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    exoren22: Not to mention that windfarms reduce wind and make the surrounding area heat up as a result. #gizmodoremainders more »
    mnerd: The wind farm thing really speaks more to how we really need to upgrade our air traffic control to newer modern technology stat. #gizmodoremainders more »
    70watts: Wind turbines really don't kill that many birds in comparison to things like planes, trucks and... trees. That's a common myth. Here's the google re... more »
    Fractal the Meek: Thank you for being a champion for the essence of e-readership! And also, I've seen at least one notably less comfortable bike design. more »
    curious-character: Grandpa bikes excluded (upright riding), a bike seat needs only provide support to the bony part of your bottom while minimizing interference and chaf... more »
    92BuickLeSabre: The obvious solution is to put the wind farms in Manhattan, so they'll kill all these fucking pigeons. #gizmodoremainders more »
    Toastie: I want a picture of a person trying to sit on that bike. #gizmodoremainders more »
    Xagest: I think I'd much rather watch Scrubs or something instead of my Mini-me peddling down the track. more »
    BergenCountyJC: Does anyone have a current to date Wii peripheral count? more »
    ambitiondude: why the TRAINING WHEELS? more »
  • #remainders

    Remainders: Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)

    Case-Mate Designs Kindle Case, Proves They Don't Understand Kindle...Famous Watchmaker Teams With Famous Carmaker To Launch Least Famous Phone Ever...Designer Discovers Way To Make Bike Seats More Uncomfortable...Wind Turbines Go Stealth to Quit Screwing Up Radar More »
  • #wii

    Wii Exercise Bike Would Be Perfect For Paperboy

    As one Kotaku commenter correctly pointed out, an exercise bike peripheral for the Wii is nothing without a remake of Paperboy. More »
  • #robots

    Robot Actually Pedals on Tandem Bike Behind Its Maker

    Joules might be a robot, but that doesn't mean he can't enjoy a calming tandem bike ride with his creator, Carl. He's not dead weight, either—he actually pedals, thanks to a PMG-132 motor. More »
  • #electricbike

    Mission One Electric Bike Breaks World Speed Record

    From concept to real product: The Mission One electric bike—designed and made by Yves Behar and Mission Motors—is now the world's fastest electric bike at 161mph (260km/h). And they got a video to prove it. More »
  • #imagecache

    How Many Folding Bikes Does It Take To Fill a Parking Space?

    Forty-two. It takes forty-two Brompton folding bikes to fill a parking space. One of the world's great mysteries is finally solved. [Boing Boing Gadgets]
  • #bike

    Montague Paratrooper Tactical Folding Bike Can Survive 1000-Foot Jumps

    Can your mountain bike survive this 1000-foot jump? Mine can't. In fact, I don't even have a mountain bike. Much less one that is used by the US Marines, folds, and looks as badass as the Montague Paratrooper Tactical Bike. More »
  • #iphone

    Electric Superbike Uses iPhone As Its Dashboard

    Scrap the new iPhone, Snow Leopard, and even the Apple tablet. What I really want is this MotoCzysz Erpc, an electric superbike that not only looks amazing, but uses the iPhone as its dashboard, as you can see here: More »
  • #jetbike

    200MPH Bike Uses US Military Cruise Missile Engines

    200mph in 7.887 seconds. That and liquified brains when you smash against a concrete wall is what this superbike will get you. I wish we could see the end of the run in this fiery video. More »
  • #airplanes

    Stealth Bike Celebrates 20th Anniversary of B-2 Stealth Bomber's First Flight

    This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the B-2 Stealth Bomber's first flight. To celebrate, Northrop Grumman's has unveiled the B-2 Stealth Bike, which unfortunately doesn't fly and it's not invisible. It looks... hmmm, stealthy? More »
  • #review

    Schwinn Tailwind Electric Bicycle Lightning Review

    The Gadget: Schwinn Tailwind Bicycle has all the features of a well equipped commuter bike, but comes with an integrated electric motor that makes this two-wheeler a motor-assisted bicycle. More »
  • #woodenbicycle

    Chinese Villager Takes Wooden Bike Out For a Spin

    A carpenter in a Chinese village, perhaps unwilling to spend what would amount to a month's pay on a bicycle, has created a 100% wooden one to ride around town instead. More »
  • #bikes

