Can your mountain bike survive this 1000-foot jump? Mine can’t. In fact, I don’t even have a mountain bike. Much less one that is used by the US Marines, folds, and looks as badass as the Montague Paratrooper Tactical Bike. More »
I don’t know what part of this story I find more appealing: The Di Blasi R7 folding motorcycle, which weighs just 29.8kg, travels at 50kph and has a 50cc engine; or the fact that the distributor’s have created a company called Scoot2You, which rides one of these bikes out to you and your car after a few too many drinks and then drives you home. More »
Buried amongst the piles of Newer! Bigger! Better! TVs, pico projectors and paper-thin, flapping OLED screens at FPD in Japan was an absolute gem: a folding OLED phone concept from Samsung. This isn’t some half-assed, flat-to-sightly-bowed demo either: this thing folds over on itself completely. In its folded mode it looks quite similar to the D900, but the phone opens like a book to reveal a massive, bright OLED screen, creased down the middle. While we’ve got this luscious, luscious video, we don’t have much in the way of specs, and it goes without saying that this stuff is probably a long way from making it to market. [OLED Display]
newVideoPlayer("/icona5_giz.flv", 506, 423,""); At last week’s EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, aircraft startup ICON showed up with their folding-winged A5. On display, one setup showed it being towed, propped on a standard trailer and pulled by a standard vehicle. The company hopes to appeal to those who’ve always been interested in flying but have felt intimidated by all of its attached responsibilities including licensing (you don’t need a full-out pilot’s licence to operate this) and storage (it really can fit in a large garage). And yes, their cockpit resembles a car’s dash in a completely scary/awesome way.
The idea of a compact, folding bicycle is nothing new, but designer Chang Ting Jen is hoping to take the concept even further with his Backpack bike. According to the specs, a production version would weigh around 5.5kg and fold into a backpack that measured just under 60cm in length. Naturally, that means that you could pick up and carry your bike around just about anywhere.
It took 100 prototypes to figure it out, but someone engineered the folding colander. The colander uses a 12-hinge design to retain its shape for straining and then folds flat to store easily in the always precious real estate of kitchen cabinetry. It’s US$29 and comes in green or white—which are specifically not the baby blue you see in this photo. But that’s probably a good thing*.
Folding bikes aren’t new. Hell, even this folding bike isn’t new. It’s been around for a couple of years, easy.
What is new is the fact that you can now get one in Australia – Tesora is selling the Fold-A-Bike for just $149.
The Fold-A-Bike weighs just 5.5kg and folds down to just 66 x 30 x 15cm. Even better is the fact that you can unfold it in under 10 seconds, making it the near perfect city commuter vehicle. Just imagine the wind flowing through your hair and your suit jacket flapping out behind you while you run over those pesky “walkers” on your way to the train station after a hard day’s work. Makes you want one, doesn’t it?
The latest update for Sony and Stanford’s Folding@Home PS3 project has a couple of new interesting features that fans will enjoy using. There’s PSP Remote Play to control and view folding information on the go, a screensaver mode, protein visualization enhancements, and an “Advanced Mode” that’s only available to people who run Folding@home for more than eight hours a day. We applaud the effort and hope that along with curing diseases, Folding finds a cure for the douchebaggery that all of Stanford seems to be infected with. Go Bears. [assbags.edu] More »
