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San Francisco Gets Advanced Parking Meters that Accept Credit Cards!

Go out to dinner often where you have to feed the meter?  Tired of fiddling with your coins?  Perhaps it’s time for you to move to San Francisco where they have advanced parking meters that accept credit cards.

Why don’t every city in the U.S. have these?  That’s what I am wonderin’…

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Motorola Roadster Bluetooth In-car Speakerphone Review! [Best Bluetooth Speakerphone 2010!]

One of the hot ticket items at CTIA 2010 this year was the Motorola Roadster Bluetooth In-car Speakerphone.  I decided to check out if it lived up to its hype and surprisingly, the Motorola Roadster exceeded my expectations.

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DSLR Hack – How to Make a DIY DSLR Car Mount by Hacking Your Tripod!

This year before I headed to CES 2010 I wanted to make sure my DSLR tripod could be used also as a steadicam by hacking one of the legs so I can use it as a handle.   Well, I failed doing that because this Manfrotto tripod is simply not going to be a steadicam by any means but recently I discovered another use for it, as a DSLR car mount.

By having one of the legs of the t

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Speedy Wash – How to Clean/Wash a Bus/RV in 5 Minutes!

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I just stumbled onto this cool Speedy Wash on YouTube, it’s a giant, vertical bus/RV-washing robot that’s completely automated and clean/washes buses and RVs in matter of minutes.  Pretty cool stuff I have to say.  This could work well for those of you with multiple Hummers.

SPEEDY WASH is the BITIMEC mobile single brush washing machine line used to wash coaches, buses, trailers, trucks, tankers, and railcars. Single brush mobile power washers are the most economical way for transport carrier

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Optimus Prime Recycled from Old Trucks! [Wowsers]

Optimus Prime found in China!

Need I say more?

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Carbon Fiber Hack – How to Make DIY Carbon Fiber Parts!

video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAdVO8Rkv6c Carbon fiber is probably one of the lightest yet strongest materials used often for fixing up cars. I never knew the process of making carbon fiber could be done without heavy machinery but this video shows you how to make your own carbon fiber parts, amazing indeed.

Basically, carbon fiber fabric and epoxy are used to make the finishing carbon fiber part. I guess it’s not that complicated, this could be a great way to make some custom car parts.

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Auto DIY – How to Make your Own Cold Air Intake!

Remember I did a post on how to make an intake for your car using parts from home depot? Well, here’s another fabulous idea for cold air intake, this guy actually uses a simply PVC piping to bring the cold air from the front of the front bumper to the intake.

Most retail cold air intake actually has the air filter at the front bumper, which is actually a bad idea because water can get to

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How to Avoid Speed Traps on Your iPhone, Android or Blackberry!

I’ve mentioned PhantonAlert before, a service that lets you avoid speed traps. Well, here’s another service that’s going to help you avoid speed traps, Trapster.com. There’s an app for almost every smartphone including the iPhone, Android, or Blackberry so try it out and let me know if it does indeed work well.

As for me, I will keep relying on my old-school “magical” feel of the roads. I can see a cop a mile away when I am driving, call it &

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Auto DIY – How to Make LED Headlights for your Car!

My friends have been asking me how to make LED headlights ever since they found out I can hack up some electronic stuff.  Well, LEDs are pretty easy to me since I’ve dealt with them a lot but I won’t tell you how to do it, there’s a guy who made an instructable for that.

The first image shows how things look right now: two upper ‘edge’ arrays, each with 21 5mm LED (pointed forward, 5 degrees down and 5 degrees outwards), a central array of 60 LEDs at top density (pointed straight forward, replacing the twelve LED array around the Hyundai symbol

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Are U.S. Army Humvees #Obsolete?

The U.S. Army’s version of Hummers is called the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle or Humvee. There has been numerous cases of IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) that can explode the humvees.

Well, the rumor has it that Humvees are finally being retired, perhaps better/stronger army vehicles such MRAPs are on the way I hope.

I still remember when Humvees first came out and replaced Jeeps. Well, I t

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