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It's called Sladda and will be the first mountable bicycle offered by Ikea. The bike of the future, as it has already been defined, will arrive in stores in August and, like all Ikea furniture, will be assembled. It is the first bicycle produced by the Swedish furniture giant that even wants to revolutionize the world of ...

The self-driving car is certainly the future of the automotive sector; Intel also understood this, which recently bought an Italian company to develop this project. Intel has in fact bought Yogitech, as the same company from Santa Clara (California) announced on the official blog: "For years Intel has been producing IoT systems ...

QiCycle, the first smart bike, will arrive soon. After smart phones, smart watches and so on and so forth, there are also smart bicycles. We all know the Xiaomi brand for smartphones, but the company does not only deal with smartphones or smart bands. Indeed, Xiaomi sells the air purifier ...

Remember the Microsoft Holodesk project and its developments? We talked about it in an article some time ago. The first practical applications of this holographic technology are coming all over the world, and Volvo, the Swedish car maker, hasn't been long in coming to embark on a path that will bring holograms ...

Directly from the Tokyo Motor Show 2015 one of the most attractive elements: a robot-centaur presented by Yamaha. Its name is Motobot: it is a concept being tested by the research and development department of the Japanese company. A device capable of driving a motorcycle not ...

Eventually Elon Musk made it: his Hyperloop is starting to take its first steps. The first test section (about 10 km) in California is under construction. It is located in Quay Valley, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and will transport 10 million people in its phase ...

The Tesla Motors model S already surpasses every other electric car on the market for autonomy, with its over 400km of range. Yet Elon Musk doesn't stop there. Tesla Motors CEO has announced that his company could bring this radius beyond 900km by 2017 ...

Ah, the electric bikes! Comfortable, anarchic, they can give us motor and energy independence. Almost. The only problem is the difficulty of taking them with you on buses, trains and other means. Gi Bike aims to solve this problem: it is a brand new electric bike that can fold with a ...

This car has no engine, no transmission and no differential: it weighs half of a normal car: each of its four wheels has an electric motor that allows it to contribute to the movement of the vehicle and to a quick change of direction: to current state, however, need to be checked ...

How about a vehicle with thorium engine, which runs without polluting and does it for 100 years without stopping with only 8gr of fuel?

Toyota Motor Corporation announces that it has developed a new generation of vehicles with an advanced driver support system. The system, called AHDA (Automated Highway Driving Assist) aims to reduce the workload and concentration for drivers on the highway: while driving it activates a control of ...

A group of German researchers from AutoNOMOS Labs have developed a system that allows you to drive a vehicle simply through the driver's thinking: this is what they say looking to the future. The first step was to create autonomous vehicles, capable of responding to the commands of a ...

For years and periodically tubeless tires have been proposed for all vehicles: their adoption is struggling to reach its fulfillment (perhaps for the interests of manufacturers to have more wear on this product to favor faster replacement: thinking badly makes you sin, ...

Takeshi Shirasaka of Alps Electric showed the latest developments in the studies his company is doing with the goal (sic.) Of "changing the human-car interface within 5-6 years". It is a system that makes extensive use of infrared (a 'sphere' positioned in the area adjacent to the positioning brake is ...

A consortium of companies seeking to pool funds and ideas to achieve the final development of the project recently presented this invention at the annual innovation award of the Da Vinci Institute. Transport through ET3, in the intentions of the developers, will be clean, fast, comfortable and accessible to all. About what...

Your glory days are gone: you will no longer be able to roam happily on the highway in spite of the poor speed camera on duty: an American company, Peak Gayn Sistems, has developed a special photographic radar capable of displaying and identifying up to 32 vehicles different in one go, analyzing ...

For those who still need proof that the future is already here, consider this news: since yesterday the world has available a commercial spaceport in New Mexico, open to tourists who want (and can, especially economically) take a nice trip among the stars. The concept itself ...

The next electric car revolution will be as fast as the time it takes to recharge the batteries of vehicles that are about to invade the world. Filling up with petrol takes no more than two or three minutes, while at present it takes several hours to complete ...

Okay, maybe it won't be a full-blown condom, but the concept comes very close to it: NASA has awarded Cessna a brand new contract to work on a sort of 'protective skin' for airplanes, which allows aircraft to to repair damage 'by yourself' ....

Solowheel is a unique one-wheeled transportation solution that is gaining popularity, and very rapidly.

One of the biggest difficulties people have in approaching the next electric car revolution is the fear of not knowing where to go in case of battery recharge: the number of electric refueling points is almost nil, and this situation still affects on purchasing choices. This...