I wrote about the e-ink based color changing features on some BMW concept cars a while back. This video has a little more overview of the different features in the BMW Dee concept car – such as augmented reality directions and driving experiences.
Here’s the official videos:
And a kind of ridiculous one with Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Hasselhoff (though the Germans do love the Hoff after he did a little singing gig in 1989 that made him popular in Germany)
I’d ride in this 2024 Lexus LM any day of the week. Full lay down seats, widescreen TV? It’s about as close to a rolling living room as I’ve ever seen – or maybe it’s a rolling movie thee-aye-tur.
Ever want to buy a $100,000+ Porsche, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, or other semi-super car in Portland? Or maybe you just want to look at how the richer half lives.
If so, you might look at Grand Prix Motors in Portland. They have tons of interesting expensive cars to browse through on their website. They actually have what appears to be decent prices and move a good quantity of inventory so it’s always fun to browse through things you might never afford or want to actually spend your money on.
They also have some pretty wild cars that randomly migrate through their consignment sales section too for additional spice.
Mercedes added a ‘jumping’ mode to help you get out of sand and mud, but it turns out it’s pretty fly when pulling into your high end neighborhood too.
In case you’re curious the song is a slowed version of Jordan Burns – Weekend
This page has a great rundown of the 2015 Crosstrek maintenance schedule.
If you have a 2015, 2016, 2017 Subaru Crosstrek and need to pull/replace your window switches – this is a good video on how to do it. You have to unscrew the door panel screw in the inside handle recess and pull the door panel off to access the 2 screws and the wire harness you’ll need to access to remove the trim piece and associated windows controls.
This is a great video on the various issues that led to the hacking of the original XBox.
It turns out, a similar method by causing a processor fault has recently been used to hack Tesla cars recently.
This crazy motorcycle chase from São Paulo, Brazil looks like something out of a recent James Bond movie.
My favorite part is when the cop catches up to them and just laughs. Darn kids!
BMW demoed a black and white e-ink paneled body at CES in 2022.
In 2023, they upped the game by creating a colored e-ink version:
I ran into this guy a few times on the Last Thursday Alberta street festivals around 2010. Part DJ, part spinner, he went by the moniker of Spinnaface. He had a good schtick going:
Sadly, he wasn’t exactly the best DJ and I never really saw him again in later years. Still, it was an interesting time in Portland’s history of good natured keeping it weird before the city’s sharp decline in the 2020’s.