    This Is the World's Most Advanced Bike and it Has an On-Board Computer

    BERU's Factor 001 is scheduled to be unveiled next week in the UK, and purportedly has GPS, motorsport-grade sensors and a radio transmitter, which all go back to an on-board computer. More »
  • #spookyart

    Skeleton Bicycle Will Give Me Nightmares for Weeks

    I don't know what's wrong with this thing. It's not the metal skeleton that gives me the chills. It's probably the posture. If there are bikes in hell, they are probably like this one. More »
  • #bikes

    LightLane Ensures Cyclists a Bike Lane Wherever They Go

    Having attended UCDavis for college, I had to bike everywhere. You would think a college town would have had designated bike lanes everywhere, but it didn't. That's where the LightLane would've come in handy. More »
  • #sitonit

    Clothes Iron Bike Seat Warms Your Cheeks

    If you've ever wanted to sit on a hard, flat, unyielding piece of metal while biking but your butt gets cold easily, we've got a solution for your ridiculous problem. More »
  • #concept

    Concept Electric Bike Charges Via A Method You Probably Would Never Guess In a Million Years

    This concept folding electric bike won a Merit prize in a bike design competition, but its practical use is probably limited. Why? Because you charge it at home by pedaling. More »
  • #holidaymagic

    Christmas Tree Powered By Bikes, Supposedly

    In Barcelona, anyone passing by is invited to lend some stationary bike exertion to a cause—lighting a tree to create a true Christmas miracle. It's a neat idea, if you believe it.
  • #robots

    Fire-Breathing Robo Dog Is Mad Max's AT-AT

    While nothing matches the spooktastic BigDog for infusing terror-or hilarity-into the population, this fire-breathing RoboDog-half Mad-Max bike, half AT-AT-probably comes in second place. But as the video shows, Larry is a good guy. More »
  • #lolz

    See Saw Bicycle: Crashing is Only One of the Ways It Can Kill You

    Once again, someone has taken absurd and dangerous bicycle design to another preposterous level. Thankfully, the See Saw bike is only in the prototype phase because if you didn't flat out crash and burn trying to ride it (with someone of equal weight), you would surely go brain dead repeatedly head-butting your partner. More »
  • #lolz

    Double Bike Takes You on a Supremely Ridiculous Ride

    By the looks of things, this double-wheeled bike concept can easily stand alongside gems like the 12-foot tall bicycle, face to face tandem bicycle and the running bicycle in terms of sheer stupidity and pointless danger. Since there is no chain attached to the lower wheels, I can only assume that the upper wheel is generating all the momentum—transferring the energy like a set of gears (although, I can't imagine that would be very efficient—and you would have to pedal backwards). At any rate, you would have time to think about how stupid this all is as you hit a pebble in the road and fall to your untimely death. [My Confined Space via Coolbuzz]
  • #halloweengadgets

    Broomstick Bike Is Perfect Vehicle for Wannabe Witches

    A black bike with a broomstick mechanism designed to steer it? It must belong to... a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've got a witch! A witch! A witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! We've found a witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We have found a witch. May we burn her? Anyone has a duck? More »
  • #lego

    Lego Mindstorms Fat Boy Is Controlled with Actual Bike Handles

    This remote-controlled Lego Mindstorms NXT Fat Boy bike is cute and stylized enough to guarantee a post on its own. But when you see that the actual controller is shaped like the handles of a real motor bike, then it's just not a matter of writing about it or not. It's a matter of taking a plane to Germany and stealing it. More »
  • #design

    Di-Cycle: A Bike That Travels Over Land and Water

    Right off the bat the Di-Cycle design is eye-catching. Imagine the looks you would get pedaling this down the road, smashing into cars and bumping old ladies off the sidewalk. Now imagine the looks you would get when you turn sharply toward the neighborhood pool, ride in and mow down all of the swimmers flailing around in the water trying desperately to escape. Apparently that pleasant dream is possible with this bizarre looking contraption. Unfortunately, you are going to have to rein in your bicycle blood lust for now. The Di-Cycle is only in the design phase at the moment. [Core 77 via ffffound via Likecool via Ubergizmo]
  • #polygon

    Polygon Bike Has Integrated iPod Charger

    I don't know what to say about the Polygon Bike, a concept that has an iPod-compatible charger powered by yourself. On one side, the bike-dock combo is just way too much. On the other, it may be actually useful for those days that you forget to charge it at home. The bike also has other useful features. More »
  • #extremesports

