Transportation

EADS Astrium is a new jet being designed that could make space tourism very possible by 2012. It would cost a staggering �200,000 per ticket for only three minutes of weightlessness. The four-passenger jet looks like a pretty conventional airplane from the outside, but will make take you all that much higher. The Astrium will take off from conventional airports ...

Hey, umm, Fred Flintstone called and he wants his tires back. Spotted in Hungary is this soviet car featuring stone age-esque wooden wheels made out of what looks to be tree trunks. Does this car actually drive? That we couldn’t tell you. But one thing’s for sure. It probably goes “Bam Bam” when it moves. Get it? Bam-Bam? Haha, Barney ...

Talk about an epic automobile! This Mercedes M-Class is decked out with an epic-style mural which screams out proudly “The owner of this car is a nerd!”. Painted with some unidentifiable epic theme, it might not put the class in M-Classs, but it sure as hell puts the nerd in, ummm, car buyer. The car’s owner lives in St. Petersburg, ...

Smeg Italian joins hands with Mini-Cooper to create the Mini-Cooper S replica refrigerator, of which there are only 250 being produced. Using the traditional blue color with white racing stripes, the fridge is completely inspired from the 2007 Cooper. Even if your not a Mini-Cooper fan, these fridges look wonderful. Sure as hell prettier than my off-white piece of junk. ...

Murata Boy is one impressive little bicycling bot. No matter how thin of a surface hes on, he never falls, even when he’s at a complete stop! Murata Boy has absolutely no training wheels or strings attached to help with his balancing act, but relies completely on a gyroscope located underneath the seat, which calculates all of the slight angle ...

Korea’s very own worker bot Hubo has learned a cool new trick. Hubo now has the “first robot to ride a Segway” attribute to add to his resume. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claims they were able to teach Hubo how to man this powered scooter with the help of the company that makes Segway. Because of ...

Using 60 feet of pure recycled Boeing jet, Lot-ek has made a student pavilion over at the University of Washington in Seattle. This student lounge area looks like a great outdoors area for people to hang out, do homework, and expand their mind in, ahem, not quite legal ways. The jet overlooks Lake Union in what looks like an excellent ...

[ev type=”youtube” data=”4cDDBM9gJts”][/ev] Not even your boss enjoys having a conference inside a dull office room when the weather is nice outside. If you know that your boss would much rather be doing something outdoors, you might want to suggest the Conference Bike, a bicycle that takes 7 people for a pleasant ride. This is also good for those who ...

Spotted in Seattle, this ingenious woman pushes her baby stroller while cruising around on her Segway. Talk about laziness. And by the looks of her, she could afford to work some of that junk in her trunk off. That can’t be safe for the kid either. One foul curve on a hill, and that baby goes squish. She wins the ...

The Toyota i-Unit is a new concept design that is made to increase personal mobility. The i-Unit hopes to meet the user’s wishes by producing a better balance between the human body and the society and nature around it. The design is inspired after a leaf, with the thought in mind of how leaves create sunlight into energy. The i-Unit ...