Go offroad on a skateboard with the tank inspired vertrax electric skateboard. Designed by Bryson Lovett, the skateboard forgoes the traditional 4 wheeled setup for a single trank tread instead.

I’m not sure how stable this would actually be, it seems like you’d fall off sideways unless you carved the sidewalk up like snowboard on snow. Maybe there should be 2 tank treads like a tank has. We’ll never know since the creator build a non-working scale model (pictured) only.

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If I was given just one more try to chase down my dream, it would be that I was an airship tycoon turned buffoon. I’d cross the sea in the light of the moon, too soon, leaving my home marooned, in a glass bottomed hot air balloon. In the blink of an eye, I’d spy, the shore that I’d fantasize but turning my gaze to the sky, I’d cry. In my glass bottomed getaway, I’d pray, to watch the stars ricochet or hide scared beyond an alleyway where no one could see. In my glass bottomed hot air balloon, I’d fly over the sea and in one day I’d go from my cell to the sky; it would be my last chance to fly. In test flights now, available to the public next year. THIS IS MY DREAM. Check out the video:

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Never be late to school again when you’re getting a ride in a jet powered school bus. This school cool bus can hit up to 367 mph and shoot out an 80 foot long flame plume thanks to it’s 42,000 horsepower jet engine (taken from a fighter jet!). Fuel efficient, this vehicle is not, consuming a shocking 600 gallons of fuel per mile. It was created by Paul Stender and his team from Indy Boys Inc. to entertain and to teach kids to stay off drugs. Yeah I don’t get how it does that either, but maybe I’m just not in touch with the youth of today.

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This limo is G to the H to the E to the double T to the O. Cobbled together from over 2000 parts, this limo is 36 feet long and took 500 hours to make. I guarantee if you show up at your prom in this thing you will NOT be getting any action that night. I think I just gave worried parents of teenagers a great idea- “Son, I’ll pay for the limo and make all the arrangements”.

In actuality this limousine has no engine and was created by a movie prop company for Nissan to show their support for the UK’s clunker car trade-in program.

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Check out this insane Chinese bus that actually goes right over traffic. Cars go underneath it like a tunnel. It’s almost as if it’s a train riding on it’s own raised tracks. It can hold over 1000 passengers and travel up to 60km/h right over traffic. There’s some sort of alarm warning sign if a truck that’s too tall attempts to drive underneath it. The bus is articulated to allow it to easily turn around corners.

It is tall enough to go over cars yet short enough to still fit under existing overpasses. Because it only requires minimal surface tracks around the outside of the road, it can be built and deployed in 1/3 the time of a true subway. And deployed it will be; in Beijing’s Mentougou district where the first 186km of track will be built later this year.

more details at ChinaHush (via Engadget)

Whose scooter is this? It’s a chopper, baby. Whose chopper scooter is this? Zed’s. Who’s Zed? Zed’s dead, baby, Zed’s dead. Aaah co-opting classic Bruce Willis lines from Pulp Fiction for this post- that’s how we roll here. And this “flow bike” concept rolls too (how’s that for a segue?), it’s a scooter and a chopper.

Designed by Dana Ben Nissan, this scooter chopper is only in the drawing stages but I bet if you paid the American Chopper guys enough you could get your own version to take home. Just don’t let Mikey anywhere near it.

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Not only can this Smart Car Tank run all over the battlefield, it also gets great gas mileage. Plus you can park it sideways. Not sure if there’s room in there for any weaponry though. Still, it’s not as cool as the Smart Car Monster Truck, imo.

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Locking up bikes to poles in an urban environment is always a tricky proposition. Often you will see bikes with two locks, one for each wheel and of course the frame. But with this ingenious invention by 21 year old Kevin Scott, the bicycle will fold over itself around the pole:

A ratchet in the seatpost part of the frame is used to tighten or bend the bike’s frame. Once it’s in the curved position, you can use a single lock to secure both wheels and the frame. I’m not sure how rigid a cable pulled frame will be over the long haul (you definitely don’t want it going all limp while you’re riding! that’s what she said) but it’s an interesting idea that should be explored further.

daily mail via gizmodo