5: ArcaBoard

The ArcaBoard is certainly a revolutionary breakthrough for transportation. Designed by the American aerospace company “ARCA space”, this personal vehicle can move in all possible directions including upwards.

The company claims, it’s the first revolutionary breakthrough in motion since the bicycle, automobile and airplane. To create enough lift, the board is packed with 36 high-power electric ducted fans creating up to 272 horsepower and 430 pounds of thrust, and is capable of transporting a person weighing up to 243 pounds.

However, the top speed of this vehicle is limited to 20 km/hr and is priced at around US $19,900. This device is surely the closest thing to the technology from the movie “Back to the Future”.

4. Helix Folding Bike

Helix Folding Bike designed by Toronto-based startup bike makers is certainly a new mode of transport for people who want to move. Helix is one of the smallest and the most compact folding bike in its class, as it folds down to the size of its wheels.

It is designed to go everywhere, whether it’s the subway, the trunk of your car or a suitcase. The combination of side-by-side folding and helical hinges allow Helix to be folded with ease. And once folded, it can be rolled on its own wheels and has an integrated stand for it, whenever you stop.

3. VARIO Signature 1200

Described as the ultimate glamping experience, this 1-million-pounds motorhome is so large that you can park a sports-car inside it. The newly launched VARIO Signature 1200 allows your car to slide out of an interior garage, underneath the main lounge.

The entire mobile home is about 40 feet long, and the interiors—with its American walnut wood veneer, and lounge area made of satin-white leather — is so glamorous that it wouldn’t be out of place in an expensive hotel. As many as six people can sleep comfortably in the main cabin, and it also includes the option of a pull-down bed above the driver’s seat.

The “master bedroom” boasts an entire double bed, as well as drawers, bed lamps, and even a beautiful skylight. Not only is the Bathroom impressively spacious, but just look at that gorgeous interior design work and wood paneling. The Signature 1200 has a base price of 710,000 pounds but this rises to around 1-million-pounds with the option to customize your requirements.

The base version can accommodate a Smart car, while the ‘XXL’ allows room for a Mercedes SL, Mini Cooper or Porsche 911. To party with your friends, there is also a BOSE home entertainment system, microprocessor-controlled lighting modules for ambient lighting, and a multi-function ‘kitchen block’. The ‘XXL driver’s cabin’ not only has the driver’s seat, but also has an adjustable second row of leather seats for your entire family.

2. Flyboard Air

Inventors have been chasing the dream of personal flight for decades, but no one else has achieved it in the way that Zapata has. A perfect machine that can fly above water, Flyboard Air was invented by French water-craft rider Franky Zapata, founder of Zapata racing.

Unveiled in 2016, the Flyboard Air uses an “Independent Propulsion Unit” to fly autonomously for up to ten minutes. With 5 jet engines, the hovercraft can reach a maximum height of 10,000 feet, and tops out at a speed of 93 miles per hour. Zapata also used the Flyboard Air to set a Guinness World Record, for the farthest hoverboard flight in April 2016, after riding it for a distance of 2,252 meters along the coast of southern France.

1. BMW Letron

Yes, it’s not any normal car, but a real-life transforming car. Turkish research and development startup ‘Letvision’, has assembled real-life Transformers out of brand-new BMWs. Except they don’t call them Transformers – they call them Letrons.

12 engineers from the company have been working hard to develop a fully-working prototype, which they call ANTIMON. It starts off as any BMW on the road and converts into a giant robot only after a touch of button. Once it transforms, it shows its kinetic fingers, moving arms, and a powerful wrist. And it also talks a lot like Optimus Prime and Megatron, to add to the light and a camera on its chest plate.

Letvision even has plans to create a whole line of the robots, which will transform out of various models of BMW cars. It took them around 90 days to complete one new BMW into a Letron, but has plans to complete the process in just 30 days.