Cars are just too commonplace these days, with so few things to set apart one style or model from the next. Here are some excellent examples of creative hacks, scientific mods and artistic makeovers that will make you marvel at once-conventional vehicle types from cars, bikes and trucks to planes, boats and submarines.
When the wheel was invented, most of society threw its hands up and said "this is it!" Not all inventors are so narrow-minded. These visionaries, who took one look at their own legs, made a ...
Doors, cabinets, and carving boards are the extent to which most people have wood in their homes. Who would ever think to use wood for anything as crazy as making a car? Or as a sculpting medium? ...
When that classic car that's been sitting in the driveway for years is ready to go to the junkyard, there is an excellent way to keep it closer than ever. Convert that hunk of junk into a ...
When snow begins to pile up, snow plows head out to take it down. These glorified power shovels are a triumph of basic technology against the forces of nature, and even then there's room for ...
Car modifications are sometimes awesome, often horrible, and always expensive. The best of the best are horribly expensive, and awesome enough to take your breath away. Adding a spoiler or ...
Concept cars are some of the coolest and popular manifestations of futurism today. Much like the clothing in fashion shows, these designs are meant to be inspirational thought experiments of what ...
When one thinks of painted vans, they immediately envision the 1960's and 1970's Volkswagen van covered flowers, and weighed down by lounging hippies. Banish these thoughts from your mind, as we ...
Much to the disappointment of pretty much everyone, we have yet to perfect the science of teleportation and no one has bothered to invent Futurama-type human pneumatic tubes. Until those things ...
Legendary concept artist Syd Mead can be credited with creating some of the most memorable sci-fi movie worlds ever. Tron, Aliens and Blade Runner were all Mead's work and all helped set new ...
First there was the guitar boat, the wooden Ferrari boat and the 'spider that ate San Francisco'. Now come 12 even cooler and crazier watercraft designs and concepts from super-high-tech ...
