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Take one dynamically unstable, highly dangerous vehicle platform – the venerable quad bike – and juice it up with more than a thousand horsepower, and you've got an absolute widowmaker. But is it the ultimate widowmaker? Let's assess the competition.

Yes, an energy drink company is involved. BMX Pro Kriss Kyle – and that's a name for a BMX pro if ever we heard one – has starred in an epic video stunt, battling his own fear of heights to pull off sick tricks in a specially built bowl in the air.

The Surfcycle is a street-legal, stand-up electric scooter capable of highway speeds and unstoppable lane-splitting – with luggage. The ride is halfway between surfing and motorcycling, and its remarkable creators say it's the fastest way across LA.

Whatever they're smoking at Indian Motorcycle, we want some! The company's doing a limited production run of race-spec Challenger R cruisers, complete with carbon fiber saddlebags, celebrating one of the flat-out wackiest races on two wheels.

A hole in your basketball is typically not a good thing, but Wilson's bizarre new Airless basketball prototype treats them as a feature. Indeed, it's probably more hole than ball, and yet it's said to bounce and respond like a regulation NBA rock.

Mercedes-Benz has bounced into a collaboration with Milan-based luxury fashion brand Moncler, to create a truly bizarre take on the G-Wagen. Inspired by Moncler's puffy ski jackets, Project Mondo G has oversized puffy wheels and a puffy zip-up canopy.

Munich-based designer Andrea Mocellin has presented his latest personal mobility device. The Exo-Line is an exoskeleton-inspired, battery-powered wearable vehicle you can lower yourself onto chest-first for a "physically engaging riding experience."

If you like your keyboards all fancy-like, we defy you to find one fancier than this glass keyboard with an interactive video display underneath it, powered by Unreal Engine 5. It's called the Centerpiece by Finalmouse, and it's as fancy as they come.

A University of Rochester team says it's come up with a relatively cheap and easy way to build rotating, city-sized space habitats that's technically feasible using current technologies. All you need to do, it seems, is turn an asteroid inside out.

The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility envisages a controversial new way to be pregnant, with the baby growing in an idealized, but completely inhuman environment: transparent "growth pods" arranged by their hundreds in human baby farming operations.

Priced at just US$290,000, Drako's new Dragon hyper-SUV looks like the most comfy and practical way by far to get from 0-60 mph (0-96 km/h) in 1.9 seconds. This Model X-killer combines outrageous power with huge-screen luxury and doors that go up.

Whatever's in the water down in Florida, we want some. As ridiculously awesome as it is awesomely ridiculous, the Shadow Six Typhoon places a UTV body on top of a pair of high-performance jet skis, creating the world's first "aquatic utility vehicle."