Racing AEOLUS - Gadgets

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Thrillpacked Time has come for new technologies to be applied. For the first time ever, RACING AEOLUS© will be held, in The Netherlands, from August 20 to 23, 2008. Offering a unique chance to be part of the most innovative windpowered vehicle race in the world: sailing straight into the wind in a single-handed land yacht equipped with rotorblades or a (Darius)turbine. sign up here Download an ...

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GTS World Racing for iPhone

— astraware.com — Enjoy the thrill of classic arcade-style racing with GTS World Racing. Select your car, race your opponents,... set the fastest laptimes, and burn rubber to gain championship victory! Accelerate, brake and steer using the accelerometer around 64 track ... (more) GTS World Racing for iPhone

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Ventomobile: Sailing without sails. On the land.
Core77 — ... , a new take on the old idea of wind-powered transport. The AEOLUS race, to be held in the Netherlands later this month, pits competing single-person land yachts against each other, with the requirement that they sail directly into the wind. The vehicles are therefore quite different from the sail-powered craft of old, using wind turbines to harvest energy and translate it into torque on the ground. ...

Land yacht race
MAKE Magazine — ... The AEOLUS race, to be held in the Netherlands later this month, pits competing single-person land yachts against each other, with the requirement that they sail directly into the wind. The vehicles are therefore quite different from the sail-powered craft of old, using wind turbines to harvest energy and translate it into torque on the ground. A group of students at Stuttgart University called Team Inventus have been documenting their 9-month process of building such a craft (pictured above), and it's quite a thing of beauty. Featuring a 2m wind turbine and carbon-fiber ...