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General Motors plans to build a vehicle which automatically stays in lane and will not crash into the […]
DIMobile is a 53-foot-long truck that travels throughout the U.S. When the vehicle arrives at a location in […]
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Japan plans to improve traffic conditions with a “smart” traffic control system which will have signals atuned to […]
University of Florida engineers are working on the next generation of airborne drones that will dive between buildings […]
Summer blazing heat can be used to prevent roads from icing up in winter. In a trial, polyethylene […]
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In-car navigation and communication systems remain unconnected to each other, and entering addresses or phone numbers into them […]
Police in Rome have a device to identify and fine people who ignore the double white lines that […]
Working closely with experts from the British Antarctic Survey, James Moon has come up with a lightweight, compact […]
Following the post on amphicars, Enric Gili sent me the following story: Cuban mechanic Rafael Diaz Rey converted […]
This one is for my dad. I never managed to convince him that an amphicar was a must […]
This Citroen CX Penthouse prototype was introduced at the Paris Auto Salon in 1980, it came with six […]
This one has just been added to my I want one list. For the INCITE/RCA collaboration, Jon Arden […]
Trailer brochures featuring some rather tempting female campers. Via TackyTimes.
Siemens VDO Automotive AG has developed a sensor that monitors the vibrations in the car’s chassis. Thus an […]
Toyota Motor has renovated its G-Book telematics services by adding a range of functions including a summoning of […]
This week, San Francisco cabs are being fitted with a touch screen system offering passengers access to a […]
Toyota is working with Stanford University and Affective Media for a few years to create a car that […]
Eureka Aerospace is developing the High Power Electromagnetic System, a technology that would disable cars using bursts of […]
More on the “Rinspeed Senso“, the car that “senses” the driver by measuring her/his biometric data, and then […]
Airplanes that never got built. Via Elastico Things mag.
Locust, a team of European scientists, is studying locusts navigational skills to develop a crash-avoidance technology. The insect […]
Backseat Playground , developed by John Paul Bichard, Liselott Brunnberg and Oskar Juhlin at the Interactive Institute in […]
Affective Media, a Scottish company, has developed an “emotion sensor” which monitors the driver’s speech for signs of […]
The JL421 Badonkadonk, aka The Donk, is a “land vehicle and battle tank” created by NAO Design. It […]
British design engineer Glynne Bowsher and his team, British Steam Car Challenge, have almost finished building a super-fast […]
One day small commercial aircraft may have their own huge parachute to help them land smoothly if needed. […]
On March 1, for the upcoming Geneva Motor Show, Swiss car designer and solution specialist Rinspeed and plastic […]
A Toyota engineer demonstrates the manoeuvrability of the Joint Vehicle. The vehicle can travel in any direction by […]
Patrick Peebles has created the FanWing, the wingless aircraft. He replaced the wings with a tube filled with […]
Toyots’a “i-unit” aims at uniting the driver and vehicle to expand human abilities and possibilities. The upright position […]
Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized the “ornithopter”, a self-powered flying machine which mechanical flapping wings […]
In 1972, Italian designer Mario Bellini presented a mobile micro-living environment called Kar-a-Sutra at the “New Domestic Landscape” […]
Fortune has a guess at what tomorrow’s typical car might offer. Interesting innovations include self-parking, night-vision, airbags that […]
See the mechanism attached to the rear end of the car in the photo? It is a “Thanks […]
FES (functional electrical stimulation) tricycling, developed by the University College of London and the University of Glasgow, stimulates […]
Final year undergraduate students from the Transport Design course at the University of Huddersfield (UK) have displayed some […]
Willing to find an alternative use for old devices, two designers Anne Bergner and Axel Schmid (Formforte design […]
A bunch of chemical engineering students built cars that run on unusual stuff such as beef liver and […]
Toyota Motor is working on an Intelligent Multimode Transit System (IMTS) to allow visitors to move within the […]