Transportation is one of the main differences between present day and the day of tomorrow in pop culture: People with jetpacks, flying cars, and zooming vehicles will whiz around with no environmental impact, super speed, and total safety. That future hasn’t arrived as quickly as we hoped, but it is on the way. Here are some examples of how personal transport could look just around the corner:

Self-Balancing

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The Segway was supposed to change the world, and it definitely didn’t. It did add advanced gyroscopic balancing technology, however, which allows people to cruise around on two wheels in a way we never could before. These vehicles could easily be battery powered, and maybe one day charged via solar.

Unicycles

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The unicycle is fast becoming less of a novelty item and more of a fun way to transport around town, but I don’t think any novice would complain about a little help balancing. The new Honda U3-X takes this a step further, giving a crazy looking way to roam around your office without fear of falling.

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Lightweight Autos

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As gasoline becomes more difficult to obtain, and electric power becomes more common, we’ll need lightweight vehicles that can zoom through town without lugging around too much weight. Here are some visions of what these cars might look like.

Flying Vehicles

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Roads are a pain. Traffic, road maintenance, deer… these are all things that make driving difficult, dangerous, and expensive for the consumer and the government. My favorite solution? Teleportation, but I’ll take flying as a close second. The world fell in love with the personal jetpack when 007 used it in the film Thunderball, and the technology has gotten better ever since.

Airboards

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We were promised hover cars by the year 2000, and this is about as far as we’ve gotten. The Arbortech AirBoard, a $14,000 transportation device looks pretty darn cool, almost like you’re riding a jet engine, but at a much slower pace (around 15 mph).

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I don’t know anyone who has been in a hot air balloon, but I know a lot of people who would love to give one a shot. Even the biggest hot air balloon haters would be intrigued by these delightful creations. In wacky and wonderful shapes, and out of personal pleasure and love for the craft, or for commercial gain, a variety of hot air balloons have graced balloon festivals around the globe. Here are some of the best of the best:

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Animal balloons seem a little dull until you see the tiny box holding the hot air balloonist at the controls. One is quickly awed by the gigantic form of a polar bear as it soars slowly past its smaller, garishly colored peers.

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Interesting hot air balloon shapes are limited only by the creativity of the designer. Enter a hot air mystic that looks suspiciously like Jesus, a wonderful cactus, space shuttle, and… Van Gogh’s head. Oh, don’t forget the bagpiper, at over 150 tall.

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Monsters in the skies! Giant dinosaurs and ferocious faces are a bit more terrifying when blown up to colossal proportions. They soar over fields, delighting onlookers and making children cry out in fear.

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Some of our favorite characters have been featured in this exciting medium. Darth Vader makes an appearance, along with Sonic the Hedgehog, and Michael Wazowski from Pixar’s “Monsters, Inc.”

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Companies love to find creative ways to push their products into the limelight, and hot air ballooning isn’t an exception. From alcohol to batteries, companies will find a way to catch your eye, even if they have to cruise the skies to do it.

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Everyone loves beer! At least, at hot air balloon festivals. Here are some of the coolest beer-shaped hot air balloons. I personally think bottles are the coolest, because they’re so different from the conventional hot air balloon shape.

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Imagine living a life of freedom and constantly changing scenery – all from the comfort of your own little house on wheels. Forget the sterile white plastic of mass-produced recreational vehicles; many modern-day gypsies are traveling in style with stained glass windows, full bathrooms, wood stoves and even porches. Check out these incredible homes built on truck beds, utility trailers, converted buses and even a bicycle.

Al’s House Truck  – Cute Cabin on Wheels

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From the back, all you see is a somewhat narrow little cabin with a cute front porch. But this is no ordinary wooden house – it’s an old Dodge bus, torn apart and reconstructed into a tiny rolling residence complete with a sleeping loft over the cab, a wood stove, stained glass windows and decorative porch pillars. This house bus is famous as the cover model of the 1979 book Rolling Homes by Jane Lidz, an out-of-print collection of house bus and house truck photos that is now sought-after by fans of these abodes.

