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Here's the ultimate thrill for mountain bike enthusiasts: the Ktrak. Turn your regular bike into a snow bike, with this kit that loads your back wheel with traction and switches your front wheel for a ski.
Let's face it. Driving your car to the gym is weird. Parking as close as you can to the gym door is weird. Running on a treadmill is weird. We need to get out more. Bicycles are great, but antisocial. Tandem bicycles, well, they just have an image problem. Could the HumanCar be the answer?
In February 2007, Sun21 arrived in Le Marin, Martinique, having crossed the Atlantic from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, in 29 days. This may seem slow, but when you bear in mind the journey was completely powered by the sun, it's very impressive. In fact, it gained the boat a Guinness World Record for the fastest transatlantic crossing made completely under solar power.
Folding bikes have never really been very cool, but Josef Cadek has broken the mold with his Locust. Currently a concept bike, it's being developed and a version of it will be available to buy in 2010.
Why is everyone saying such mean things about this car? OK, so they say good things about the fact the AIRPod runs on compressed air. As they should - how could that be bad? But everyone's saying how ugly it is - or at best that it looks like it was designed by their four-year-old nephew. I disagree.
The Seat Brisa could be the ultimate in enviromentally-friendly vehicles. It's only a 'study' at this stage, but the streamlined solar-powered sports car looks great. A bit like a German wooden toy, but the (almost) real deal.
It seems like everyone is trying to invent a new way to get around these days. Dutch invention Wheelsurf is hardly a replacement for your gas-guzzler - it was created purely for fun. It's hard to figure out what it does just by looking at it, but it's described as a 'single-wheeled, ride-inside conveyance'. A what?
If you've ever flown a paper airplane, you might wonder why passenger jets have looked the way they have for as long as they have. This prototype jet, the X-48B, created by Boeing Phantom Works, NASA and the US Air Force, turns conventional design on its head.
With high gas prices and environmental concerns, alternative energies for transportation are on the tip of everyone's tongues. There's electric, solar and even wind power, but as of yet no car has managed to combine them all. Until now. Welcome Venturi's Eclectic, the first solar and electric autonomous car in the history of the automobile.
On a trip to Beijing two years ago, teenager Ben Gulak noticed the relationship between the city's lack of sunshine, crowded streets and motor vehicles. When he got back home, he set about designing something smaller and cleaner than a regular motorbike - a unicycle, but with a difference. The UnoCycle.
If you're tired of being stuck in crowded trains, if you can't stand crying children anymore as you try to read the METRO, if you are one of those who finish their nights on the way to work, if you are addicted to your iPod, if you need absolute silence to complete your Sudoku square, if you don't want to suffer from the sight of a man biting a shiny donut as you fight to stay on a diet, then, you might dream every night of a train where you almost have your own room, where you could be enjoying yourself exclusively.
It's the world's first High Speed Amphibian car. A sports car that takes to the water. Aquada, as it is known, can take off from a boat ramp, a slipway or the beach, and glide effortlessly as a speed boat across rivers or out to sea.
