Gizmodo: Lift

Boeing Working on Real-Life Colonial Marines Dropship

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:30:00 EDT

The US Air Force wants a new cargo aircraft, a pressurized airplane capable of carrying 65,000 pounds for 1,500 nautical miles without refueling. They call it the Speed Agile Concept Demonstrator—it's supposed to travel at a minimum Mach .8 at 30,000-feet—but they may as well have called it the UD-4L Dropship, because it looks like the Colonial Marines' Cheyenne in Aliens. Boeing is going to get a mere $7.5M to work on it to get the technology ready for 2010—which doesn't mean having the airplane by then, just the pretty drawings for us to post about. [Defense Tech]

Bicycle Lift: A Video

Jason Chen — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:30:37 EDT

In case that gallery we posted yesterday about the bicycle lift in Trondheim Norway wasn't enough to give you the idea, here's a video of it. The lift actually moves a lot faster than we thought it would, carrying passengers up this pretty damn steep hill since 1993. So the lift's more out of necessity than out of laziness.

Seriously, we'd love to see these installed in cities over here. – Jason Chen

Thanks Per!

Norwegian Bicycle Lift Proves Europeans are Just as Lazy

Jason Chen — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:00:25 EDT

This bicycle lift from some Norway may be old hat for them, but totally blew our minds when we saw it earlier today. Picture a guided train track railing that you stick your foot on while you ride your bike that will guide you up a hill.

The entire idea is so brilliant that we're now demanding that it be installed all over San Francisco in order to ease congestion (took us nearly an hour to get from one part to another thanks to the Cherry Blossom Festival). Check out the gallery to see all 130 meters of it in action. – Jason Chen

Bicycle Lift [Fresh99 - Thanks Tomhut]

Plasma Cabinet Lifts, Separates

Jason Chen — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:00:50 EDT

Despite not really saving space—you can't put anything either on top of this cabinet or inside of it if it's hidden—this Plasma Lift should be a hit with the ladies. Why? Because they really hate electronics being out in the open.

With the remote, your $6,000 Plasma TV glides easily out of the hutch and up into view. We'd prefer keeping things where we can see them so there's not a huge delay between wanting to watch TV and actually watching it, but we're probably not the target audience of this. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Auton via Born Rich]

Harding Steel Car Lift: Automobile Elevator For The Home

Brian Lam — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:18:27 EDT

Remember that Robotic Garage that went haywire? Well now you can have your own, ready to disobey your every command. Harding Steel's 110-volt residential garage lift needs only 9-feet of vertical clearance, hauls 12,000 pounds, and comes in different sizes for rides ranging from Civics to Cadillacs.– Brian Lam

Harding Steel Car Lift [via OhGizmo!]