Transportation

Office chair bike: The ride of comfort

This looks like the most comfortable damn bike ever ridden by human beings. The office chair bike is a 35 lb luxury leather office chair attached to a 16″ school girl type bicycle. The girly bike was re-welded into a bike made for reclined comfort. Sure, all of the guys at work might call you a pussy for riding around ...

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Skateboaring to the next level

Curve Extreme Sport is a skateboard-like concept design aiming to start a new trend of extreme sport. The Curve uses tapered Motor GP-like wheels to allow boarders to take ultra sharp turns at high speeds. Since the wheel is so thin, there is minimal friction, which means insane speed. Unlike the traditional four-wheeled skateboard, the Curve only has two wheels, ...

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Seville making a shift to LED traffic lights

� From what seems to be in direct relation with the announcement by Taiwan with the same goal, the city of Seville, Spain is planning a complete overhaul of their traffic light system by transferring to LED-based bulbs, removing the less eco-friendly and worse performing halogen and incandescent lights currently in service. By the time Seville has all of their ...

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Buy the Bumblebee: Transformers prop up for auction

How cool would it be to own a piece of the long-awaited Transformers movie? Very cool, of course. Thanks to the wonders of eBay, the genuine ’77 Chevy Camaro which was used as a prop for Bumblebee is up for auction, with the price currently at $30,100 and 76 bids. This auction will probably come down to a bidding war ...

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Sideways Bike mixes up the old “facing forward” tradition of riding

Billions of people ride bicycles. Millions ride them daily. Yet, there has been relatively little change in its design for the 200 years it’s been commonly used. This design by Michaels Killian revamps the age old method of forward facing bike riding and creates the Sideways Bike. Other than the clear fact that it looks unique and extreme, riding the ...

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Your body, the speed demon: The Ferrari Unica Home Gym

Personally, I like to stick to anything endorsed by Chuck Norris, which is why I use the Total Gym (blink, showcases, asks for advertising money). Though people who live and die by the sleek style of Ferrari cars will go ga-ga for the Ferrari Unica gym, a home gym system styled after the Ferrari sports car. Every piece of the ...

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The Magic Wheel: The skateboard / scooter / unicycle hybrid

Skating and scooters were pretty big for a while. Remember the craziness of the Razor scooter? The unicycle never had a real time in the sun, but The Magic Wheel takes all three forms of self propelled transportation and smacks it into one cool hybrid piece. The Swiss designer of The Magic Wheel got tired of seeing the streets filled ...

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Baby goes skiing, then suckles from mother’s teet

Having a baby is a beautiful thing, though sometimes it can definitely be an inconvinience for your social life. Say that your friends just invited you to a beautiful ski resort, but you know that there is no way to carry your kid around with you the whole time. The Safe Start Stroller Skis are gadgets you can place on ...

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Umm, yeah, your parking meter called, it needs more moneyz

We really hate worrying about parking meters when we go to urban areas. 45 minutes has a way of speeding through time when you actually aren’t paying attention. Some parking meters being tested for use in Canada will actually call your phone when you need to add some more money to your meter. If you want, you can even send ...

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An edible bamboo Jeep, well, at least for Koala Bears

This bamboo Jeep totally bamboozled us. Ok, now that the lame intro sentence is out of the way, this bamboo Jeep was made in the Philippines and was actually used for personal use by the creator. It is now used as a pimped out ride for pimped out government officials who visit the province. In other news, it now seems ...

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