Transportation Tech Category - Page 12

You’ve all no doubt seen the various wireless chargers out there; the Powermats and those like them that allow you to simply set your phone or similar device down on a pad and allow it to charge without having to hook a cord to it. The folks out at Fulton [...]

I genuinely did not think I’d see a robot story out of CES 2011. I knew this CES was all about the tablets and smartphones and equally smart televisions, but the folks out at Cyberdyne (no seriously, that’s their name) brought out the Challenge HAL (here, HAL stands for Hybrid [...]

A real surprise emerged from the Ford press conference out at CES earlier today, as the announcement came that Ford would be looking to Best Buy instead of its own dealerships to offer up the charging stations on the Ford Focus line of electric cars.

Don’t text and drive. That’s a law in most states and countries. But what if you’re fiddling with your mobile for other purposes like looking for songs to play? There’s an app for that!

I’m an inveterate TomTom user; frankly, it’s hard to imagine going on a drive of any significant distance without bolting my TomTom to the dashboard and letting it tell me exactly where I need to go. But if anything were ever going to tear my TomTom out of my cold [...]

Planning your drive can be cumbersome, especially if you’re going somewhere unfamiliar. Fortunately, there are map and navigation applications that help you through your trip.

The AMOLED screen has given us a whole lot of news this year, and so, it’s downright fitting that it should be part of the new year in tech news as well, with Samsung’s announcement that they’ll be showing the next generation of AMOLED screens out at the 2011 CES [...]

It’s been a real doozy of a week for the solar-powered, unmanned aircraft known as the Zephyr from the folks out at QinetiQ–so much so, in fact, that records were broken. Just which records, you wonder? Read on.

Pitting yourself against other players in online games is cool. But for hypermilers, Nissan LEAF’s carwings system is even better. It lets you compete against other drivers in terms of fuel efficiency.

For those of you out there who favor an Android phone, and have been feeling left out in the cold since the release of TuneLink Auto for MP3 players, take heart, because a whole new version has been announced just for you, and this time, it’ll be working with your [...]