Ten More Creative Crosswalks & Zany Zebra Crossings
Where did the pedestrian cross the road? Unless he or she's a jaywalker, at the crosswalk of course! These ten creative crosswalks or, as they're known in Europe, Asia and elsewhere, Zebra ...
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Crop Culture: 10 Cool & Futuristic Concept Tractors
If you think tractors aren't exciting, you've spent too much time on a collective farm and not enough on the showroom floor. These 10 cool & futuristic concept tractors may not break any speed ...
Commuter Commotion: 6 Futuristic Mass Transit Concepts
Whatever we will have going on in the future, two things are certain: there will be a record number of humans, and we'll all be going somewhere. Mass transit will continue to get more and more ...
Road Work: 10 Pointed Examples of Traffic Cone Art
When it comes to ubiquitous utility in the service of street safety, orange traffic cones stand alone... except when they stand together and someone deigns to call the result Art. Traffic cone art ...
Drive-Thru Office: Osaka Japan’s Gate Tower Building
What happens when an irresistible force (the Hanshin Expressway) meets an immovable object (stubborn landowners)? You get the Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan, a hybrid highway-cum-skyscraper ...
Hey You, Get Onto My Cloud: Bizarre Floating Transport
As far as transportation goes, we have not yet seen any truly innovative changes in our lifetimes. Sure, new types of cars and faster trains pop up every year, but where are the big changes that ...
Slippery When Wet: The UK’s Top 10 Navigable Aqueducts
Navigable aqueducts played an important role in getting Great Britain's industrial revolution off the ground. In an age when railroads and commercial highways had yet to be invented, these elevated ...
Blizzard Wizards: 10 Cool Cutting Edge Snow Plows
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 ...
Phenomenal People Movers: 3 Odd Urban Transport Methods
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 ...
Sci-Fi Concept Redux: 20 Syd Mead Inspired Vehicles
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 ...
