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Scosche PowerFuze universal USB charger reduces wire clutter - Oct 30, 2009

Crave The PowerFuze keeps your USB devices juiced in the car and at home. You should see the mess of cables, chargers, and charging cables that clutter my backpack every day. ... Read story »

Gran Turismo 5 gets damage modeling - Aug 20, 2009

Crave Ouch. That looks painful. Forza has it. GRID has it. Heck, even Need for Speed has it. We now have video proof, coming out of Gamescom 2009, that Gran Turismo ... Read story »

Oh, pimp my ride - Sep 2, 2007

Blogs Okay, these were the only sexy models that I could find here at the Car Audio/Video section. The ladies in red hot pants had been dancing and strutting around before the ... Read story »

Watch iPod video in your car with Alpine iXA-W407BT Digital Media Station - Aug 27, 2009

Crave Envious of the futuristic entertainment systems found in modern cars? Want a piece of the action? Don't fret -- Alpine has just unveiled a touchscreen head unit that'll drag your ... Read story »

Peugeot BB1 lets drivers tweet on-the-go - Sep 18, 2009

Crave We're seeing some pretty futuristic cars here at the Frankfurt Motor Show, but none more so than the Peugeot BB1. According to its maker, it's a totally original response to the ... Read story »

F1's KERS system to be used on mainstream vehicles? - Aug 11, 2009

Crave Recently, British company Zytek Automotive Technology was revealed as the driving force behind the KERS power boost system used in McLaren-Mercedes' Formula 1 cars. In a rather cruel juxtaposition, the same ... Read story »

A BMW inspired by Usain Bolt's trainers - Sep 18, 2009

Crave BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Hats off to BMW. The German car maker smacked the rest of the automotive world upside its collective head on Tuesday, with a bonkers new concept car that ... Read story »

Nissan's all-out war on bad smells in cars with Forest AC - Aug 7, 2009

Crave We thought we'd seen it all: Cars with OLED displays on the outside... cars that talk to you... cars that brake automatically to prevent accidents. Clearly, we've haven't, because Nissan ... Read story »

The firefighting "Godzilla" - Aug 18, 2009

Crave Firefighting just got a lot faster. What happens when you mix a fire engine with a 310kmh supercar co-designed by the makers of Gran Turismo? Well, if these pictures are ... Read story »

Peugeot Metromorph: More than meets the eye - Jul 20, 2009

Crave Humans are rubbish at predicting the future. Back in 1943, Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." In 1981, Bill ... Read story »

Parajet Skycar: Preorder now - Jul 21, 2009

Crave To the doubting Thomases who said flying cars are a pipe dream, the yoke's on you. The British-developed Parajet Skycar has undergone a funky redesign and is now available for ... Read story »

Smart Brabus equips the Electric Drive with USS Enterprise sound effects - Jun 15, 2009

Crave Are you tired of being run over by near-silent electric cars? No, us neither, but we've got good news for anyone who often finds himself or herself wandering into the ... Read story »

Nvidia Tegra to push 3D displays in cars - May 22, 2009

Crave In the future, cars will be powerful enough to run Half-Life 2. We know this because Nvidia has persuaded car manufacturers to adopt its Tegra system-on-ship (SoC)--a hardware package originally ... Read story »

Evoasis: Petrol stations set to go electric in the UK - Mar 19, 2009

Crave The high cost of fuel means independent petrol stations have been disappearing at a rapid pace, but what's happening to all the abandoned forecourts? If American firm Evoasis gets its ... Read story »

Toyota develops rear-seat center airbag - Mar 13, 2009

Crave Attention, rubbish drivers: Scientists at Toyota have developed a new type of airbag that could reduce the severity of injuries suffered by passenger in the rear seat. Or it could smash ... Read story »

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