Design
Tiny house living anyone?
Apparently, part of the downsizing movement has helped increase the popularity of Tiny Houses. They range in size from 65 square feet to a few hundred square feet and if you are an average American, you would probably say that is indeed tiny. If t...
Who Said a Yacht has to Look Like a boat?
It's hot and summer and what better place to relax than on a yacht - especially one with a striking design. Here is some ‘inspiration' for what you might buy.
Kia Soul'ster Awarded 2009 Concept Truck of the Year
Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced the open-air Soul'ster Concept, which made its debut at the 2009 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in January, was named the 2009 Concept Truck of the Year during the 2009 North American Concep...
Fisker Plug-In Hybrid Wins North American Concept Vehicle of the Year Award Category
The Fisker Karma Sunset PHEV hardtop convertible coupe has been named 2009 Production Preview Concept of the Year, part of the North American Concept Vehicle of the Year Awards. Henrik Fisker, CEO of California-based Fisker Automotive, accepted th...
MERCEDES-BENZ Launches All-New 2010 E-Class: 'Everything We Know, Everything We Are: This is Mercedes-Benz'
As the all-new 2010 Mercedes-Benz E-Class goes on sale today at dealerships across the country, Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) is rolling out its biggest marketing launch in recent years to herald the arrival of the ninth generation of its iconic sedan...
21 Rooms in 1 Flat: Creative Space Saving Condo Design
On a budget in a big city, how do you work 350 square feet of apartment space into luxury living quarters? Using a series of amazing space-saving strategies and mobile architectural elements, Gary Change converted his simple apartment-turned-condo...
World's Fastest Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (and Other Stuff)
It may surprise you that beneath our gentle, gadget-loving exterior, there lies a closeted obsession with speed. Sure, we tend to talk about Twitter and have been known to spend hours debating the best instant-messaging client -- or the best sci-f...
Volkswagen's car storage tower
GERMANY : A red Volkswagen Golf (L) and a VW Scirocco are retrieved by an automated palette from a storage tower near the main factory in the northern German city of Wolfsburg. Earlier Martin Winterkorn, CEO of German car maker Volkswagen (VW) add...
House of 1000 windows
A new office block being built in China is believed to have the most windows of any building of its size in the world.
Departure 2093 - Five visions on future flying
Future Finnair fleet images
Mega Tokyo Bay Pyramid to Provide 750,000 People Housing
Hoping to relieve its stress of alarming overpopulation, the world's most crowded city - Tokyo's construction industry has trained its sights on the only vacant lot around -- the waters of Tokyo Bay. Witness the impossible dream of city planners: ...
The $300,000 Watch That Doesn't Tell Time
A $300,000 watch? Luxury. A $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell time — and that sells out? Pure genius. According to several news reports flagged by my friends at Luxist, Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome just launched the “Day&Night” watch. The watch w...
US army develops robotic suits
On the big screen, films like Robocop, Universal Soldier and forthcoming release Iron Man show man-machines with superhuman powers. But in Utah they are turning science fiction into reality. (...) The aluminium limbs gleam in the brilliant sunshin...
New swimsuit could break Olympic records
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- The Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit is making such a splash in the pool that U.S. head coach Mark Schubert believes every record in the sport could fall at the Beijing Olympics. Since the suit was unveiled in February, 19 lon...
Fashion Freaks
As young boys, we all watched our share of Fashion Television as the only source of occasional daytime pornography - the see-through and altogether “popping out”fits were those rare gems that made it all worth it. Fortunately, there was some enter...
Fast food, German-style - Automated restaurant without waiters
Germany likes to call itself the "Land of Ideas" - and over the centuries it has certainly had plenty of them. It was Germans who invented the aspirin, the airship, the printing press and the diesel engine. But Germany has surely never produced an...
The 36th International Exhibition of Invention - a selection
Geneva, Switzerland - More than 700 exhibitors, from 45 countries, are presenting at the 36th International Exhibition of Invention – the world's largest expo devoted to innovation. Here we present a selection of the inventors and their contraptio...
How Hitler Would Have Rebuilt Berlin
It's one of those spine-chilling what-ifs. What if Hitler and his helpers had been successful in their aggressive striving for world power? A new exhibition in Berlin attempts to answer this question in part by looking at the devastating architect...
New T-shirts offer protection against knives
OSAKA--A uniform manufacturer in Chuo Ward, Osaka, has developed a T-shirt intended to provide protection against knives, following an increasing number of malicious crimes that have victimized children and late-night convenience store clerks. The...
Ride the B*tchcruiser Bike, But Wear Protection (NSFW)
Once in a while we come across an invention that's so ludicrously chauvinist, even our testosterone-fueled rants sputter to speechlessness. Just check out the NSFW photos (and plenty of 'em) after the jump.