“Air is pretty cheap,” says Skylar Tibbits, the co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT’s International Design Center. He’s making a point about inflatables, which could be useful for ...

MIT and BMW are partnering to develop a 3D printed, inflatable, stretchy material that could change car design in the future. Currently, cars already use air in airbags and some seating. But because ...

Volvo isn't afraid to try new things with inflatables. Those things include its pedestrian airbag and now a child safety seat concept. The new concept has nothing to do with crash-activated airbag ...

If you’re a parent, you’re guaranteed to run into the “three-across” conundrum at some point. If you drive a sedan, a wagon, a crossover or an SUV with two rows, there will come a time in your ...

Inflatable electric cars could have 2500 mile range using a single hot-swap XPack Multi-CoreTM Battery/Fuel Cell power plant. You would use the battery/fuel cell and then it would be changed out when ...

To address travelers' need for a child booster seat, UK-based BubbleBum has come up with a clever solution: an inflatable seat. The BubbleBum seat is essentially a cushion that can be stored in a ...

Raise your hand if you’re a parent who has struggled with schlepping a child-safety seat through an airport, into a taxicab or even just from your car into grandma’s car. This is a frustration with ...

Child car seats are essential for infant and toddler safety, but that doesn’t mean that parents are happy to use them. The seats are bulky and heavy, and they’re a pain to position correctly. But what ...

He really loves his car. A man in Argentina became an internet sensation last week, and a hero of car enthusiasts around the globe, when he selflessly sacrificed his body to protect his Citroen sedan ...