Sweet School Bus Conversion by Von Slatt

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Inspired by that same book, Rolling Homes by Jane Lidz, steampunk enthusiast Jake Von Slatt turned a 75-seater school bus into a family camper with a seaside Victorian feel. Von Slatt’s 35-foot-bus bus features mostly recycled and salvaged materials and includes a salon, kitchen, bathroom, bunk room and master bedroom.

Complex House Trucks in New Zealand

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Some of the most amazingly complex, large and livable house trucks in the world are located down under in New Zealand where a thriving population of house truck and house bus dwellers get to take tours of the stunning countryside in the comfort of their own homes. Balconies, slide-outs and roof heights seemingly taller than the maximum 13.6″ allowed in the States give these offbeat mobile homes more room than you ever thought possible.

Handmade ‘Vardo’ Gypsy Wagon

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The original mobile homes were Vardos, the horse-drawn Gypsy wagons belonging to English Romani people – and while fewer Romani live in them today, these ornate wagons have inspired a whole new set of houses on wheels on practically every continent. Renaissance fair enthusiast Rae built this one for herself, which actually pops up using pulleys and a winch.

Logan’s Super-Long Housebus

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While some people make their homes inside buses and others forgo the passenger part altogether and put a cabin on a truck bed, still more have created hybrids of sorts that add lofts and porches to a bus body. Like some kind of mobile mullet, the wooden cabin extension caps the bus and hangs down the back.

Handcrafted Log Cabin on Wheels

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Get a closer look at an ultra-customized house truck in this video, which was featured on HGTV. Eric’s house truck even has slide-outs that he built himself, nearly tripling the width inside.

Tiny Tumbleweed Houses

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You might call Tumbleweed Houses the modern-day version of the groovy house trucks of yore, skipping the gleaming plastic interiors of mass-produced RVs and achieving a truly homey feel with wood siding and gable roofs. Ranging from 65 to 140 square feet, Tumbleweed Tiny Houses can be purchased ready-made or built DIY-style with professional plans.

1986 Diesel Converted School Bus

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Wondering how the heck two or more people can fit all of their stuff into a bus? Check out this video tour of Paul and Sharon Jesperson’s “skoolie”, a 1986 65-passenger bus converted for use as a camper and, on occasion, as a full-time residence.

Roger Beck’s 1952 Federal 5-Ton Housetruck

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Long known as an authority on all things house truck, Roger Beck cemented his reputation with his self-published book, “Some Turtles Have Nice Shell”, packed with 400 color photos of house trucks and house buses. Beck’s own housetruck – his fourth, a 1952 Federal -  is pictured above.

Unicat House on Wheels/Offroad Vehicle

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If all of these wooden 1970′s wonders just aren’t rugged enough for your taste, a rolling home worthy of post-apocalyptic survivalists ought to do it. Meet the Unicat EX70-HDQ, an off-roader built like a tank with a jaw-dropping list of advanced features like a back eye camera, burglarproof windows, full lavatory facilities and a water filtration system. There’s no price listed on the website, but the need for a fat wallet is almost guaranteed.

Converted Horse Box in the U.K.

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It’s impossible not to get caught up in the magical nomadic world of artist Rima Staines, who spent several years traveling around Scotland in a converted Bedford TK horse box. Dark stained wood, church windows, a Dutch door, oil lamps and swirling incense give Rima’s home an undeniably romantic feel and while the inside is small, it’s just enough space when everything has its proper place.

Morison House Truck Art Piece

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It’s an art project with a message, yet it’s a livable traveling home as well. “Tales of Space and Time” is a work by artists Heather and Ivan Morison made from a converted Bedford truck. Its folksy 1970s-esque interior is a bit at odds with a large display of apocalyptic fiction – a reference to what the artists see as an overly optimistic attitude to surviving the end of the world.

