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BMW recently unveiled its “Geometry and functions In ‘N’ Adaptions” (GINA) concept car, which has a body of seamless fabric stretched over a movable metal frame. Although GINA’s not meant for mass production, it actually runs and drives.
See GINA in action in the video below, and some more enlightening asplanations!
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Car vending machine in Shibuya, Tokyo. Well, it doesn’t exactly dispense the actual car, but “just a branded tube containing pamphlets on the new models, dealer information, and a sheet of Smart Car stickers featuring the available colors.” But we won’t be surprised if someone files a complaint about a “broken non-car-dispensing vending machine downtown.”
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Chinese company Harbin Smart Special Aerocraft Co Ltd took 12 years and $4.1 million to develop this “prototype flying saucer” [below] — which can hover in the air, remotely controlled, can take off and land vertically, and with a top speed of 80 km per hour.
Aside from the obvious fun potential of snapping the proverbial [...]

In this video, you see the actual mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles. The Pentagon has approved the expansion of the MRAP program to over 20,000 vehicles. The US Army plan to increase its fleet of MRAP vehicles from the planned 2,300 to 17,700. The MRAPs are supposed to give US troops the protection all those pimped [...]

The Moonstream is the ultimate space lounge, designed to change public perceptions of NASA and entice people to be more interested in a future mission to the moon. The Moonstream enables true comfort for habitants of vehicle and also provide an appealing setting for filming of the daily lives of people on the first ever [...]

Art Center College of Design student Jake Loniak created this Yamaha-branded Deus Ex concept electric vertically parking motorcycle.

[It] is worn as an exo-skeleton with seven artificial vertebra as well as the pneumatically attached helmet. The motor is in-wheel, powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries similar to those already used in hybrids. It’s also capable [...]

Researchers at the Engineering and Sciences Research Council are developing composite materials that “bleed” resin when stressed or damaged, effectively creating a “scab” that fixes the damage. It’s an innovation that could drastically improve air safety, foster the development of lighter aircraft and bring biomimicry to aviation.
“This project represents just the first step”, says Dr. [...]

Yves Rossy further improves (says the report) the jet-propelled wing glider we saw back in 2006, although the video shows just the same stuff. But still.

{Intriguing: The human ice bullet}