Top Fuel engine puts out 7,500 ...

Apple has started shipping its brand-spankin new iMac G5 computers. Some geek out there has taken delivery of one and apparently tore the thing apart before he even booted it up, and he even took pictures. As is usual for Apple these days, the arrangement of the innards is about ...

How comfortable are you with some of the new high-tech features on today's cars? Looking over some of the posts on Automotive Forums, some newer cars are creating serious problems for their owners, and sometimes getting them injured. Range Rovers with electrically adjustable suspensions going flat at high speeds, Toyotas ...