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We’ve posted about the Teddy spycam before, this time Teddy features in the form of a Talking Car navigation system developed by engineers at the iXs Research Corporation. Standing 30 centimeters (1 Ft) tall the Teddy Robot uses the 6 joints in the arms and neck to make gestures while providing spoken directions. You can’t take the Teddy for a toy, as it has an alcohol detection sensor embedded in its neck, so if he smells booze, he’d interrogate “ You haven’t been drinking, have you?” When his other sensors detect reckless driving, he’d say, “Watch out” When you stroke his head, he provides you with extra information about nearby landmarks. The Robot Teddy could give you company on a lonesome drive or grill the **** out of you at times, but it certainly forms an interesting component of your car.

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Long drives are an amazing experience as you zip across on the interstate without a worry in the world. It however gets to your nerves if you have a long drive in mind and an enormous appetite that keeps threatening you. An interrupted drive isn't all that fun but then who can neglect a parched throat. Keeping all these on-road blue in mind, Ford has come out with the cool refrigerator in the 2009 Flex. It is capable of holding seven 12 ounce cans of, well, whatever you want. It can also hold four half-liter bottles. Now picking up drinks from a diner isn't the something from yesterday.

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One of the most significant reasons for people to cycle these days is the fact that it is good as an exercise and it also gets you from one place to another for free. Well, with all the exciting new innovations that are coming our way, the Twist Freedom DX comes in fully equipped with a 250W DC motor. This may invoke a lot of laze in you and may also tempt you to avoid using the pedals. However, it can also be used by some who undertake far off journeys and repent fir having taken their bikes out because of excessive fatigue.

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If you want a taste of what real rickshaw rides are then there’s no better place than India. But then it isn't everyone’s cup of tea to travel to distant Asian lands. How about getting the object of attraction home? So here we have this cool rickshaw for kids. It is a great excuse to save some bucks on an expensive kiddy bike that your little tot will someday grow out of. Believe me, this can be used as a carrier for various items across your house and it also makes a great excuse for you to exercise. I wonder if it’s going to create those my-chance-now fights between young siblings.

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The nighttime is the right time to hit the roads. But make sure you aren't high on liquor or dope. It's makes living a lot more likely. Night driving however has perils of its own whether you are stoned or not. The continuous torture of headlights of on coming vehicles is a nemesis for many drivers. The gaudy advertisement boards aren't less of a problem either. You can easily benefit from these cool night vision glasses since they block all the glare and unwanted lights from temporarily blinding you. Features include: anti-reflective lenses, titanium frames, better contrast and an anti-slip elastomere. The pale yellow glasses shown here are well designed to make your night venture a lot safer than it would normally turn out to be.

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How about this for a panel in your car. The brilliance of night vision and person recognition and many other features is bundled up into the Toyota Crown Hybrid. The screen supports resolutions of up to 1280 x 480 and measures 12.3 inches. It’s not just the faint hearted who can enjoy this one. It can operate between temperatures ranging from -30 - 85 degrees Celsius. The colors of the meters can also be changed and customized according to the color of your seat covers or your dashboard or to just about any color you would like it to be.

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Cycling is supposed to be an exercise. But with this offering by Panasonic there isn't much to do for someone seeking to strengthen himself. Without any effort from the rider, this bike can scale speeds that can take him/her across 10 km in just half an hour. With a little effort from the rider himself, the bike can cover a cool 150 kilometers. It comes with Smart Lithium-Ion Integrated Management System (SLIM) that displays the remaining battery life of the motor. I really hope that guys who select participants for various competitions take heed to the artificial boost given to the riders of this one.

Slow speed collisions may not really seem to be a nemesis for some drivers but they are prevalent none the less. Here's something that can prevent these underrated disasters. It is basically a collage of a few technologies, namely: Volvo City Safety, Mercedes Distronic Plus, and Honda CMBS which have been through some rigorous testing by British Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre Thatcham. Now coming back to the fact that such accidents go unnoticed; a statistic from our source says that a whopping 75% of all accidents are of this category. The Volvo City Safety system is attached to the windshield and warns drivers of the foregoing vehicles proximity. The Mercedes Distronic Plus technology is connected to the cars cruise control and can sustain even speeds of 200km/h by warning the driver of the proximity of other vehicles.

