DoorDash spent years watching other companies fly food, then decided the aircraft should come last. On September 30, 2026, at its Dash Forward event, the company showed DoorDash Air, a six-propeller drone it designed and assembles in San Francisco, paired with kitchen loading gear and software that already sorts millions of orders a day. Early pilot flights are set for Northern California in the coming months, with reporting pointing to the East Bay. Chipotle, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, and the local shop Momo N Curry are the first restaurants signed on.
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Irena Kandaurov’s latest concept arrives as a set of renderings that refuse the usual yacht shopping list. Guests scanning the hull for a helipad, a beach club, or a glass wheelhouse will come up empty. What sits in their place is a low, continuous shell with long flowing lines, two open decks, and a pool on each of them.
Lexus opened overseas orders for the LY680 in September 2026, six months after the yacht made its physical debut in March and two years after sales began in Japan. The first public appearance outside that market is booked for the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, running October 28 through November 1 in Florida. Brand officials framed the move under the line Discover Escapism, treating the boat as a private stretch of water rather than a floating showroom for the spindle grille.
Super Valid Designs spent two months on a ski lift because mice had moved into the chicken coop and ordinary traps only opened a revolving door. Catch one batch and another arrives. Live relocation felt like a better bet than a pile of snap traps, so the plan became a pair of jobs in one machine: baited gondolas that work as traps, then a cable line that carries those cars 250 feet down a hill and dumps the passengers into brush without anyone walking the route every night.
Future Motion’s Santa Cruz shop looks out on the Pacific. About thirty feet from the door sits a stretch of abandoned railroad Kyle Doerksen had been staring at for years. In September 2026 he pulled a bone-stock XR Classic off the shelf and decided that line was going to carry a Onewheel.
Scottish rider Danny MacAskill has wanted to experience Norway’s granite slabs for years. This summer he gathered friends, pointed a camera crew north, and spent days on the rock around Narvik while the midnight sun hung in the sky and refused to leave. Bosch eBike Systems backed the short film that came out of that trip, titled Endless Light.
Old railway handcars appear in classic films as simple machines with a long beam that two people push up and down in opposite rhythm. That motion turns a crank and spins the wheels, sending the cart rolling along the rails at a steady, unhurried pace. Sam Barker and Tom decided the idea deserved a modern remake built almost entirely from plastic.
GRMNT pulled his grandfather’s old road bike out of storage and found a Bianchi built with real Tange steel tubing. Years of grime covered the frame, yet the metal underneath still held the clean lines and solid construction of a proper 1980s road machine. He cleaned it thoroughly, then set out to give the bike an electric boost that left almost no visible trace of the change.
Japan opened its first bullet train in 1964, timed for the Tokyo Olympics. That Shinkansen reached 210 kilometers per hour and showed the world what dedicated high-speed rail could do. Today those trains routinely clear 300 kilometers per hour, matching the takeoff speed of many commercial jets. The question the TED-Ed lesson asks is whether rail can ever outpace flight itself.
