Hoverboard ~ Mini Self-Balancing Scooter!

Misleadingly-named self-balancing scooter is booming sales!

Ninebot ~ Nextgen Personal Transport Vehicles...

NextBigFuture reports that startup Ninebot with smartphone giant Xiaomi backing buys Segway for alternative transportation unification. They're already shipping the One... (Of course, anyone paying attention would have seen this coming for the last six years or more)

Drone Racing ~ Prototyping the Next Robot Wars!

Wow, Drone Racing -- so obvious and also so cool!

Mr Hoverboard ~ Four Blower Hack Job!

Nice four blower Mr Hoverboard proto!

McLaren F1 ~ Owner's Manual as Work-of-Art!

BBC's Matthew Phenix spotlights the Owner's manual as work of art...

"In this five-minute film, McLaren’s Design Operations Manager, Mark Roberts, discusses his first job with the company: illustrating the owner’s handbook for the F1 road car back in 1992. As he did with the car itself, McLaren chief Gordon Murray oversaw every aspect of the handbook’s creation. No surprise, the book was a clothbound work of art, every bit as meticulously crafted as the car it described. The illustration style -- pencil drawings with colour washes that highlight relevant areas -- is one that, with a modest smirk, Roberts calls “almost Leonardo-like.”

RocketSkates ~ Smart Wearable Electric Mobility!

RocketSkates, Kickin' the World's First Smart Wearable Mobility! Thanks to Paul at GeekPress for spotting!

Hendo ~ Magneto Hoverboard Kickstarting!

Check out Hendo hoverboards Kickstarting now! Thanks to Next Big Future for spotting!

OLAF ~ Hybrid Folding Cargo Kickscooter Kick'n!

OLAF is Kickstarting multifunctional hybrid folding cargo kickscooters...

Onewheel ~ Self-Balancing Electric Skateboard

Check out Onewheel, the Self-Balancing Electric Skateboard...

Roll-Up Scooter ~ George Mabey's A4 Design!

The DM's Sarah Griffiths spots George Mabey's roll-up scooter!

"Fold-up scooters are a popular way to get around town quickly, but they're often bulky and awkward to carry. Now there’s a new design of scooter that's so tiny, it folds up to the size of an A4 piece of paper. A university student created the award-winning scooter by linking pieces of aluminium with a cable, which when tightened, pull them together to support an adult’s weight."

Laying Pipe ~ Haverkamp on Allseas Audacia!

gCaptain's Rob Almeida shares great timelapse operations video by Wouter Haverkamp of the Allseas offshore pipelaying vessel Audacia!

Transparent Bonnet ~ Jaguar's Forward Vision...

Very cool auto augmentation project by Jaguar to create a Transparent Bonnet...

MK-1 ~ Dane Kouttron's Electric Snow Scooter!

Just in time for Boston's first snowgasm of the new year is Dane Kouttron's MK-1 Electric Scooter with Snowfork-mod!

Queen Mary 2 ~ Rebirth of the Ocean Liners...

Check out Cunard's Queen Mary 2 ocean liner...

Wireless Tramways ~ Alstom's APS Power...

Alstom's APS in-ground power enables wireless tramways... Here operating in beautiful Bordeaux... And the plan for Dubai...

C'était un Rendez-vous ~ Claude Lelouch in Paris!

Kevin Slavin suggests C'était un rendez-vous to prepare for Paris! Route followed...

Hiriko CityCar ~ BBC Spots ML Spinoff Futurecar

BBC What If? spotlights MIT Media Lab spinoff Hiriko CityCar!

Jet Beetle ~ Ron Patrick's Streetlegal VW-Mod;-)

Ron Patrick's badass VW-mod streetlegal jet-powered Beetle!

Bus+Train ~ JR's Dual-Mode Road+Rail Vehicle...

Alexander Lew in Wired Autopia says It’s a Bus. It’s a Train. It’s Both!

Rimac Concept One ~ Croatian Electric Supercar

Nice wheels! CNN spots Rimac Concept One...