It's common for television shows to create characters out of the inanimate. Like a town or a place of business, modes of transport can take on their own personality. In the case of Arrested Development, the Stair Car is as recognizable as Fonzie's motorcycle or Walter White's Aztek.
A recent invention called the Slingshot could provide freshwater to those with some of the most limited access. Inventor Dean Kamen, best known as the...
For those of you who don't know Dean Kamen, you're in for a treat. For those of you that do: I hope I can still delight and surprise you with some things you may not know.
AUSTIN, Texas -- The past month has been one wild ride for Ben Forman and Geoff Larson, the creators of a weight-sensing electric skateboard called th...
If you're looking to stay toned and buff this summer, but don't want to take the conventional route, there are a lot of exercise options out there tha...
Ah, the joy of Segways. On one hand, they are an extremely useful mode of transportation for tourists to see a city (not to mention lazy commuters). O...
This past weekend, I went skiing for the first time, and I'm delighted to say I didn't embarrass myself that much. The reason is quite simple: it's where I skied.
One can't help but wonder at the tales of a man who once wandered the halls of MIT pondering circuit design, only to now claim personal responsibility for converting the orchards of Silicon Valley into parking lots.
The golden age of travel has left in its path a few lone mountain motels, a family resort or two, and a trail of corroding cottages. You can't get any more desolate than the East Coast Mountains.
Sorry, Segway, but I'm not smitten with your human transporters. I can't think of anything more harrowing than trying to navigate Rome's narrow, cobblestone streets while aboard the Ultimate Green Machine.
Jimi Heselden, prolific philanthropist, founder of Hesco Bastion and owner of Segway, was found dead on Sunday after an apparent accident on one of th...
Multi-millionaire Jimi Heselden, the owner of Segway Inc. since December 2009, has died after reportedly driving a Segway scooter off a cliff and into...
There's a reason GOB from Arrested Development rides around in a Segway: It makes you feel like an authority figure lording over your minions by carti...
Low speed vehicles haven't really taken off in this country...yet. But Sperling says we absolutely need this kind of vehicle as part of a broader future network of mobility.
NEW YORK -- A solution to the world's urban transportation problems could lie in two wheels not four, according to executives for General Motors Corp....
One afternoon last May in Menlo Park, Calif., a venture capitalist named Ray Lane led me from his office to the parking lot, where an automobile had b...
Who needs an armored, mine-resistant fighting vehicle to fight terrorists when you have a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric scooter? In Jinan, Shan...