A variety of new technologies aimed at changing the way people are transported around the world.
Tag: transportation
Mechanical Menagerie #11: Pod People (The Good Kind)
NEXT Credit: Tommaso Gecchelin The Next Future Transportation company has a plan to change the way transportation on the roadways works. They have designed cubes that can drive on the road, hold 10 people and are capable of attaching to each other. It’s an excellent idea in regard to transfers as the video shows cubes…
Hoverbikes
Gravity Industries – a hoversuit invented by a man pursuing his dream Website Intro Demonstrations+Records Hoversurf Inc – developed a hoverbike which hovers in the air. Website My Article Dubai Hoverbikes Kalashnikov – the weapons company developed their own hoverbike Website My Article Kitty Hawk – created a hovercraft for water-only Website …
Mechanical Menagerie #6: The Future of Transportation #2
Archaeopteryx Credit: ruppert composite This glider is fairly old by now but if you haven’t seen it then you may have to look more carefully. The Archaeopteryx is a lightweight glider which really does resemble an actual airplane. The example they give in the video is a running start so be somewhere high to use…
Mechanical Menagerie Compilation #3: Transportation
Airbus Transpose Airbus has announced a new concept behind airplanes. Most of us by now are familiar with coach in any random plane. Close seats, little leg room or overhead, small bathrooms and smaller isles. With the new Transpose design, we may be seeing a change to the entire format. Proposed by their research division…
Mechanical Menagerie #4: The Future of Transportation #1
Kitty Hawk Credit: Kitty Hawk I’ve written an article before about new methods of transportation that deal with smaller aircraft but vehicles you wouldn’t really think of as aircraft. The Kitty Hawk Flyer is another personal aircraft, a sort of personal hovercraft more than anything else. The machine itself has an odd appearance containing a…
Transpose
Airbus has announced a new concept behind airplanes. Most of us by now are familiar with coach in any random plane. Close seats, little leg room or overhead, small bathrooms and smaller isles. With the new Transpose design, we may be seeing a change to the entire format. Proposed by their research division A3, this…
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