If you are not familiar with the concept of recreational vehicles, or the RVs, you must be a dinosaur. The vehicles are usually used by couples or a small group of friends who would either drive away or sail on the water. While both at the same time were not possible until now, here is [...]
SARTRE is a futuristic project envisioned by E.U as a part of the EU Safe Road Trains for the Environment. It comes with minimal technology and uses navigation systems that communicate with the lead vehicle and gadgets that control acceleration and steering. It is akin to carpooling and could bring order to the highways and [...]
This year, the Tokyo Motor Show 2009 has been particularly dismal. There have been less number of participants than last year and very few visitors as well. It could be due to the market and how people have no more money to spend on fancy cars.
Last year, there were many participants from other countries as [...]
The Tokyo Motor Show 2009 saw a number of new cars, both electric and conventional all vying against each other. What makes this year’s show different is that many companies are already talking about mass producing hydrogen powered cars.
Honda president Takanobu Ito revealed that hydrogen powered cars are still a farfetched dream but the future [...]
Weekend barbeque parties just got more exciting and a whole lot more fun. A newly launched start-up company, Motothority, whose sole aim is to provide innovative solution in when it come to luxury. Their very first creation is called iREV, a 360 degrees floating recreational vehicle, that has a seating capacity of 10 people and [...]
It’s no fun driving around on boring roads with everyone else when you can have the calm lakes and wild seas all for yourself. Out on the water, solitude is all yours even if there are other boats around you. But it can be quite a drag when you’re driving around in your car and [...]
Come December and the world will witness the largest and the most expensive private yacht named “private gigayacht the Eclipse”. It’s owned by none other than Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea football club and one of the wealthiest self-made billionaires. The unprecedented yacht is built at a whopping US$ 1.2 billion. The security system [...]
Welcome to the pet world! Pet owners can heave a sigh of relief as their pets can fly now in Pet Airways (PAWS), an airline, which is exclusively designed for pets (cats and dogs) to fly to and from New York City, Baltimore/Washington D.C, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. Hitherto, pets have been pit in [...]
For the moment it is only a concept. On the anvil by designer Stefan Radev, the concept is a wind powered vehicle that will have three wheels and a sail. It is called BMW Blue Dynamics
Well, it aims to sail on roads, those with least traffic of course. The design is keeping in view the [...]
After 5 years of work, a Kiwi team, inventor Grant Ryan and engineer Peter Higgins, has designed a cycle with an electronic motor. Released at EUROBIKE on September 2, 2009, the “YikeBike” is a radical electric bicycle that weighs just 9.8 kilograms and can be packed into a bag.
It has a small but powerful 1.2 [...]