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• How Aston Martin Builds the Gorgeous One-77 Supercar
  Peek inside a factory so clean it's almost sterile to see how Aston Martin's A-Team hand-crafts the ultimate supercar.
  12.15.11

• Feds Want To Take Your Phone Out of Your Car
  Uncle Sam doesn't want you calling or texting behind the wheel and has called on states to ban the use of phones while driving. The move is sure to bring howls of protest from just about every quarter, and probably wouldn't work anyway.
  12.14.11

• Even on Two Wheels, the Thrustcycle Will Never Tip Over
  12.13.11

• GM Is Bringing Carbon Fiber To The Masses
  12.12.11

• An Electric Motorcycle Just as Fast as Gas
  The electric BRD RedShift SM has the same weight, power and -- surprise! -- performance as the KTM we flogged around a kart track. Well, it did until something broke.
  12.12.11

• The Best BMW Ever
  The car in question is the 1 Series M Coupe, and we think it's the best BMW we've ever driven.
  12.09.11

• Bring Jeff Koons' BMW Art Car Home For The Holidays
  12.09.11

• Boeing 787 Sets Round-the-World Record
  A Boeing 787 Dreamliner snatches a record that Airbus has held for nine years.
  12.09.11

• Nissan, Mercedes Test Wireless EV Chargers
  Two major automakers are literally pulling the plugs on their EVs by testing inductive charging setups that charge cars without the need for wires. That increase in convenience, however, brings a loss in charging efficiency. Daimler and Conductix-Wampfler are working on a plugless charging setup for the Mercedes B Class E-Cell concept, and Nissan has demonstrated ...
  12.07.11

• Broadcom Offers 10-Year Battery Life for Bluetooth Keyboards
  What are the things that annoy you most about Bluetooth? If you answered "poor battery life, and pairing," then Broadcom has some good news. It is already making a chip that will allows keyboards to last for ten years on a single pair of AA batteries, and doesn't even require pairing. The Bluetooth 3.0 BCM20730 chip ...
  12.07.11

• DIY Light Sport Aircraft Provides Fun Flying for Less
  The Van's Aircraft RV-12 delivers excellent all-around performance and a lot of smiles for not much money. There's just one big catch ...
  12.07.11

• DIY Airplane: What's Behind Your Homemade Wings
  Take a look behind the scenes at one of the most successful kitplane lines ever.
  12.07.11

• How That $3.8 Million Supercar Crash Happened
  Eight -- count 'em, eight -- Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benzes and a Lamborghini were among 14 vehicles totaled in what the media are calling "the world's most expensive car accident" and the cops are calling "a gathering of narcissists." The massive mess destroyed about $3.85 million worth of lustworthy cars and a Toyota Prius late Sunday morning ...
  12.05.11

• Monday Musings: New Eruption at Gamalama, Continued Eruption at Tungurahua and no Eruption at Katla (still).
  Today marks of the start of the annual American Geophysical Union meeting, where over 20,000 geoscientists descend on downtown San Francisco to talk shop. I will be attending the meeting, but I won't get there until Thursday (tight schedule this year for a number of reasons). When I am there, I'll be busy - presenting ...
  12.05.11

• EV Startup Aptera Motors Pulls the Plug
  The company that brought us a three-wheeled sperm-shaped two-wheeler shuts its doors after four years.
  12.02.11

• Video: Jetman Flies in Formation With Actual Jets
  Yves Rossy continues honing his skill with his carbon-fiber jet-wing backpack, flying in formation with two Breitling jets.
  12.02.11

• The Acura of Tomorrow Drives Itself
  Honda's latest concept drives itself, letting you to literally kick back and enjoy the ride. Little of the AC-X -- for Advanced Cruise eXperience -- is grounded in reality, but then again, this is the Tokyo auto show. Few concepts we see in Tokyo aren't grounded in reality. Like the gorgeous, but slow, electric Honda EV-STER, ...
  12.02.11

• GM May Redesign Chevrolet Volt Battery Pack
  General Motors' top executive said the company may redesign the Chevrolet Volt's battery pack in response to a federal inquiry into the safety of the pack and will (possibly) buy back Volts from any owner concerned the car might catch fire. The moves, which CEO Dan Ackerson announced in interviews Thursday, come as GM continues a ...
  12.01.11

• Marine Aircraft Plans in Peril as Tiltrotor Costs Soar
  12.01.11

• Yamaha's Gorgeous Bicycle With an Engine
  Wes Siler, Hell for Leather Of all the new concepts making their debut at the Tokyo Motor Show, it¿s the Yamaha Y125 Moegi drawing the most interest from friends and readers. Why? It probably has something to do with the inherent conservatism of motorcycling ¿ the styling is relatively retro with that peanut-ish tank ¿ but ...
  12.01.11

• Boeing's First 787 Flying Into Retirement
  The first Boeing 787 to fly is following other retirees south today. Just a few weeks shy of the anniversary of its first flight, ZA001 is currently en route to Palmdale, California. It will be pulled out of service and stored until its final fate is determined. The first 787 to fly back on December 15, ...
  12.01.11

• Model Predicts Who Will Run Red Lights
  MIT has developed an algorithm that can predict with 85 percent accuracy whether a car is about to run a red light.
  12.01.11

• Two iPhones Go Up in Smoke and Flames
  Two users recently received a scare when their iPhones began glowing, smoking and emitting sparks. One iPhone in Brazil, and then another in Australia, recently self-combusted.
  11.30.11

• Air Force Extends Secret Space Plane's Mysterious Mission
  The Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane just got a little more mysterious. The 29-foot-long reusable min-shuttle was designed to spend up to 270 days in orbit. The 270th day of the winged spacecraft's second flight is today, but the military has no intentions of bringing the billion-dollar robotic vehicle back to Earth just yet.
  11.30.11

• Honda's Electric Roadster Is All Show, No Go
  Honda rolls into the Tokyo auto show with an electric roadster just as slow as it is gorgeous.
  11.30.11

• Toyota, Yamaha Bring E-Bikes to Smart Grid
  Toyota and Yamaha create commuter concepts that integrate e-bikes and e-scooters to an existing electric vehicle communications network.
  11.29.11

• Latin American Eruption Update for November 29, 2011: Galeras, Popocatépetl, Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and Tungurahua
  Before this week gets away from me too much, there are a few volcanoes rumbling over the past weekend I wanted to mention: Popocatépetl, Mexico Last week, Popocatépetl produced a small ash plume - ~4.8 km / 15,000 feet - but it was big enough to make the international news. The volcano is only 65 km / 40 ...
  11.29.11