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Thursday, November 1, 2007

Future Cargo AirShip


The Aeroscraft ML866 is a prototype for future cargo vehicles that could have a payload of up to 60 tonnes

LONDON, England (CNN) -- "Oh, the humanity." When these three words were uttered by aghast radio journalist Herbert Morrison -- as the LZ129 Hindenburg airship crashed and burst into flames in New Jersey in 1937 -- it was seen as the end of airships. www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/

Friday, October 12, 2007

Shopping Cart + Bike Mashup Would Make Grocery Shopping Fun

By Andrew Liszewski

Here’s proof that a low-tech innovation can still be just as fun as the high-tech gear we see every day. Instead of just mounting a basket to the front of his bike Ryan McFarland decided to completely replace the front wheel with an abandoned shopping cart. While the upgraded bike doesn’t steer very well as long as there’s a straight line between your home and the grocery store you can buy an entire cart’s worth of food without having to worry about how you’re going to carry it home. And if you have access to one of those massive grocery stores with particularly wide aisles you might even be able to ride the bike into the store.
While
photos of the bike have been kicking around the ‘blogosphere’ Ryan has actually posted a full Instructables guide on how he made the Cart Bike if you feel like building your own.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Stuck Truck

The Arctic Highway in Canada's Northwest Territories
(85 percent of the road lies over frozen lakes, so ice can break at anytime and swallow the trucks)

Sunday, August 19, 2007




Virgin America's First Flight: This Guy Paid $5400 To Go From JFK to SFO


Friday, August 10, 2007

FREITAG TOWER ZURICH


The new, recycled FREITAG SHOP ZURICH, is entirely made from used freight containers. See more photos at

Crop Circles


A swissair field art ad - YES, this ad is most effectively viewed from the air

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THIRSTY? Virtual Road Beer on Truck Cover Art



These are terrific virtual 3D truck wrapper ads.
See more great truck wrappers here:

The Airline Screening Playset: Hours of Fun!





as posted by Daniel J. Solove on his blog

'After blogging a few weeks ago about the airline screening playset, I went ahead and ordered one...' read the whole BLOG here - concurringopinions.com

NOK: Growing pains - LCC subsidiaries getting too big for their booties?


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(Nok means bird in Thai and the aircraft are painted as brightly coloured birds with broad smiles painted under the nose) really stuck a chord with the Thai domestic market, who consider the airline to be very “sanuk” (fun).