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Formula 1 Mobility: Graphene Enables World’s Lightest Wheelchair Design

Working with Formula 1 race car manufacturers and employing aerospace materials, a Swiss firm has developed what they claim is the world's lightest wheelchair, with a frame weighing in at just ...

Redesign on the Fly: 5 Fresh Zippers Improve Upon Traditional Fasteners

Designers are always trying to reinvent the chair or improve the shoe, but zippers have stayed largely the same for a long time, which begs the question: is there room to innovate on this simple ...

Gyroscopic Public Transit Concept Hovers Above Traffic at Varying Heights

In this strange vision of a city in the not-so-distant future, disc-shaped public transit, emergency vehicles and cargo vehicles rise up above traffic on vertical supports to zoom through the ...

Russia Hour Traffic: Andrey Tkachenko’s Soviet Car Concepts

Russian freelance artist Andrey Tkachenko reveals the figurative swans hidden deep within the notoriously ugly ducklings of the Soviet automobile industry. “General Motors is not in ...

Circular Logic: “Endless Runways” Rounded to Save Energy, Time & Space

Designed to reduce real estate needs for runways in ever-more-crowded cities, this "endless runway" system encircles a central terminal building and lets multiple planes take off and land at the ...

Solar-Powered Pipe to Desalinate 1.5 Billion Gallons for California

Designed to address the pervasive drought and long-term water problems of the West Coast, The Pipe is an offshore water purification plant that combines sustainable energy, public works and ...

Cities of Bone: Organic Future Skyscrapers Free of Concrete & Steel

Our cities have grown up thanks to concrete and steel, but these materials are far from sustainable, leading architects and researchers to explore new (and old) materials, from wood to eggshell ...

Sunken Central Park: ‘Sidescraper’ Wraps Excavated Landscape

Conceived of as a hybrid, multi-functional work of landscape architecture, this award-winning design proposes digging down to the bedrock beneath Central Park and erecting a reflective ...

Spherical Tires: Magnetic Levitation for Driverless Vehicles

The Eagle 360, a new tire design concept from Goodyear, is a rounded sphere held in place by magnetic fields and designed for a smoother ride in your future driver-free car. The biggest ...

Eff You: Sleek & Superior Bicycle Defies Global Racing Rules

This stunning concept bike breaks from conventions set by international racing authorities to bring riders a vastly improved cycling experience, from enhanced aerodynamics and speed assists ...

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