Toyota isn’t about to let Ford take all the credit for having a built-in system for apps a streaming music. At CES Toyota unveiled it’s competitor to Sync, Toyota Entune. Toyota Entune uses your phone to connect to the Internet for a variety of services. The apps Toyota seems really proud of are Bing, Pandroa, more »

Every now and then Hulu goes commercial free. Today, Hulu’s comedy channel will be commercial free thanks to a deal with Toyota. Toyota is promoting its newest Prius. If you are unaware, Hulu has several different ways to watch programs and movies. You can do searches for video or use their channels. These channels make more »

Today, MySpace unveils the all-new MySpace Music alongside new BFFs: EMI Music, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group (NYSE:WMG), and Sony ATV/ Music Publishing.

Users can do all the playlist making, swapping, downloading, streaming, etc. to their hearts’ desires. Expect to be enticed by MySpace Music partners McDonald’s, Sony Pictures, State Farm, and Toyota. We can expect free downloads from Mickey D’s, State Farm playlists and Toyota Tuesdays where anything can happen.

I really don’t understand why Segways have not caught on yet. Perhaps we are still comfortable with the idea of walking, or we can’t help but think that Segways look too geeky.

Whatever the reason, Segways might be on their way out as Toyota introduced the new Winglet. Like the Segway, the Winglet has two wheels along with internal sensors in order to monitor the user’s position and then make adjustments to ensure stability.

I’m not certain if you can tell by the picture, but no handlebars are required for this two-wheeled transport. The user sits on that one raised section, and goes forward, backward, and turn simply by shifting their (ahem) butt around.

Those staggeringly high numbers at the gas pumps got you down? Well, then you just may be especially interested in BMW’s latest brainchild, their remake of the Mini Cooper. Over the next 18 months, BMW plans to use several hundred of their Mini’s to test electric powertrains. They haven’t leaked much detail-wise, regarding motors or batteries; although they say details will will be forthcoming by the end of the year.

However, the plans to test are just that…tests. They don’t plan to roll them out onto the assembly line for consumer purchase any time soon. Finally jumping on the environmentally-friendly bandwagon that the other Big Two German car makers, Volkswagen and Daimler, are already on, BMW is now committing to testing completely electric vehicles, but not quite ready to take the plunge to actually market them. As for hybrid cars that use a traditional gasoline engine combined with an electric motor, they should arrive “at the end of next year,” a company spokesperson for BWM was quoted as saying.