A nice looking bamboo bicycle. It’s amazing that the bamboo seems to have better properties than the carbon fiber…
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The big news of the day is of course the launch of the Tesla Roadster, the first electric sportscar. I’m pleasantly surprised at how good it looks – apparently they poached a lot of people from Lotus for the design. Check out Autoblog’s video and write-up. I bet I’ll see a few of these at Google when they become publicly available (mid 2007).
The Trekinetic Wheelchair is a really nice redesign of the wheelchair, particularly well-suited for outdoor activities.
BMW’s nightvision system uses infrareds to avoid nighttime collisions.
A self-parking car from Volvo.
Volkswagen’s new storage facility in Wolfsburg is an amazing robot-building.
Video of Michelin’s new airless tire technology Tweel.
New trailer for Pixar’s Cars. Looks awesome, as usual.
French carmaker Peugeot found a great way to design a zero-emissions vehicle: trees. They planted a whole forest in South America to cancel out the emissions of their entire car production. Does it mean they don’t have to work on fuel efficiency? Of course not, but it’s still a true gain for nature, not to mention a nice PR move. Now that’s what I call innovative thinking!
