Bridgestone Revisits The Airless Tire

If you’re a car person with access to the internet, you’ve received images via email of a concept airless tire built by Michelin in the early ‘00s. Depending on which version of the e-mail you received (and we’ve seen dozens), the tire was either under development, awaiting production, or headed to a showroom near you in the coming months. While the idea was sound, the technology proved to be both expensive and impractical to develop further. Read more

Will Tire Tread Scanners Keep Roads Safer?

A few months back, Malcolm and I were headed north on I-95 after a Southern Automotive Media Association meeting in Miami. We were driving at around 75 miles per hour, in a steady rain and moderate traffic, when the minivan next to us spun.

The whole thing happened too fast to be puckering; one minute, the van was alongside us, and the next the driver was looking out his windshield at the side of my car. No one was hurt, and the van suffered only minor damage. Traffic was slowing ahead, and the minivan driver most likely tapped his brakes. What caused the spin? My guess is bald tires on a wet road. Read more

iPhone, iPhone 3G & 3GS Treadz Case: Trick Out Your iPhone With a Car Tire Case

The Apple iPhone can do a number of things including take you for a test drive in a new Audi or measure the performance of your vehicle with the G-tac application. Now you can gain some serious traction with your own treadz iPhone case which has an authentic tire tread design (tire tread pattern). This is an ideal must-have item for all automotive enthusiasts or what we like to call them, Automotive Addicts! iFrogs, a innovator of iPhone and iPod cases and accessories, has a few automotive enthusiast items including the Treadz case for your iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS among other automotive-esq add-ons for your favorite ever-so-popular iPod or iPhone device. We loved the treadz design so much we had to get one at a discounted 20% off of the regular price which is still being offered.

Next time you whip out your iPhone to make a call, update your facebook status or just check your email, everyone will know you are an automotive enthusiast because they will think you are playing with a flat tire. Who else would do such a thing?

• Link to or purchase the iPhone 1st generation iFrogz Treadz Case
• Link to or purchase the iPhone 3G iPhone 3GS iFrogz Treadz Case

Thanks to our network partner iPod-Addicts.com for the tip.

Check out some of the images of the newest iPhone Treadz Case from iFrogs.