Tag Archive for 'honda'

Gas price is no doubt the topic that we hear every single day, and energy efficient vehicles are very popular right now. Honda puts its new zero-emission car into production line today and the vehicle called FCX Clarity will be fuel cell powered car.

Typically here on Slashgear we cover slightly smaller mods, computers and game consoles are extremely typical. This slightly larger mod, appears  to be a perfectly normal bike. Actually if there weren’t a wheelchair sitting next to it, I wouldn’t have known there was the slightest difference between it and other bikes.

We’ve seen exoskeleton suits designed to grant their wearers super-human strength, but they tend to look somewhat obvious.  Fine if you’re an attention-seeking superhero, but less of a selling point if you’re an elderly person with mobility problems.  Honda have thankfully come to the rescue, though, with their ‘Walking Assist Device‘; worn as a straightforward [...]

Well, you all saw the recent fall of Honda’s ASIMO robot and you thought it was over; not so. I came across an older video of ASIMO and this time he made it up the stairs but didn’t quite make it downstairs in one piece. Honda’s Humanoid Robot is currently an overprice piece [...]

Consider this a SlashGear public service announcement if you will.  Robots, no matter how adept they consider themselves, should always look where they’re going when climbing stairs.  Witness this embarrassing fall by Honda’s lauded Asimo, which ironically happened while he was boasting about the in-feet sensors that allow him to balance.

Thankfully the Honda nurses [...]

Honda test-drove its FCX Concept next generation fuel cell vehicle in Tokyo this past weekend. The V Flow1 fuel cell system proves high efficiency in a compact, high-draining vertical-flow design. Honda says it will be in general release in 2008. See the nice video here.

Honda shows off next-gen fuel cell vehicle [Via: Mobile Mag]