The cardboard bicycle
Don’t tell Izhar Gafni that a bicycle can’t be made of cardboard. An Israeli engineer working in industrial design, he was always fascinated by the potential that comes from the interplay of...
View ArticleInternet rolls into Bangladesh villages on a bike
Amina Begum had never seen a computer until a few years ago, but now she’s on Skype regularly with her husband. A woman on a bicycle brings the Internet to her. Dozens of “Info Ladies” bike into remote...
View ArticleYamaha-frame bike with scuba tank makes Dyson shortlist
Look what an Australian designer would like us to roll with in a no-emissions future: A motorcycle powered by nothing but air. Adding to a growing portfolio of ideas centered around compressed-air...
View ArticlenCycle concept bike is smart, foldable, secure
Despite being around for over a century, bicycles are ideally suited to meet today’s urban transport needs – even if issues remain in the form of theft-prevention, storage, and safety. Gizmag has...
View ArticleAll-terrain vehicle – Quad Bikes
An all-terrain vehicle ATV, also known as a quad, quad bike, three-wheeler, or four-wheeler, is defined by the American National Standards Institute ANSI as a vehicle that travels on low-pressure...
View ArticleEcoBoomer iGo joins the self-balancing electric unicycle parade
It seems strange to be saying that there’s now another self-balancing electric unicycle on the market, but hey – that’s technology for you. Joining the likes of the eniCycle, Solowheel and SBU, we now...
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Small Harley Davidson Knucklehead Scale Model
Former Wisconsin power company worker Jerry Kieffer didn’t exactly take it easy when he retired. Instead, he dedicated himself to building perfect recreations of mechanical objects, in very small...
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Biking to the South Pole
Even in its warmest months, Antarctica is an extreme environment, one of the driest, the windiest and the coldest on the planet. It’s this very reason that Antarctica is both the least-explored...
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Is the hoverbike about to become reality?
Those childhood dreams of doing the commute on a Star Wars Speeder Bike might be possible if a revolutionary hoverbike design takes off. (Video above has no sound) Getting from A to B is very rarely...
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