Tag: powered

While other Batmobiles in existence are more or less regular cars underneath the shell, Casey Putsch of Putsch Racing went the next step and actually built one with a working jet turbine engine — just like the one in the movie.

Human-Powered Helicopters: Straight Up Difficult from NPR on Vimeo. The students at the University of Maryland who made a human-powered pedal-operated helicopter have gotten a profile on NPR about their commitment to making this machine fly higher than 8 feet off the ground. It’s not easy.

I’ve never seen one of these in action before. And to think the entire Panama Canal was built using these! Amazing! [via]

Wow, San Diego looks like a paradise for cyclists! Hah!

A fun and simple toy if you buy a big enough balloon. [via]