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You know, it’s not just people that wear costumes on Halloween–you filthy humanist!–cars, vans, buses and motorcycles gotta get their “trick or treat” on too. And we’re not just talking about the dog-mobile from Dumb & Dumber, there are innumerable real-world examples of vehicles dressing up as other things (no, not Transformers). Cool Material has [...]

Today is Name Your Car Day, a truly ridiculous occasion that we can only hope will soon be replaced by Name Your Bike Day (ours is called Kandinsky). In the meantime, though, we kind of appreciate the idea of treating cars like boats and giving them names, it makes something so hard and mechanical a [...]

As General Motors continues to repurpose and shape-shift in order to remain competitive, how creative are they really getting? Presumably they’ll still be manufacturing cars, instead of shifting to bikes, trains or some other more sustainable and long-lasting solution. We imagine they’re also sticking to mostly gas-powered vehicles, instead of actually doing something new like [...]

When we were kids (like, two years ago) we had this amazing book of cutaways that featured diagrams showing the interior mechanisms of pyramids, submarines, opera houses, tanks, space shuttles and such. It was huge, colorful and chockablock full of facts, and we were pretty convinced it was the coolest book in the world – [...]

On this date some years ago, research tells us, the first modern submarine was completed. Not surprisingly, it was the result of a major military research and development project, and a virtually limitless budget. What about the little guys, though? What about the toolshed handymen and wannabe mermaids (to indulge all manner of gendered stereotypes) [...]

Do you remember that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa has her future told at a country fair, and the whole show is about her impending marriage to an uptight Brit a dozen or so years in the future? Well, at one point they land in London (whose Big Ben clocktower is now digital), and [...]

As you’ve likely heard, between enforced mergers, massive layoffs and its interim CEO Frederick A. Henderson saying this morning that bankruptcy was “probable,” General Motors is in some mighty hot water. And though we’re scared by the idea of the city with the highest unemployment rate in the country losing one of its biggest companies, [...]

In that fantastic way that movies do, characters’ entire personalities and physiques can often be gleaned by looking at their car. This is just another way that art imitates life, of course, and much has been made of how our cars reveal certain things we may or may not want to be broadcasting to fellow [...]

Every time there’s a major auto show in town or cool new future epic at the multiplex, we get a little carried away fantasizing about transportation for the future. Like those cool Lexus pods from Minority Report. Turns out that snappy concept cars and the like have existed since at least 1938, when the Buick [...]

Bicycles are totally 20th century, tricycles are at least two years old depending on who you ask, and now all the cool kids on the block are pulling wheelies on their quadracycles – a feat all the more impressive because it involves getting two front wheels off the ground rather than one. Get with the [...]