Firetruck Turned Rolling Home

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Bus not big enough? Try a fire truck on for size. This whopper of a house on wheels was built on a 1969 Ward LaFrance snorkel fire truck after the owner, Damien, removed the mammoth snorkel apparatus, added steel framework, applied wood siding and filled the home with an astonishing amount of furniture, housewares and decor. “I’ve given up on people with the ‘could have bought a Winnebago with the same money’ attitude,” Damien told MrSharkey.com.

Modern Double Decker Community

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Could the house-on-wheels concept extend to everyday life in the city for people on the go? This concept by Aristide Antonas imagines putting a double decker bus to work as modern, somewhat industrial portable housing for professionals on the go -  like a band’s tour bus, but with 7 full-sized beds.

Incredible Camper Bike

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Just when you thought you’d seen it all, this photo comes along. Not much is known about this particular setup, but it certainly piques curiosity and provides a starting point for reflection on just how far the tiny portable housing movement can go.

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Hydrogen vehicles are the future and provide one of the ways to stop using fossil fuels. This therefore cuts down on greenhouse gases that produce global warming. These 20 futuristic hydrogen vehicle concept designs are some the coolest concept designs that we’d like to see rolling down the highway soon.

Ronn Motors Scorpion Roadster

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This is Scorpion, a hydrogen car prototype by Ronn Motor Company. This V6-powered, hydrogen-injected roadster, comes in two flavors “450 or 650 horsepower.” Scorpion is equipped with the company’s proprietary H2GO hydrogen injection system. This slick looking ride weighs about 2,200 pounds, so Ronn Motor estimates fuel mileage at around 40 miles-per-gallon. The company intends to hone the prototype, but look for this supercar being available in the not-too-distant future.

Volkswagen Splinter

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The Smart Fortwo is a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered, zero-emission concept car for Volkswagen. The little two-seater car should be able to squeeze into tight parking spaces. However, the large tires with no mud guards might make driving in the rain a total nightmare.

BlitzenBenz

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BlitzenBenz concept racing car will respond like human bodies react with the human nerve system. Designer George Yoo created the horizontal tubes to visually look and act like a vase where plants grow. The wheels are secured to the organic structure with in-wheel motors that will open like a plant blossoms to receive sunlight or water. The lighting idea was inspired by bioluminescent deep sea creatures. The hydrogen tank is located in the side pocket of the car to give the visual impression of recycling water throughout the entire vehicle.

Pholeum

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Pholeum transportation unit concept vehicle is based on the living cell tissue structure of a plant that can carry organic nutrients to any part of the plant where required. Big rubber wheels contain quad electric motors empowered with efficient next generation hydrogen fuel cell technology. Designer Alexei Mikhailov intends for Pholeum to have a composition of memory plastic body work that, if dented or scratched, will go back to its original shape under application of heat.

Volkswagen CitiZen

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The Volkswagen Citizen Tarelkin by Designer Denis A. is a concept car designed specifically for cities that wish to get rid of some drawbacks encountered in urban settings such as congestion, pollution and noise. The car is equipped with electric motors devised to operate with a hybrid propulsion system, batteries and hydrogen fuel cells. The small wheels hidden underneath the vehicle’s aerodynamic shape are able to rotate 180 degrees.

Dacia SHIFT

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The Dacia SHIFT concept car is a two seater with a transparent removable roof. Designer Liviu Tudoran created Dacia SHIFT specifically for the needs of young Bucharest residents. The power source can either be a lithium-ion battery or electric piles that run by liquid hydrogen.

Mercedes Benz F-Cell Roadster

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Mercedes F-CELL is a concept hydrogen-powered buggy roadster. The body is fiberglass and carbon fiber. It is powered by a hydrogen-electric, emission-free, fuel cell system located at the rear. If the big-spoked bicycle type wheels don’t snag attention, then steering with a joystick surely will. The joystick controls drive-by-wire technology. Additionally, the F-CELL Roadster is supposed to contain all the technologies that top of the line Mercedes cars have.

