Transportation

Bendy Bicycle

Most city dwellers rely on their feet more than anything, but there are more than a handful that prefer to cruise around their respective hoods on wheels. Most of these bikers you’ll see with backpacks or messenger bags, because when you live a city, leaving your bike parked on the street without a lock and chain is not an option ...

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Slide to Unlock Car Sticker Decal

If you’ve chosen the career path of car jacking, you’re job has likely never came very easily. There’s the trouble of car alarms, conscientious bystanders, not too mention police officers. Can’t a man steal another man’s vehicle in peace? Lucky for all of you aspiring car jack-artists out there, your job just got a whole lot easier, or at least ...

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Terrestrial Shrub Rover Recreates the Old Cartoon-y Moving Shrub Hiding Trick

Don’t mind me, I’m just a harmless little shrub… on wheels… with a stalker inside… taking pictures of you bent over. The Terrestrial Shrub Rover, built by Justin Shull, is a movable shrub with enough room inside for one person and three LCD cameras (or about 300 of these mini-cams). A remote webcam version is still on the workbench. Hit ...

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Functional Dark Knight Batpod for Sale on eBay

This is no model or concept design. Available for the price of $100,000 or best offer on eBay (do they accept firstborns?), the Dark Knight Batpod, inspired from the Batman film The Dark Knight is a fully-functional motorcycle, welded together from hardened steel, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the real thing. The only part of this bike that doesn’t work ...

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AT-AT Baby Stroller Forces Newborns to Absorb Your Geekiness

So, the other day I was thinking about how bad I’m going to torture my kids. And I’m not even going to wait until they’re old enough to defend themselves against the torture. Oh, no. Sure, call me evil. I call it crafty. The AT-AT Baby Stroller will hopefully ingrain some form of geekiness into my child’s mind even before ...

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Carstache Makes Your Vehicle More Sophisticated

Once your car has a mustache it’ll never want to return to its hairless ways. Just look what happened to Alex Trebek once he ditched his mustache. Rumor has it that he was mauled by zebras and his current replacement is a scientifically-created genetic clone. Luckily the government knows better now then to leave our nations game show hosts unduplicated. ...

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Digging a Hole: The Massive Tunnel Boring Machine Used to Create City Subways

And here I was, thinking that the city council just hired a bunch of midgets with rock hammers to dig out subway system. But nope, as it turns out the New York City Transit system uses a massive contraption called a Tunnel Boring Machine, or a TBM, which literally bores tunnel-sized holes through the�subterranean�catacombs of the city. According to NYC ...

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Treadmill on Wheels Works Your Cardio While Moving About in Nature

Sure, you could argue that you might as well just use a traditional bicycle or maybe even walk for a change, but some people require variety in their life. The Treadmill Bicycle takes the treadmill out from the confines of your home and allows you to power walk your way through nature, without all of that troublesome pedaling. Sort of ...

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Coffee Powered Car Probably Has Really Bad Breath

Coffee breath. The downfall of the modern man. And possibly the modern vehicle. The Carpuccino is a 1988 VW Scirocco which has been modified to run off of coffee. Apparently this bad boy will run three miles per kilogram of ground coffee, making it oddly similar to the run time of an average human being. That’s about 56 espressos a ...

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