Nokia Speakerphone HF-300 is a detachable, lightweight (80g) and battery-powered Bluetooth speakerphone designed for in-car usage. It features DSP audio enhancing to cancel out noises and echoes, auto power-off, 20 hours of talk time per charge, sunvisor clip and illuminated keys. It’s expected to hit the shelves world-wide during Q3 2007 to an estimated price of €90 / US $120.
I just stumbled across this new ad for Audi A5 called “Rhythm of Lines”, created by London-based The Mill. It’s quite refreshing to see a car commercial that doesn’t include the otherwise mandatory shots of cars going up/down steep mountain roads or swoosh by on the edge of a dam in desaturated colors.
Last year Honda launched a limited edition of their 49cc Zoomer scooter (known as the ‘Ruckus’ in North America) designed together with Stussy, this year it’s Carhartt’s turn. Only 300 of these will be made and besides having a slightly different design on the bike you get a Carhartt kit containing a bandana, a pair of gloves, a helmet, a beanie and a bag.
The Carhartt / Honda Zoomer will be available from May 21st, no price announced yet.
Carhartt Streetwear
Honda.com: Ruckus 2007 ($2,049)
(Via Productdose)
The MatchBox Size R/C Racing Cars are a bunch of really tiny RC Racing Cars not bigger than a matchbox or iPod Shuffle.
They’re available for $14.00 each and the models available are Nissan Skyline GTR R34, Mazda RX8, Subaru Impreza WRX, Toyota Estima and Subaru 360.
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There’s shiftknobs and then there’s shiftknobs like the Indy-Cator. It’s available with LCD-displays in either red or blue and designed to fit all cars with manual transmissions up to 6 speed. To top it off a built-in light sensor adapts the brightness of the display depending on how dark it gets.
TmTuning.com: Indy-Cator Shiftknobs ($169.00)
HiPe PC just announced their new Driv-N in-dash PCs. While some similar devices lack the binary horsepowers to do anything more than plain movie watching and music listening the Driv-N is fast enough to run Windows Vista Home Premium (if that bold move resulted in the machine feeling slow again is yet to be seen).
Anyway, depending on the model you get a touchscreen display ranging from 6.5" to 15" in size, speech recognition software (which apparently doesn’t need the tedious voice training), Bluetooth connectivity, GPS, rear-view camera support, optional Wi-Fi transmitter, voice feedback, XM-radio and much more.
If you want one you’ll have to give up between $799 to $1,589 depending on the power you want packed into the box.
(Via Electronista)
If you have a burning desire to cruise the streets on a bike looking like Spiderman’s antagonist Green Goblin - here’s your chance (granted that you can top the the current bid of $7,545.00 that is).
This heavily modified Suzuki GSX-R 1000 ‘03 features custom artwork and chrome (duh), two 12" subwoofers with custom made grill covers along with 6" mids and and tweeters, customized iPod, Swiss audio amp (1000W) and its very own Green Goblin trailer.
eBay.com: Green Goblin Suzuki GSX-R 1000
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Kensington’s Car Mount for iPod® and MP3 Players is a rather simple device designed to help you attach your MP3-player of choice to your car’s windshield. The arms on the side are adjustable to fit a variety of players (including all iPod models from Nano to Video) and the suction cup is over-sized to make sure the mount stays put when you go off-road.
Kensington.com: Car Mount for iPod® and MP3 Players ($30)
(Via Ubergizmo)
Thinking about doing your eventual grandchildren a favor and let your next car be a hybrid? ForbesAuto has a neat list over which of ‘em they think are the hottest ones of 2007.
The Lexus pictured above is the 2008 LS 600h L, featuring the world’s first full-hybrid V8 (a 5.0-liter engine mated to two electric motors delivering 430 HP to all four wheels), and no - it’s not the #1 on their list.
Okay, if YOU had a Maserati Quattroporte, wouldn’t you super-glue 1,763 lbs (that’s about 800 Kg) of shattered glass on it just to make sure the neighborhood kids keep their sticky fingers off it? Yeah, of course you would.
Normally doing something like this would count as severe car abuse in my eyes, but since this is a piece of art by the Italian artist Luca Pancrazzi I guess it’s just a.. well, statement? Pedestrians, beware?
More pictures over at Geekologie
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