Every day scores of pedestrians are injured or killed when they tangle with a car, so a group of Japanese researchers had the wacky idea of putting airbags on the outside of a car to protect people on foot.

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Airbags on the outside of a car isn’t as nutty as it sounds

Japan’s recent Good Design Expo 2010 was the site for the unveiling of a design prototype called the X-Frame Folding vehicle, an innovation in urban mobility that could ultimately replace the common motorcycle.

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Electric folding vehicle shrinks your carbon footprint "and" your parking bills

Unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming more and more prevalent, allowing for our military to get views of areas from above without sending any humans into harm’s way. But they’re generally pretty passive, unable to pick stuff up. Not so with Yale’s new Aerial Manipulator.

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Aerial Manipulator: the UAV that can carry bombs away

Ford’s SYNC system has made their cars into rolling Wi-Fi hotspots, and now there are plans to leverage that capability by allowing owners to download various options for their cars.

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Ford SYNC will soon let you download options for your car

We love fast cars and tech toys here at Dvice. so when you wrap both together in one package, the result is an irresistible orgy of Dviceness.

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Custom Mercedes is an Apple fanboy’s pleasure palace on wheels

If you think of electric cars as kind of pumped-up golf carts useful for getting around town but not much else, then you probably haven’t encountered the 307-mph Buckeye Bullet 2.5

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307-mph electric car breaks the battery powered land speed record

Electric cars have a lot going for them, but pedestrians sometimes fear them for their lack of noise. If you’re crossing the street, and an EV is coming at you, chances are you won’t hear it coming. Automakers have responded by installing noisemakers (including some incredibly cool ones ), including Toyota, which just unveiled one for its popular Prius . One problem: it’s optional.

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Toyota tries to make electric cars safer, but in a dumb way

Think back to the last time you were in some bad traffic. Now imagine said traffic lasting for nine days , with drivers living off food they’ve bought from road-side stalls that have quadrupled their prices as cars wait in a procession that spans 62 miles. Yeah, it’s happening in China right now.

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Image of the Day: 62-mile-long traffic jam

Playing with regular Lego is fine for little kids, but once you’ve grown up most people want their toys to be life-sized. Still, the owner of this car didn’t want to give up his childhood passion, so he built a fully driveable car from giant Lego blocks .

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Life-sized Lego car lets you play grown-up

The Segway is a symbol of the unhip and nerdy, even though it is a pretty impressive piece of technology. But this similarly self-balancing scooter from Ryno Motors? It’s quite the opposite.

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One-wheeled electric scooter leaves the Segway in its dust