Archie O'Brien had a dream of zipping below the waters off Iceland. He looked at contraptions that would pull him along underwater, but everything available proved beyond his reach. So he designed and built the Cuda underwater jetpack, which will be going into production early next year.
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As a mission to rescue a group of boys trapped in a Thai cave is put on hold, the team will soon have a new option at their disposal in the form of a kid-sized submarine built by Elon Musk and a team of SpaceX engineers.
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Some look at the sea as a relaxing playground, a place for champagne and caviar sunsets and midday PWC frolics. Others will happily give up those tropical comforts to circle the choppy, sea ice-laced waters around Antarctica on the all-new Ocea Nemo 50 ICE megayacht.
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Pedal-powered paddle boat (pedalo) designs tends to swing between cutesy kitsch and blandly pragmatic, which is why Beau Lake's Runabout – a paddle boat that actually looks like a boat – is the most ironically out-there thing to happen to these little leisure craft to date.
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Pedestrians and cyclists in the Norwegian city of Trondheim may soon have a quicker option for crossing the canal between the Ravnkloa fish market and the Vestre Kanalhavn dock. Engineers are developing an autonomous electric ferry that could be summoned like an elevator.
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Porsche has lent its name and its design team to Tuscan superyacht builder Dynamiq to create the GTT 115. Inspired by Porsche’s GT cars, this 14.4 million-dollar, 35-meter beauty is designed for high-speed, trans-Atlantic shenanigans in total luxury, with up to 10 guests and a crew of six.
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To make ships and submarines slippier, Anish Tuteja, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, is working on an "omniphobic" coating that not only repels water, but many other substances, like oil, alcohol, and even peanut butter.
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British luxury yacht builder Pearl Yachts takes its first steps into the world of superyachts with its Pearl 95 – a 96-ft (29.2-m) cruiser that's billed as combining seakeeping with the latest in posh living and will make its debut at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September.
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Among other things, Josep Rubau has designed cars for Volkswagen, and was the creator of the Tramontana supercar. Now, the Spanish industrial designer is CEO of RedShark Bikes, a company that sells a pedal-powered prop-driven trimaran which he invented.
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Cars that park themselves can not only make parking mishaps a thing of the past, but the technology could also make maximum use of lot space. Nissan has even created self-parking slippers. Now Volvo has demonstrated a yacht that can dock itself.
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