Jerusalem Pizza, a famous local kosher pizza joint, is doing a very cool thing. They are auctioning off the rights to pie #1, post-Passover...
The Galileoscope
A team of astronomers went to work to come up with a low cost telescope kit, that kids could put together to learn about how telescopes work...
Fiat's Multiair System
Fiat has developed an interesting engine system for improving fuel economy. called Multiair. This is another type of variable valve timing...
SF Mayor: Closet Engineer
San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom is, apparently, a secret engineer. He thinks designing cars that get big fuel efficiency numbers at ...
Medtipster: Finding Cheap Drugs
A guy I know (a friend of a friend kind of thing) works for a company that has recently launched a prescription drug search engine. Called ...
The Warranty Insurance Signal
The Obama administration's decision to offer government backing for GM and Chrysler warranties is a clear signal of the direction they e...
Does America Want The Tata Nano?
My answer: no, not in its original form. As it is, the thing (probably) won't pass the NHTSA crash tests, not to mention the basic FMVSS...
Video: Early Nano Review
This is another video review of the Tata Nano, apparently done in India for CNBC. An interesting detail: 0-60 kph takes about 10s, which tra...
Aptera: Quirky Toy or Real Car?
Here is a short list of reasons why I think that the Aptera will be a low volume toy for the rich or idealistic, and not a mass market tran...
Silly Mazda, No iPod Controls
By now, just about everyone in the U.S. has an Apple iPod, or one of the many competitors. Most automakers have rightly realized that allow...
Carnival Of Cars: Ides Of March Edition
Mark Tapscott , after doing yoemans work on Carnival Of Cars (which, you may remember, was started here) has been fairly silent lately. So,...
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