Flying cars have been doing this whole vaporware thing long before Duke Nukem Forever was even a twinkle in 3D Realms’ eye. That’s why it’s practically absurd to assume anything at all will come from this new X-Hawk flying car, whose inventor, Rafi Yoeli, the founder of Urban Aeronautics, claims could ready for the market by 2010. The project has been in the works for years already, but Rafi recently managed to get a rudimentary prototype to fly a few feet off the ground, and has sparked some interest from Textron’s Bell Helicopters for potential partnership. Two main things set the X-Hawk ap…

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Adding its name to the ever-growing list of all-electric cars that never seem to seep onto lots is Lightning, which is apparently developing a 700bhp whip that unashamedly rips styling cues from quintessential British cars of the past and present. Designed to “compete with premium market sport cars,” the GT is hoping to “combine high performance electric motive power with an advanced regenerative energy system that recharges the car’s batteries under braking by capturing lost friction energy.” Additionally, motorists can expect a sub-four second 0-60 time, and better yet, just a ten minute cha…

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Gamers and art fans got hot under the collar this week over the debut of free ICA culture videos earlier this week. Which begs the question: are they any good? We had a watch

The PSP, it turns out, is not just a corking way of carjacking strangers on the street and humiliating your friends in public places: it’s now also the perfect vehicle for avant garde culture vultures.Earlier this week, London’s ICA – the gallery that puts on the modern art show Becks Futures each year – released the ICA Show, a ten minute free video available for download on www.yourpsp.com.It’s the first episode of a series of twelve, with new instalments planned once a fortnight. So, should you shoot your browser over to Sony’s site to get downloading?If you like eye candy and froth, th…

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From the same company that let consumers create their own ads belittling it as an eco-terrorist and worse, comes a new promotional stunt that earns one lucky winner the right to drive home in a vehicle that’s been scratched up by several thousand fellow contestants. Billed as the “world’s first ever Scratch Car-d,” the specific Captiva that Chevrolet gave away in the UK’s Covent Garden this morning spent two months getting coated with the same silver latex used to make instant-win lottery tickets, which was then divided up into 16,995 tiny boxes to reflect the Captiva’s price in pounds sterlin…

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