Carbon Fiber

TruckHouse announced its BCT Toyota mini-RV earlier this year, and now it's complete. The truck camper combines the off-roadability of the Tacoma TRD, the light, tough performance of carbon fiber, and the comfort of a luxurious mobile mini-home.

Lenovo has started its Windows 11 offensive by heading online for a virtual expo called Tech World 2021 and launching what's claimed to be the world's lightest 14-inch OLED laptop, and a larger and heavier sibling aimed at creatives.

Carlo Ratti Associati once designed a tomato factory made out of tomato jars, so it should come as no surprise that its carbon fiber museum will be built using carbon fiber. It will showcase products and detail how the versatile material is made.

The better a pro cycling shoe fits, the more efficiently its wearer's leg motion can be converted into wheel motion. That's where the carbon fiber LoreOne shoe comes in, as it's custom 3D printed to provide an exact fit for each buyer.

One shortcoming of carbon fiber that scientists have been working to address is its tendency to burn at high temperatures, and an international team of researchers have now found a low-cost and scalable solution to this problem.

Many ebike makers have spent significant R&D time and money making their rides look like regular unpowered bicycles. CrownCruiser has chosen a different path, with a retro-futuristic smart ebike that rocks a head-turning carbon-fiber monocoque frame.

Few things punish bicycle wheels harder than world championship-level downhill mountain bike racing, so France's Nawa Technologies has signed up with a top-level downhill team to prove the strength of its nanotube-reinforced carbon fiber.

Lava Music's Me 2 pushes the acoustic guitar into uncharted waters, with a strong, lightweight carbon fiber body, and a built-in body-shaking speaker with reverb, chorus and delay effects. It's an ultra-portable travel axe with tricks up its sleeve.

A team from Cornell University has put forward a compelling example of what cheap, environmentally friendly energy storage can look like, fashioning a 3D electrode out of low-cost aluminum for a battery with a very long cycle life.

Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology have been exploring alternative energy storage solutions and are now demonstrating a type of "massless" battery that could work as a power source and structural component of a vehicle at the same time.

The Ryuger Eidolon, out of Western Australia, is a super-aerodynamic carbon monocoque ebike that looks like a street racer but is actually a full-suspension commuter with some light off-road ambitions. And it's an absolute eye-popper.

Klos Guitars has been making acoustics and ukes fashioned from carbon fiber for a number of years now, and while there have been instruments you can plug into an amp, the company hasn't ventured into all electric guitar or bass territory, until now.