Car Gadgetarium
Gadgets
Buying guides and hands-on explainers for car gadgets — what each category actually does, what the numbers mean, and how to choose without overpaying.
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The Tent That Unfolds Over Your Car in 30 Seconds — Then Gives Up at 25 mph
The Lanmodo Pro covers your whole car at the press of a remote — on one suction cup, up to 25 mph of wind,…
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Garmin’s $1,200 Driving Coach Will Make You Faster — and Refuses to Work on the Road There
Garmin’s Catalyst 2 talks you through every lap for $1,199.99 — plus a subscription, an internet requirement and four specs Garmin does not publish.
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A $999 Box Lets 325 Cars Steer Themselves — and Federal Investigators Just Opened a File
The comma 4 shrinks openpilot to a fifth the size for $999 — and arrives alongside an NHTSA defect investigation naming five crashes and…
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Best 5 Wireless CarPlay Adapters 2026: The $37 Dongle That Beats $70 Rivals
Five wireless CarPlay and Android Auto adapters ranked on measured boot times, stability and heat — plus the compatibility check to run before you…
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Solar Tint Says It Will Charge Your Car Through the Windows. We Did the Maths.
Transparent photovoltaic film is real science with record numbers behind it. Applied to car glass it is worth one to two kilometres a day…
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Someone Finally Built a Roomba for Your Car — and There Is a Reason No Real Brand Did
Palm-sized robot vacuums “for car” are all over the marketplaces, sold by brands nobody has heard of. Why every company that actually knows how…
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This $10 Keychain Could Save Your Life — But Not in 1 in 3 Cars
A spring-loaded window punch and seatbelt cutter that fits on your keyring. It works — on one type of glass. Here is the 30-second…
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Element E50: A 230-Gram Fire Extinguisher With No Pressure and No Expiry Date
It looks like a road flare and you use it like one. How potassium chemistry stops a flame without pressure, why 50 seconds beats…
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Vantrue Pilot 2: The Dash Cam With a Thermal Camera in Your Grille
Four channels, one of which sees heat instead of light — and cannot sit behind your windscreen. Why the thermal camera mounts outside, what…
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Why Drivers in the Scorching Texas Heat Are Obsessed With This Gadget: The Ultimate Defense Against Highway Blowouts
A solar-powered wireless TPMS that reads pressure and temperature on all four tires and sirens when something goes wrong. The difference between the TP-S15…
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The Fiat 500L Had a Factory Espresso Machine — and It Was Better Engineered Than You Think
The only production car ever sold with a built-in espresso machine. How the Lavazza unit worked, why you had to turn it upside down,…
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Wolfbox G900 TriPro Cabin: The 12-Inch Mirror That Records Three Directions
A mirror-replacement dash cam recording 4K forward, 2.5K back and 1080p inside the cabin. The two variants you must not confuse, why the supercapacitor…