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You can see Google from here: a Zeppelin view of San Francisco

Monday, February 8, 2010 - 3:44am

When we first heard about Airship Ventures, a company that's resurrected the Zeppelin for air tours of San Francisco and other locations, we said: Sign us up! Well, the company took us seriously, giving us a free ride on one...

B&W Zeppelin Mini, high-end iPod dock for (relatively) cheap

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 8:42am

Perhaps prompted by yesterday's unveiling of the Bose SoundDock 10, B&W today gives us the Zeppelin Mini, a compact iPod dock based on the same technology as the Zeppelin iPod dock the company debuted a couple of years ago —...

Sol'r Power: new blimp preps for maiden voyage

Kevin Hall

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 3:30pm

A group of French engineering students want to see what their solar blimp — the helium-filled, solar-panel-studded Sol'r — can do. They have their eye on the English Channel for their first big test run, though the team has taken...

Crazy looking Honda Zeppelin features swiveling front seats

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 4:24am

Figure out which direction this thing drives yet? In the image above, the Honda Zeppelin would zip off to the left. At glance, you might be tempted to say that designer Myung Jin Jung's creation's most interesting quality is its...

Aeolus airship is like the Flinstones car of zeppelins

Kevin Hall

Monday, January 12, 2009 - 7:07am

We're back from a week of non-stop gadget craziness with this purty flight of fancy: the Aeolus airship by designer Christopher Ottersbach. It's billed by the artist as an entirely eco-friendly way to fly, which, really, is one of...

San Francisco is bringing the Zeppelin back

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 6:45am

The last time airships symbolized chic travel was about 10 seconds before the Hindenburg blew up in 1937. But Airship Ventures' new airship cruises in the San Francisco Bay Area want to bring retro-cool to new heights — around...

New zeppelin designs could reinvigorate airship travel

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 1:16pm

The disastrous flights of rigid, hydrogen-filled zeppelins such as the Hindenburg and the helium-filled USS Akron are black marks against the idea of passenger airships. To this day, the idea of what a zeppelin could accomplish seems limited to...

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You can see Google from here: a Zeppelin view of San Francisco

B&W Zeppelin Mini, high-end iPod dock for (relatively) cheap

Sol'r Power: new blimp preps for maiden voyage

Crazy looking Honda Zeppelin features swiveling front seats

Aeolus airship is like the Flinstones car of zeppelins

San Francisco is bringing the Zeppelin back

New zeppelin designs could reinvigorate airship travel

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