And now, the best use of a BlackBerry Storm I have seen to date: Lewis Hamilton, the British Formula One driver, appears in a YouTube video controlling his F1 car remotely with Research in Motion’s touchscreen smartphone.
Here’s the backstory: A couple of Vodafone subscribers in the UK hacked a BlackBerry Storm to race a toy R/C F1 car around a homemade track. That’s what appears in the first minute or so of the video. The Storm’s built-in accelerometer lets them steer the car by tiling the phone back and forth, while acceleration and braking is controlled with buttons on the phone’s touch screen, according to Autoblog.
Once word got out and Team McLaren heard about it, they invited the fellows to the McLaren Mercedes garage, where they adapted the control system to a real F1 car…Â Details
The third annual “Clash at Clairemont “is bound to be an epic demo with the best of the world’s awesome skateboard and BMX pros riding together to crush cancer. Names like Macdonald, Sheckler, Lasek, McCoy and Hoffman are listed in the lineup for the March 14 event. In fact, some of the stars did a change up on their schedules to make it according to the organizers.
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Los Angeles motorists can save nearly 50 percent on car repairs by patronizing an independent repair shop rather than a dealership, says a first-ever industry-sponsored study of the issue.
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British team is close to beating the world sailing speed record of 50.7 knots (58mph) with a radical boat design that can accelerate to 60mph in 5.2 seconds.
The Vestas SailRocket does not look like any yacht that has come before…Â Details