Rooftop camping is a common topic here at New Atlas, but typically it’s focused on tents mounted atop motor vehicles. A new hotel opening this year in Hamburg, Germany is broadening the conversation, supplementing its standard rooms with a rooftop campground. You might expect to find glampy yurts or cabin tents in such a fixture, but the Pierdrei Hotel has […]

A leading name in custom camper vans, Outside Van developed one of its latest customs with a different purpose in mind. The Next Gen van is an experimental prototype designed to optimize and centralize weight, using new strategies and experimental components. It doesn’t skimp on features, though, keeping the lights and A/C on with a beefy 720Ah lithium battery pack […]

Hyundai is launching its first car with a solar rooftop as part of the vehicle’s charging system. The solar panels in the new Sonata Hybrid’s roof are expected to provide up to 60 percent of the car’s battery charging per day and provide over a 1,000 km of EV range per year. The solar panels are semi-transparent and were introduced […]

Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio has designed a concept for a boutique hotelwithin a cliff edge in Norway that includes a cantilevered glass swimming pool. Istanbul practice Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio proposed building the hotel on a site 600-metres-high on Preikestolen – a steep cliff and popular tourist spot in the west of Norway that overhangs the Lysefjorden fjord. It is […]

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing a new type of gyrocopter that gets rid of the pilot to provide more cargo space. The focus of the Automated Low Altitude Air Delivery (ALAADy) system, the ALAADy Demonstrator unmanned gyrocopter is designed to autonomously deliver heavier cargoes at low altitudes. With the explosion of online commerce, the problem of transporting goods […]

Though folding e-scooters are nothing new, you generally have to carry them about in your hands between rides. The MiniFalcon has been designed to be collapsed down in three steps and stowed away in its own ukulele-sized backpack. The MiniFalcon electric kickscooter is just over 23 inches long when folded thanks to a telescopic steering pole, collapsible handles, folding rear […]

Following an international architecture competition, UN Studio has been selected to design a new cable car terminal in Russia. Assuming all goes to plan, the project, described as the world’s first cross-border cable car by the firm, will link with a counterpart in China and provide swift travel between the two countries. The Blagoveshchensk Cable Car Terminal, which also involves […]

  If you’re much of a world traveller, then you’ve probably experienced it – a several-hour airport layover during which you’d like to get some sleep, but without going off to a hotel. That’s where the Trollaby is intended to come in, as it serves as a sort of bag-connected airport-floor tent. Invented by Austrian entrepreneur Marc Brugger, the Trollaby […]

Intimate sleeping pods designed by Sleepbox have been installed at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC by architecture studio 3877. Sleepbox has 16 bookable nap rooms that are available for hire for a minimum of one hour, to offers travellers a place to rest in privacy. The 1,200-square-foot (111-square-metre) space in Washington Dulles International Airport, located post-security in the international concourse A, is filled with two […]

No-one likes to queue at airport check-in lines, it eats into your holiday time, and can be both boring and tiring. Now British Airways has signed up for ViewTags, reusable electronic baggage tags that can be attached to luggage before holiday-makers get to the airport. The idea for ViewTags came to company CEO Rick Warther when he was stuck in […]