Sidecar Made From WWII German Fighter Plane and Yamaha Motorbike Is Crazy-Cool

Made from a WWII German fighter plane and Yamaha Wild Star motorbike, this sidecar bike looks like a less-colorful Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. [Henrik Toth via LikeCool]

Give Your Kid An Inflated Ego With The Ultimate Boy-Racer Stroller

You just know that the kid who gets pushed around in this stroller will grow up to become a boy-racer. At $2,000, it's almost karma for the parents who decided buying a Roddler was a good idea. More »

Santa, Are You Reading? Here's Your Must-Have Sleigh

Everyone knows Father Christmas has a reindeer-powered wooden sleigh, except evidently Land Rover's crafty designers, who've updated the humble vehicle with some much-needed aluminum. More »

2UNFOLD Laptop Bag Is Probably Too Attractive for You or Your Computer

Your MacBook Air or whatever is a sharp machine, sure. But it's not timeless, handcrafted Italian leather that's transformable into one of eight different styles. More »

The Nyko Wand May Be Just as Good as the Wiimote, Or Even Better

So far, no one has had the cojones to clone the Wiimote. Then Nyko stepped up to the plate and announced the Wand. Playing with it at CES, I was impressed. More »

Hitch Suction-Cup Belt Lets You Catch Free Rides, Dice with Death

Mixing suction-cups with the chance of a high-speed death: sounds like fun, and exactly what designer Robert Nightingale has come up with in his "Hitch" concept. It's a smidge like the free-ride skateboard Kouriers in Snow Crash and a smidge like bad building-climbing gear from B-movies. The idea of Hitch is simply to sucker onto a vehicle that's about to move off, using the belt and hand suction cups, thereby gaining yourself a free journey. But Robert also suggests aircraft hangers as a good hitchhiking location, which I'm pretty certain is a one-way ticket to a Darwin Award. [Yanko Design]

Buy Your Own V22, Kinda: Bell 609 Civilian Tiltrotor Gets Rolled-Out

Forget the improbable promises of the Falx tiltrotor: Bell aircraft has rolled out its 609 civilian tiltrotor for real. Looking and flying like a smaller cousin of the military V22 Osprey, also a Bell vehicle, the 609 will undoubtedly please millionaire business people since it can perform all the rooftop-landing duties of a normal helicopter, but flies twice as fast and can fly 9 passengers up to 25,000 feet altitude. Plus, it'd be undeniably cooler to turn up at your meetings in something that looks like it belongs in a sci-fi flick versus something that reminds people of Magnum, PI. More »