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A Wearable Motorcycle
By Abby Seiff Posted on 8.18.2008 55 CommentsThe transportation program at the Art Center College of Design has produced legendary car designers, including BMW chief of design Chris Bangle and Henrik Fisker, the creator of the Fisker Karma electric supercar. But this year, after professor Bumsuk Lim’s inaugural motorcycle-design class, the buzz is all about bikes, especially Jake Loniak’s exoskeleton motorcycle concept Deus Ex Machina.
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The Parajet Skycar: From London to Timbuktu on Biofuel
By Michael Spinelli Posted on 11.12.2008 13 CommentsIf you were wondering, Timbuktu isn't some mythical city with a skyline of emerald buildings housing a race of unicorn-men. It's a real place, situated in the west African country of Mali, a city historians cite as an intellectual and spiritual center of the 15th and 16th centuries. It's also some 3,700 miles from London. Keep that in mind when you consider a scheme to cover those miles in a car that looks like an Everglades airboat designed by Luigi Colani.
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Popsci 5-Minute Project: How to Make a USB Cassette
By taylorhengen Posted on 10.16.2008 2 Comments
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