While there’s always new and improved technologies every year that are said to make driving all the better, how many of them are actually new or actually want to make you drive more?

Most of them are old things toted as new, with fancy spangled names and almost always acronymed.

And if they are genuinely new, then they’re most likely about safety this and efficiency that, that they make driving terribly, terribly boring.

So what do we have here?

A few new technologies that are fun, you say?

Some that actually make you want to get behind the wheel and punt it, instead of feeling guilty of killing off another species of plankton (which I do not condone, mind you)?

Yes, I do believe we have.

Des travaux rassemblant des scientifiques de l'Université de Cologne (Rhénanie du Nord-Westphalie) et l'Université Columbia de New York ont permis le développement d'un modèle informatique simulant l'évolution du virus de la grippe. Ce système pourrait faciliter la production de vaccins plus efficaces à l'avenir.

EU countries see energy savings as a "luxury", neglect building sector roadmaps, and are producing national action plans unlikely to meet a 2020 energy efficiency target, according to government officials and advisers surveyed by EurActiv.

The bloc’s 28 states have a raft of obligations, ranging from ecodesign measures to public building renovation targets, intended to cut projected energy use 20% by the decade’s end, and so lower greenhouse gas emissions.

It’s been almost 30 years since the computer scientist Jaron Lanier formed VPL Research, the first company to sell the high-tech goggles and gloves that once defined humanity’s concept of where technology might soon take our species. In the late-1980s, a person could pull on a $100,000 head-mounted display and electronic gauntlet and fool their brain into thinking they had stepped inside the simulated space rendered on the screen.