At $35.000,- they ain’t cheap, but you’ll look incredibly bizarre flying through downtown Tokyo at night. Probably bizarre enough to catch the attention of the Japanese! Limited Edition Street-legal Tron Lightcycles Up For Grabs – Born Rich.

It also reduces NOx emissions. Fly the eco-friendly skies.

It now has released the Mark III X-racer to fly a virtual circuit against up to 10 other pilots. SPACE.com — Rocket Racing League Unveils New Flying Hot Rod. Armadillo Aerospace has several videos up showing their propulsion system in action.

This is a powerboat which can go underwater, available in 3 versions allowing up to 5 people to cruise 500 miles on the surface at 40 knots or submerge to 1200 feet using an electric self-recharging engine at up to 3.7 knots. Marion Hyper-Sub.

The E430 is a twin seat, single engine, LSA class aircraft designed to be simple to use, easy to fly and with virtually zero vibration, it's very smooth. Low noise, no emissions, no fuel, extremely low maintenance and best of all. . . . . it’s environmentally friendly. Electric flight, once seen as futuristic, has [...]

This is a new two stroke engine with very low emissions. Lotus: Omnivore engine is 10% more efficient with more to come — Autoblog.

NASA has dropped a small helicopter from a 240 ft high gantry, resulting in a 54mph crash at a 33 degree angle, a fairly hefty crash. Using a honeycomb structure that stays flat and tilts outwards when needed, the landing skids were bent outwards, but the crash test dummies inside did pretty good. NASA helicopter [...]

This map is updated frequently and shows you a live map of many many marine objects and their headings Live Ships Map – AIS – Vessel Traffic and Positions.

The solar impulse is a completely solar powered aeroplane. The flight was a short one – 350m at an elevation of 1m, but it proved the concept! Solar Impulse Completes First Flight | Autopia | Wired.com.

Using electromagnetic pulses, researchers have found a way to impact steel at around 3500 bar allowing holes to be cut in hard steel in 200ms, around 7 times faster than a laser can. Electromagnetic fields as cutting tools.

This site has huge archives of declassified aerial reconnaissance photographs from the second world war. The National Collection of Aerial Photography.

Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, unveiled in Fort Lauderdale, is nearly 50% larger than the largest cruise ships now at sea. But it’s not just the ship’s size that has people talking. Built at a record cost of $1.4 billion, the 225,282-ton vessel is chock-full of industry firsts housed within seven themed neighborhoods. The [...]

Looking for a private plane to fly? These guys buy up old aircraft, refit them with modern avionics packages and a big engine, allowing you to buy a tip top modern plane capable of doing over 200KTS IAS  for a fraction of the new price. Next Dimension Aircraft – Previously Owned Aircraft.

Any car built this century has an OBDII interface. This allows mechanics to plug in their laptop and get real time engine data. Lots of information about the running of the car. Nowadays there are quite a few USB / Bluetooth OBD-II connectors, which allow streaming of this data to your laptop, Garmin navigation system [...]

This is an electric car that charges fully in 1/2 an hour to go 187 miiles and goes up to 60 mph under 4 seconds. Eat that, Tesla! e-WOLF e2 seeks to electrify, succeeds.

What if we could turn all the plastic waste we create on a daily basis into fuel to power our cars? A Washington, DC-based company called Envion claims it can do just that with a process that turns plastic into an oil-like fuel for just $10 per barrel. According to Envion, the resulting fuel can [...]

This, the production version of the Mission One Electric Superbike managed to do 150 mph average over at Bonneville over two runs of 1 mile. It has a range of 150 miles on a charge. Mission One: Now Offically the Fastest-Ever (Production) Electric Motorcycle | Design & Innovation | Fast Company.

Massachusets, USA, is doing something that should have been done a long time ago: Car manufacturers are computerising their cars to a greater and greater degree. This is great – more power, more control, more safety, more fun. Unfortunately, the software and interfaces for these computers are closed – repairmen are not given access to [...]

That’s 225 kph – and a ridiculous speed for something that’s basically an uprated tea kettle on wheels! Steam Car Breaks World Speed Record at 140mph – World’s Fastest Kettle – Gizmodo.

For $8000 you can launch your own satellite into low earth orbit at 310 km. It’ll stay up there for around 3 weeks untill it burns up in reentry. They come in kit form and you can stuff whatever you want in there as long as it weighs less than 0.75 kg and fits into [...]

Here’s a great new design for a flying tricycle. The wings switch out from underneath it, and aside from being feature laden, it’s also supposed to be ‘green’. They’re expecting it to go in 2010. Let’s hope this becomes a reality!

The Brooklands museum in Surrey has a full sized Concorde flight simulator, which you can fly for free during your visit to the museum!

Finally, one that looks like it’ll make it to production!

Here’s a howto on converting your car to run on trash, using fairly simple technologies.