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 ...
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Domestic Daredevils: 12 Insanely Cool Home Climbing Walls
When the mountains are too far away and you don't feel like going to the gym, you can always scale the walls of your living room or bedroom - if you've got one of these 12 amazing indoor climbing ...
Going Downhill Fast: 12 Abandoned Ski Resorts
These dozen doomed ski resorts, like most seasonal winter businesses, can fall off the financial cliff by something as ironically simple as a lack of snow. ...
Slam Drunk: 12 Weird, Wild & Wacky Basketball Courts
These 12 jaw-dropping basketball courts stretch the limits of Dr. James Naismith's original vision far beyond the prescient gym teacher's wildest hoop dreams. ...
Off The Deep End: 12 Abandoned Swimming Pools
An abandoned swimming pool is kind of like a fish out of water in that, well, both are out of water. As far as pools go, their dry and empty aspect makes them seem exposed, naked, incomplete and ...
Snowflake-Shaped Ski Dome Over River is World’s Largest
A six-armed, snowflake-shaped ski dome stretching across the river Gudenåen in Denmark would be the world's largest if constructed, besting the current record holder, Ski Dubai, by at least ...
Boarded Up: 15 Rad & Gnarly Abandoned Skate Parks
Looking like reinforced concrete reflections of topographic terrain, the abandoned ruins of once raucous skateparks lie scattered across the urban landscape. ...
Faster, Higher, Stranger: 10 Tacky Olympic Souvenirs
“I went to the Olympics and all I got was this lousy... what IS that thing, anyway?” Most anyone would agree the best souvenir of a Summer or Winter Olympic Games is a medal – preferably gold ...
Gold Metal Architecture: Olympic Stadiums, 1896 – 2012
Over the last 116 years, Olympic stadiums have gone from sprawling marble structures made from ancient Greek ruins to strikingly illuminated bird's nest-shaped buildings. Designed by architects ...
Games Off: Artistic Echoes of the Lost Olympic Games
Three Summer Olympic Games and two Winter Olympic Games have been canceled since Athens hosted the inaugural games of the modern Olympiad in 1896. Few visual records of these “lost Olympics” ...
