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Tag: Wheels

Make Way For Velopresso, the Coffee Shop on Wheels

Make Way For Velopresso, the Coffee Shop on Wheels

Coffee shops make it easier to grab some of your favorite brew on the go by setting up drive-thru windows. But why should you go there to get your coffee, when you…

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Robotic Wheelchair Can Use Its Wheels as Legs: Clearly an Autobot

Robotic Wheelchair Can Use Its Wheels as Legs: Clearly an Autobot

A group of researchers at the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan have figured out how to make an off-road wheelchair. They created a robotic wheelchair that can use its wheels as…

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Suitcase That Automatically Follows Owner: Loyal Luggage

Suitcase That Automatically Follows Owner: Loyal Luggage

Whether you’re a frequent flier, an avid outdoorsman or a kid who was a prime target for bullies back in grade school, when you were so thin you might as well have…

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Double Telepresence Robot Debuts on the Cheap

Double Telepresence Robot Debuts on the Cheap

Telepresence robots let you remotely interact with others and their environments using a robotic avatar. Sadly, for most geeks telepresence robots are typically far from cheap. A company called Double Robotics has…

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Stair Rover Skateboard Ready to Conquer Flights of Stairs

Stair Rover Skateboard Ready to Conquer Flights of Stairs

Grinding down flights of stairs isn’t always easy when you are on a skateboard, so Po-Chih Lai decided that skateboards could be improved so that they would have no problem going down…

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Omni-Crawler: Has the Wheel Finally Been Reinvented?

Omni-Crawler: Has the Wheel Finally Been Reinvented?

At the recently concluded Innovation Japan 2011, a group of researchers from the robot-obsessed, ever-innovative Osaka University in Japan presented the Omni-Ball, a ball-shaped wheel that can move in all directions.  They…

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Chariot Skates: One More Way to Get a Sports-Related Injury

Chariot Skates: One More Way to Get a Sports-Related Injury

This unusual looking contrivance most definitely isn’t your everyday roller skate. Chariot Skates combine the mobility of rollerblades with movements that are reminiscent of skiing. To ride in a pair of Chariot…

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World’S Wackiest Racers: the Fastest Furniture Movers I Know

World’S Wackiest Racers: the Fastest Furniture Movers I Know

Looking for a zippy way to get around town? Sure, you could buy a car, or a bike, or maybe even a Segway, right? Well what about a bed on wheels? At…

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Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk: One Classy Office on Wheels

Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk: One Classy Office on Wheels

Does your work require you to relocate frequently? Do you consider yourself a person with sophisticated tastes, and do you have enough money to throw on your desires? Are you a member…

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Runaway R/C Ramen Noodle Cart: Why? Why Not?

Runaway R/C Ramen Noodle Cart: Why? Why Not?

The latest in a long line of strange and wonderful gadgets from Japan, this remote-controlled vehicle is modeled after one of those Ramen noodle carts you might see on the streets of…

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LEGO Skateboard for Some Bricktacular Shredding

LEGO Skateboard for Some Bricktacular Shredding

LEGO artist extraordinaire Nathan Sawaya’s recent project is this super sweet LEGO skateboard. It’s actual size, and based on the close-up picture of the wheels I’m going to go out on a…

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Ampbot: Like a Robot on a Segway With a Boom Box

Ampbot: Like a Robot on a Segway With a Boom Box

Hot off the presses is the A.M.P.Bot, a unique roller-bot that moves around using a gyroscopic balancing system that works much like the Segway Personal Transporter. A.M.P. stands for “Automated Musical Personality”.…

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Pimp My Segway

Pimp My Segway

Got an old Segway scooter lying around? Why not give it a makeover and get rid of that drab grey exterior? California’s Segway Junkyard takes the personal transportation devices and gives them…

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