Town tries out Cybercar concept
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Driverless cars which use lasers to avoid obstacles are being tried out in a Northamptonshire town.
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Sure, '60s-era beach bums dug the Volkswagen bus. Now a research lab enhances one with souped-up electronics. From Wired magazine.
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Reducing the cost of networking car cameras could result in more safety systems in a vehicle. In Autopia.
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LOS ANGELES -- When Toyota Motor Corp. wanted to promote its new Scion model, it turned to Millions of Us, one of the growing number of digital design companies doing business in the popular online universe Second Life.
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Zipcar Inc., the Cambridge car-sharing service launched in 2000 with a dozen Volkswagen Beetles, said yesterday that it is making its European debut today in London.
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More than 300 communities consider launching local high-speed Internet service.
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Cottage industries, start your webcams.
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At its Government Leaders Forum in Berlin, the company touts tools to help municipalities provide citizen services online.
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Next week, three dozen robot cars bristling with lasers, radars, and antennas compete in Darpa's Urban Challenge race. If all goes as planned, it'll be as orderly as a procession of golf carts in downtown Sun City. But it could just as easily turn into a robot smash-up derby.
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It seems like a great idea: making a computer that's somewhere between the size of a cell phone and a laptop, for people to carry around and surf the Web.
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From the sleek Tesla Roadster to the stackable CityCar, the automobile of the future comes in a wide variety of styles and incorporates an array of forward-thinking technological advances.
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A neighbourhood watch for the digital age, utilising the power of social networking is proposed.
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One Colorado county tries a novel capitalist approach to containing the spread of monster houses
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As a dazzling array of new sports cars debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show this week, some also made their premieres in the virtual world as automakers look to video games to invigorate their sales.
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Samer Salameh envisions a world in which you can videoconference, check and send e-mail, watch your favorite television shows, make online reservations at your favorite restaurant and pinpoint the best route around a traffic jam -- all from the comfort of your moving vehicle.
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Mazda's RX-8 seems to hail from an alternate universe where automobiles are powerful, whisper-smooth and safe. Netgear's Skype phone makes the connection and Oxo kitchen tools get a grip. In Gadget Lab.
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A top Silicon Valley technologist has devised a plan to reinvent the auto industry around electric-powered cars by building battery-charging stations around the world.