Auto Parts for Brains

With the LA Auto Show just around the corner, car enthusiasts from all over the US are getting excited.  Aside from the excitement for the event, this is mostly because this year, a few cars for the coming year will be unveiled. 

One of the sure scene stealers in next week’s show will be the Nissan show area where they will reveal for the first time in the US, the “evolutionary” redesign of the Z.  Called 370 Z, fans everywhere are waiting to see the car in person and maybe have the chance to tinker in the driver’s seat or to take a peak at what’s under its hood.  The design of the Z is not something of a secret with a computer generated version playable on the game Need for Speed Underground and with a lot of leaked photos online.  Promised to have considerably more performance and a visual stimulus beyond today’s Z, this car is something a lot of drivers are waiting for.

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I am not really crazy about clothes or fashion as I am with gadgets and cars.  Still, I think I have a sense of style, though that is highly subjective.  Someone told me once that the gadgets men have and the cars we drive are equivalent to the clothes and jewelry that women wear.  Honestly, we would rather drive a Shelby Cobra in our shorts and worn out shirts over cruising with an Armani in a compact Kia or Toyota.  To us, cars and not clothes make a man.

A few weeks ago, I came accidentally to an awesome concept of recycling auto parts for various purposes.  I found amusement as I browsed ashtrays, paper weights and wall clocks made from used auto parts.  I think it is really an awesome idea to recycle these to products to other useful items after they have been used.  Nothing can describe my surprise , however, when I ran over two episodes of the franchise Project Runway during my research.  It looks like this season, sponsors Fiat and Saturn, for the Australian and American editions respectively, wanted to push the designer’s boundaries by having them make couture creations from auto parts.  Talk about fusion.  The contestants of the show were made to literally make the Saturn or Fiat wearable.

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It is basic procedure to have your car checked on a scheduled basis, i.e., weekly, monthly, or even annually. However, it is also essential to create a habit of checking your car on a daily basis. Aside from giving you peace of mind throughout the day, it also lets you know at once if there is any basic repair that needs to be made.

Here are the auto parts that you can check for a total of only five minutes a day: Read the rest of this entry »

Hey! It’s Friday, August 8, 2008 (8-8-8).

Most Chinese say that the numbers 8-8-8 make for a very LUCKY day. And it only happens once! This is why there are so many couples who are going to get married today. Moreover, pregnant women for Caesarian delivery have chosen this day to give birth to their “lucky” babies.

Well, if you are not going to get married nor give birth, then how do you plan to spend this lucky lucky day? How about… by buying a car? Read the rest of this entry »

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*Please note that all news items posted on the proposed design are fictional and were made for a few laughs.

Personally, I think that the new design for the Propeller site was made by those behind it to make it a more effective social medium for its users.  When I came to the site, I was excited to try how the new structure worked and what improvements were made.  I found it a little confusing at first, but figured that though it does require a little getting used to, almost all the past features were there.

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I am pretty sure that most if not every Marvel film geek has seen the first trailer for Edward Norton’s play of the Incredible Hulk.  The trailer does succeed in instilling in us the excitement of another Marvel movie.  It promises a totally revamped Hulk movie and introduced us to some facts like who the opponent will be and how Ed Norton will look like as Bruce Banner.  After watching it, it left some questions unanswered.

With today’s release of the second, and longer Incredible Hulk trailer, some questions are answered and light is shed on a few facts.  Among these are the following:

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In his book “Permission Marketing”, author Seth Godin has described just how saturated the market is today with advertisements and ads that are all competing and vying for people’s attention.  The so-called “internet age” just made this matter worse, by providing even to the common man, an easy means to subject a massive number of people to unsolicited promotions.  In his book, Godin, taught the principle of opt-in marketing where people are given the agency to choose which ads they want.

In the real world, however, conventional obtrusive marketing still exists.  And much as a lot of people claim that it is dead, the advertising industry is thriving, maxing out its saturation point.  In a market that is already filled to the brim with messages being shouted to the consumer’s ears everywhere, it is the task of today’s ad companies to come up with louder, and more provocative methods of conveying ideas.  As a result, ads today are funnier, more controversial and more out of the beaten path.

Here are twenty (and more) of the print ads that are made out of the country which I think are just amazing at doing what they are made to accomplish.  Leave a mark (good or bad) to the unsuspecting consumer.  A picture truly paints a thousand words.

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With the start of the new year, it has become a sort of habit to look back on the past twelve months and look forward with excitement to the coming days and weeks.  The last few days have been that of making assessments and predictions of what the year 2008 holds for us.

The advent of the new year has made me think of the things I hope to achieve as well as a lot of the things I wish for.  A chat with friends a few days ago has brought me to asking them about their wish lists for the year.  It did not come as a surprise, though, when they gave me a handful of devices for their wish list, instead of, say,a new president of their choice or “world peace”.

Their responses have brought me to think of my own wish list.  On my search for that as well as with a few of my friend’s response, here are a list of gadgets that we hope will be available by this year.  These gadgets have been the subject of the hottest rumors last year.

After finding out that no Google phone is yet on the wait list, here are a few of the things that might be available by this year.

Apple Macbook Nano/ Tablet

Since mid last year, Apple fans have given rise to a rumor of a smaller more mobile version of its Macbooks.  With the company’s great strides in touch and multi touch technologies, it is not surprising it they will indeed come up with something as cool as a Macbook Nano.

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This year has been a great year for the site as well as for this blog.  I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has visited the site and who contributed to our fun this year by wishing you a Merry Christmas.  May we all be blessed with a fun’er and better year next year.

With the ever increasing number of vehicles on our cities’ roads nowadays, it is not uncommon for anybody to have experienced the challenge of finding a parking space.  A lot of times, we take the risk of parking where we shouldn’t, only to get our vehicles towed away or worse.  Listed below are simple accessories and auto parts that one can add to his vehicle to optimize it for unauthorized parking in loading zones, to deter vandalism, and for industrial photography infiltration.

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