Considering that, now, you can both make popcorn in your car and have a variety of ways to make coffee in your car as well as keep a supply of food on refrigeration in your car, you’re likely to have more spills in the car.

That’s okay, because Wagan Tech has also managed to come out with the Wagan 9793 Auto Power Vacuum.  It plugs into, once again, your vaunted cigarette lighter, and comes with brush attachment for the seats and carpet and a crevice attachment for that part of your car seat where french fries go to die.

I can’t help but laugh, really–there are entirely too many interesting devices and too much sheer raw awesome to not talk about this.  Oh, sure, I’d likely never buy any of this stuff but there’s plenty of it to go around!

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Oh my.

Once again I’m forced to apologize, gentle reader, as technology once again puzzles me by giving me something that really shouldn’t exist and yet does.

Let me preface this by asking a question:  when’s the last time you were driving in your car and thought, gosh, my ride to work would be much, much nicer if I could just have a bag of hot popcorn to munch whilst I drive?

Well, maybe you wouldn’t use the word “whilst”; that’s pretty much a writer’s term.  But you’ve probably never even thought of the popcorn, so I can’t imagine why the car microwave even exists.

Yes, you read that right–a CAR MICROWAVE.  A microwave. In your car.   It comes with a 12v cigarette lighter attachment and sells for around a hundred bucks.

My mind recoils in denial and horror at this very idea.  The thought of being able to microwave food while you drive leaves me astonished.  Oh hell, it leaves me utterly gobsmacked.  I’ve seen my share of weird gadgets in my time but this has to take the cake.

Well, at least it’d heat it for you….

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You know, I thought I’d heard just about the limit when it came to outlandish car gadgetry.  I thought that the in-car refrigerator or the inverter shaped like a coffee cup might well have been the last word in car gear.

But then I discovered the Personal Mini Coffee Maker.

Now, there’s nothing that SAYS you’ll be wanting to mostly use this in your car.  But considering that the plug is a CIGARETTE LIGHTER PLUG, it’s clearly implied.

Seriously, you can now have a coffee maker in your car.  You can now officially brew yourself a cup while driving to work.  I would think that the smell of percolating brew in your passenger seat alone would wake both you and your entire carpool.  Mount this sucker on the transmission hump and watch how eager everyone is to get to work!

And even if you, like me, think this is a pretty stupid idea, it’s not as though they’re even all that expensive.  You can get one of these bad boys for just under twenty four bucks.

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Now, we all know that there’s a lot of things you can use in your car that you can’t in your house.  And vice versa, actually–I know there’s a lot of things I’d love to be able to plug in while driving.  Charge my laptop, for one…and now, thanks to the Smart AC 120 USB Power Inverter, I can.

The Smart AC 120 USB Power Inverter is a kind of universal power adapter, able to handle most every kind of AC power demand, including USB port demand.  It will apparently work smoothly with laptops, dvd players, cell phones, televisions, game consoles, and even unexpected stuff like small power tools and portable fridges.  You can even hook a power strip to this thing and run your choice of devices from that.

I’m frankly amazed that you could operate all that kind of equipment from one power inverter.  Who needs a gas generator?  Buy a junker car, hook one of these to its cigarette lighter and run your whole house!  And do it on the cheap, too–these things cost just forty dollars apiece.

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Now THAT’s an interesting development, folks!  Most of us have probably been there at one point or another–car battery going downhill fast, or it’s just entirely too cold out for the battery we’ve got, so we need a quick spark from a live battery just to get things rolling.

But it’s a process–you’ve got to pop the hood and attach the cables (and even that’s kind of dangerous if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing) and then get the OTHER car to fire up.  Now, you don’t need that.

The Closed Hood Car Starter allows you to fire up the car with just a little trouble.  You’ll still need a car with a running vehicle, but now you can hook them together at the CIGARETTE LIGHTER.

You’ve got to love the cigarette lighter–that thing does EVERYTHING.  Even light cigarettes!

But anyway, once you’ve got them hooked up, you wait five, ten minutes and then, blammo…you’ve got a car ready to start as soon as the light on the Closed Hood Car Jump Starter turns green.

How awesome is that?

Best part?  They cost just a scant twenty five bucks each.

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You know, it can be tough bringing all your mobile gadgets with you when you drive.  Your laptop’s a power-hungry little beastie, and trying to recharge your cell and your other gadgets can be a royal pain.

And don’t even get me started on the whole cigarette-lighter inverter concept.  That thing can be incredibly tough to use.

But this one is a bit different.  It’s shaped almost exactly like a Starbucks cup, and fits easily into your cup holder.  All you have to do is plug the thing into the cigarette lighter–which isn’t so bad–and then plug your devices into the top-mounted slots on the inverter currently in your cup holder.

Of course, the downside to this is that you lose your cup holder, but you gain a fast and easy place to plug in your devices.  And at the end of the day, isn’t that better than a handy place to stow the Big Gulp you really shouldn’t be drinking anyway?

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Now here is a great little gadget that most car owner can find handy. At times when the car battery may go dead, the need to jumpstart or seek help from others is the only way to get a stalled vehicle up and running. But not with this Car Starter and Torch Device that can help you out of precarious situations.

This must-have car gadget provides emergency power to recharge your battery and start your engine – without going near the bonnet and without jump leads! The Car Starter uses a 12V lead that plugs conveniently into your car’s cigarette lighter and recharges a dead battery in less than 15 minutes. LED indicators show the charge status of your vehicle battery, as well as the charge condition of the Car Starter. There’s even a built–in 12V DC socket suitable for powering gadgets like your mobile phone, PDA, car vacuum and tire compressor!

Price: £49.95

(Source) Coolest Gadgets

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