Everything seems better or, at the very least, more alluring looked at through nostalgia-tinted glasses, and this is no exception. This is The Teardrop or the Spirit of Tomorrow car, an instance of retro-futurism that you probably never heard of before. Back in 1933, American inventor ...
READ MORE +For the best showcases of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, tiny houses are the perfect market niche to study. But even with this in mind, the Rubishack tiny home is unlike any other you've ever seen. We mean that literally. Most tiny house builders will use absolute phrasing to get ...
READ MORE +Mobile homes of different shapes and sizes have been around for decades, even before the automobile itself. The vanlife craze is more recent: a phenomenon with such a wide appeal that it's sweeping normies away from their homes and 9-to-5s and inviting them on the road, opening up an entire ...
READ MORE +Tiny houses may be a lot of excellent things, but one thing they're most definitely not these days is cheap. A DIY (do it yourself) tiny house may be the only exception, assuming you're ready to put in the extra effort. Recent years brought about a slew of variations on the concept of ...
READ MORE +Good things come to those who wait, but life tends to laugh in the face of most wise old sayings – including this one. For this particular teeny-tiny module that would explode at camp into a 6-person RV, the wait hasn't brought many nice surprises. This is the story of the ioCamper, a ...
READ MORE +Even at times when demand hit a record low, recreational traveling never really went out of style, which means that neither did all the vehicles that make it possible. These days, though, demand is peaking for towables that are both lightweight and comfortable, and preferably modular. ...
READ MORE +If a prefabricated home is good enough as a semi-permanent residence for Elon Musk, one of the world's richest men, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, and arguably the man who's going to take mankind to Mars, then a prefab must be good enough for a regular, Porsche-owning person. A prefabricated home is an ...
READ MORE +With all this talk about downsizing to reduce our carbon footprint and lead more affordable (and happier) lives and about upcycling to cut down on waste, it'd be easy to get lost in fancy words. But at the end of the day, either can be a form of keeping a legend alive. Photo: airbnb ...
READ MORE +As automotive urban legends go, this is neither the strangest nor the most surprising, if it were true. In 2014, Bugatti banned multimedia kingpin Simon Cowell from ever buying a Bugatti again. Photo: Darin Schnabel for RM Sotheby's/Instagram Simon Cowell (Composite) The reason for ...
READ MORE +Viral videos or stories would have you believe that a full DIY (do-it-yourself) project can be a successful one even without prior experience or any type of professional help: you just watch a bunch of YouTube videos, and you're set to finish in record time. That may be the case with some ...
READ MORE +What defines a gentleman's yacht? If you ask world-renowned yacht builder Heesen Yachts, it's a combination of impressive performance, outstanding and innovative features, sophisticated styling, and more industry firsts than fingers on one hand. No wonder, then, that Ultra G, codenamed Project ...
READ MORE +Popular wisdom has it that you shouldn't want or expect to have it all in life, as awesome an idea as it might seem because it will simply not happen. But if it could, it would probably look a lot like the NOT A HOTEL ANYWHERE project. 33 photosPhoto: Kenta Hasegawa/DDA Architects (Composite) ...
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