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Forget the Segway. Even with zero acrobatic balancing skillz, the Enicycle sweeps you into the awesomeness zone in just a couple of minutes. Watch it in action.
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Meet Dominic Hargreaves’s bike, which he calls “The Contortionist” because it can be “folded completely into the space of the wheel’s 26-inch circumference.”

[and this here, an awesome video demonstration]
link: “Inventor’s Bike Folds Into Its Own Wheel“

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An experimental concept car from Mercedes-Benz turns turns the entire vehicle into an airbag using novel metal panels that inflate moments before impact.

The unimaginatively named ESF 2009 Experimental Safety Vehicle features gadgetry and safety features akin to a moon shot. Chassis components inflate to maximize impact resistance. An airbag under the car slows and supports [...]

Daniel Dingel has been a “curiosity” for the past four decades or so, mainly because of his water-powered car that’s so shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theories that it’s not difficult to resist the temptation to dismiss it as a hoax. But is it not? FHM Philippines chats with the man to basically ask the [...]

A Warwick University-based team has unveiled a Formula 3 race car built using sustainable materials. Its body is made of potatoes, the steering wheel is carrots, and the fuel is derived from chocolate.

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Mankind’s desire and subsequent attempts to fly, told in countless myths, were actually more than just tall tales. Some ancient civilizations did seem to work at achieving flight. Below, for instance, are “helicopter” and “submarine” reliefs from Abydos, while at bottom is a thousand-year-old “airplane model” from ancient America.

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Some proud bugger shows off the ride that gets him pussy, every day, forever.

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This isn’t actually a “cool new means of transportation,” but just something you use if you’re too much a pussy to take on more manly means to die, like, say, an actual rocket-powered jet pack.
But then, of course, if you like kites, this is it.

These monster bikes run using hubless wheels, which work by a complicated magical mechanism that involves drinking lotsa beer and fucking the nearest goat.
Alright, kidding! Hubless wheels work by “fixing the rotating parts (brake ring, bearings, hubless rim) onto the outer side of a non-rotating inner ring that attaches to the motorcycle’s swingarm or forks.”
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Richard Carter covered a Volvo with “singing fish” he calls the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir. We just call it the get-laid-quick pussy magnet car.

In the Bio Runner, the rider is positioned inside a protective cage on a motorcycle-like saddle with controls attached to the hands and feet. These controls manipulate all wheels via synthetic muscle-based suspension which offers unparalleled control and traction… this system allows the rider to lean into turns as well as shift the center of [...]

Above, the Terrafugia Transition parked; below, with its wings folded up.

The world’s first “flying car” is set to be on the road by next year.
The plane, which has fold-out wings that span 27.5ft when extended, has an airborne range of 460 miles and can cruise at 115mph.
Back on terra firma, it is capable of travelling [...]

Doc Ock would have been proud.

This is the Odysseus, Aurora Flight Sciences‘ strange solar-powered aircraft. Designed to stay aloft in the stratosphere for up to five years of uninterrupted flight, it features a combo of three self-sufficient “constituent aircraft” in a unique Z wing configuration that spans almost 500 feet (150 meters).

Odysseus will be used for surveillance and reconnaissance, [...]

This is Glenn Martin, showing off his jet pack. Prepare to die.

A motorbike engine running on petrol uses car fan-belts to drive two fan propellers that spin horizontally inside what looks like two oversized soup cans.
This ‘ducted fan’ design is more efficient than the unshielded rotor of a helicopter.
The engine, fuel tank and pilot are [...]

If you’re still heady with all things Dark Knight-y, here’s something you can do to sate it: your very own Batman mobile papercraft you can build yourself.

One little caveat: it consists of hundreds of individual pieces.
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