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Danish bike maker Coh&Co is at Eurobike this week with a folding commuter called Siggi, which features a frame and fork made from a proprietary hard-wearing composite material, and can be configured with a nifty all-in-one hub drive from Zehus.Continue… Continue reading All-in-one electric drive powers lightweight folding bike through the city
Reaching far beyond the cutesy paper sculptures of grade school, the age-old art of origami has underpinned some cutting-edge breakthroughs in design and engineering. From space dwellings, to watercraft, to water bottles, to camping furniture, origami … Continue reading Origami solar panel collapses small for fast, light travel anywhere
Perhaps you like the idea of using a drone to take aerial selfies, but you don’t want to buy a big, expensive, complex quadcopter. That’s where ZeroZero Robotics’ Hover Camera drone comes in, and the latest version – the X1 – is claimed to be easier th… Continue reading Hover Camera X1 drone can be used without an app or a remote
Pretty much ever since Samsung launched its first Galaxy Fold in 2019, there have been rumors that Google will join the folding party with a Pixel model. Now that day is finally upon us as the Pixel Fold goes up for pre-order.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Google launches its first foldable phone, the Pixel Fold
Ever since launching its original origami kayak back in 2012, Oru has made a name for itself building a lineup filled with some of the market’s most conveniently portable watercraft. At the same time, it’s been quietly working to broaden its horizons b… Continue reading Oru’s origami camping furniture delivers flat-packing convenience
Folding ebikes are great for a car-free commute to work, but most are designed for life in the city. Aventon’s Sinch model also yearns to head off the beaten track, and now the fat-tire adventurer has entered its second-generation.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading Aventon adds responsive torque sensor to go-anywhere folding ebike
Austrian mobility company Vello has launched a new take on its lightweight Bike+ folding ebike that was Kickstarted in 2016. The company has now added a three external gears paired with a drive system that effectively doubles the gear range to six.Cont… Continue reading Lightweight folding ebike shifts to manual gears for more control
One of the challenges of minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery lies in getting surgical instruments into the patient’s body via a narrow catheter. Scientists have set about addressing that problem, with magnetic instruments that pop into and out of s… Continue reading Minimally-invasive surgical tools pop into shape inside the body
Back at NAMM 2019, Nashville’s Ciari Guitars launched an interesting travel guitar called the Ascender that featured a beautifully engineered folding mechanism which allowed players to transport the instrument in a backpack-sized case. Now the company … Continue reading Ascender folding travel guitar embraces sought-after P90 tones
While there are now a great many collapsible bikes on the market, almost all of them get smaller by folding down. The Pop-cycle takes a different and reportedly better approach, by utilizing a slide-in/slide-out frame.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles… Continue reading Totable Pop-cycle forgoes a folding frame for one that slides