Hyundai gets serious about unstoppable, four-legged 4×4 robo-cars

When Hyundai debuted (rendered, really) its sci-fi-grade Elevate walking all-terrain vehicle concept at CES 2019, we assumed its design team just threw an all-time-great New Year’s Eve bash and let the party favors do the designing. Okay, maybe it was … Continue reading Hyundai gets serious about unstoppable, four-legged 4×4 robo-cars

Hyundai gets serious about unstoppable, four-legged 4×4 robo-cars

When Hyundai debuted (rendered, really) its sci-fi-grade Elevate walking all-terrain vehicle concept at CES 2019, we assumed its design team just threw an all-time-great New Year’s Eve bash and let the party favors do the designing. Okay, maybe it was … Continue reading Hyundai gets serious about unstoppable, four-legged 4×4 robo-cars

Electric U-Shift takes a modular approach to urban mobility

The German Aerospace Center has revealed a working prototype of a multi-use urban mobility and logistics vehicle called U-Shift, which is made up of an electric U-shaped base platform that’s used to ferry around various pod modules.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Electric U-Shift takes a modular approach to urban mobility

Urban camper van melds Mercedes style with indoor/outdoor flexibility

Mercedes-Benz tends to be synonymous with top-end German luxury in the US, but over in Europe, it has a much broader connotation, especially when the Düsseldorf Caravan Salon rolls through town. There, Mercedes-Benz equates to everything from Benz-in-B… Continue reading Urban camper van melds Mercedes style with indoor/outdoor flexibility

Concept camper van has fully removable interior … including bathroom

The European motorhome market is flush with modular camper vans, but more models than not are midsize and smaller vans with simple, compact interiors. Vans like the Pössl Vanster and Terracamper VW Terock do a great job of transforming between camping,… Continue reading Concept camper van has fully removable interior … including bathroom

YARH.IO is the Hackable Pi Portable Of Our Dreams

Less than a decade ago, building a completely custom portable computer was more or less out of the question. Sure you could have cobbled something together with a Gumstix board and the dinky NTSC/PAL screen pulled from a portable DVD player, but it wouldn’t exactly have been a daily driver. …read more

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Scout’s lightweight, modular HD pickup camper brings the bathroom

Scout Campers, the latest RV brand from Adventure Manufacturing, has hit the scene with an absolute vengeance this year, starting with the mid-line Olympic camper this (Northern Hemisphere) spring before moving forward with the lightest pickup camper a… Continue reading Scout’s lightweight, modular HD pickup camper brings the bathroom

Checking in on the Damn Linux Tablet One

Tablets, slates, phones, and fablets, there are no shortage of electronics that take the Star-Trek-ish form factor of a handheld rectangle of glass that connects you to everything. This is the world we live in, but unfortunately it’s not currently a world with many Linux options, and certainly not one …read more

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Tough, modular camp boxes build camper vans and rovers like 3D puzzles

Typically the “modules” of modular camper van design are large components like kitchen blocks, cabinets and bed frames. German startup Camp it Simple stays true to its name by slicing and dicing the modular camper van into actual building blocks. Made … Continue reading Tough, modular camp boxes build camper vans and rovers like 3D puzzles

Modular laptop is designed to be hacked, tweaked and customized

Laptops have been getting thinner, more powerful and increasingly difficult to customize. The Reform from Berlin’s MNT Research dares to be different with open software and open hardware that invites modders to get under the hood and go wild.Continue R… Continue reading Modular laptop is designed to be hacked, tweaked and customized