Quadmovr’s Supercharged Drone

Specialty drone designer Quadmovr has released a video demonstrating the acrobatics of what looks like the world’s quickest quadcopter. The tweaked drone sports a pretty basic design: just four arms for the blades and what appears to be a rather clunky battery pack strapped to its bottom. But when it starts to move, it really moves. The scary-quick ‘copter shoots straight up, disappearing from sight, …

Lab-Grown Leather

Brooklyn-based start-up Modern Meadow is currently developing the world’s first lab-grown leather. By taking advantage of recent advances in cell engineering, the company is hoping to shape a future that is “cultured not slaughtered.” The leather is grown by first isolating an animal’s skin cells and then multiplying those cells by the billions, producing sheets of the faux-skins. Not only can this technology decrease leather-specific …

A Two-Wheeled Tortoise

A 90-year-old tortoise named Mrs T has been outfitted with a set of wheels after losing her two front legs in a rat attack while hibernating. Mrs T has adopted her new form of transportation surprisingly well, quickly learning how to steer with her back feet and moving at a pace almost twice as fast as before. But Jalopnik has even more grand ideas for …