Stair Rover Goes Where Other Skateboards Can’t

An eight-wheel mechanism allows the unusual Stair-Rover skateboard to descend flights of steps the way conventional skateboards never could. Designed by Po-Chih Lai, the wheel system mounts to a ...

Bizarre Inventions: 15 Idiotic Ideas from the Past

For every invention that actually makes it to production, there are dozens of failed ideas, most of which failed for very good reasons. Like the fact that they're painfully inefficient, totally ...

Retro Restoration: Abandoned Space Age Bungalows

In the 1970s, these odd little pods were on the cutting edge of portable architecture, with a design clearly influenced by Space exploration and futurism. Today, they sit abandoned on the lot of ...

Rare Visions of the Past: 30 Old Color Photographs

The black-and-white shades of old photos can reduce the immediacy of the images, making them feel as if the people and events they captured existed so long ago as to be irrelevant to our current ...

War and Peace: 15 Repurposed Military Structures

Once they were no longer needed as bunkers, flak towers, forts, airfields and barracks, these military structures sat empty and abandoned, a stark reminder of wars past and those that may occur ...