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  • Goodyear and NASA develop the next-gen lunar rover tire (it’s springy)

    Goodyear and NASA develop the next-gen lunar rover tire (it’s springy)

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Eventually man will go back to the Moon and will need a way to travel in style. Goodyear and NASA has just unveiled the tire that will help with that. The Apollo astronauts used basic lunar rovers to explore a small part of the Moon's surface, but the current NASA plan is to sightsee a whole lot more. Because of the added distance, the original wire-type tire used in the 70's will not work. The new tire developed by Goodyear is designed to hold much more weight and withstand the abuse of a multi-thousand kilometer journey. Click through to see the tire in action.

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  • Reading Lamp Holds Books, Shuts Itself Off

    Reading Lamp Holds Books, Shuts Itself Off

    Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
    This late-night lamp takes your laziness and turns it into a virtue. When you are propped up in bed reading and you can no longer keep your eyes open, let alone fumble for a light switch, just drop your book on top of the bedside light. The wedge-shape of the Reading Lamp will let your [...]

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  • Video: Laser Bike Lane Gets Real

    Video: Laser Bike Lane Gets Real

    Posted on June 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember the LightLane, the laser-projected personal bike lane concept that put a pair of do-not-cross lines alongside the night-rider? It is now real and running as a rather successful looking prototype. The personal bike lane consists of strips of laser-light projected onto the asphalt. This provides a psychological barrier to other road users, hopefully giving the [...]

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  • Scary-Looking Concept Bike is All Corners

    Scary-Looking Concept Bike is All Corners

    Posted on June 16, 2009 | No Comments
    While we like the thinking behind the BaubBike, a bicycle both modular in design and also fairly easy to build from standard square-section steel tubes, in practice it looks both dangerous and rather uncomfortable. There’s a reason bike frames have been triangular for so long: stiffness. A steel frame will flex a lot, and the triangle [...]

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  • Hands on with the new Electro-Harmonix Rock Band 2 stomp box

    Hands on with the new Electro-Harmonix Rock Band 2 stomp box

    Posted on June 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Electro-Harmonix, pedal designers since 1968, have added a little of their effects magic to Rock Band 2 in the form of this cool new Overdrive pedal. Instead of shaking your guitar like a madman you calmly and professionally tap the main button on this effect, sending your riffs into the heavens with extra overdrive. The [...]

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