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- Revolve Wheel: Foldable and airless bicycle wheel saves spaceFoldable bicycles save a lot of space, but one disadvantage is that the wheels have to be small to make them portable. The Revolve…
- A bicycle wheel that filters outdoor air pollutionCalled Rolloe, this bicycle wheel uses the riders motion to filter outdoor pollution, cleaning the air as they cycle. The bicycle wheel uses motion…
- Reinventing the Wheel(chair)It’s every designer’s dream: to actually reinvent the wheel. Though usually a pipedream, there are a few cases in which the wheel gets a…
- A fibreglass electric car with a wooden steering wheelAzulik Mobility and Roth Fablab developed a prototype electric car with no doors, a fiberglass body and a wooden steering wheel. Called EK, the…
- Aluminium Folding BikeEver felt like taking your bicycle with you onto a plane, or carrying it with you in a lightweight backpack? This is now possible…
- Vision: a 3D printed, customisable, biodegradable, airless car tireNo more flat tires, no more changing summer tires when it becomes winter, and a large reduction in waste material in the tire industry.…
- Zippelin: an inflatable travel bag from recycled truck tarpaulinsFor people who travel a lot, a large suitcase with wheels is essential, but they take up a lot of space when they aren’t…
- Toyota’s Wood Car Captures Material Beauty Over TimeThis week, Toyota is presenting for the first time Setsuna, a new roadster concept crafted in wood. It will be on show throughout Milan…
- 3D Printed Airless Tyres Combine Elastomers With Impact-Absorbing GeometryPrint&Live, working with iSCALE3D, has developed fully 3D printed airless tyres for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The design replaces the pressurised chamber of a…
- Capturing tire particlesThe Tyre Collective, consisting of students from the Innovation Design Engineering programme of the Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art in…
- An inflatable e-bikeIn order to create a portable e-bike, researchers of the University of Tokyo developed “soft mobility”, a new type of personal mobility made of…
- The world’s first long-range solar car unveiledDutch tech company Lightyear, a spin-off company of the Technical University of Eindhoven, introduced the first long-range solar car this morning in Katwijk, the…
- Barro Negro: Mexican craftsmanship in a new guiseGraphic designer Omar Fabian uses the old Mexican craft Barro Negro, or black pottery, to create new artworks. Barro Negro is a style of…
- The world’s first fully 3D printed electric motorcycleGerman industrial 3D printing company BigRep revealed the Nera E-bike, an electric motorcycle that is almost entirely 3D printed. Developed by Marco Mattia Cristofori…
- Superelastic tire is suitable for both Earth and MarsEngineers and researchers are working hard to prepare us for life in space. Innovators at NASA’s Glenn Research centre reinvented the wheel by creating…
- New 3D printer prints 10 times faster than ordinary desktop printerThought 3D printing was a fast way to make objects? Soon, you’ll be able to do it even faster! MIT engineers developed a new…
- A wooden motorcycle powered by algaeElectric cars and bikes, both motorcycles and bicycles, are popping up like mushrooms, but Ritsert Mans looks at another source of clean energy to…
- 3D Printing a Better, Cooler WheelchairBringing wheelchairs into the era of digital design, the Go chair by design studio Layer prevents common wheelchair user injuries by custom 3d printing…
- Adaptable wooden buildings of the futureThe Urban Adaptation competition, hosted by Finnish wood manufacturer MetsäWood, Aalto University and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment, challenged architects and students from…
- A car made of flax and recycled ocean plasticStudents from Eindhoven University of Technology presented the design of their sixth car. Called Luca, the vehicle is made of flax and recycled plastic…
- This solar car sails on the windThe latest solar car by the student team from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands for the biennial Bridgestone World Solar Challenge…
- An electric car made of recycled plasticMandalaki Studio, in collaboration with Estrima and the Rossana Orlandi Gallery, developed what they say is the first electric car concept made with 80…
- The world’s first 3D printed hypercarLos Angeles based start-up Divergent 3D revealed Blade, the world’s first 3D printed hypercar. Using 3D printing technology, Divergent 3D aims to transform the…
- A modular tricycle made from recycled plastic wasteFor his graduation project for the Design Academy Eindhoven, Thomas Hoogewerf created a modular tricycle made from recycled plastic and metals, especially for use…
