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yankodesign.com - 9/9/2008

Hitch a Free Ride

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A belt with three GIANT suction cups for you to hitch onto anything. That’s exactly what the Hitch concept is by designer Robert Nightingale. He believes in a free world where opportunistic travelers just latch themselves onto moving vehicles. The triple load vacuum suction cups are ...

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Hitch Suction-Cup Belt Lets You Catch Free Rides, Dice With Death [Suckers]
Gizmodo — ... Nightingale has come up with in his "Hitch" concept. It's a smidge like the free-ride skateboard Kouriers in Snow Crash and a smidge like bad building-climbing gear from B-movies. The idea of Hitch is simply to sucker onto a vehicle that's about to move off, using the belt and hand suction cups, thereby gaining yourself a free journey. But Robert also suggests aircraft hangers as a good hitchhiking location, which I'm pretty certain is a one-way ticket to a Darwin Award. [Yanko Design] ...

Use Hitch to grab a free ride
Gizmodiva.com — ... attention to ground clearance for ones feet and enjoy the ride." I hope Robert Nightingale is kidding about this Hitch concept. It might seem cool in the movies, but I think it is a disaster in making in real life. Call me over cautious, but better safe than sorry. I think my two feet are free and efficient transportation. The only real use I can think for it is that it might help me latch on to a hot rich guy. Source

Hitch a Ride - Concept Idea
Gadget Venue — ... railway stations or air hangers. Subtly wait for the opportune moment (which is precisely 7 seconds before the initial point of acceleration) and attach the product as firmly as possible to the host vehicle (a brief run up usually does the trick), paying attention to ground clearance for ones feet and enjoy the ride… Everything from this concept idea is probably available to buy off the shelves although I’d seriously recommend not trying it Via: Yanko Design a Hitch a Ride - Concept Idea ...

Hitch
TrendsNow — Imaginé par le designer Robert Nightingale dans le cadre du concours de design Fiat 2008 "Smiles from A to B" qui avait pour objet de créer des concepts qui provoquent le maximum de sourires, "Hitch" a été pensé au petit déjeuner, prototypé dans la nuit et shooté à Brooklyn le lendemain matin. L'idée ? Tout simplement voyager à l'oeil ! via YankoDesign

Best of September 2008
Yanko Design — ... most popular designs we’ve tracked over the last 30 days - an overview of designs you shouldn’t have missed in September 2008. 10) Mitsubishi Motors MMR25 Rally Racer. Permalink Hits: 7604 9) B-Scanner by Sungwoo Park & Bongkun Shin. Permalink Hits: 7705 8 SPAcer Spa bath by Dominik Chojnacki. Permalink Hits: 7895 7) iSound by Seohyun Baek. Hits: 8862 6) Hitch a Free Ride by Robert Nightingale. Permalink Hits: 9208 ...