    The Dirtsurfer: New Bike And Skateboard Hybrid Thing

    It's part bike and part skateboard and it looks all fun. It's the Freestyle Dirtsurfer and it's a new hybrid like toy for all of you X Games types who can't wait for winter to get here soon enough. One neat touch is a Razor-scooter-like brake on the back wheel so you don't end up in the ER the first time you try it on a downhill. And for $450, you really don't want to crash it too much. [ExExEq via Like Cool]
  • #minimalist

    Nulla Minimalist Bike Concept Dispenses With Spokes, Most of Frame

    Designer Bradford Waugh came up with Nulla (meaning "nothing") as a way of making bikes more stylish and lightweight. And visually stunning of course. Lacking spokes, it uses a direct-gear-chain drive system, which leaves the bike looking like a simple set of open curves. Whether or not it would ride well would be immaterial, methinks: rock up to a cycling meet on this thing and you'd have an instant bunch of admirers. Just a concept... but who knows, it looks exactly sort of thing we're riding in twenty years time. [Tuvie]
  • #retromodo

    1940s Video Shows Off Crazy Bike Innovations

    I'm not completely sure what's going on in this clip or where it's even from but it contains a) weird and crazy bicycles, b) jazzy music, and c) old timeyness—thus, it rules. I'm pretty sure the language is Czech, so if any of you know Czech, please tell me what they're saying! My favorite strange bikes: the really, really huge one at 3:15 and the sewing machine one at roughly 4:40. [MAKE]
  • #gluednotcellotaped

    Full-Size Cardboard Aston Martin for Papier-Mâché Bonds

    This Ashton Martin DB5 is a full-sized, almost-perfect reproduction of the original Bond car—down to the front-blinkers machine guns and Ben-Hurish wheels' blades—built using only cardboard and glue. It has no supporting structure, neither metal nor wood. Her Majesty's cardboard spy car was built by Chris Gilmour, who has a tendency to convert everything in 1:1 scale cardboard models, from bikes to giant strong boxes to dragsters to dentist chairs, grand pianos, and portable typewriters: More »
  • #electricbike

    Panasonic Makes Electric Bike With Regenerative Braking

    What better alternative to driving to work than riding an electric bicycle? Panasonic's Vivi RX 10-S, which is due in Japan on August 20, works the same way many hybrid vehicle systems do: taking the energy from braking and harness it into recharging the battery. The total assisted travel range combining pedal power, electric power and electric regeneration is around 55 to 77 miles, which should be enough to get you to and from work without having to go super sweaty style. If you switch on its automatic mode, you'll be able ride upwards of 113 miles on a single full charge. No word on US release yet. [Crunchgear]
  • #scooting

    Cargo Scooter Concept is Moped With a Hole

    "Oh!" you may say, thinking the Cargo scooter/moped concept by designer Elliot Ortiz is craziness exemplified. But listen: mopeds are a good solution in many places across the world, taking up less road space than cars and being cheap to run. One thing they lack is load-bearing abilities, and that's what Elliot's design is supposed to fix. Taking a few design cues from the classic Vespa, it's got that huge hole in the chassis which allows you to sling narrow loads inside. There's even a DHL scooter concept in the gallery. I can't help but wonder about stability of the thing, but it's a neat bit of lateral thinking. Should it remain a concept? What do you think, guys? [Tuvie via Techeblog]
  • #philbridge

    Cardboard Bicycle Costs Just $30, Don't Leave It Out in the Rain

    A 21-year-old student from the UK has designed a cardboard bicycle that he has dubbed "the ultimate green machine." Supporting anyone up to 168 pounds, the frame, which costs around $6 to make, is made from the cardboard used in industrial packaging, whilst the wheels and chain are standard bike issue, and will cost around $24. More »
  • #motorcycles

    Speed Racing Motorcycle Inspired By Aliens

    After one look at the Indian-branded "Speed Racer" motorcycle concept bike by Dan Bailey, it is easy to see how he incorporated the main characters in the Aliens movie franchise into the aesthetics. Using the specs on the Kawasaki Ninja as his framework, Bailey sought to design a bike that was rugged but maintained a sleek look—a mission he has certainly accomplished. I don't know if the Speed Racer will ever go into production, but for a design with the balls to take elements from three iconic franchises (maybe four if you count TRON), the bike holds up well. But how do you sit on it? [Daniel Bailey via Tuvie] More »
  • #design

