Toshiba Charge Grid system harnesses solar energy to efficiently charge EVs

Once you’ve become the owner of an electric vehicle, you’ll face a little headache with your electricity bills. Sure, you’ll have to pay more for the electricity as you’ll always wanna charge your EV. But with the newly announced Toshiba’s Charge Grid system, you’ll be able to save a lot on your bills as the system harnesses solar energy to generate electricity for charging the EV.

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Ford Fiesta – the car for Twitter

We’ve told you about the Ford tweeting car, and the company is now ready to bring it to reality which they’ll make a series of Twitter-equipped Ford Fiestas to make their way across the US.

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JFE quick charging station for electric cars

In order for electric cars to become popular, they will need charging stations that can refill their juice as quickly as possible. As no one will want to wait for a couple of hours for an EV to charge. JFE Engineering Corp claims they’ve developed a solution, a super quick charging station for EVs, which allows an EV to charge up to 50% in just 3 minutes.

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Nokia Car Kit CK-200 works with two Bluetooth devices simultaneously

The Nokia Car Kit CK-200 will come this summer, it’s an in-car hands-free system for your mobile phones and it allows you to connect with two mobile phones simultaneously via Bluetooth. The Nokia car kit will also download the contact lists of your two phones onto it automatically, and you can switch between the two phones easily.

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GPS Angel portable red light and speed camera detector

You love speeding but you hate traffic tickets, therefore it’s best to equip your car with a red light and speed camera detector, which will alert you while you’re approaching those high-risk zones. GPS Angel has announced their latest red light and speed camera warning system, which now comes in a completely cordless version that has a built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery and requires no connection of any power cord.

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10-feet tall robot made from old Yamaha motorcycle parts

Those old motorcycle parts chucked in one corner of your store would be useful for building a giant robot, to impress everyone in town. Here comes a 10-feet tall robot that was made by Travis Taylor, a handyman-turned-artist using some crap metal and old Yamaha motorcycle parts.

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Hitachi’s new process will double the lifespan of lithium-ion batteries

There have been a number of efforts in the past to help increase the lifespan of batteries. We’ll always welcome any new processes that can help increase the lifespan of batteries as we always need longer battery life for gadgets such as your PMP, MP3 player, iPod, iPhone, iPad etc.

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iGrip – in-car windshield mount universal charger for your gadgets

iGrip is a windshield-mount universal charger, which lets you stick your phone or other mobile devices on it for charging while you’re in the car. The iGrip is based on WildCharge technology, so the gadget that needs to get charged needs to wear the WildCharge-compatible case.

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First Android-powered car – Roewe 350

Android, the Google Mobile OS is not limited to being used on mobile phones only. It’s been used also on some other gadgets such as netbooks, tablets etc.

And the latest news we have here is Android OS is now used in a car, Roewe 350 to power its GPS, audio system etc.

The Roewe 350′s DVD and GPS systems are powered Android 2.1. The technology allows motorists to have their required information at their fingertips including real time local traffic reports as well as direct web access.

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Single-wheeled superbike – Hornet

Hornet is a one-wheeled superbike developed by Liam Ferguson which seems unsteady at first sight. But if you take a closer look, you’ll notice that it has two smaller side-by-side wheels at the rear end, which actually serve as the stabilizer that keeps it balanced gyroscopically whenever it is parked.

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