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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]

5:24 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,599 views, 42 comments

Latest by godwhacker: 250cc honda helix, rides like a big ol' comfy chair more »

drunk driving

Party-A-Cargo Brings the Bro-Down to Wherever Your Truck Can Park

Hey dudebro, looking to take a bro-dtrip but afraid you'll make the ultimate braux-pas: not bringing enough beer and having a totally whack sound system? Chill out man, Party-A-Cargo's got your back with its tow hitch mounted kegerator. The Party-A-Cargo Ultimate can store up to 160 glasses of beer and contains a jockey box with two 6 inch by 9 inch speakers and a 10 inch subwoofer. More »

10:00 AM on Sun Jun 29 2008
By Elaine Chow
7,459 views, 31 comments

aircraft

Boeing Working on Real-Life Colonial Marines Dropship

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]

10:30 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Jesus Diaz
9,149 views, 54 comments

Latest by n/a: They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls. Let's book! aliens quotes that is!!! coming outta the walls more »

makeup

Blu_ray, the Makeup

Making your face presentable for high definition is tough, which is why the makeup brand Cargo is carrying a "blu_ray" brand makeup—trademarked, no less—that's supposed to cover up any Cameron Diaz-level skin problems. It's unlikely that Sony will be pleased that someone's calling dibs on a brand they spent billions on building, but since this is in the makeup space, they might be SOL. We're sure Cargo's glad they don't have to make an "hd_dvd" branded makeup kit. [Sephora via Boing Boing Gadgets]

2:15 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Jason Chen
2,346 views, 17 comments

Latest by deusdiabolus: Somewhere Cameron Diaz is crying and vigorously scrubbing the skin from her face and hands in a bathroom. Nice going, guys. more »

stay out of the rain

CopterBox, Cardboard Helicopter

The CopterBox is a disposable air-drop box, designed to safely drop cargo from a plane. Using parachutes is more expensive, and requires that you go back at some point to pick them up. With this system you can just throw a package out and forget about it. Unless it's raining. Check out a video after the jump. More »

10:44 AM on Thu Aug 30 2007
By msparkes
11,170 views, 31 comments

announcements

Walrus of Love Helps Spread the Peace

Originally developed by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Walrus is a massive blimp designed to deliver up to 1,000 tons of cargo to land-locked countries with little to no trade. The 140-foot-long airship would vertically lift off and be capable of landing on ground or sea. Due to it slow speed it'd be a sitting duck if deployed during wars, but commercially it'd be able to out perform sea vessels by traveling at a faster pace and for a cheaper price, which sounds good to us. – Louis Ramirez More »

10:10 AM on Mon Nov 6 2006
By Louis Ramirez
861 views, 33 comments

Latest by Hello_Newman: This kind of vehicle is for special purposes, not to move cars from Japan to the US faster or anything like that. It would be nice to have a hangar filled with emergency medical supplies and tents and food to more »