See this guy sitting in that crazy contraption? He’s been to every corner of the United States on that crazy vehicle, and that vehicle goes seventy miles per hour. At least that’s how the story goes.

The plate sitting on top of this vehicle is a solar panel. He has a radio and a TV in there, but there’s no word on lighting fixtures – though one can only assume he has some sort of a light source on the inside.

Be sure to check out the full story along with several more pictures at the source

Nanotube muscles are here! This could mean great advances in robotics, and thus, the end of civilization as we know it- because the robots are sure to try and take over the world now that they can get buffed like the Terminator! Something tells me my watergun just became useless in the war against the machines.

With a super low density of 1.5 mg/cm3, almost as light as air, a gram of this material can cover over 30 m2! The material outperforms the human muscle by 700 percent and other carbon nanotubes materials by 10 folds : it can elongate by 220 percent at a rate of 37,000 percent per second. Alongside its astonishing vertical elasticity, it presents a superior horizontal hardness, so this “unprecedented degree of anisotropy is akin to having diamond-like behavior in one direction and rubber-like behavior in the others”.

The material support a broader temperature range than biological materials (25 to 1200 degrees Celsius) but it generates a lower power: 30J/kg against 40J/kg for real muscles.

Yeah, whatever the quote said. I just wonder if this will lead to a slew of new inventions…. self-powered bicycles? Silent vacuums? Badass Prosthetics? The possibilities are only slightly limited!

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For all you guys who can’t afford the high startup costs associated with opening up your very own strip club, there’s a new hope on the horizon. For a fraction of the cost of a real strip club, you can pedal your way to fame and fortune as a bicycle pimp with this stripper pole/bicycle combo.

I’m sure you could make a killing by blasting sexy music and cruising slowly through neighborhoods. Just think of it as an ice cream truck for adults. For those of you who think I’m being a sexist pig here… notice that I never said that the pole was for girls… it could be a mobile chippendales for all I know!

Oh sure, that dancer looks like a girl in the photo, but it’s mighty blurry, just like my memories of the ’90′s. That could totally be a guy in drag. I hope it’s a guy in drag. That would be awesome. I’m only kidding- I have crystal clear recollection of the ’90′s.

Be sure to check out the official site of this contraption, where they have a picture of a pimp bicycle.

Bicycle Rickshaw with a Stripper Pole is Like a Mobile Strip Club [craziest gadgets]

Some kids decided to combine bicycling with guitar hero. This raises a lot of questions for me…. like… if you like guitar hero that much, why did you just spend at least an hour placing colored dots on the street. And… how did you get that light bar thingy on your bike to light up at just the right time? And… you had friends in on this too? You had friends?

Any real gamer knows that paying tribute to a video game is nowhere near as fun as actually playing the game. Now, I want to see the extreme mountain biking version of this, complete with breaks to catch your breath! Just add a pause button to your bike, it’ll be totally believable.

What Was That?: Guitar Hero On A Bike [geekologie]

To be fair, it’s really thick cardboard.

When I first read about a $30 cardboard bicycle, well, I kinda laughed a little. Of course, when I rode a bike, it was a mountain bike, and I pushed that sucker to it’s limits. This bicycle is obviously not intended to romp in the Arizona sun, where it might just catch fire (kidding). Sure, other bloggers may worry about the bike getting wet in the rain, but we Arizonans simply do not have that problem (often).

It wasn’t until I saw just how thick that cardboard is that I started to take this thing seriously as a temporary means of transportation. Also, I’m quite impressed with the craftsmanship on display here. A quick look at the area around the front sprocket will reveal impressive cardboard-to-metal connections:

How does he do that? Seriously- this bike is designed to carry a 175 pound rider… of course the cardboard might as well be fiberboard for as thick as it is. Which reminds me of ye olde wooden bicycle.

The cardboard bicycle is intended for people who aren’t sure whether or not they really want to buy a bicycle- it is intended as an inexpensive temporary bike, to be later replaced with a real bicycle (or maybe not).

Thanks to Gadget Heat for cooking up a an awesome article about a woody bike, and a huffin and puffin hello goes to BBC who wrote about it first.

Japan has this wild bicycle storage machine. for about a dollar, it will store your bike once. It costs about $18 for a monthly pass. In this video, the reporters’ bike is retrieved in 23 seconds. At first, I thought this is pretty silly, but looking back on my bicycling days, I remember having bikes stolen. I also remember that sometimes people will flatten your tires for no apparent reason. So maybe this isn’t such a bad idea after all.

Source: Geekologie