mechanical gadgets

UNI-CUB: Honda Personal Mobility Device, The Latest News!

May 17, 2012
UNI-CUB: Honda Personal Mobility Device, The Latest News!

Have you seen Honda UNI-CUB? This new personal mobility device with single seat saddle comes with auto-balancing technology similar to segway, where user will hardly fall down from the seat since the UNI-CUB will auto detect your body posture and gives necessary balance whenever you sit on the saddle. Honda UNI-CUB personal mobility device is [...]

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Corner Ladder: The Wooden Blocks

May 17, 2012
Corner Ladder: The Wooden Blocks

From ladders we have seen all these years, we think following Corner Ladder concept by C&C Design Studio is by far the most practical and easy to store type of foldable ladder. Corner Ladder allows users to fold and carry the ladder as if carrying two wooden blocks. The compact foldable and expandable ladder design [...]

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Wiss: Auto Retracting Utility Knife

May 8, 2012
Wiss: Auto Retracting Utility Knife

Wiss is an auto-retracting utility knife that designed to reduce the risk of injuries. Cutter users will find Wiss a useful gadget for cutting boxes, since the blade will automatically retract back inside the cutter once a cutting is finished. In order to start cutting, user will have to push the blade out with the [...]

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@Ant Concept: China Chery Automobile New Urban Vehicle

April 25, 2012
@Ant Concept: China Chery Automobile New Urban Vehicle

Another news from Beijing International Motor Show 2012, the @Ant concept is a unique individual urban vehicle called Chery @Ant that introduce the idea of ‘road train’ system to the market. The road train system will allow these individual urban vehicles to be attached together as well as detached in the operation. In the attached [...]

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Rare Earth Metals: Reuse And Recycling, New Partnership Between Honda And Japan Metals & Chemicals

April 23, 2012
Rare Earth Metals: Reuse And Recycling, New Partnership Between Honda And Japan Metals & Chemicals

Nissan has long in the electric ‘leaf’ vehicle, but Honda is seems still innovating for using recycled materials found on their used parts or products. The recently announced joint partnership between Honda Motor Co., Ltd and Japan Metals & Chemicals Co., Ltd has initiated world’s first processing method that extract rare earth metals from various [...]

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i8: BMW Spyder Hybrid Sport Car, Reaching One Hundred Kilometers Using 3 Liters Of Fuel!

April 3, 2012
i8: BMW Spyder Hybrid Sport Car, Reaching One Hundred Kilometers Using 3 Liters Of Fuel!

Competing with Porsche for Spyder Sport car? If you remembered about the Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid Sport car back in August 2010, the BMW’s Vision EfficientDynamics as well as the latest i8 Spyder hybrid concept sport cars could become a potential rival for Porsche’s 918 Spyder Hybrid sport car in near future. BMW i8 Spyder [...]

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GAM Hammer 6-in-1: Iron Brass Claw Hammer and Phillips Screwdriver Tools

March 28, 2012
GAM Hammer 6-in-1: Iron Brass Claw Hammer and Phillips Screwdriver Tools

An iron claw hammer that comes with brass handle, 4 different screwdrivers on stored inside the hammer handle, consists of two small straight and two large Philips style blades, the smallest one is capable to help tighten eyeglass screws. The idea is to help user to reduce the number of tools inside their small toolbox [...]

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Vending Machine: Sanden World First Hand Crank Mechanism

March 16, 2012
Vending Machine: Sanden World First Hand Crank Mechanism

A convenient and practical vending machine that does not rely on electricity power to sell merchandise, following hand cranking vending machine from Japan is specially designed to adapt to increasing of earthquake as well as other natural disaster. Surprisingly, according to Michael Keferl from CScout Japan, there are nearly 5.5 million vending machines located across [...]

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Defender Bike Light: Gun Barrel Revolver Cylinder Shape, Attractive For Thefts?!

February 20, 2012
Defender Bike Light: Gun Barrel Revolver Cylinder Shape, Attractive For Thefts?!

A bicycle light that comes with the awesome outlook resembling a gun barrel revolver’s cylinder, the Defender bike light is mean to help bikers on their city biking. A product by Gotham Bicycle Defense, the Defender bike light is designed with water resistant feature and waterproof down to 1 ft deep. No worry about heavy [...]

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Self Balancing Unicycle Electric Vehicle: 12 Miles On Single Charge

February 2, 2012
Self Balancing Unicycle Electric Vehicle: 12 Miles On Single Charge

Amaze by those performer on the circus riding a self balancing unicycle? Here comes the second generation of SBU that comes with a 1000 watt motor offers up to 10 mph speed and up to 12 miles or about 20km of traveling distance. You will find seven sensors, including accelerometers for balancing monitor, gyros, that [...]

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TES-ERA: Toyota Sports EV With Gullwing Doors

January 31, 2012
TES-ERA: Toyota Sports EV With Gullwing Doors

Japan’s Toyota Engineering Society has recently unveiled their latest innovation in form of TES-ERA EV, an EV car designed base on Toyota Sera offering switchless operation on touchscreens, and a game-like element driving experiences to its users. Toyota TES-ERA EV has 15.7 kWh lithium ion battery, enough for the TES-ERA EV to travel over 80 [...]

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Super Speed Slot Car Racing Track: For Super Fast Race Cars

January 20, 2012
Super Speed Slot Car Racing Track: For Super Fast Race Cars

If you have a fantastic racing toy car, what’s the next thing you might thing of? A good racing track is probably one logical answer. A group of car enthusiasts from Finland have recently unveiled their latest super speed slot car racing track that allow player to race their car to the maximum speed without [...]

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