Michelin expands its Pilot line of ultra-high performance tires with all-season variant

Canadian BMW driver Kuno Wittmer poses with the latest Michelin Pilot series high-performance tires

Michelin launched the latest extension of its Pilot family of performance tires, the MICHELIN® Pilot Sport A/S 3+ at an intimate media event last night in downtownt Toronto.  On hand during the event was Canadian driver Kuno Wittmer who currently races with the official factory BMW – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Team in the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship. Wittmer discussed how high performance driving in the track helps Michelin improve their designs and create products like the Pilot performance tires which are standard equiptment on luxury and exotic supercars from BMW, Chevrolet and Mercedes-Benz.

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Ford's GT configurator lets you customize the supercar as you like it

Whether you actually have the funds to buy one or not, Fords new GT supercar can be yours, or at least seem like it is, when you design how it looks with the car's online configurator. It lets the potential 500 buyers design the car how they would like it to look. The changes are rather simple though, you can customize the interior and exterior color choices, wheel choices, and the like. On the site, there also seems to be two Series options that are listed as coming soon, these might be some special edition liveries for a special car.

Source: Ford | Via: SlashGear

Samsung Milk VR brings you virtual reality content even without the headset

If you don't have a Gear VR yet but want to see what all the buzz is about, Samsung's Milk VR app will give you the virtual reality experience even without the headset—of course, it won't be the same as accessing VR content on a VR headset but it's a start. The Milk VR app will let you browse through all the 360 content Samsung has available, play these videos on the phone, or download them later when you do get your Gear VR. However, to access interactive videos, you'd need the touchpad on Samsung's VR headset, and thus the actual unit itself. And the app only works for owners of the Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 edge, Note 5, S6, S6 edge, and S6 edge+.

Source: Android Police | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Google.org awards $20M in grant to fund development of tech for the disabled

Treating the challenges faced by the disabled as issues that can be solved with smart engineering, Google's charitable arm, Google.org, has given $20 million USD in grants to nonprofit organizations around the world to help develop open-source technololgy for the disabled. The 30 winners of the Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities launched last spring were the recipients of said grants. About six of the 30 grantees were given $1 million USD, while the average grant was around $750,000 USD.

Some of the projects funded including developing libraries for the visually impaired, devices that can turn manual wheelchairs into powered ones, and cheap, 3D-printed prosthetics for children.

Source: The Verge