LEAOS – An Italian Carbon City Design Electric Bike

A new kid on the block? Or rather, a new e-bike on the streets: Carbon City Design E-Bike LEAOS 2.0. With an Italian style and modeled after the legendary Vespa, it not only have the design in common: it also have cables run directly to the handlebars, and into the frame. Do we need to say it’s …

Lotus MC C01 – Racing Heritage Followed Up!

Look at this bike! Admire the design and dream of the 60-ies and 70-ies to remember the iconic names as Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Colin Chapman, Mario Andretti, Ronnie Peterson… The identity of Lotus is all over the C01 (even if the F1 cars were black & yellow!). That’s how you made the culture and …

A Robot That Runs Like a Cat

Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot” has the same advantages as its model: it is small, light and fast. Still in its experimental stage, the robot will serve as a platform for research in locomotion and …

Vestas Sailrocket 2

The world’s fastest sailboat. Vestas Sail Rocket 2, has broken all records with an average speed of 121 km / h over 500 meters. The boat was designed and built by the Sailrocket team in the VESTAS R+D facilities in East Cowes on the Isle of  Wight. The build took 16 months. The main structure is made from …

New adaptive material inspired by tears

Tunable material system is easily adaptable for diverse applications in fuel transport, textiles, and optical systems Cambridge, Mass. – April 8, 2013 – Imagine a tent that blocks light on a dry and sunny day, and becomes transparent and water-repellent on a dim, rainy day. Or highly precise, …