MIT engineers report they may have found a way for structures — and materials — to morph from […]
Category Archive: transport
US drivers have resorted to placing inflatable dolls in the passenger seat to avoid fines for driving alone […]
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is considering the possibility to build an airplane that starts and ends its mission […]
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Looks like blimps and zeppelins are making a come back! Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has recently presented five […]
Siemens VDO in Germany is working on a vehicle which not only parks itself, but even scans the […]
I’ve uploaded on Flickr the images i took at the retrospective dedicated to Antwerp-based artist Panamarenko. Funky aeroplanes, […]
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Toshiba will launch in early 2008 the world’s first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation. The company will employ […]
Another entry in the self-steering vehicles series: Sakai Industry Club network and Osaka Prefecture University have equipped bicycles […]
I’m adding a new category to the blog: ’90s. Dedicated to art works from the 80s and 90s. […]
Ford will unveil his new inflatable safety belt at the 2006 North American International Auto Show. The tubular-shaped […]
Cambridge is about to test a self-steering bus that uses a camera mounted at the top of the […]
The motorized picnic table seats eight people and is powered by a 400cc Honda motorcycle motor which could […]
The modular car is an automobile that you can design yourself. Dutch designer Marijn van der Poll would […]
Awesome pictures of Wolkswagen Phaeton assembly plant in Dresden, Germany. Via Jalopnik. And if you dig car factories, […]
Frida V. is a computer-enabled bicycle that allows riders to map open WIFI nodes in urban spaces. It […]
70’s commercial for the Dodge Charger 500. Via blography.
Two Chinese policemen patrolling in Pekín, where temperatures have dropped well below zero. Via 20 minutos (if the […]
The Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp generates power each time a car drives over its metal plates. The plates move […]
The danger is it can stop you from buying oil. EV Confidential is a documentary/murder mystery investigating the […]
In her BODYWORK project, Liz Cohen is converting Färgfabriken’s main hall into a car body shop and a […]
The Snow Cruiser was designed in 1939 as the ultimate on-ice vehicle (see details). But once on the […]
Lintec is marketing in Japan solar-powered traffic signs that have no electric wiring and consume no electricity. The […]
The aim of the CLEVER project is to develop a 3-wheeled city vehicle for two people that requires […]
Nissan has invented a transparent vehicle body paint that repairs scratches on its own. Even if the car […]
A drone aircraft powered by a 200-year-old engine design has been patented by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory […]
Cars of the future will automatically detect damaged parts and estimate how long they will last. “A structural […]
Researchers at the Technische Universität Dresden have developed the first self-organizing electronic components. The scientists were inspired by […]
In preparation for the 2006 Soccer World Cup, Siemens is developing and operating an intelligent traffic management solution […]
Airline passengers of the future will have to do without window seats and fly in “batwingâ€? aircraft as […]
18 driverless pods will be coming to Heathrow airport in London in 2008. The driverless capsules, guided by […]
Designed by students at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Durmibus is a coach fitted with individual sleeping rooms, […]
The act of marking the actual location of violent death performs many functions that cannot be performed by […]
Seith Weiner has created a vehicule piloted by a fish and propelled by 2 drive wheels, each driven […]
Toyota has developed a dual-purpose navigation system that debuts on the Alphard minivan, making it possible for the […]
For drivers who who have problems parking, Nissan has prototyped an egg-shaped car whose body pivots 360 degrees […]
London dwellers will be able to summon driverless buses to their front doors and be taken direct to […]
A riderless motorcycle has been developed by graduate students from the University of California at Berkeley. The Ghostrider […]
A radar technology, developed by Cambridge Consultants, coupled with a vision processing system could enable cars to “sense” […]
Lambert Kamps‘s Light emitting roof tiles allows you to add huge texts, animations and logos on the roof […]
Honda has developed the first airbags for motorcycles. The airbag, which inflates after sensors detect an oncoming crash, […]