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Shuei Ogawara proudly shows off his 4-meter-long canoe made from thousands of used disposable chopsticks he got from the city hall cafeteria. He spent the last two years collecting the chopsticks, then he spent 3 months gluing 7,382 chopsticks to form the canoe shell, to which he added a polyester resin coat. See how happy [...]

The Quaranta is an “extreme” product, an environment-friendly, 4WD super sports-car which incorporates a series of innovative aspects: its styling, but also its drive technology, which combines a hybrid engine with solar energy, and its internal layout which, despite its mid-mounted rear engine, can accommodate three adults and a child, also providing a generous luggage [...]

Seeing an Oscar Mayer Weinermobile trying to hump the snow is a rare delight worth a florid diary entry that normally begins with, “I picked up daisies today, but soiled my trousers when this huge…”

The Morgan LifeCar is just a concept car and won’t be launched till the Geneva Show in March 2008, yet it’s already inspiring huge boners from the likes of Chris Donald. And it has a purpose, too! — to demonstrate that a zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell-powered hybrid vehicle can be fun to drive.

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French designer Jean-Marie Massaud’s concept for a floating hotel, called “Manned Cloud,” is a whale-shaped blimp that “combines the early 20th century trend of Zeppelin flight with the futurism of modern design to create a new form of luxury touring the likes the world has never before seen.”
Set to accommodate up to 40 passengers and [...]

The Ferrari bio-fuel-powered F430 Spider concept vehicle at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 14. The Spider runs on 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.

Tata Motors’ Nano was pitted against FireFox Bikes’ Madone 5.2 bicycle, and it turns out (at least if you’d ask the peddlers of Madone bike) that not only the bike is more versatile in terms of managing terrain, it is also “faster” — travelling up to 90 km per hour through its 20 high-speed gears [...]

This amphibious sightseeing taxi, capable of carrying up to three passengers, has been introduced in Osaka, Japan, most probably designed for tourists who specifically want to admire Japan’s sewers.

With a price tag equivalent to about “the price of the optional DVD player on the Lexus LX 470 sport utility vehicle,” Tata Motors’ $2500 car is the world’s cheapest, and it’s easy to see in the figure above that it’s not exactly the safest/fastest ride around.
Some of the few people who have seen the [...]

If you have $27,500 lying around (sure, who doesn’t?), extreme travel group G.A.P Adventures will take you as high as 13 miles above the Earth’s surface through its Edge of Earth program on a MiG-31. First-class accommodation and meals, and we bet you’ll be screaming your balls out with all the breathtaking (and breakfast-retching) things [...]