solar skateboard

This isn’t really, technically a skateboard but it is a type of a skateboard you can make. Here’s a great instruction on how to hack your own skateboard from scratch although I do suggest buying one if you can afford it. I just finished out my latest project. A contribution for the DIY (Do it yorself) community. Since I love skateboards I just couldn’t start anywhere else. ...

If you skateboard, snowboard, surf, or do any other board sports, you will know the value of having your own balance board in your home to practice. Besides practicing your balance, the Balance Board can give you toned calves, thighs, and a great way to exercise in a small space. this ible will show you how to build your very own balance board to almost the exact same dimensions of the ...

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electric shoe

Freedom of creation in Japan Onitsuka have designed for for Onitsuka Tiger company this shoe of meter long and covered in Japanese cultural icons and signs. The work is intended to “communicate Onitsuka Tiger’s Japanese roots” in the form of a highly detailed city-shoe.is producing miniature versions of this shoe for smaller stores and as well as replica USB flash drives to be sold along with shoes. Overall, this is a really magnificent visual campaign by Onitsuka Tiger.this shoe now is limited edition

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water car

Last December Straightline did a posting on the remarkable Rinspeed sQuba (Rinspeed's sQuba: a submersible car with zero emissions), which if you recall, is a James Bond-like under-water/above-water sports car/submarine. This is a vehicle that can travel at a submerged depth of 33 feet, and can drive on land at speed up to 75 mph. It is powered by a series of electric motors, and therefore is considered a ZEV.

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Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility

General Motors and Segway are set to announce in a few hours their collaboration on a two-seat, two-wheel electric mobility pod called Project P.U.M.A.

It's called the P.U.M.A. because that stands for Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility and also because that's a cool name. And by putting "Project" with it GM makes it sound roughly as significant as the Manhattan Project. Incidentally, Manhattan (and the Manhattans of the third world) is just the kind of place GM and Segway see something like this pod making sense.

Of course, Toyota and Suzuki have shown their own electro-nubbins over the years and haven't gotten far with the projects. You might also think of the GM/Segway as half of a GEM Peapod neighborhood electric vehicle or a Nissan Pivo (but without all the smoldering sex appeal or the robotic buddy).

The two companies are only 18 months into the project and the vehicle doesn't even have body work yet. We've included an illustration on one proposed body. Anyway, the companies see the P.U.M.A. or whatever it ends up being called (if anything at all) as a low environmental impact way to relieve some of the congestion of the increasingly crowded cities of the future.

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Haptic Display

Haptic Display by Passive Layered Element You can feel touch sensation using this passive layered element driven by pressured air. The total device can be mounted on a human.

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underwater robot

Under Water Robot with Arm This is an underwater robot with a 3-DOF mechanical arm. An operator can control its body, arm, and hand. Iterative learning and time transformation are applied.

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robot vehicle

This solar powered robot vehicle was one of the many cool things I saw today roaming the floor at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The RoVAAR, Robotic Vehicle for Automation Application Research is a project by high school senior Brian Michael Cherbak.

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