Focus Design’s SBU self-balancing unicycle: considering you didn’t look dumb abundant on a Segway
The world of personal transportation, with few exceptions, has littered the soil with embarrassing paraphernalia. In-line skates, pogo sticks, the recumbent bike — all disasters to personal style. Mix in electricity and you get the Segway, or alternatively, Focus Design’s SBU electric self-…
MDI’s Airpod runs on compressed air, challenges Segway for dork gold
While outfits like Lightning and Tesla are attempting to produce eco-friendly cars sexy, MDI is taking things in a totally different direction. The recently-made-official Airpod looks virtually nothing like anything seen on American roadways nowadays, which is probably why it’s apt to hit the st…
Microsoft sues DHL by Xbox train derailment
You know who Microsoft hates? No, not Apple. It really hates DHL. Apparently, the delivery service has hit the folks in Redmond where it hurts: in the Xbox. It seems that 21,600 consoles were totally messed by by “impact damage, wetting, pilfering and shortage” when one of the company’s freigh…
Toyota develops rear-collision airbag
We’ve got airbags in the front, airbags to the side, even airbags on the hip — and now Toyota’s installing the first rear-collision airbags into its Japan-only iQ minicar. The bags are designed to protect rear seat passengers, and inflate from above the rear window to blanket your noggin and re…
Electric MINI spotted in Munich, expected at 2008 LA Auto Show
Check it, Cooper fans — that electric MINI we’ve been sporadically hearing about is for real, and we’ve seen the spy shots that prove it. Car has hosted up a slew of non-blurry (gasp!) snaps of the eco-friendly whip cruising around Munich, and just in case the total absence of an exhaust pipe w…
MIT developing autonomous wheelchair that listens when you speak
Oh MIT, do the wonders that come from your halls ever cease? Yet another remarkable development is emerging from the fabled institution, and that moment it’s an autonomous wheelchair that can remember crucial places in a given building (read: the hospital ward, your house, the local arcade, etc….
Carbon fiber Stiletto boat runs down baddies at 60 knots
whether you had any urge whatsoever to try to your hand at drug trafficking by water while these “weird” profitable times sort themselves out, uh, you may want to reevaluate your options. The ever-so-stealthy Stiletto has come to life after tracking down a remarkably quick drug-running boat appr…
Chevy Volt hits the road, video style
The Chevy Volt had its big debut final week, and although the official pictures were far cooler than those leaked dudes-in-suits shots we saw a while ago, there’s something about that slow-motion video of the all-electric-drive car in motion accompanied by some soaring Coldplay that pulls at…
Screen Grabs: Mike Traceur needs to speak to his girlfriend… on her X1
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certain, Knight Rider is probably the worst show ever in the history of the moving picture, but that doesn’t stop S…
Sony Ericsson’s HCB-108 Bluetooth speakerphone helps you escape dystopia
New York’s a maximum protection prison and you’re our final hope, Snake. Armed with your wits and that new HCB-108 Bluetooth 2.0 car speakerphone from Sony Ericsson, your mission is to extract Johnny X from the fetid bowels of viral marketeers. Should you need to contact us, the HCB-108 featur…