    Bi-Cycle Tandem Bike is Perfect for the Couple That's Going Nowhere

    The Bi-Cycle tandem bike picks up where the Face-to-Face one left off, and by that I mean it manages to take an incredibly unsound, dangerous idea and up the ante considerably (video below). It's basically two unicycles bolted together, and the two steering column design means that, as a passenger, the well-being of both riders is literally in your hands. Then again, which seat is the front? Who gets to decide? Why can't I shake an image of violent cell mitosis from my head? At least the thing breaks down for easy storage—which is where, I imagine, this type of bike will spend the majority of its time. More »
  • #steampunk

    Steampunk Tadpole Trike is a Geek's Dream on Three Wheels

    We immediately noticed there's not much steam to be had with this steampunk tadpole tricycle, but those criticisms were forgotten when we saw video of designer Alan skirting around on it, period piece clothing and all. Officially known as the Brass Lion, the three-wheeled wonder is pedal-powered and sports some seriously cool (and functioning) brass coach lamps. The ride looks pretty smooth, too. More »
  • #design

    Bloom Bicycle Attachment Seeds the World With Pedal Power, Bubbles

    No, this is not an exhaust pipe for your bike (that'd be silly). It's Bloom, the pedal-powered, environmentally friendly attachment that produces seed-filled bubbles meant to transform concrete jungles into lush forests. Using nothing but the wind, a seed pellet, and a little vegetable based soapy water, the Bloom disperses bubbles into the cracks and crevices of our congested cityscape. Then nature takes over and the seedlings mature into vegetation, which is promptly exterminated by the department of public works. Just kidding. This is actually a pretty ingenious idea when you see how it works, and is one of many from Design 21's "Power to the Pedal" design competition. More »
  • #cannondalebicycles

    Cannondale Bicycles May Get iPod Dock Upgrade + Stat Tracking

    Cannondale bikes hired a design firm to render up some possible future features on their rides, one of which is a very interesting one called MetroPolite that has an iPod connector. An iPod seems like the last thing you want to be shoving into your ears when you're riding in a Metro area, seeing as bikes lose to cars when the latter accidentally hit the former, but the connector isn't just for that. More »
  • #zoom

    The 75 MPH Bicycle That's Powered by a Jet Engine

    Robert Maddox is a builder and seller of real pulse jet engines with powers up to 1000 pounds... and if that's not a cool enough hobby, he's also bolted one to a bicycle. The 50-ish pounds of thrust developed by the engine could push the bike up to 75 MPH, which would be a real bone-shaker of a ride. And a deafening one too: the pulse jet engine makes a frightening racket, and its humming sound earned the Second World War cruise-missile V1s that used similar engines the nicknames buzzbomb and doodlebug. You can hear and see the results of this DIY craziness in the video. More »
  • #design

    Face to Face Tandem Bike Makes First Dates Last Dates

    Not content with looking like a dumbass on a regular tandem bike, Taiwanese inventor Chen Yugang decided to kick it up a notch and develop a bike that is as dangerous as it is ridiculous. Apparently, his new design can be ridden face to face, conventionally or (and here is the real kicker) back to back for couples looking to add a little rush to their romantic life. Seriously though guys, there isn't a damn thing that is romantic about the emergency room okay? Still, Yugang plans on getting it mass produced. Yeah, good luck with that dude—I just hope you have a great lawyer. [Daily Times via Geekologie via DVICE]
  • #diy

    Moov Is the LEGO of Kids' Vehicles (Verdict: I Don't Want to Grow Up)

    Moov is probably one of the most amazing toys you will see this year: a do-it-yourself 4-in-1 vehicle kit for kids aged between 5 and 12. Now it's a racer, now it's a carver, now it's a tricycle, now it's a scooter. It's like LEGO Technics meet Duplo meet true pneumatic tires, but with giant wood and plastic pieces, easy enough for a kid to build it and big enough to ride it at Warp 7 down the street, as you can see in the demonstration video after the jump. More »
  • #clips

    Walking Bike, Perfect Use For Old Keds, Jordans

    We're not going to oversell this one. It's a bike. And it's had the wheels replaced by spokes tipped with shoes. In other words, it's quite possible the greatest invention ever. More »