27 Jan
Self-balancing unicycle for advanced urban commuting

One-wheeled transportation is nothing new — we’ve seen both Honda and some Canadian entrepreneur try one out. Heck, we’ve even seen an early concept of the RYNO Unicycle. But now as RYNO approaches actual production, a new version of their vehicle — that they’re now calling the Microcycle — has been unveiled. Controlled like a Segway in that you lean […]


13 Dec
Magnesium frame + lithium battery = convenient urban mobility

The Flextronics-built Gocycle G2 is the latest in a line of new electric bikes hitting the market. Released by Karbon Kinetics Limited, the bike features an injection-molded magnesium frame that offers a solid ride on a sleek design. Hidden within the frame is a Lithium battery that takes just 3 1/2 hours to fully charge, at […]


21 Oct
Italian car manufacturer combines the best of 2 worlds

Italian automobile company Vygor has officially debuted the Opera, a hybrid of a Gran Turismo with an SUV. The Vygor allegedly combines the thrill of driving a GT with the practicality and safety associated with a raised four-wheel drive. Along with the use of a new tubular chassis made of high-strength steel, double-triangle individual wheel suspension […]


San Fransisco-based studio Fuseproject has introduced their latest design by Yves Behar (who we’ve interviewed) and in collaboration with SyCip. The LOCAL is a unique design that came about as a means to address the needs of our daily lives. The Oregon Manifest Constructor Design Challenge (a competition to imagine a generation of sustainable transportation for […]


23 Aug
A collaboration that combines three of life's great pleasures

WeSC and smart have joined forces for a collaboration that combines three of life’s great pleasures: music, travel and transportation. The Swedish clothing brand and the German automobile company’s collaboration includes gold-plated headphones with WeSC logo on the sides, as well as a matching limited edition smart car modified by BRABUS — the largest independent tuner […]


4 Aug
Only 100 of these highly exclusive powered bikes to be created

We posted about Derringer Cycles’ Bespoke Collection a couple weeks back, and now we get word of an exclusive series of motorized bicycles from the brand. Derringer‘s new DLS line is a highly limited series of bikes, each individually numbered but identical to the spoke. While inspired by the vintage British and American motorcycles from […]


24 Jun
Fit a 60 mph+ electric racing kart in the trunk of your Prius

Superheroes of today having nothing on the heroes of yesteryear, but that hasn’t stopped designer Beau Reid from creating the only means of transportation that would make any clockwatching cubicle monkey feel like Ghost Rider whipping around corners at 60mph. Reid, of Beau Designs, has created the GK2G: an F1-inspired go-kart concept with true mobility […]


22 Jun
José Castrellón captures the indelible and pan-continental desire for men to claim their transportation via personal modifications

The Panamanian photographer José Castrellón has developed his Priti Baiks series (aka “pretty bikes”) to document the Panamanian phenomenon of overly wrought, heavily modified bikes. While most Panamanians don’t have the capital to modify their cars to Fast and the Furious levels (or to own a car at all, for that matter), the young men […]