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Renault’s Morphoz Concept Car Stretches to Accommodate More

The Renault Morphoz is a new concept car which can physically change it’s size and shape to accommodate different types of travel.

Tesla’s Wild Cybertruck Already Has 200,000 Pre-Orders

Elon Musk pitched the Cybertruck as something more powerful and useful than a Ford F-150, while being more affordable.

Remembering Strange And Fantastic Industrial Designer Luigi Colani

Luigi Colani died this week at age 91, and with him, we’ve lost an idiosyncratic and fabulously unique design mind. His work spanned many decades and many industries, from automotive to aeronautical, to consumer goods, like cameras and other devices.

Roll Royce’s Miniature Robots Portend the Future

Rolls Royce is deploying a swarm of tiny robots to scamper about inside their jet engines, looking for defects, problems, and gathering data about various hard-to-reach parts.

California’s High Speed Rail Inches Forward

I’ve always been a big fan of high-speed rail, and I’ve been embarrassed that other countries have sped past the United States for decades, when it comes to transportation. Japan’s Shinkansen HSR (high speed rail) system has been operating since 1964, five years before we landed men on the moon. Yet somehow in the ensuingContinueContinue reading “California’s High Speed Rail Inches Forward”

Colani

I’ve long been fascinated by the sculptural and radical designs from German born Luigi Colani.  His work spans numerous decades, but holds a tight theme of bold, visionary, and often bizarre industrial design.  A designer who takes risk, Colani has not seen many of his large-scale vehicles brought to life. A lot of them areContinueContinue reading “Colani”