Peeps in Brooklyn have long had real-time bus-tracking information, but public-transit aficionados in six other cities now have one less reason for BK envy. With the latest version of Google Maps, even the least cool citizens of Boston, Portland, Ore., San Diego, San Francisco, Madrid and Turin can see not just when their bus or train is scheduled to arrive, but when it actually will. Selecting a stop on the map displays “live departure times” and service alerts, thanks to Google’s data-sharing partnerships with city transit operators. That won’t always guarantee fewer delays or less waiting, but will help riders budget their time, and maybe find those precious seconds necessary to post more Tumblr pictures of “ironic” Hitler-kittens.

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Google search has just got into a whole lot more awesome than they ever did, because now you can search for flight schedule and information just like searching for bus or train info!

By simply typing “flights from / to” a destination in the search bar, it displays specific flight routes or all routes from a particular airport, all of the airlines serving the locales along with flight numbers, and travel dates / times.

The ITA travel search software which the DOJ finally allowed Google to purchase last month isn’t powering the feature, although Google stated on its blog that the flight schedule search is a “small step” in an overall effort to make finding flight information simpler.

Currently the service only supports ten languages, and Google will be increasing that number no doubt.

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Transformer flying Humvee project. How does this project’s name sound to you? Collaboration between the Autobots, the Prime clan, and the US government for war gadgets’ research and development? The AAI Corp has landed a contract for feasibility studies of the Transformer flying Humvee project, which takes a lightly armoured four-man vehicle and puts it in the air, hoping it to fly. Sounds as if it’s literally begging to be hit by a rocket-propelled grenade or flag trooper.

And if that doesn’t sound sketchy enough, keep in mind that among the design considerations are gas tanks in the craft’s wings which, as Spencer Ackerman at Wired points out, would make really obvious targets. The testing should last about a year, and cost DARPA a cool $3 million. If all goes well, AAI could have a partial prototype in 2013. Sounds very dangerous to me, and I won’t trust its capability unless it’s being developed by Stark Industries.

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Mobile warriors who always go to the airports for those international flights. Ever seen the airport packed like a sardine can? Wish you had a chair of your own? What if I tell you that you can! But that’s not all, the chair can also jam, giving you a chance to do popping in the middle of the airport when the cute girl pass by with a tune of some Fancy Footsteps.

This is the Trip, by Travelteq. It’s small enough to fit in an overhead compartment and has a kangaroo pouch on the front for quickly accessing items without opening the whole thing up. But that’s all pretty mundane in light of the fact that the Trip has little foldout legs that turn it into a chair. That you can sit on! When you’re tired at the airport and all the other seats are taken, sit at wherever you like mate! Just be careful if Roy Miller shows up and decided to put a toy in your kangaroo pouch, of your Trip bag of kush.

Now the fun part. Another version of the Trip, the Trip Sound, has detachable speakers incorporated into the suitcase itself. According to the press release, there’s a battery for juicing up your iPhone or Blackberry on the go. No love for Android? The Trip Sound runs for €650 and the regular Trip for €595. A bit pricey, but remember—you’re not just buying luggage; you’re buying luggage you can sit on and listen to.

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Space tourism; how bombarding can this business go? How often do you hear of people booking flight tickets to the space at Nasa Airlines? Nasa might not be heavily promoting their space tourism flights, but Boeing is getting ready to.

Boeing has declared plans to add space tourism to its CST-100 – or Crew Space Transportation-100 – low orbit flights by 2015. Operated by a partnership with Space Adventures, the flights will be able to carry up to seven passengers about 62 miles above Earth’s surface and the craft are currently being developed with the help of NASA.The space shuttle could also be used as a ferry to get people to and from the various space habitats companies are working away at. There’s no word on what the pricing of one of these journeys will look like, but I assure you it’s going to be more than just a limb and a thigh and your right eye.

SOURCE via CNET

There’s been many solar research models lately. Many are trying to get aircrafts to fly around without nothing but power from the sun. This is actually a remarkable research, as who knows, in the future we might be flying around using cute looking aircraft powered by solar energy. Totally green indeed! It’s a great thing to know that everyone’s getting into the ‘save Mother Nature’ move.

The Zephyr drone from QinetiQ will be running around again, with a new record that it hopes to blow away. 7 days in the air, and counting! The craft, which took off from the Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona last Friday, is being billed as an “eternal aircraft,” one that can stay in the air for extremely lengthy periods of time for use as recon and communications platforms. The earlier world record for a UAV was set by NASA’s Global Hawk, which stayed aloft for 30 hours and 24 minutes.

[via Engadget]

BMW has released the Vision EfficientDynamics Concept. It is powered by a fuel-efficient 3-cylinder turbodiesel plug-in full-hybrid with one electric motor on each axle. The top speed limited electronically to 155mph and it accelerates from 0 to 100km/h (62mph) at 4.8 seconds while the fuel consumption is 3.76 liters/100 kilometers. The design is awesome, check out more after the break.

Technology-oriented body design as a clear expression of consistent lightweight technology and aerodynamic quality.

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The Gemballa Mirage GT Matte Edition is powered by 5.7L V10 engine, churning out 670hp and hit 3.7-seconds from 0-60mph. Check out more pictures after the break.

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This Chrome BMW M3 is the first project of custom chrome painting in Russia. It is done by Dereiter Racing. Video after the break

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47-year-old Terry Watkins from The UK, has created the world’s smallest car ~ 39 inches tall, 26 inches wide and 51 inches long which is almost half the size of the current world record holder. The little car is powered by the engine found on lawn mower and has got the chassis from children’s toy car. Watkins has put on working headlights and tail lights, windshield wipers, signals and horn, and he got his license plate making it fully street legal. This little car can speed up to 40mph and it gets 70 miles per gallon. Video after the break.

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