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Bentoooooooooon!

Bentoooooooooon!

(NSFW: Language) Witness the chaotic capabilities of dogs. It took just one of these creatures to throw an idyllic day at the park into a herd-displacing, traffic jam-inducing, curse-riddled chase.

Reality Hits You Hard Bro

Reality Hits You Hard Bro

George Lindell was minding his own business when – BAM! He got rear-ended by an SUV and “Aaaaah!” and sparks and the guy was trapped and, you know, reality hits you hard, bro.

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Brake/Horn Prank

Brake/Horn Prank

The victim of this prank gets a rude awakening, resulting in a maddening ride down the road. The only thing that would have been better would have been for it to kick in during rush hour traffic.

Xbox Kinect Star Wars Bundle

Xbox Kinect Star Wars Bundle
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The limited edition bundle includes a sweet R2D2 console with 320GB HDD that bleeps and bloops when it powers on and ejects a disc, a shiny C3PO controller and a Stormtrooper white Kinect.

Bus No. 62: Always on Time

Bus No. 62: Always on Time

This severe flooding may have brought traffic to a standstill, but that didn’t stop this bus driver and his balls of steel from continuing to run his route on time. Hope the passengers had swim trunks.

3-Way Street

3-Way Street

Ron Gabriel’s 3-Way Street thesis project tracks a camera at the Manhattan intersection of 28th and Park Avenue, where a plethora of hair-raising street traffic drama unfolds. (Thanks Mat!)

Speed Camera Lottery

Speed Camera Lottery

As annoying as those traffic speed cameras can be, we bet you’d slow down if you could win money from the speeders for driving under the speed limit. Winner of Volkswagen’s Fun Theory prize.

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Russian Road Wolves

Russian Road Wolves

Just moments after this traffic cop pulls over a driver in Russia, he’s forced to take cover in his subject’s car thanks to a marauding pack of wolves. Sounds best Benny Hillified.

Rush Hour Puppet Show

Rush Hour Puppet Show

LA is infamous for its crazy-bad traffic, so Superclogger decided to keep drivers entertained with these 4 to 7 minute vignettes in the back of a moving Mazda. Tailgate at your own risk.

Flight Patterns Visualized

Flight Patterns Visualized

Aaron Koblin took data from FAA flight traffic control and ran it through a Processing application, After Effects and Maya to produce these incredible images of airplanes’ nerve-like interconnections.

Tokyoflash Changing Lanes

Tokyoflash Changing Lanes
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The Kisai Changing Lanes watch tells time using an LED display which uses lanes of “traffic” to indicate hours, minutes and three minute intervals. We got stuck in the left lane behind an old guy in a Buick.

Kill or Be Killed: Metro 2033

Kill or Be Killed: Metro 2033
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Info on Metro 2033’s beasties oozes out slower than Moscow traffic at rush hour, but this fast-paced Kill or Be Killed trailer gives us a few more glimpses at their monstrous Dark Ones.

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Concept: Mercedes F800 Style

Concept: Mercedes F800 Style

Feast your eyes on Mercedes-Benz’s next CLS-Class: the F800 Style concept sports an SLS AMG nose, 400+ hp plug-in hybrid system, traffic jam assist, and 360 degree Pre-Safe system.

Concept: Kolelinia

Concept: Kolelinia

Riding your bike on a tightrope looks precarious, but Kolelinia is actually a well thought-out and safe half pipe and cable system that lets riders avoid dangerous auto traffic.

Book: Empty LA

Book: Empty LA
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If you were as simultaneously awe-struck and creeped out as we were by LA Without Traffic, Matt Logue’s Empty Los Angeles is an entire 78-page photo book of a City of (no) Angels.

Real-Time Google Earth

Real-Time Google Earth

Sure to whip virtual voyeurs into a frenzy, Georgia Tech is taking Google Earth real-time; they’ve incorporated real-world imagery including traffic, football games and even clouds.

Navigon 7300T GPS

Navigon 7300T GPS
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A natural fit, Rand McNally contributes 250 scenic routes to Navigon’s 7300T; other goodies include a 4.3″ touchscreen, voice command, Panaroma View, and verbal traffic cues.

TeleNav GPS: G1 Phone

TeleNav GPS: G1 Phone

TeleNav’s GPS Navigator is coming 2/24 to the T-Mobile G1, allowing the Android phone to give turn-by-turn driving directions with 3D maps, traffic alerts and speech recognition.

GA Nuvifone M20

GA Nuvifone M20

The first Garmin-Asus nuvifone to run WinMo 6.1, the M20 features a 2.8″ TFT touch lens display, 4GB/8GB storage, EDGE/HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, real-time traffic and navigation.

Video: Kaleido-Lapse

Video: Kaleido-Lapse

Nothing stops traffic like flashing lights, so this video of a carnival by Sai Win Myint Oo should easily overload our primitive ape brains; as if that’s not enough, it’s set to trippy Bjork music.

Kisai Tenmetsu Watch

Kisai Tenmetsu Watch
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The folks at Tokyoflash been busy lately; hot on the heels of the NI is the Kisai Tenmetsu. Resembling a flashing traffic light, each color represents different units of time.

Navigon 8100T

Navigon 8100T

One look at the Navigon 8100T’s brushed metal exterior and it’s clear this is a premium navi unit; it features a 4.8″ display, real-time traffic for life, and NASA-sourced 3D panoramic views.

Midnight Club LA: Launch

Midnight Club LA: Launch
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Midnight Club: Los Angeles is now available and with it this launch trailer, which essentially acts as a grand tour of Southern California. The only problem? Traffic is never this light in LA.

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