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'CAT' aquatic car makes us wish all our roads were waterways

Kevin Hall
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 9:59am
 
It's not like today's seaside cities don't already employ gondolas and water taxis and what-have-you to get folks around, but designer Cal Craven is here with an aquatic vehicle that's just for you and me. Imagine, if you will, a world where we're connected not by paved paths, but by waterways, and we drive around in personal boats instead of cars. Imagine, too, that Water World never existed, because that helps make this all cooler, to boot.

Train stations go mobile with high-speed docking

Evan Ackerman
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 5:45pm
 
You know all those fancy high-speed trains? The sad fact is that for a lot of the time, they're not moving any faster than my living room is moving right now. Trains waste a huge amount of time and energy picking up passengers at stations, but if it were somehow possible for the stations to meet the train, things would be a lot more efficient.

Concept mouse lets you feel how bloated your porn folder is

Evan Ackerman
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 4:55pm
 
Personally, I don't have a porn folder. I've never looked at porn. I don't even know what porn is. Some sort of snack food, I imagine. But from what I hear, people seem to keep a lot of pictures and video of it on their computers, and thanks to these new concepts, you'll be able to feel just exactly how heavy and bloated all those files are.

House on stilts can't wait for global warming

Evan Ackerman
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 12:23pm
 
Why bother worrying about global warming, tsunamis, floods and rising sea levels when you could just ignore it all with a house on stilts? In fact, you can actually look forward to the ice caps melting, 'cause then you get a giant swimming pool of pure glacial meltwater installed for free in your backyard. Sweet!

Vieria concept car inhales air pollution and emits clean air

Raymond Wong
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - 9:17am
 
There are currently two problems with driving a car in a city: 1) all those cars generate a load of pollution and 2) it's hard to fit lots of cars on a street during rush hour. The Vieria concept car designed by Gunwoong Kim and Suji Kim for the Michelin Challenge Design competition solves both those issues with its front pollution-sucking intake and shiftable scissor-like wheel and axle system. After ingesting all that dirty air, the all-electric Vieria even goes one further — it emits clean air out of its rear outtake, similar to the YeZ concept car. How's that for eco-friendly?

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