The latest fashion statement in geek mobility
Honda’s new “personal mobility” device looks like a unicycle, but all you need to do to zip around on it — sideways as well as forward and back — is lean your weight into the direction you want to go.
The U3-X — available for a test-run for reporters in [...]

The skinny little rider you see perched atop the back seat of this tandem is Joules, robot cyclist extraordinaire. He’s the creation of a guy called Chris who, challenged by his son to create an electric tandem that worked via pedal power, more than satisfied the brief.
The nuts-and-bolts robot is powered by a PMG-132 electric [...]

Volkswagen L1
The Frankfurt Motor Show will play host to the latest round of concept car teasers this season and the latest stunner is the Volkswagen L1. Somehow this amazing concept vehicle simultaneously screams muscle car “and” protective family car cocoon.
 

Just yesterday San Francisco saw the unveiling of the world’s first algae fuel-powered vehicle, dubbed the Algaeus. The plug-in hybrid car, which is a Prius tricked out with a nickel metal hydride battery and a plug, runs on green crude from Sapphire Energy — no modifications to the gasoline engine necessary. The set-up is so [...]

PHEV
Nearly half of U.S. consumers are interested in buying a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, according to a survey released Tuesday by Boulder’s Pike Research.  According to Pike’s survey of 1,041 U.S. consumers, 48 percent said they would be “extremely” or “very” interested in buying a plug-in hybrid, or PHEV, with a 40-mile range on a [...]

Beach bumming with style
This innovative little contraption is a camping trailer built for a bike. The designer and sole resident of the camper, Paul, built the camper and used it as his accommodations for the recent Burning Man.

Everyone needs their very own bat-mobile
Want your own Batman Tumbler but can’t afford to hire Morgan Freeman to build you a full-size one? Well fear not, intrepid crime fighter, because some guy on eBay is selling $30 plans to build one out of a go kart. Of course, if you don’t want to pay, I’ll [...]

Now thats one heck of a crotch rocket
Green? Fuel-efficient? Environmentally-friendly? Pish-posh, we want to have as much roaring horsepower as possible to propel us down the road at speeds unfathomable by the average man. If that’s more your kind of thing, you’ll want to check out the monumentally incredible Millyard Viper V10 motorcycle.

The robotics lab at Ben Gurion University in Israel has created a robot that walks on the ceiling. SpiderBot has suction cups tethered to the ends of its four legs.  It aims a leg at a spot on the ceiling, then shoots the cup at it.  Then it reels itself toward the spot, releases a rear [...]

Re-envisioning the Wheelchair

A group of Japanese researchers from the Veda International Robot Research and Development Centre have unveiled a vehicle they hope will become the next generation wheelchair for the country’s rapidly aging population.
Dubbed the Rodem, the vehicle is designed to allow users to easily slide off and onto its seat, thus making it easier [...]

Fame on four wheels

A century old record has been broken after Inspiration, a twin-finned car that looks like a prop from Thunderbirds, achieved an average speed of 139.84mph on two runs over a measured mile, at Edwards Air Force Base, California. That may not sound fast when a car has already broken the sound barrier, [...]

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’…

Philipp Siebourg’s Induction Powered Vehicle (or IPV) isn’t just a concept for a new kind of car, it’s a complete transportation system designed to reduce congestion in big urban centers. Instead of bumper-to-bumper traffic in the heart of the city, Siebourg’s proposal calls for a car-free, magnetized area that is serviced exclusively by [...]

The Switchblade
The revolutionary Switchblade™ three-wheeled Flying Motorcycle leads the field as the first of the new line of Multi Mode Vehicles (MMV) from Samson Motorworks to meet the growing demand for flying cars and roadable aircraft. (Pics)
 

The EniCycle is an a prototype self-stabilizing unicycle from Slovenian inventor Aleksander Polutnik. Featuring a three-hour battery, gyroscope and a spring damper, Polutnik claims a 30 minute learning curve. The video shows UK “The Gadget Show” Ortiz Deley learning to ride the device. Within a few minutes he’s not falling off and actually steering.
 

The Jetpod Taxi is a Great Idea!

British inventor dies in crash on test flight of his flying taxi A British pilot hailed as “an aviation entrepreneur” was killed when his prototype plane crashed during take-off on a test flight in Malaysia. Michael Robert Dacre, 53, was flying a Jetpod aircraft, developed by his own British-based [...]

Final frontier just an elevator ride away, entrepreneurs say
Welcome aboard the space elevator folks. Our first stop will be the Bigelow Hotel where some of you will depart for a vacation among the stars; we will then continue on to Geosynchronous Way where the rest of you will transfer to an L5 shuttlecraft. The trip [...]

Preflight preparations.

Screw Fast Company for calling Heathrow Airport’s new driverless taxis “creepy.” They are in fact awesome: fast, immune to accidents and traffic jams, and using much thinner roads. And driverless, so you don’t have to spend 15 minutes agreeing with the cabbie’s opinions regarding immigration.

The four-passenger personal rapid transport (PRT) vehicles, unveiled this week [...]

Behold the Panzerbike!

The Panzerbike is a German-built motorcycle with the engine of a T-55 tank inside. That’s a diesel V12 with 620 HP. The bike is 19 feet long, 9 feet wide, and weighs nearly 5 tons. Actually, it’s more like a tractor than a motorcycle, since the sidecar is built-in and it takes two [...]

These dogs are on the move
Biology professor Andrew Poyarkov thinks that stray dogs in Moscow have learned to use the subway to get around the city.

The Full Service Bike of the Future

This is the future of commuter bicycles according to Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman. It can count calories, play music, solar-power your motor uphill, and has a locking device with fingerprint recognition to prevent theft. It’s made of carbon fiber and the tires are puncture-proof. Of course, it doesn’t exist [...]

Go go glowing orb in the sky!

These new vessels, set to enter service in November, get 3/4 of their power from solar cells and 1/4 from liquefied petroleum:
The technology could cut in half carbon-dioxide output on a typical urban ferry route, Solar Sailor said on its Web site. Makers of ships, planes and autos around [...]

A less common transportation method.

When the War-Khasis tribe needs a new bridge to cross one of the many criss-crossing rivers of the cherrapunji region, they don’t build one. They grow it. The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily [...]

Does it transform and fight evil?
Amphibious vehicles are nothing new, but this concept car takes the go anywhere idea to a whole new level.

Star Trek inspired power?
There’s a growing chorus of calls to send astronauts to Mars rather than the moon, but critics point out that such trips would be long and gruelling, taking about six months to reach the Red Planet. But now, researchers are testing a powerful new ion engine that could one day shorten the [...]

The Shweeb
Finally: The Infrastructurist shows us the perfect mashup of a podcar with Velo-City: The Shweeb, a pedal-powered monorail that is “a direct response to the transportation needs of today and the future.” (Pics and video)