Aptera is a “small company with a big mission.” They’re goal is to make the most fuel efficient car…ever.
The car they are currently building/testing runs off a combination of gasoline and electricity. With this combination they’re able to achieve around 300MPG. Yes, that’s 3-0-0.
The car will cost between $26k and $29k and is set to be put into production late 2008.
Incredible. What do you get when you mix 2 of the manliest things on earth (paintball and tanks)? A war machine capable of decimating anything it’s 3.5 foot wide path.
For a mere $14,400 you can have one of these beastly machines that every man within 800 miles will immediately covet.
Each tank is built to your specifications and takes around 3 months to build. They’re produced in the UK and according to them can actually be driven on public streets!
You can spend your life savings on this paintballing machine here.
[via Born Rich]
You can vend just about anything. From candy to coke to iPods to movies to cellphones and even groceries…you seriously can get just about anything in a vending machine.
Now you can add another thing to the list of vendable goods. Bicycles. Yes. Bicycles.
A Dutch company has been testing out the idea of renting out bikes via bike vending machines.
You’d simply rent a bike to take you from one place to another and then drop off your bike at your destination’s bike dispenser.
It really is a great idea (and certainly hasn’t been done in this fashion before). The company actually won a 2007 Spark Design & Architecture Awards for their ingenious idea.
[via Trend Hunter]
Oh snap! This thing is HUGE!
The Aeroscraft ML866, by Aeros, is a modern day “blimp” of sorts.
Aeros aims to reinvent the flying wheel and make air travel much more luxurious (if you so chose). They like to refer to it as a flying yacht…with the pool included.
This jumbo plane/blimp is a tasty 5,382 square feet and has a travel range of 3,100 miles. Unfortunately, its top speed is a snail’s pace 115 mph.
The upside here is that it can land or takeoff from pretty much anywhere. It has a vertical takeoff and landing that is supposedly quite gentle and slow.
Word has it that the first model will be operational by late-September 2007!
[via: gizmag]
