{"id":90111,"date":"2009-12-19T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/19\/santa-gets-new-super-sleigh-thanks-to-ge\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T17:26:00","slug":"santa-gets-new-super-sleigh-thanks-to-ge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/90111","title":{"rendered":"Santa gets new super sleigh thanks to GE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/etc\/\" rel=\"tag\">Etc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/19\/santa-gets-new-super-sleigh-thanks-to-ge\/#continued\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"342\" width=\"630\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"top\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/ge_sleight.jpg\" alt=\"Santa's super sleigh\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Santa&#8217;s high tech sleigh by GE &#8212; Click above to check out the specs<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> gave Santa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/15\/video-gag-me-with-a-yule-log-gm-to-allow-kids-to-track-santa\/\">a sleigh with OnStar<\/a> and a reindeer monitor. General Electric must have seen that video and said, &#8220;Hold on a second,&#8221; because they created a sleigh for the big red man with icephobic coatings, self-powered OLED lighting, ceramic matrix composite blades, GE sodium batteries, Trip Optimizer, and a 500GB holographic disc that holds 200 DVDs worth of information.<\/p>\n<p>Santa&#8217;s suit gets in on the Iron Man act, too, with a wearable RFID sensor hidden in the fringed getup as well as a wireless medical sensor, because Mr. Kringle&#8217;s Body Mass Index is out of control. And since elves are notorious worriers, they get Asset Intelligence Tracking Tech to keep Santa on the radar and out of Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>But for all that, GE didn&#8217;t include a blue button so the kiddies could keep track of him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ge.com\/santa\/\">GE<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonfibergear.com\/santa-sleigh-concept-gets-pimped-out-with-carbon-fiber\/\">Carbon Fiber Gear<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/19\/santa-gets-new-super-sleigh-thanks-to-ge\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Santa gets new super sleigh thanks to GE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/19\/santa-gets-new-super-sleigh-thanks-to-ge\/\">Santa gets new super sleigh thanks to GE<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:26:00 EST.  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General Electric must have seen that video and said, &#8220;Hold on a second,&#8221; because they created a sleigh for the big red man with icephobic coatings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}