Ski Resorts

The Toyota-based Camakuruma mini-motorhome is a concept camper for the slopes

Holiday Destinations

Japanese concept camper car lives like a rolling slopeside igloo

Japan's Hoshino Resorts skips the ski lodge-inspired camper van concept and goes a different route. Its adorable Camakuruma mini-motorhome concept brings the cool, icy feel of an igloo inside to blend inconspicuously with its alpine surrounds.

The Venturi Antarctica is a joystick controlled, completely electric vehicle designed to tackle the harsh climes of Antarctica (Photo: Palais de Monaco)

Automotive

Prototype electric vehicle passes first test on road to Antarctica

Venturi Antarctica, a prototype electric vehicle designed to tackle the harsh climes of Antarctica recently completed its first test drive in the Southern Alps. The joystick-controlled prototype seats 5 and can reach a top speed of 25 km/h (15mph) on snow tracks and 45 km/h (27 mph) on wheels.

Virtual Reality

Los Angeles gets a new type of personal training: Indoor skiing and snowboarding

The SkytechSport Ski & Fit brings skiing and snowboarding to Beverly Hills.

The spectacular Skipark 360 - set to be the largest indoor ski resort in the world (image from skipark360)

Architecture

Indoor ski resort to feature 2,297 foot downhill slope with a drop of 525 feet

A proposed Swedish indoor ski resort will feature a 700 meter (2,297 foot) downhill slope with a drop of 160 meters (525 feet).

Outdoors

Ski resort safety and personal performance tracking system

April 26, 2007 Keep track of your kids on the slopes - or compete for top-speed snowboard bragging rights with a tiny and very affordable device in your pocket.