Music from Trash

• Anything is possible.
• Landfill Harmonic
• Paraguay
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Webpage and Facebook
• Bio: The world sends us garbage... We send back music. Help bring the orchestra on a worldwide tour of music & inspiration: http://kck.st/110W8j2

Hot Air Balloon Bicycle....Thingy

• Well, why not?
• ParaBounce
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Webpage
• Bio: In 1996, Stephen Meadows created a 20-foot version of this childhood toy and called it the “ParaBounce”. After successfully using himself as the “Guinea-Pig” (wad of paper) at the Polo Fields in Del Mar, Ca., a video of the maiden voyage caught the eye of Hammacher Schlemmer and ParaBounce was on the cover. Then Steve and his ParaBounce were invited to come to New York and pick up Katie Couric on NBC’s “Today” Show. The rest is now in the History Books. CONTINUE

Flying Quadrocopters Play Pong

• The vehicles/ball are tracked by an overhead motion capture system and controlled by a pair of computers.
• Mark Müller, Sergei Lupashin and Raffaello D'Andrea at the ETH Flying Machine Arena.
• Switzerland
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: The Flying Machine Arena (FMA) is a portable space devoted to autonomous flight. Measuring up to 10 x 10 x 10 meters, it consists of a high-precision motion capture system, a wireless communication network, and custom software executing sophisticated algorithms for estimation and control.

Excellent Flying GyroCycle Example - Nicely Explained

• There are a number of GryoCycles, we like this example and it is nicely explained. 
• Dezsö Molnár
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: Rocket scientist and flying car designer.

Amphibious Tricycle

• Amphibious cycle was designed and built by seven engineering students.
• Students, University of Southhampton
• United Kingdom
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel

Fantastic Costume Design

• Four legged stilt walking and costume design.
• Unkown
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel

Shovelman Strumming Shovel Guitar

• Isaac playing slide guitar made out of a shovel.
• Isaac Frankle
  
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Facebook
• Bio: Shovelman is a junkyard beatnik, a shovel guitar wielding surrealist folk superhero. Armed with a collection of pawnshop effects pedals and an old barn-shovel turned slide-guitar, Shovelman plays ol' fashioned folktronica-grooves looped straight out of the ground. The sounds of Mississippi delta blues from the electro-psychedelic future, collide with the antiquated rubble of lyrical one-man-band hoboetry. Shovelman has become infamous on the west coast festival circuit (Lightning in a Bottle, Health and Harmony, Earthdance and The Oregon Country Fair) opening for bands that include Primus, Beats Antique and the Yard Dogs Road Show.

Monowheel Motorcycle

• Idea been around a while now, still cool.
• Rider/Creator unkown
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
  

Mind-blowing Mountain Bike Brilliance

• Brilliant biking, fantastic filming, & terrific trail design.
• Dylan Dunkerton, Curtis Robinson, Kyle Norbraten, Kyle Jameson
• Canada
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: People who really love mountain biking.

Porpoise People

• Water jet allows you to fly like a bird and swim like a dolphin.
• Franky Zapata and Flyboard
• Worldwide
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: Franky Zapata of ZAPATA RACING started to develop the Flyboard® during Spring 2011. Their experience in racing Jet Skis and understanding of water propulsion allowed them to develop prototypes in record time. CONTINUE

Clever Contraption Disperses Drapes

• Rube is proud.
• Ben Tyers, Brian Lum, Andrew Hicks, Ed Sharp, Kim Yamazaki, Tom Baynham
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: Some very clever engineers who had some time and creativity on their hands.

Flying With The Fishes

• Wild water wings whisk you below the waves.
• Subwing
• Norway
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• SUBWING is a new watersport that entirely reinvents the way we experience the ocean under water. Feel the sensation of underwater flight with virtually full freedom of movement. Glide through the water like a dolphin, do thrilling spins and turns, or just relax on the surface. Why swim when you can Fly. Underwater.
  

Brush With Death

• Angry artist fighting foe.
• Corridor Digital
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: Dudes who love shooting and vfx.

Sand Flea Jumping Robot

• Not your ordinary remote control device.
• Boston Dynamics
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: Boston Dynamics builds advanced robots with remarkable behavior: mobility, agility, dexterity and speed. We use sensor-based controls and computation to unlock the capabilities of complex mechanisms. Our world-class development teams take projects from initial concept to proof-of-principle prototyping to build-test-build engineering, to field testing and low-rate production.

Fantastic Fotoplayer Follies

• Playing the crazy piano thingy also known as a fotoplayer circa 1926.
• Joe Rinaudo
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: Joe's passion is this 1926 Fotoplayer, which uses music rolls like those for player pianos to provide music and sound effects to silent films. Joe spent thousands of hours restoring his Fotoplayer. CONTINUE

Mini mini mini mini mini bike.

• Biped pedals puny bicycle.
• Unknown cyclist.
• Russian Federation?
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel

Dazzling Domino Ninja Recreates Van Gogh

• Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" recreated with dominoes.
• FlippyCat
  
• Canada
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: Domino Master, I set them up, you watch them fall.

Ping Pong Playing Robot

• These technology designers are getting good.
• Designer unknown. Anybody?
• Location unknown.
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel

Building a Solar Electric Assist Bike Trailer with Pop-up Sleeping Tent

• Awesome innovations from real people making it happen.
• Ryan and Mandy Ao
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: Ryan and Mandy quit corporate culture to seek a path to sustainable communities. Make sure to visit the website and follow their journey. Well worth it.

Mondo Spider - A Rideable Walking Machine

• Everyday we are inspired by the human ingenuity we witness.
• Charlie Brinson, Dillard Brinson, Alex Mossman, Leigh Christie and Jonathan Tippett.
• Canada
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Facebook and Website
• Bio: Inspired by the famous TV shows Scrapheap Challenge and Junkyard Wars USA, Alex Mossman, Brian Wells and several other brilliant local Vancouver Engineers started a competition known as The Vancouver Junkyard Wars (VJYW). In 2005, the competition was to be a “walking machine” race. CONTINUE