Japan’s Prime Minister Becomes First Toyota Mirai Owner
21 Jan 2015, 10:56 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / “As you are aware, creating FCVs is not something that can be done by a single automaker” Toyota’s CEO Akio Toyoda said the moment he passed the keys of the first mass-produced fue...
Forget SpaceX, China Wants To Mine the Frigging Moon
19 Jan 2015, 10:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You must be well acquainted with Elon Musk’s SpaceX program that should reduce space traveling costs and put people on Mars. Well, China is here to blow your mind with yet another crazy idea -...
Here’s How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Crash from Last Week Looked Like
16 Jan 2015, 10:18 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When SpaceX launched its fifth official mission to resupply the International Space Station, last Saturday, everybody watched closely to see if Elon Musk’s plans on reusing the Falcon 9 works....
Elon Musk Just Donated $10 Million to Stop Judgement Day, Keep AI Beneficial
16 Jan 2015, 09:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When James Cameron wrote the epic science fiction thriller The Terminator, the movie that basically launched his film career and consolidated that of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the world would meet the ...
Mercedes-Benz F 015 Concept Previews the Future at 2015 NAIAS · Live Photos
12 Jan 2015, 17:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Firstly unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, the Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion concept also reached the 2015 North American International Auto Show here in Detroit. After s...
Scientists Believe Future Cars Could Be Made of Cotton, Hemp and Wood
8 Jan 2015, 09:35 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Sure, we all know aluminum and even some of the classic metals are sort of overrated when it comes to the automative industry nowadays. The population of the world is getting bigger by the second, p...
Mercedes-Benz Unveils F 015 Mystery Concept at 2015 CES · Video
6 Jan 2015, 10:38 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The wait is over folks, Mercedes-Benz fully unveiled its dubious futuristic concept. It’s called the F 015 Luxury in Motion and according to chief Dieter Zetsche, it’s “a mobile li...
Japan’s Grenade-Shaped Throwable Remote Surveillance Robot Is the Future
31 Dec 2014, 17:15 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When Warner Brothers and MGM announced they’re planning a reboot trilogy of the famous Stargate franchise this May, childhood memories suddenly came back. But now, seeing that the world is dis...
Scientists Create Nature-Inspired Robot That's Able to Walk by Itself
30 Dec 2014, 16:37 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A research team at Bielefeld University, Germany have created what could be a world first, teaching the only robot of its kind on the planet to walk. Dubbed Hector, the robot’s shape was inspi...
Hankook Made New Morphing Future Wheels Again
19 Dec 2014, 16:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / South Korean tire maker Hankook manages once again to captivate us with yet another set of intelligent morphing wheels that can adapt to multiple conditions. The new concepts are part of the &ldq...
Impossible Is the World’s Smallest E-Bike, Fits in You Backpack
13 Nov 2014, 16:52 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A start-up company from Beijing, China has spent the last three years looking for the bast way of creating an electric bicycle that is as small, as it is energy efficient. Their long voyage is now c...
Bio-Drone Is Made Out of Mushrooms, Will Melt Away after Crash
13 Nov 2014, 15:47 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Lynn Rothschild of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California believes he could solve the last problem drones are facing, which is the fact they can be detected in case of crash. The scientist ...
Brit Owns Real-Life Back to the Future DeLorean, Runs Business with It
10 Nov 2014, 12:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / We all love one particular movie, whether it’s a Sci-Fi famous blockbuster, a classic romance or even a documentary. Ollie Wilkey from Keynsham, south-west England, kept searching for a way to...
Transparent Car in Development, Prototype Already Working
4 Nov 2014, 17:34 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Imagine you’d look at the backseat and you actually saw the person standing in the back of the car. Wouldn’t it be helpful if you were able to see through the front door and avoid gettin...
A Wearable Scooter Might Be the Coolest Thing Yet
29 Oct 2014, 18:05 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / They say great ideas start of simple things and it seems the 21st century will revolve around just that. Until electric vehicles become cheap enough to be used as a daily driver by most of us, the b...
World’s First Supersonic Business Jet to Arrive by 2021
24 Oct 2014, 15:52 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Airbus and Aerion have recently announced they have partnered up in the quest to create the world’s first supersonic business jet. The new multimillion-dollar aircraft would trim three hours o...
London Could Have a Floating 8-Mile-Long Pathway Designed Only For Bikes
15 Oct 2014, 17:26 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / All the car manufacturers are slowly turning their heads towards efficient motors, as electric cars become more and more popular. But Europe seems to be one step forward of everybody else, as the po...
Google Could Lose the Drone Delivery Battle in Favor of DHL
25 Sep 2014, 17:38 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The future is clearly a world where drones will bring small goods straight to your door, but the big question is who’s the first at it. While Google and Amazon have been testing their own UAVs...
Futuristic Hydroelectric House Looks Like a Seashell, Uses Tidal Power
23 Sep 2014, 16:51 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Architect Margot Krasojevic has recently unveiled her latest concept house, that could easily qualify for the green structure of the future. Designed with an alien-like shape that looks like a combi...
World’s First 3D Printed Car Is Alive and Kicking, Sort of
17 Sep 2014, 09:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Local Motors, the same company that brought us the craziest off-roader, the Rally Fighter, just wrote an important entry in the automotive history log by creating the first functional 3D-printed car...