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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action The Hustler Zeon is the world’s first all-electric, zero-turn riding mower. With the “Hustler” logo on the back, everyone will think you’re eco-friendly and pretty badass.
One of the brains behind the Aptera electric three-wheeled car also runs Epic Boats, which just intro’d the Epic 23e, the first plug-in hybrid electric boat. Who knew lithium-ion batteries were waterproof?
In preparation for the zero-emissions grand prix, Evo Design Solutions has this fearsome electric superbike, fast enough and tough enough to challenge the old-school gas models.
The dashboard looks primitive, especially next to the Ford hybrid dashes that grows leaves when you hypermill. But it’s rated at 50mpg under mixed driving, and is supposed to be faster than the old model.
Craftsman thought they had finally cornered the lazy-arse market with their 12V, lithium-rechargeable Hammerhead Auto-Hammer, but they made one fatal mistake: We’re way too unindustrious to build anything with or without electronic gizmos to back us up. Still, we can appreciate the design as this miniature jackhammer drives nails in at 35 strikes per second with a form factor that’s not so different from the original hammer. But haven’t we seen this idea somewhere before…namely from a certain Homer Simpson?
You know how awesome it feels to make it to the bathroom after holding it for a really long time? Not just the standard “I gotta go,” but somehow enduring the definite, palpable feeling that the thin membrane called your bladder is so full it’s going to burst at any second for a considerable length of time, maintaining control until you finally reach the appropriate vessel to relieve yourself into.
The Electric Self-Balancing Unicycle, or SBU, uses gyroscopes, accelerometers, and good clean electric power to make everyone’s favourite one-wheeled method of transport accessible to those who don’t want to bother with all that messy balancing and pedaling. Sure, unicycle purists will scoff, but now you can finally check “ride a unicycle” off your bucket list without wasting any time learning how to actually ride one. [Focus Designs]
While I admit that this Zhejiang 001′s mini car looks rather wacky and utilitarian thanks to its solar top, I wouldn’t mind looking like a dork if that can save me gas or electric power–if I had to have a car, that is. This one can charge using the sun electricity in 30 hours, giving it a 150km range. According to the engineer, it can only transform 14 to 17 percent of the sun light, which is the usual. But in the middle of a recession, for $US5,560 and no gas or electricity expenses, we can live with “usual” and “fugly” just fine. [Gasgoo via OhGizmo]
I’m glad I had my tonsils out years ago, or this would make me think twice about it. A 76-year-old man admitted to the hospital in Chiba, Japan, for respiratory failure was about to have a new tube implanted in his trachea when the one already in there caught fire as the doctor cut into his throat with an electrosurgical knife. The flames reached as high as 10 centimeters, and scorched his respiratory passage, mouth and face.
Last we left the Dream Car 123, the pyramid-shaped electric car that always gets picked last in kickball games, it was (in the words of Addy) “pootling” along the snowy streets of Illinois at about 70kph, with a 130km range. Today we can report that, while the thing still looks like all sorts of ridiculousness, it’s upped the range considerably, has bulletproof glass protecting the driver’s compartment—and cut costs to boot!