Renault-Vitesse

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Renault Vitesse by designer James Logan is a hydrogen fuel cell powered concept car. Since the car is intended for intelligent highways of the late 2020 era, the Vitesse will connect to computers controlling the highway and receive information regarding road hazards. Then the information will pass on to other highway drivers to enable them to take proper evasive action. Vitesse is made from lightweight hybrid plastic. A unique bike mountings at the rear end will eliminate any need of roof racks.

RT20

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The adaptable and reconfigurable RT20 concept car was designed by Mathieu Lewis to be at home on both the road and the race track. The RT20 powertrain is a liquid hydrogen fueled twin-turbo V6. This will provide the power and the noise that driving enthusiasts want and need.

BMW HR2 Hybrid Car

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The BMW HR2 hybrid car performs with an output of 285 hp and with a top speed on 185 mph. Acceleration from zero to 60 mph takes approximately six seconds. According to BMW, “BMW will launch a dual-mode version of the current 7 Series during the production cycle of the present model, thus introducing the first car of its kind able to run on both hydrogen and gasoline.”

Melbourne Taxi 2020

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Melbourne Taxi 2020 design concept utilizes an electric Taxi vehicle and supported infrastructure with recharging booths placed at vital points around the city. The taxi’s high-tech features are GPS and mapping systems for passengers and driver, a Smart card system, passenger info and entertainment hub. The green features include a hydrogen fuel cell, a solar panel system including recharging hubs and battery generators. Designer Damian Lucaciu also tackled the problem of accessibility. All rear compartment seats tuck away, opening up maximum floor room for wheelchair access.

The Baja 1000 Buggy

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Designer Dong Tran designed the Baja 1000 Buggy concept to use solar cells infused into the body shell. This helps charge the all electric drivetrain. The powersource is a hydrogen fuel cell. The tires are completely airless and feature LEDs lights on the tread. The Baja 1000 Buggy was a winner of the 2009 Michelin Challenge Design competition. It won in both the vehicle design and wheel design categories.

Hyundai 2020 Family Car

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Designer Nicolas Stone has come up with a new family car. The Hyundai 2020 is aimed at a family of four. Inspired by plants, the car generates fuel for itself using nothing more than sunlight and water. Transparent solar cells generate electricity from ambient light. This electricity is used to carry out electrolysis of water and generate hydrogen to fuel the car.

‘Ozone’ Hydrogen Powered Vehicle

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Futuristic concept vehicle ‘Ozone’ works on hydrogen powered fuel cells. The two seater has giant wheels controlled by separate motors and powered by fuel cells. ‘Ozone’ is steered with a joystick. Huge glass side doors slide open to enter and exit this vehicle. It might be trippy to sit inside the semi transparent glass casing and roll down the highway.

Jaguar C-XC

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The Jaguar C-XC concept by designer Phillip Dean is powered by hydrogen fuel cells which are mounted in the hood. A single piece of glass stretches from the hood to the rear, acting as hood, windscreen, roof, and rear window. Aerodynamics are improved by means of covered wheels and a touching of glass on the body. The Jaguar C-XC might prove to be a mean, lean, road warrior machine.

Audi A0 QS

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Audi A0 QS by designer Alexander Tiganova was “designed for athletes and rich people to enhance their active lifestyles.” This small and dynamic sports car is a hybrid, equipped with an electric motor and a hydrogen engine. Rubber fabric on the doors help them to appear transparent. Keeping in mind for whom it was designed, expect the price tag to be out of reach for mere mortals.

ZIV

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Christopher Latta designed the two-seater ZIV, or Zero Impact Vehicle concept, to offer a greener lifestyle for the busy urban environment by using recycled or reclaimed materials only. It is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell that generates water as the final mechanical waste and can be collected in a holding tank for later use. “The motionless rim design makes the vehicle unique where the tire travels around the rim by utilizing maglev train like magnets that controls all propulsion and braking functions.”

