Carbon Fiber

Last September, we heard how the LeMond bicycle brand was being reborn as a manufacturer of ebikes. The company has now released photos of its Prolog flat-bar electric road bike, that reportedly tips the scales at just 26 lb (11.8 kg).

TruckHouse turns the Toyota Tacoma into a compact all-terrain expedition vehicle, finding a middle ground between huge trucks and 4x4 camper vans. Its carbon fiber off-road camper rig explores and camps the most distant stretches of Earthly land.

No boat catches the eye quite as quickly as a natural-wood boat. Or so we thought. The Castagnola Heritage 9.9 marries its natural wood aesthetic with a glossy black carbon fiber hull shell ... and it catches the eye just as quickly as wood alone.

Because they're quickly outgrown and have to take a lot of abuse, toddlers' bicycles often seem kind of cheap and clunky compared to "real" bikes. For parents who just don't want to go that route, Specialized is now offering the Hotwalk Carbon balance bike.

France's Nawa Technologies is setting up operations in the United States, and bringing its fast, affordable vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) manufacturing process into a new application: making carbon fiber composites much stronger.

In order to monitor their wearers' movements, smart fabrics typically incorporate strain-measuring sensors. And while such sensors are often impractically fragile, Harvard University scientists have created a new one that can really take a beating.

Back in April, we took a look at the French-designed Exod Home, an innovative inflatable hammock-tent for backcountry or frontcountry glamping. Exod is now chasing crowdfunding dollars in hopes of getting the Home, now called the Ark, to market.

Morfuns Bicycle started work on a lightweight folding ebike called the Éole back in December last year, and now the company has launched on Indiegogo to bring the carbon-fiber-packing ride to production.

Kellys' gorgeous new Theos F ebike sports an innovative frame built from thermoplastic hybrid steel-carbon composite that's twice as impact-resistant, twice as durable, and no heavier than a comparable frame made from conventional resin carbon fiber.

More and more, workplaces are using assistive exoskeletons to protect their employees from injury. One of the newest, the 4th-generation version of German Bionic's Cray X, features a lightweight carbon fiber frame.

Strength may indeed be one of the selling points of carbon fiber bicycles, but many riders still worry about breaking the things. That's where the Superstrata bike comes in, as its frame is 3D printed from one continuous piece of carbon fiber.

A startup spun out of Australia’s Deakin University has leveraged its knowledge in organic chemistry and aerospace engineering to produce the world’s first recycled carbon fiber surfboard, promised to perform just as well as a traditional one.