"This business jet sized vehicle is designed to carry four passengers 100 km up into space giving more than three minutes of "zero G" or weightlessness." Looks pretty damn sex-ay,

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I cannot possibly explain how desperately I want one of these.

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"A car driven by a hi-tech ghost of laser sensors and computers went on exhibit in London on Wednesday, before it competes against other robot cars in the United States in November." Taxi dr

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"...a new police-car-mounted camera that can automatically recognise over 3000 number plates an hour, while police simply cruise through the district."

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"Find your way to an airstrip (or a long straight piece of road), and a tail pops out, rotors unfold, and off you go, climbing up to 4,000 feet [...] at speeds of up to 200 kph." It'll never

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"The newest breed of these systems was developed by Inilex, which allows a subscriber/user to do everything from unlock their doors, start their vehicle, sound the alarm, disable the engine or gi

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“Magnetic levitation is a promising technology for future space transportation,” Yang told PhysOrg.com. “The most expensive part of space missions to low-Earth orbit is the first few seconds—getting o

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"That’s right, the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 car is up for sale, priced at a whopping $149,998." I say we form a syndicate. Who's with me?

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"Inspired by the sleek and efficient propulsion of squid, jellyfish and other cephalopods, a ... researcher has designed a new generation of compact vortex generators that could make it easier ..

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"The engine is an offshoot of the rotary design, which replaces the reciprocating motion of the piston with a single rotor that moves around an oval chamber."

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"...scientists at the University of Bath have invented a material which stores and releases hydrogen at room temperature, at the flick of a switch, and promises to help make hydrogen power a viab

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“At this point, we feel we’re ready to move ahead and tackle what will be the largest challenge to date for Bigelow Aerospace…to develop a habitat that will actually be capable of supporting a crew.”

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"Dogged by rumors that Ares I rocket would not be able to lift the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle ... NASA’s Constellation program manager has shot back at unnamed critics in an e-mail missive he

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"The exact nature of the 6:30 a.m. launch or the type of spacecraft was not immediately known. A Houston-based spokesman for Blue Origin [...] did not immediately respond to a telephone inquiry f

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"In addition to intuitive and greatly simplified flight control, perhaps the AirScooter's greatest design feature, is that it falls into the ultralight weight class; requiring no pilot's license.

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"[It] could equally offer myriad peacetime solutions, opening land-locked countries to trade, enabling heavy construction materials to be delivered into urban centres ... and facilitating a more

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"The Republican governor wrote that the state's request for a federal waiver to set vehicle emissions standards has been "ignored with no explanation" despite an earlier letter from the

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"Burrowing inside an asteroid whose orbit carries it past both the Earth and Mars could protect astronauts from radiation on their way to the Red Planet." NASA staff seen reading pulp-era sc

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"In a recent press release, Brazilian technology company Abcesso announced that they would begin exporting an add-on component that essentially turns your standard gas-only car into a flex-fuel v

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"With $400,000 in NASA-provided prize money at stake, 16 teams have gathered this week in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for the second annual Space Elevator Games as part of the X Prize Cup..." Go

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"Use Google Earth to check out this spectacular space exposition at the Las Cruces airport, October 20-21, if you can’t be there in person." Google Earth resources for those who can't make i

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"Powered by a 4-cylinder automotive engine, the UH-18SP is everything you'd ever want in a hovercraft. It was designed for people who love to play...the only ground-effect hovercraft to be releas

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Does what it says on the tin - pretty, if impractical.

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"...an electrical storage device that they’re reluctant to call a battery, for the simple reason that it does not use a chemical reaction to store the energy."

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"This interesting vessel is driven by the motions of a parrot cichlid in a fish bowl. A camera mounted above the tank tracks the fish's movement and relays that information to a computer, which t

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"Comedian-turned-painter Jimmy Onishi and 40 elementary school students have designed monster-sized psychedelic murals for the ship’s spherical tanks...large enough to cover 100 buses." Blim

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"As NASA's space shuttle fleet sputters toward a planned 2010 retirement, the next generation of U.S. space planes is gestating in the heart of the U.S. military." All sounds a bit hush-hush

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ZOMFG, I so badly want, nay, NEED, one of these! Anyone able to lend me $30,00? Link via TechEBlog.

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Say you wanted to remake Mad Max 2, but in a world of flooded plains and swamps instead of a desert - you'd be wanting a few of these bad-boys, for certain.

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Ol news, apparently, but still news to me...pedal-powered car-type thing, on sale right now.

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