Landstorm Concept Vehicle

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The Landstorm concept vehicle was created for 2058. Designer Peter Spriggs intends Landstorm to be needed “when airborne vehicles will not be effective to reach a particular area because of frequent natural disasters as a result of future global warming.” These pods have been designed for scouting missions, for food and water transportation to a disaster affected area, and for use as medical pods that can treat two patients simultaneously. The excavation pods can work as robust cranes to remove large pieces of wreckage. As a fire rescue pod, the tank can hold 750 gallons of water and can drain water from lakes with outboard pumps. A hydraulic drive-train is attached with several powerful electric motors and powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Vayro

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The Vayro is a future track concept to meet the increasing freight requirement of long-distance road haulage for the year 2020. The truck is powered by a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine. Vayro features a power-split transmission that transmits the power electrically through an electric generator. Desginer Kioko Muthui created Vayro to have an overall length of 123 feet that can carry a gross of 182,000 pounds.

Renault E0

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Liviu Tudoran designed the Renault E0, Emission ZERO, with two different platforms. One contains an electric charging mechanism and the other includes electric combustion piles fueled by liquid hydrogen. Aluminum is the main body component of this four-seater concept car. The battery is charged by a solar panel whenever possible.

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Invented in the 19th century, the bicycle hasn’t changed much since then, and it’s sorely in need of a 21st century makeover. Luckily, there are plenty of designers eager to jump in and do just that, with amazing concepts that fold into compact portable packages, harness solar energy, store kinetic pedal power and even allow amphibious travel. Some are ready for the assembly line while others will never be more than an idea, but all 16 of these designs are quite a departure from the ordinary.

Laptop-Charging Bike Concept

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It’s probably the boxiest and least aerodynamic bicycle concept yet, but the most interesting part of Yuji Fujimura’s strange design has nothing to do with looks. This electric bicycle has a docking station for your laptop, charged by the bike’s battery as you ride. Sure, it’s probably uncomfortable and you’d be knocked down in no time flat by the slightest gust of wind, but you’d never run out of juice.

Incredible Folding Backback Bicycle

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The backcountry provides some of the most breathtaking, adventurous settings for mountain biking – but the journey to get there sometimes takes enthusiasts over terrain that has to be negotiated on foot, and most bicycles aren’t easy to carry. The Bergmönch folding backpack bicycle eliminates that problem. Not only is it small and lightweight, it folds perfectly onto itself in less than two minutes in a convenient configuration.

Solar Powered Electric Bike

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While cyclists on traditional rides huff and puff up hills, Cycle Sol owners can glide up effortlessly using solar power instead of muscle power. Designed by Miroslav Miljevic, this electric bicycle has a roof that both protects the rider from the sun and rain and collects solar energy. It’s made for people who don’t feel up to the physical demands of cycling, but still want to get the rest of the benefits.

Collapsible Bike Concept

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Portability is key when it comes to the bikes of the future, and concept designers are finding incredibly creative ways to make bikes light and collapsible. This design by Blair Hasty not only breaks down into a small package, but also provides storage space in the form of a bag positioned between the wheels. Hasty also set out to improve rider posturing, saying “I resolved these issues by moving the position of the pedals behind the rider and moving some of the pressure of their body weight onto the front of the hip bones, using a broad front section of the seat and onto their forearms with supports protruding from the handles.”

BMW Concept Bikes

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It comes as no surprise that some of the coolest-looking bicycle concepts were designed by automaker BMW. It’s not clear exactly what these concepts were created for, but with their colorful motorbike-esque shapes and proportions, they do provide some inspiration for bringing bicycle design firmly into the 21st century.

Bizarre Di-Cycle

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Designed to carry the rider over both land and water, this strange bicycle concept was designed especially for the city of Helmond in the Netherlands, which has as many canals as it does roads.  Created by GBO Design, the Di-Cycle is far bulkier than traditional bicycles – which would seem to limit its application – but does offer an intriguing solution to amphibious travel.

ThisWay: All-Weather Bicycle Design

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One of the most common reasons people give for not riding a bicycle more often is that they don’t want to get wet. All-weather bicycle concepts aren’t entirely new, but they’ve always been rather clunky and unrealistic – until now. ‘ThisWay’, a covered bicycle concept by Swedish designer Torkel Dohmers, features a transparent roof that can protect against precipitation. It’s a cool idea, but critics point out that the lack of fenders means water from the road will splash up onto the rider.

