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Personal Wireless Weather Station

Useful in countless situations, this wireless weather station provides remote access to key weather indicators at any time via the internet... Read More

Stealth Surfing: Pope Bisect Carbon Fibre Travelboard

By Mike Hanlon

Almost forty years after first conceiving the modular "Travelboard", Karl Pope has applied his experience as an aerospace engineer to invent the Pope Bisect Stealth - a two-piece, 9-foot 6-inch hollow carbon fibre surfboard... Read More

Self-cleaning Automatic Public Toilet

By Mike Hanlon

The growing phenomena of the Automatic Public Toilet (APT) has reached the City of Pittsburgh in the US with the installation of a coin-operated, computer assisted amenity designed explicitly to complement the architecture of the City's historic south district... Read More

Saigak Power Boots

By Mike Hanlon

One of Gizmag's earliest stories was about the efforts of Russian engineers in resurrecting a 30-year old Soviet Military prototype to develop "Quickwalker" boots - a hydraulic piston mounted on each boot is driven by an engine contained in the heel to supplement the human walking motion and allow the user to jump over obstacles two metres high, take four metre strides and run at up to 60kph over long distances. Read More

blokart - land sailing at up to 90kmh

By Mike Hanlon

The blokart is a lightweight one-person land sailer capable of attaining speeds of 90kmh that can be used anywhere there is a flat surface and a breeze... Read More

Recumbent Trike

By Mike Hanlon

Recumbent bicycles or Human Powered Vehicles (HPVs) as they are known, are both faster and more efficient and the traditional bicycle and if the idea hadn't been dealt such a poor hand by history earlier this century we could well be watching Lance Armstrong wearing the yellow jersey on a recumbent bicycle in this years' Tour de France. Read More

Pet containment goes high-tech

By Mike Hanlon

If you've ever wasted a weekend building a fence to keep the family dog at bay - or gone to the expense of having one installed - only to find it totally ineffective against Rover's high-jumping prowess you'll appreciate the concept of the wireless pet fence. Read More

The Insider: could this be the future of live sport?

By Mike Hanlon

Not only will the advance of digital technology provide us with unprecedented coverage of sporting action into our homes, it will bring digital TV along to the game with us. This is now a reality for US baseball fans thanks to a new device that combines the buzz of watching events live with the versatility of television coverage - the Insider wireless binoculars. Read More

Zap Powerski

By Mike Hanlon

Turning every road into a downhill run and adding a whole new dimension to owning a set of inline skates, the Zap POWERSKI is capable of towing its 'skier' at speeds of up to 24km/h. Read More

Stabilised Binoculars

By Mike Hanlon

Fujinon's new Techno-Stabi marine binoculars keep images steady when the user is in motion, thanks to stabilising prisms which deliver real-time response and use less power than high-speed gyro systems like its predecessor the Stabiscope... Read More

Porsche Evolution Mountain Bike

By Mike Hanlon

When Porsche's design studio decides to go after a marketplace, it rarely fails to impress. Such was the case when it released the FS Evolution mountain bike. The bike pictured here is the 2001 model, mainly because we think it looks better than the 2002 model. Read More

Big Kahuna Collapsible Kayak

By Mike Hanlon

A kayak which collapses into a back-pack weighing just 16 kilos Read More

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