If there’s one thing Mini knows, it’s how to send a car around a track quickly. And in the Mini JCW GP, BMW flexes their track muscles like a ‘roid head shagging a gym bunny. All the Mini’s in the current range are exciting vehicles to drive. Sure the entry level Mini One at 72kw isn’t the quickest car in the world, but even driving that, you’re reminded of why Mini is where it is today thanks to those years of putting the American muscle cars in their place on the touring car circuit. Slower than a V8 on the straights, but capable of embarrassing those bulky Yanks in the corners. And now, they’ve sharpened the tip of their spear in the form of the Mini JCW GP. This is the world’s best hatch on a track. The love has all gone in to Mini’s not-so-Mini Countryman, a car that… Read More »
Facebook creates their first SmartPhone NEW GADGET
Well they’ve done it in conjunction with HTC, so let’s not get carried away. What Facebook have brought to the party is their own OS called “Home” which will run on Android devices and aims to remove the barrier between opening up the Facebook app and posting annoying updates to Facebook. Instead, users of “Home” will see all their updates, friends and likes right there on the home screen. And also will be able to update and like from within any app. There’s not much more to it, so on the good side, it’s not complicated. The device itself comes in red, white, black or blue and has a 4.3-inch screen and a 5MP camera. More info: http://www.facebook.com/home
The new “fastest car in the world”: the Venom GT
The mantle for “fastest production car in the world” has been passed once again to the Hennesy Venom GT. This video was shot recently and it shows the epic hypercar reaching a top speed of 427km/h on a 2 mile track. To find it’s top speed, they’re on their way to a banked bowl somewhere. The specs on this car are the only thing that come close to impressing on it’s top speed. It’s got a 7-litre, V8 engine producing an uncontionable 927kw and a 0-100 in just 2.7 seconds. Get more of this epic car here: http://www.venomgt.com/ Watch the vid here:
The best of the April Fools jokes: Tech Edition
In case you missed them, here’s a quick round-up of what some of the biggest brands in the world tried to get their customers and fans to believe. WARNING: None of these are serious, these are all just jokes GMail Blue Google Maps Treasure edition Google Nose The Nokia Microwave. Damn pity this, looks amazing and probably runs Windows Phone 8 And lastly, Twitter threatened to start charging users who insisted on using vowels in their tweets. They called it Twttr. Oh, and Youtube was shut down for the day. It wasn’t you fool. And that’s it, now you’re up to date.
Nike+ and Tom Tom GPS watch FULL REVIEW
Nike and Tom Tom are both bosses in their respective industries. And now they’ve come together to create a GPS sports training watch that I’ve recently been playing with. From the outset the news is good. Setup and understanding of this device is idiot-easy. Simply turn the rechargable watch on and wait for it to connect to the GPS sattelites in tech heaven, where I believe all the tech that makes our lives better comes from. Things like the Cloud and such. If you’re excercising indoors, they’ve provided a shoe pod that you slip into your tekkie and it feeds the info to the watch for you. Obviously this watch is built with runners in mind, something that becomes clear once you start cycling through the data it collects. Pace, Avg Speed, Time, Distance and calories brunt. Post-workout, you slip the watch (which has a neatly hidden USB drive in… Read More »
An electric dirt bike. A sad day for petrolheads NEW BIKE
The breeding ground of young petrolheads is under threat fellow…um…petrolheads. There’s an electric dirt bike on the market. Known by most as a “scrambler”, you’re looking at the tool of education used by many a wanna-be stunt driver to get to know how an internal combustion engine works, why bikes are more fun than cars and also what a broken bone feels like. But now that’s all under threat thanks to BRD Motorcycles new RedShift MX, an electric motorbike made specifically for lite class racing. But as we’ve learnt from F1, racing is often the breeding ground for new technologies that will filter down into consumer vehicles, and that’s very worrysome for the reluctant 16-year-old who gets shoved on the back of a 125cc the moment he’s road legal and his parent are sick of doing the school run. The good news is that because it’s electric, there’s min maintenance,… Read More »
Bowers & Wilkins P3 goes blue NEW GADGET
Bleh! Another set of designer headphones. And this set isn’t even a new model, it’s just a blue version of the Bowers & Wilkins P3 that were launched last year. Still, well worth gawking over. As has come to be expected from high-end ear-warmers, these feature custom drivers for a high-quality and immersive sound and an aluminium folding mechanism and a hard-shell case for mobile use. Get it: R2 000 From: http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/
The Gesture chair: the new science of sitting NEW GADGET
11 countries with 2000 people and the folk at Steelcase have come up with 9 new postures that humans have ever seen before as a result of our “new technologies and behaviors.” The idea being a chair that adapts, molds and changes in seconds to better support your posture while texting, reading on a tablet or moving from desk to coffee machine. The Gesture chair supports your arm while texting, reclines your back while reading and fosters movement and changes postures as quick as you change devices. It’s a chair that is designed for the interface between user and the tech they are using. Watch the video: Starting at the “Core interface” which gives the user better back support, there’s also “The Strunch,” for hours with your hands on a keyboard and “The Text,” legs crossed on a chair with an arm on an armrest. Available in the last part… Read More »
The new New Beetle driven ROAD TEST
Don’t bother denying it; you’ve been anticipating the launch of this car as much as you have the new Golf 7. Either you wanted to see if it is it still a girly, poser car for people with too much money, or it was because of that sad human need to drive past an accident and slow down to see what you could see. After driving it for a week and conducting a spot survey, the general consensus is “no, it’s not as girly as the first one but it’s still for people with too much money”. And at R240 000 to start, you can understand why. But seriously, well done on pulling the new VW Beetle back from the precipice of metrosexuality. They’ve beefed up the body a bit, got rid of that annoying flower on the dashboard and even given it some athleticism. After a week with the… Read More »
