Izhar Gafni has designed award winning industrial machines for peeling pomegranates and sewing shoes. He’s also a bike enthusiast who’s designed a lot of carbon fiber rigs. But one day, he’d heard ...

Luxury electric bike company Riese & Müller generally ships its e-bikes the same way every electric bike maker in the world does: in cardboard bike boxes. But now the company is switching to a new ...

Izhar Gafni, an Israeli engineer had a dream to create a vehicle that could provide cheap, fuel efficient transport to millions of people around the world. His search led him to develop a bicycle made ...

If you’ve ever had to replace a bicycle, [Izhar Gafni] is your man. He created a bicycle made completely out of cardboard that is strong enough to support the largest riders and costs about the same ...

Israel-based Izhar Gafni has invented a working bicycle which is constructed almost entirely from recycled cardboard, and only costs around US$12 to manufacture. The cardboard bike is being touted as ...

You’d think it were dystopian if it weren’t true: With so much awesome new bike gear coming out, one of the most exciting items is a cardboard box. But not just any cardboard box; this is a reinforced ...

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The dream of recycled, low-cost cardboard bikes for everyone has new momentum in the form of an Indiegogo campaign. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I have a ...

Would you ride a bike while wearing a helmet made of cardboard? What if its design was inspired by nature — specifically, a woodpecker? You'll have a chance to do just that next year — meaning you ...

A bicycle is stolen in England every 71 seconds. So how do you solve this problem through the power of design? According to design student Phil Bridge, make a bike so cheap that there’s no incentive ...