Locust Flexible Folding Bicycle

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With its large circular frame, the Locust folds in a way that most other portable, collapsible bikes don’t. Designer Josef Cardek told Ride This Bike, “The idea behind the Locust was developed in a very analytical way: I asked myself what parts of a normal bike can never fold? Wheels, of course. So everything else must be subordinated to wheels…and from this idea it was clear to me what shape the bike will have. Also, one of my core objectives was to keep ‘classic conservative geometry’, using the biggest wheels possible to achieve the easy handling and feel of a normal bike.”

Grasshopper: Folding Electric Bike

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Naturally, some intrepid designers have taken folding bicycles to the next level by making them electric. But none have gone quite so far as David Gonçalves, whose Grasshopper design not only gets you to and fro, but can also become a stationary exercise bike and even generates and stores the energy you produce when pedaling.

Wind-Powered Racing Bicycle

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Unwieldy? No doubt. But creating this monster of a wind-powered, multi-seater bicycle (tricycle, actually) was a dream of Gustav Winkler’s since he was a boy, and he’s thrilled with the results, even if the creation doesn’t offer much in the way of protection for the rider.

Minimalist Theft-Proof Computer-Aided Bicycle

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With spokeless wheels designed to eliminate wind drag, tires that can’t be punctured, no visible chain and a minimalist frame, this bicycle is a definite departure from old school designs. The brainchild of Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman, the bike has a solar-powered battery that assists the rider up hills and even has a fingerprint-reading device that only allows the owner to ride it. A tiny computer on the handlebars calculates the number of calories burned based on the number of times the pedals rotate. This is definitely a bike of the future: Boardman estimates that it won’t be available for at least two decades.

Adjustable, Eco-Friendly Versabikes

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The Versabike seems to be employing some biomimicry, with a shape that calls to mind a human body. Designed to adapt to a range of different user heights, this bicycle concept adjusts using the same mechanics that we do, bending at the ‘knees’ to bring the seat and pedals closer to the ground. As a result, it can be shared by a couple or grow with a child.

Webcycle: Internet Exercise Bike

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This bicycle isn’t going to get you from point A to point B, but it will help you get fit. Internet addicts who find themselves out of shape because they like to sit in front of the computer all day could use the WebCycle to pedal their way to fitness and browse the web at the same time – with a small catch. If you pedal slowly, the bike and accompanying computer program restrict your bandwidth, so you’re effectively punished or rewarded depending on how hard you work.

Nulla: Ultramodern Spokeless Bike

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Nulla means “nothing” in Italian, and though this bicycle is closer to “nothing” than most, it’s still a whole lot of something. Like the minimalist theft-proof bicycle by Chris Boardman, the Nulla has no hubs or chain drive for perhaps the sleekest, most futuristic look yet.

Honda U3-X: If Unicycles and Segways Mated

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Okay, so this isn’t a bicycle, it’s a unicycle – and the concept is totally contrary to the essence of a bicycle, which requires some kind of effort on behalf of the rider in order to move. The Honda U3-X is like a Segway for even lazier people, allowing users to control it simply by leaning their bodies slightly. About the size of a retro boombox, the U3-X is battery powered and goes only 4mph. But considering that it’s the world’s smallest mobility device, it could possibly inspire other concepts that are a bit more useful in the real world.

Suspended Bicycle Lane Concept

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It’s not a bicycle itself, but rather a new way to ride them: a bike lane in the sky, where cyclists can literally rise above the headaches of car traffic. Architect Martin Angelov envisions the ‘Kolelinia’ as a sort of self-powered monorail for bikes: rails run between buildings and towers in the city, grabbing onto the bikes’ handlebars to keep riders safe on their sky-high trail. Cyclists are kept out of street traffic and can safely go anywhere they need to.

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