Aug 26

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: a locomotive that runs on hydrogen, honey detective and a 30 mph-capable hover bike

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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

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Inhabitat is always on the lookout for new and interesting innovations, but some of the things that flashed across our screens this week truly defy the rules of physics. Take, for example, the story of 51-year-old Chinese man Sun Jifa, who lost both of his arms in an explosion and built his own bionic hands out of scrap metal. Building functional prosthetic limbs is one thing, but doing it without the aid of fingers? That’s downright mind-blowing. We were also pretty excited to hear that a California-based tech company has developed a working hover bike that travels up to 30 mph. It isn’t quite ready for a high-speed chase in the forest a la Star Wars, but it still looks pretty cool. And in another amazing development, a team of Harvard researchers has figured out a way to store 70 billion books in a space the size of your thumbnail.

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Aug 09

Hoverbike designer now offering to build you a prototype for a price

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Dreams do come true. It looks like you can now own one of Chris Malloy’s cool hoverbike that we featured last year. Although the futuristic machine is still in its development phase with no word about its production yet, Chris is saying that he and his team can custom build one for you for the modest price of $80,000 Australian dollars, or roughly $84,500 U.S. dollars based on today’s exchange rate, including shipping fee.

“We would like you buy a hoverbike now, but let’s be honest – this takes time to get right. This bike was built over 2 1/2 years by one person in his car garage after work and studies, and building it is only 10% of the way there. Testing testing and testing needs to be done and we need collective help from you!” Chris said. You can learn more about the Hoverbike here. But if the price is too much for you as of the moment, you can get the RC Scale Model of the hoverbike instead. Also, Chris will also be giving away the current prototype if the donations will reach $1.1 Million. You can donate and own one for free here.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Hoverbike soon to become a reality, MIT Student Builds Awesome Mario Kart called Chibikart,

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