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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Battlemodo: Microsoft's Local SUV Armada vs Google Streetview Fleet |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Battlemodo, Google, Jalopnik, Live Local, Microsoft, Streetview, Windows Live Local |
| Microsoft's Windows Live Local armada is striking back against Google's Streetview fleet with all the technological terror they can find. Check this Chevy Tahoe's intimidating top: six huge cameras, two GPS antennas and what could be a laser rangefinder on top, all connected with giant cables. Google's gear may not be as impressive but which is |
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| Battlemodo: Microsoft's Local SUV Armada vs Google's Streetview Fleet |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Battlemodo, Google, Jalopnik, Live Local, Microsoft, Streetview, Top, Windows Live Local |
| Microsoft's Windows Live Local armada is striking back against Google's Streetview fleet with all the technological terror they can find. Check this Chevy Tahoe's intimidating top: six huge cameras, two GPS antennas and what could be a laser rangefinder on top, all connected with giant cables. Google's gear may not be as impressive but which is |
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| Arcade: Japanese Initial D Arcade Booth Features Actual Tofu Car |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 1:10 pm |
| Tags: Arcade, Arcade Booth, Cars, Corolla, Gaming, Initial D, Jalopnik, Japan, Japan Watch, Toyota, Trueno |
| Arcades are dying out here in the states, but they sure wouldn't if they were more like this Japanese Initial D cabinet. Instead of just a booth or a mock-up cockpit to sit in, you get to actually drive in the tofu car from the Initial D series. Not only do you get to drive the '86, you can also ride in a Subaru Impreza WRX and Mazda RX-7 (also |
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| Back To The Present: DeLorean Going Back Into Production |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 8:50 am |
| Tags: Back To The Present, Cars, Delorean, Jalopnik |
| The DeLorean, the car from Back to the Future with the gull wing doors and gleaming stainless steel finish, has come back to the future, going into extremely limited production thanks to a group of greasemonkeys in Houston who like to refurbish cars. They have about 200 of the original DeLorean 2.8 L V-6 engines on hand, and will start making the |
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| Transformers: Gigantic Optimus Prime Birthday Cake Forcefully Removes Socks From Feet |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Birthday Cake, Cake, Cakes, Jalopnik, Optimus, Optimus Prime, Transformers |
| Morgan Valentine, better known as best wife ever, ordered a custom-made Optimus Prime cake for her husband's 30th birthday. The cake was made by Nashville's The French Connection, and has dirt, rocks, grass, plants and an Optimus Prime the size of a toddler. I bet the guy even got sex afterwards. [Flickr via Boing Boing] |
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| How To: Aluminum Foil Stops iPhone Car Tape Adapter Buzz |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 4:56 pm |
| Tags: Apple, Apple Iphone, Cellphones, How To, Iphone, Jalopnik, Smartphones |
| When I tested Monster's "iPhone compatible" tape adapter, I expected the $25 setup to have extra shielding to stop GSM buzz from the cellular radios. It didn't. As a joke, I tried some anti-alien brainwashing technology, or aluminum foil. Turns out wrapping a bit around the first few inches kills off a lot of the louder spikes in GSM buzz. Tragic |
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| How To: Pull your vehicle uphill with your brute strength (and a lever) |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Cars, Clips, How To, Instruction, Jalopnik, Top, Video |
| Breaking down in the middle of the road flat out sucks. Instructables has a step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates how to create a lever using a tree or light pole and a long rope to help pull your vehicle up a hill (as shown above). The Instructable touts that with this technique you can more than double your man power. This is going require |
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| How To: Pull your vehicle uphill with your brute strength (and a pulley) |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Cars, Clips, How To, Instruction, Jalopnik, Top, Video |
| Breaking down in the middle of the road flat out sucks. Instructables has a step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates how to create a lever using a tree or light pole and a long rope to help pull your vehicle up a hill (as shown above). The Instructable touts that with this technique you can more than double your man power. This is going require |
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| PCs: Optimus Prime Case Mod Almost Seven Feet Tall, Eats Mac Minis |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Autobots, Cars, Casemod, Diy, Jalopnik, Optimus Prime, Pcs, Transformers |
| Modder John entered in this Optimus Prime casemod into the Extreme Tech casemod contest, and well, it's probably the best Transformers-based casemod we've seen yet. It's six feet ten inches tall, transforms into a smaller desktop mode, has a 7-inch LCD on its body, two windows on its chest (like the actual Optimus prime), Autobots symbols, and |
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| Cars: Take Your New Car for a Crash Test Before Buying |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 8:00 pm |
| Tags: Cars, Jalopnik, Safety, Top |
| Consumer Reports' crash test videos let you watch crash tests on several makes and models tested using the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash test. Hearing that a car scores acceptable or poor on a crash test is one thing, but actually seeing a dummy's head flopping around is another thing entirely. The videos are available |
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| Cars: DIY iPod Car Mount On the Cheap |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 9:00 pm |
| Tags: Cars, Digital Music, Diy, How To, Ipod, Jalopnik |
| Build a DIY car mount for your MP3 player with web site Cloudcraft.com's step-by-step guide. The guide uses a simple fifty cent hardware mount that the author inserts in his Volkswagen and then clips his iPod to with his existing belt clip whenever he's ready for some iPod time in the car (the guide may not exactly work for your car, but it |
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| Cars: FleetHorse: The Horse-Powered Car |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Cars, Fleet Horse, Fleethorse, Horse, Horse Powered, Horse Powered Car, Horses, Jalopnik |
| Hey guys, I've got the best plan to both keep our cars and reduce our reliance on oil. Know what it is? It's so awesome. Ok, here it is. You take a van, right? And then you hollow out the back, and stick a horse inside. Dude, isn't it great? A horse-powered-car! Duuuuude, just picture it. Why are you leaving? No, I'm not high, YOU'RE HIGH! |
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| Apple: Toyota Releases $300 iPod Integration Kit For All Current-Model Cars |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 3:30 pm |
| Tags: Apple, Car Stereo, Cars, Head Unit, Ipod, Ipod Dock, Ipod Integration, Jalopnik, Toyota |
| It's fantastic news for Toyota and Lexus owners, as the car company has just released an iPod adapter kit to directly link the player with your car's audio system. The kit fits into all current Toyotas and Lexuses and connects inside the glove box so you can control the iPod with your head unit (or steering wheel controls). The whole thing costs |
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| Pb To Au: Hype Bubbling Back Up for EEStor's State-of-the-Art-Defying Battery Killer |
| Published: September 5, 2007, 9:45 am |
| Tags: Batteries, Cars, Eestory, Energy, Gadgets, Jalopnik, Pb To Au, Power, Supercapacitor, Ultracapacitor, Zenn Motor |
| The hype for EEStor's mythical battery-killing, capacitor-based technology that we've been hearing about for a while keeps coming, re-ringing promises of, for instance, a five-minute plug-in time for a car to make a 500-mile trip. Naturally, details on how EEStor has managed to accomplish a feat academics have been taking whacks at for |
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| Mad Max Redux: Halo-Style Attack Three-soldier Rover Kicks Hummer's Butt |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 1:50 pm |
| Tags: 4x4, Jalopnik, Mad Max Redux, Military, Mobility Weapon Mounted Installation Kit, Mwmik, Rover |
| This is the MWMIK or Mobility Weapon Mounted Installation Kit. The troops in Afghanistan call it "Wimiks." We call it "Mad Max Jeepy BMF", a new 4x4 attack rover that can kick some serious baddy's butt thanks to its three soldiers/three major guns combo. It can mount different weapon configurations, including .50 calibre machine guns and automatic |
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