Week’s 5 Most Popular Stories: Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2010

 

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Clowning Around on an Innovative Self Balancing Motorized Unicycle

 

Friends, nerds, countrymen, lend me your ears.  More portable than folding bicycles and more respectable than (most) mopeds, Focus Designs‘ new Self-balancing Unicycle (SBU), keeps you upright and cruising with a similar accelerometer/gyroscope stabilization set-up as the Segway, and an innovative in-hub motor.

Turn Any Bicycle Into a Smartphone-Controlled, Hybrid E-Bike

 

Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility.  It turns the bike you already own, quickly and easily into an electric bike with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities.

Week’s 5 Most Popular Stories: Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2010

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The New Audi Spectacle?

Although visually captivating at first glance, the campaign’s unabashed desecration of historic architecture in the name of commerce leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.  The title “The New Audi Spectacle” takes on a whole new meaning, no? 

Socially Networked Scooters from Mini and Smart Use iPhone as Key

Just ahead of the Paris Motor Show, which runs Oct. 2 -17, small car rivals Mini (owned by BMW) and Smart (owned by Daimler) have unveiled new electric scooter prototypes, the Mini Scooter E and Smart escooter. Both lithium-ion powered designs plug into a standard household electrical outlet, offer a variety of safety features not typically found on a two-seater (airbag, ABS, Blind Spot Assist) and use a smartphone for a key and instrument display panel.

Jumping the Shark: The Innespace Seabreacher X

The Seabreacher X: admit it, you'd soil yourself if this came at you.

If you saw this thing on your neighbor’s trailer, you’d laugh at him. “What sort of pretentious man-child buys a boat shaped like a shark,” you’d scoff into your mugaccino, secure in the knowledge that you’d never shell out for something so ridiculous.

But you might change your tune if you caught him down at the lake and watched him pulling 50mph (80km/h) barrel rolls, then diving under the surface and launching the thing 12-feet (3.6m) into the air like some sort of evil mechanical dolphin.

1930 Art Deco Henderson

The motorcycling world loves a ‘barn find’—an old, obscure machine wheeled out of the woodwork for the first time. And this is one of the biggest revelations of recent months. It’s a 1930 Henderson that was customized before WW2 by a fellow called O. Ray Courtney and fitted with ‘streamliner’ bodywork.

Are Wind-Catching Sails the Future of Board Sports?

We love innovations that keep people out of their cars and using alternative methods of transportation, so we were intrigued to hear about the Sporting Sail. This $79 kite-like device purportedly lets skateboarders harness the wind to control their speed.

Baccarat Meets Bomb-Proof Glass on the High Seas

The interior of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichencko’s 394-foot yacht has never before been viewed by the public — until now.

Got MPG? Derringer Cycles Go 150 on a Gallon of Gas and Look Great Doing So

Derringer is the neo-classical interpretation of a 1920’s era board track racing motorcycle, but that’s not all.  Designed by world-renowned industrial designer, Adrian Van Anz, this revolutionary moto-hybrid was conceived as an exciting new option in highly-efficient transportation.  

Puma’s New Cargo Bicycle

Danish bicycle company Biomega and design collective KiBiSi have collaborated to create this new bike for sports brand Puma.  The PUMA Mopion Bike has a metal rack attached to the front of the frame for carrying baggage.