Category: Motorcycles

KTM buys into motorcycle HUD tech with Nuviz

In what might been seen as a strategic move against the competition, Pierer Industrie – parent company of KTM Motorcycles – has invested in American company Nuviz, which is developing a helmet-mounted HUD system. Nuviz is planning to bring to market a motorcycle specific HUD and connected rider system by the first half of 2017.

Honda’s demonstrates self-balancing bike tech

For nearly two decades Honda’s been investing huge money in its Asimo robot – a boy-like humanoid which has progressed from a wobbly set of mechanical legs in its early years to a running, dancing and tray-carrying little machine servant still wowing crowds at motor and tech shows around the world today. But, even with all of Asimo’s impressive advancements in balancing technology, there are still some more cynical showgoers asking what the point of such an expensive android is.

Odd News salutes the most useless inventions of 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that “necessity is the mother of invention,” but if that’s the case, some inventions that made headlines in 2016 must be downright motherless. There were plenty of inventions and breakthroughs in 2016 that filled important needs for humanity, but we here at UPI Odd News are more concerned with a less-recognized category of innovations — those that seemingly serve only to promote lazy, bizarre, or downright dangerous behavior.

Dainese Creates Space Suit to Protect Astronauts

You probably know Dainese best as an Italian motorcycling apparel manufacturer that specializes in sport and racing gear, and you might have heard of its high-tech . If you’re really in-the-know, you even know that Dainese also makes protective gear for mountain biking, winter sports and horseback riding.

Revolutionary motorbike engine

Like the ’50s jet age and space age of the ’60s, “rotary power” was a hot topic across the 1970s automotive sphere. Billed by apostles as the next phase in internal combustion, it was, for a time, just that.