I know, I know. This golf club from Nike has a name longer than a ‘67 Cadillac. But with good reason. This $540 (MSRP) driver from Nike is supposed to be the best of the best, the creme de la creme of drivers. Tiger uses one, so why shouldn’t you? Nike sent us one to try out for the weekend, so we took it to Golf Galaxy in Mount Laurel, New Jersey and put it to the test.
Ford has unveiled its new take on automobile dashboards with what it’s calling the SmartGauge. The LCD gauge will debut in Fords 2010 line of hybrids, the Ford Fusion Hybrid and Mercury Milan Hybrid. The gauge uses an all-digital screen with lively animations to prompt drivers on good driving habits by displaying a heavily stylized greenery for good behavior. It’s almost as bad as the teddy bear backseat driver.
The gauges are fully customizable, able to display whatever real time data the driver wishes to see. From what I’ve seen in the videos, it looks to be one of the most impressive dashboards ever put in an automobile. It also appears to be way too distracting for drivers, most of which have a bad enough attention span as it is.
In the future, cars will move very, very fast. It’s a damn shame our puny little minds will never develop the reflexes and reaction time to operate them manually. So instead, we’ll just slap high tech computers to the engines that’ll automatically drive the car at intensely high speeds for us.
This concept design by Iman Maghsoudi is said to be like any other car. The driver will have total control during low speed travels but once you make the jump to high speeds, the computer takes over and you’ll be off talking on your Ferrari phone without any need to mind the road. We already have the strange looking car designs, now who’s going to design the computer that drives them?
A Thai youth confessed to robbing and murdering a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from Grand Theft Auto 4. It is said that he was curious about whether or not it was as easy to steal a taxi in real life as it is in the game. Well kid, it is. Was your curiosity worth the pending charge that could result in death by lethal injection?
In an effort to disparage future occurrences of impressionable kids gone mad, Sakchai Chotikachinda, sales and marketing director of New Era Interactive Media has urged distributors to pull the game from their shelves. This is the worst news we’ve heard since Rockstar Games declared a GTA for the DS. We all know no gamer is more impressionable than a Nintendo fan boy.
No, this isn’t a normal driver. This club doubles as a weed whacker for those lousy moments of the game in which you find yourself off the beaten path of the fairway. The Bid Daddy Driver will keep you from getting stuck in the rough. Don’t let its nonchalant look fool you as this club packs a mean swing.
With the weed whacker at its base, Big Daddy can also be used as a vile weapon to chop your enemies into fertilizer. It’s only $50 dollars and runs on six (holy shit this thing is almost a Sega Game Gear!) AA batteries. Only to be used for recreational play, this driver is not for the pros. The pros have slaves to cut the grass for them.
Acknowledging your fellow driver when another car lets you merge into their lane just became a little more effortless. Drivemocion are “expressive car message signs”, allowing you press a button to let a nearby car know you’re pissed for getting cut off. It can be attached to the back window which can display a few variation of lights such as “Thanks”, “Sorry”, the bird and other emotes.
Why bother with road rage when giving someone the finger is a button away…
This is perhaps one of the most dangerous designs we have seen for a while: TV screens on the sun visor at the driver’s seat. It is only meant to be used when you are not driving, or it’s for the person sitting next to the driver. Depending on what’s playing there, it can be very tempting to glance at the screen. After banning phone use when driving, TV watching might be the next on the list. These screens measure 9.2 inches diagonally and have a resolution of 480×800. They will be available in March for 430USD. –Sam Chan
Sunvisor Monitor [DreamMaker]
