I’m going to go out on a limb here and say we’ll probably never see this in the U.S. It’d be nice if some green mayor forced taxis in big cities to get them, but I can’t imagine it would ever happen in such a car-centric culture. The Dutch, now those bastards are crazy enough [ more... ]

Rise from your depression snowboarders who are already holed in the basement waiting for summer’s long stay. The Freebord is the latest skateboard that seeks to mimic carving a turn on snow and sitting at the base of a headwall with all your friends. The Freebord’s wide outside wheels are supposed to be like snowboard [ more... ]

Hang the Mini Wiz out the window of your Jeep to charge up the car battery after the alternator dies. It won’t give you enough energy to get out of the backcountry, but it will supply some juice to your iPod for the walk back to the highway. Thirty minutes of heavy wind will produce [ more... ]

Merging on the highway might be a problem when you hit the on ramp at 82mph. This bike was designed to break the landspeed record, but its creator Bruce Bursford died during a training ride before it could happen. He designed it over four years using Formula One cars and jet fighters as models. Even [ more... ]

Going through the Holland Tunnel from Jersey into New York might have been a better option since it dumps you in the city instead of onto a massive highway, but I guess you have to wait for the traffic to hit wherever you are. An insanely ballsy video. I probably would have ridden my unicycle on the walkway next to the road—actually, I probably would have just stayed home and watched the video.

via The Piton

The 2CLight Hat reminds me of that Northern Exposure episode where Walt wears a hat with lights that shine in his eyes to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder, but he becomes addicted to the lights and runs into someone with his car while wearing the contraption and driving. And I’ll bet you thought I wouldn’t be [ more... ]

I have little confidence in my own ability to predict the weather, but compared to the Oregon Scientific Meteo Weather Forecast Watch I’m a jolly Al Roker. For instance, I can tell if it’s: 1. Raining, 2. Sunny, and 3. Windy.  This Boy Scout survival gear might let me know if it’s going to [ more... ]

  The darkside of online gear deals just got a dose of the Force. You still can’t try on the shirts before SteepandCheap sends them to you, but you can pay a reasonable rate for shipping (today only). SteepandCheap is running a $2 shipping day on everything sold from now until midnight. It’ll likely mostly [ more... ]

It’s nice to see that CamelBak ditched the baby nipple from some of their new BPA-free water bottles. The long national nightmare of toxins in our crunchy-person plastic bottle has come to an end, and we didn’t even need to resort to drinking from baby bottles. A second small but interesting change to the bottle [ more... ]

This is the closest you’ll get to being like that one Transformer with the tape deck in his chest. Just plug in an iPod and you’ll be able to playback sound bites through speakers embedded in the shoulder straps. It’s good for announcing your presence to bears while hiking and generally annoying everyone within earshot [ more... ]