Crazy

African startup Phractyl has shown us a concept unlike anything we've seen before – or are likely to see again, if we're honest. With tracked feet, bird legs, a tilting cabin and tilting wings, this avant-garde absurdity promises "near-VTOL" flight.

Meet Hennessey's first electric: a 2,400-horsepower, six-wheel-drive, hyper-land yacht called Project Deep Space, featuring the world's biggest gull-wing door and a 4-seat, diamond-layout cabin that's ... shall we say, likely to remain unique!

Strap in, petrolheads, I promise you've never seen a crankshaft remotely like this one before. The spec sheet and bizarrely organic-looking design of this 3-D printed Greek widowmaker are almost as wild a ride as the 3,000-horsepower beast itself.

Shocking, as in we're shocked a car company would release footage this bad. But UAE hypercar company Devel has a legit 5,000-horsepower, 12.8 liter V16 engine, multiple prototypes, and now a super-lame test video of this spectacularly audacious machine.

New Atlas was at Snake River Canyon five years ago when Eddie Braun spectacularly finished the terrifying rocket bike jump that nearly killed Evel Knievel. The event is now a gorgeous documentary on Disney+, and we sat down with Braun to reminisce.

Kelekona's colossal mass-transit eVTOL is one of the most unique and wildly ambitious proposals we've seen in this space, flying heavier and further than anyone else on its monster 2.3 MWh battery. We caught up with the founder for a fascinating chat.

Toni Bou is not a normal human being. He's historically unparalleled as a trials rider, undefeated in the last 28 indoor and outdoor FIM Trial World Championships. Here he is doing unnatural things with a 500-pound, 1,100cc adventure tourer. Enjoy!

Italy's Automobili Estrema isn't mucking about with its first product. The Fulminea electric hypercar promises an absurd 2,040 all-wheel-drive horsepower, and 0-200 mph acceleration in less than 10 seconds – but that's not even the crazy part.

Flying super-marines may soon be a thing. Gravity Industries has teamed up with the UK Royal Marines to demonstrate its Iron Man-style jet suit in a ship boarding exercise, and has released video of the results.

A digital artist called "Beeple" is now one of the top three most valuable artists alive – in any medium – after he sold a JPG file of his work for US$69,346,250. Welcome to the crazy world of NFTs, and the internet's latest wild gold rush.

California's Orbital Assembly Corporation reckons it will soon have the solar system's first luxury space hotel open in orbit, offering spacewalks, Beyonce concerts and fine dining to space tourists at prices near US$5 million per three and a half days.

The outright land speed record has stood firm since 1997. Now, with its two main competitors out of the picture, Western Australia's Aussie Invader team has its sights set on a 1,000 mph run next year, using a custom-developed 62,000 lbf rocket.