Audience Survives Luchador Pile Driver at Houston Art Car Parade

This Luchador Art Car was seen doing "Pile Drives" at the Houston Art Car Parade, and the good news is that no one got hurt.via

Precursor, a novel touch screen layer

PreCursor is a research project worked upon by Pranav Mistry of the MIT Fluid Interfaces group. The project aims at building an invisible layer that hovers in front of the screen and enables novel interaction that reaches beyond the current touch screens. PreCursor provides the missing hover interaction to touch screens.

-- Varun

Graffiti Fiat Art Car

I found this little Graffiti Fiat beauty the other day, Love it.

General Lee Rally Art Car

Every so often, someone enters a General Lee into one of our events, this was Cima Racing's entry into Home2Rome 2010. We generally see more General Lees in Europe than the US probably because of the politically correct thing that surrounds the Confederate Battle Flag in the US these days. The chances of an Italian throwing a brick through the window of a General Lee in Europe is marginally less

Gravity Defying Lego Bike

Mutant Monday is brought to you by Brikapolis with this gravity defyingLego Art Bike, to go along with these other lego art cars here on Art Car Central.by Brickapolis

Pimp My Rocket - Burning Man Mutant Vehicle - For Sale

Are you running behind on creating a mutant vehicle for this years Burning Man event? Not to worry because this little electric pimp my rocket mutant vehicle is ready to go. Its now for sale at a reduced price for only $1,995 on ebay located in Resada, CAIt's a 36 volt, 3 wheeled electric car originally built in the 1950's, rebuilt in 2005 with an EZ-GO motor and rear transfer case. Not a golf

Google App Engine 1.5: What’s new

The first day of Google I/O 2011 is over and Google has already released updates to bunch of its products. Google App Engine is no exception to that. Google App Engine got upgraded to 1.5 with some interesting features. This upgrade is mainly focused on the maintenance aspect of your applications. New features are being introduced to ease the maintenance process and build a better application infrastructure. A new runtime for Go Programming Language has also been introduced.

Highlights:

• Backends:  Now, you can write applications which can run for a longer duration of time. Backends are developer-controlled, long-running, addressable sets of instances which are as large as the developer specifies. There are no request deadlines, they can be started and stopped (or dynamically start when called), they can use between 128M and 1G of memory and proportional CPU. With this, you can think about creating applications like reporting, etc.
• Pull Queues: Now the applications can pull tasks from the queue whenever it is ready to process. Pull Queues linked with Backends will be really handy for batch processing.
• Go runtime: The third official programming language to be supported by Google App Engine. An experimental runtime for Go Programming Language has also been bundled with 1.5 upgrade. Not sure how many developers are actually using Go (Of course, some Googlers will be using it).
• HTTP response size: HTTP request and response size has been upgraded to 32 MB.
• Apart from the owners, the users who have uploaded the code can also download it from the admin console.
• Google App Engine is going to be graduated from Preview later this year. Check out the new pricing model once it goes live.

For more details, check out the official blog post.

-- Varun

How to deal with Crazy Mondays - 9 Wheeled Crazy bike

8 Wheeled Bike - ViaMonday's are known for being a bit crazy especially after a long fun weekend. What better day to deal with crazy Monday's that with this 9 wheeled crazy bike.

Italian Job Police Rally Art Car

Today's delectable car is a lowly Fiat Tipo Polizia cop car look alike.This car deserves a mention because it really was beautifully executed as a replica, so well done, that every time we saw it on an event our hearts ran cold "uhoh cops". You see we never like meeting local cops on the events, cops mean trouble for the most part. We simply want to pass through a town, not get arrested and

12 Chalkboard Art Cars to Draw For

Chalkboard Toyota Art Car - ViaWhat better way to keep in touch, write down a giant grocery list or just tell the dude he parked in your spot again than with a chalkboard art car. If you can't afford a new paint job for your car, consider $50 worth of chalkboard paint and a box of sidewalk chalk and everyday you can drive home in a new masterpiece... or not!!!A while back I wrote about the