Galactic Suite is a bio-inspired orbital station that is attempting to bring space tourism to the masses, as long as you can afford the three million euro price tag.

The Energy Belt designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini is a solar powered monorail proposed as a sustainable transportation solution, connecting the Italian city of Bologna with the city’s international airport.

LCD screens have been set up on the L subway line in New York City which display the exact location of trains on the line, so travelers can better understand how long the wait will be.

PicTranslator is an iPhone application that has the ability to capture any printed foreign text from a user’s photo and translate it.

A new location tracking application for the iPhone called Stalqer is about to launch in the US. The app runs in the background and broadcasts your location to your friends automatically every 15 minutes.

After more than ten frustrating years in various badly designed wheelchairs, Mark Owen took it upon himself to create a new wheelchair design that was beautiful, lightweight, bespoke and modern.

The Hotel Everland is a portable, bright green, rectangular one-room hotel that has been stationed in various locations in Switzerland, Germany, and France.

The city of Chicago is reportedly in talks with Apple to sponsor the renovation and improvement of its North and Clybourn Station. If successful, the city would net four million dollars from the deal, while Apple would maintain primary advertising rights to the station.

Following their launch of Metrotwin last year, a social community that twins different things to do and places to see in New York and London, British Airways have now added another city to their fold – Mumbai.

The YikeBike is a new personal electric vehicle created for urban travel. It’s able to reach a top speed of 20km/h, weighs 9.8 kilograms, and can fold up for easy transportation when not in use.

The NY Times looks at the major considerations shaping the entire manufacturing process, from conception to production, in an effort to explain what they see as a missed opportunity for electric cars to redefine vehicle aesthetics from the ground up.

Observing the common behavior of sitting on luggage while in transit, Erik De Nijs created a set of suitcases that can be combined into a two person sofa.

BMW is developing an application store specifically for in-car use.

Coca-Cola will send a team of three bloggers-cum-”Happiness Ambassadors” around the world in 2010, with the mission of finding out what makes people happy.  Can they find a role for Coke to complement that pursuit of happiness?
Coca-Cola announced that it is launching a new social media push that will send three bloggers to more than 200 countries in a year, with the goal of uncovering what makes people happy. The social media piece will be part of Coke’s broader “Open Happiness” campaign.
Ambitiously, the around-the-world journey involves stays of just a day or two in each of 206 countries.  The three [...]

In Mexico, Decano Industries is developing a new smart speed bump aimed at increasing safety and decreasing fuel consumption.