You might be already au fait with the 7 gram grasshopper, which was already written about. It is capable of jumping a distance of 1.4 meters. Now a wing has been added to the same grasshopper by the researcher’s at the EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligence Systems. The wings are made of carbon, mylar and shape [...]

These days the major problem has been finding parking space in crowded urban areas. The worst situation when you have a bicycle and you are not able to park that weenie little thing. Sometimes there is the risk of having your bicycle stolen too. Nevertheless, people have been swallowing these discomforts and have continued to [...]

Insects seem to grab the attention of car designers more than that of the entomologists now-a-days. After cars that resembled butterflies, it’s the grasshopper’s turn now. Insecta, a 22 year old Taiwanese designer’s futuristic concept car takes its inspiration from the creepy grasshoppers. The designer Shao Yung Yeh studied industrial design at Cheng Kung University. [...]