Category: Etc

German tank bike tops all others

Filed under: Etc., Euro, Motorcycles

I ask you, who says the Germans don’t have a sense of humor? All right, so it can be an arcane, mystifying sense of humor, but it’s there, and that’s the point. Tilo Niebel and his gents at the Harzer Bike company in Germany, upon finding they had a tank engine […]

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Posted in Etc on Nov 21st, 2007, 5:01 pm     

Audi TT mobile phone lets you keep trademark lawyers on speed dial

Filed under: Gadgets, Etc., Audi

This is likely the only car-shaped mobile phone we’ve ever seen, and definitely the first one shaped like an original Audi TT. The GSM phone features a 2-inch touch screen, 1 gb of storage, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and 240 minutes of talk time per charge. Unfortunately, it does not come with […]

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Posted in Etc on Nov 21st, 2007, 3:46 pm     

Chrysler adding stop/start systems to vehicles

Filed under: Etc., Green, Chrysler

Chrysler’s Frank Klegon says that we should expect to see the incorporation of stop/start systems in a number of vehicles “pretty soon,” according to Automotive News. They’d be marketed as “micro hybrid” systems (showing that automakers will jump at absolutely anything to be able to apply the term “hybrid” to a […]

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Posted in Etc on Nov 21st, 2007, 3:46 pm     

Chrysler adding stop/start systems to vehicles

Filed under: Etc., Green, Chrysler

Chrysler’s Frank Klegon says that we should expect to see the incorporation of stop/start systems in a number of vehicles “pretty soon,” according to Automotive News. They’d be marketed as “micro hybrid” systems (showing that automakers will jump at absolutely anything to be able to apply the term “hybrid” to a […]

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Posted in Etc on Nov 21st, 2007, 3:46 pm     

Audi TT mobile phone lets you keep trademark lawyers on speed dial

Filed under: Gadgets, Etc., Audi

This is likely the only car-shaped mobile phone we’ve ever seen, and definitely the first one shaped like an original Audi TT. The GSM phone features a 2-inch touch screen, 1 gb of storage, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and 240 minutes of talk time per charge. Unfortunately, it does not come with […]

Read the full article...
Posted in Etc on Nov 21st, 2007, 3:46 pm     

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