Articles on Volkswagen
Robot head assists with road navigation - Oct 30, 2009
Crave MIT's concept robot head mounts on the dashboard to assist with navigation. AIDA's robot head can show warning signs. (Credit: MIT) MIT intends to revolutionize GPS navigation by making it friendly ... Read story »Garmin, Volkswagen "Click & Ride" together - May 28, 2009
Crave VW's Click & Ride is a cradle that integrates a Garmin Nuvi into the vehicle's power and audio systems. Volkswagen and Garmin have teamed up to create Click & Ride, ... Read story »Volkswagen's diesel-friendly BlueMotion in Singapore - Jul 29, 2008
Crave Forget hybrids, think diesel. Because that's the way Volkswagen says is the future if you aim to cut both your fuel costs and carbon footprint. Before you utter shock and horror ... Read story »Volkswagen steers into Singapore with auto-parking SUV
- Aug 20, 2008
Crave One of the bugbears for greenhorns taking their driving test is the grind of parking. Fail this, and you can kiss your licence goodbye. That is, until the next test. As ... Read story »
Off to a flying start on the Singapore Flyer - Mar 3, 2008
Crave Since the dawn of time, harking back to the Tower of Babel, man has felt the need to mark his technological prowess through taller and taller structures, each more gravity-defying than ... Read story »Milk Table - Feb 21, 2007
Crave Niicee. This one's got style, with an almost Apple-like signature to the design. That is, clean, simple lines that flow toward the minimalism. And like the Volkswagen Beetle's flower holder, there's ... Read story »A bike with a side car, or a car with a side bike? - Jul 9, 2009
Crave Would you spend US$21,000, 10 years and over 10,000 hours to build this? We've heard of sidecars, but this just takes the cake, er, car for literally having a side ... Read story »Nokia 6710 Navigator
Review The 6710 is the third Navigator model after the 6210 and 6110. Going by the numbers, you can figure that the 6710 is a leap from the earlier 6210, and, rightfully so since the features have been upgraded all around. It runs on a new version 3.0 of Nokia Maps which has been rebranded Ovi Maps, and...Owning a Taobao.com shop: A new national hobby - Sep 14, 2009
Blogs eBay brands itself as "The World's Online Marketplace", but one big chunk of the world map that it has embarrassingly failed to conquer is China. Taobao.com, the Chinese consumer e-commerce site, ... Read story »Nissans to use ICP Solar battery chargers - Jul 22, 2008
Crave Nissan cars sold in North America and Europe will feature solar chargers from ICP Solar, under a sales agreement announced Tuesday by the two companies. The chargers will serve to keep ... Read story »Terrafugia's flying car makes maiden voyage - Mar 19, 2009
Crave It may look like a Volkswagen Beetle in the belly of a carp, but the Terrafugia Transition (at right) is a bona fide flying car. The startup Terrafugia first popped ... Read story »Terrafugia's flying car flies - Mar 24, 2009
Features The Transition "roadable aircraft" makes its debut flight over upstate New York. It's still just a proof of concept, though, and another prototype is yet to come. 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 »Volkswagen GX3 - Mar 6, 2006
Crave Step aside, Piaggio. Tricycles are hip again, and grownups are its target market no less. With marques like Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot, these tri-wheel hybrids are certainly no toys. On the radar ... Read story »The camera behind Google's Street View - Jun 13, 2007
Crave If you've been playing with Google's new Street View feature--that US$25 billion time suck--you may well have wondered how the heck it took those 360-degree images while driving down the street. ... Read story »Jump to page: [1] 2