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Here’s all that a highway king could dream of. The Navistar LoneStar comes with a world of its own contained in the vehicle. How about reclining on a 42 inch mattress (on a pull down bed), tripping on some good music from a Monsoon stereo system with 11 speakers (that comes with an amplifier and sub-woofer). You can chill out on your drive down town thanks to a mini refrigerator. Other comfort boosters include swivel chairs, a sofa bed and rich wooden flooring. It also has Bluetooth, Standard ABS, Roll stability and a 50 degree wheel cut.

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I like things like these popping up every now and then. Nissan or may be some other manufacturer had something similar to this topic rumored all around auto sites. Anyway, this time it's a bit more realistic. Nissan have managed to come up with some pretty cool color changing paint. The paint can be changed by a click of a button (cops beware!). Some amount of electric charge is all it takes to make the magic happen. Since electricity is involved in the color changing of the car, it is necessary for the car to be in motion.

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Here’s something to make you smile if not eager. Owning a car with a sun roof may seem to be cool or a status symbol or something. For that reason, some whacko who really finds himself too pressed down with the burden of not having a car with a sun roof, has decided to invent something that comes close to a real sun roof. The Decano sunroof (gosh! It has a name and all) attaches to the roof of your vehicle and appears as if your car really has a sin roof up there.

This year at the IAA in Frankfurt, Nissan will unveil the Mixim Electric Car. The car is made mobile with the ‘Super Motor' electric motor of the company and some compact lithium-ion batteries. The car is a four wheel drive and weighs fifty kilograms less than a ton. Other stats state that it is 3.7m long, 1.800m wide and 1.4m tall. Driving the Mixim will equal a futuristic experience. Given the steering and the bullet like design, the car seems to be making me edgy.

The Jaguar XF seems pretty good to be of concept car material. Heavily inspired by the looks of the C-XF, this sports saloon by Jaguar has all the makings of a classic. It comes with one 2.7-litre V6 diesel engine (0-100kph in 8.2 secs and a top speed of 229 kph) and three petrol engine options, namely 3.0-litre V6, 4.2 n/a V8 petrol and 4.2 s/c V8 petrol. The V8 engines can speed up to 250kph. Safety is a major issue in sports cars. The features stuffed into this one include electronic brake assist, electronic brakeforce distribution, anti-lock braking system, a pedestrian contact sensing system, blind spot monitor, front and rear parking aids, rear camera parking aid, adaptive cruise control, automatic speed limiter, tyre pressure monitoring, dynamic stability control, cornering brake control, and engine drag torque control and understeer control logic for deceleration.

Remember those cool futuristic bikes that featured in some cool Japanese toons of yesteryear? Here’s one, for real. The Renovatio is a pretty cool machine by Confederate and appears to be almost frameless. It is among those mean machines that have tires almost floating beneath the body of the bike. The name that means ‘rebirth’ in Latin isn’t all that common either. This monster is empowered by a thrilling 1686cc v-twin engine. You can expect a horsepower of anything above 150hp from this one. The Renovatio makes up for all the missing hilarity in the design of Confederate’s earlier ventures such as the Wraith and Hellcat.

This seems to be pretty much good news to me as the iPhone was. The 2009 Hyundai Elantra will be one of the more awaited makes of the company. It seems to me that Hyundai have been a bit too touchy about not being the most technically advanced car makers around. So to everyone’s relief they have proved their point as one of the better accessorized manufacturers. The 2009 Elantra will have USB connectivity and probably even support for Microsoft’s Blue&Me system. It is now possible to do everything from charging your cellphone to cooling a can of beer using a USB mini fridge and other loads of gizmos that roll out with USB support.