These paddles were intended to allow a person to climb up a vertical glass service. An extreme challenge for a passive system that ultimately drive Dr. North up the...

As a means of treating road rage, a patient is hooked up to a system that monitors their biofeedback. This system is also a part of a cockpit that acts as a control center for a full size radion controlled demolition derby car.  By monitoring EEG, GSR and Heart Rate Differential we were able to determine a user’s anxiety state.  The more anxious they...

Modeled more after these cockroaches these paddles enable a climber to climb vertical cement, brick and cinderblock walls. Yes, these work and they are incredible! ...

Pyrostino interstate ready A 1972 BMW 2002 slightly modified–roof chopped off, super-structure built, and 8 computer controlled fire canons...

The Waterslide Simulator was built in 5 weeks after a single month of design. The premise is simple, the donut spins, you sit in the bottom of it and it feels like the waterslide is moving past you. Now if you move the donut up and down, left and right, while it’s spinning it feels like you are going around twist and turns. The structure weighs over...

Modeled after the cockroach, and other insects, the 6X6 uses an alternating tri-pod gate to use legs to walk instead of wheels. Ever ask yourself why there are no wheels used for locomotion in nature. Well the answer is there are no roads. By the way, roads are highly destructive to this planet. Think of the gigatons of asphalt deposited all over the world...

These are two 10 foot tall pneumatic powered robots. The robots are controlled by users wearing boxing gloves with accelerometers and a shirt that has an optical glyph on the back. The goal, to knock the robots in the head and knock the other out rock-em-sock-em...

This is an electric drive robot that carries 500 pounds of fire fighting equipment upstairs. It has a force feedback joystick that makes driving up the stairs a dream. The unit even transforms into a life-seat for transporting a victim downstairs. This unit is currently for sale. please contact info (at) northdesignlabs (dot) com for...

A plane that takes off automatically from a rocket launcher and flies to a person that has pressed a distress signal on a special watch. The plane deploys a self inflating lifejacket at precisely the right moment to land next to the victum....

The autonomous drone self launches using a rocket launching catapult system, flys autonomously to a victim (using a GPS tracking system), and delivers a self inflating life vest. In a simulated ocean experience the drone launched independently, flew 1 mile (out of sight), delivered the life vest within 15 feet of the victim, and then returned back to land on the...

I didn’t take part in building this thing, but I sure did love it. A forklift that can go sideways and pivot in place. It was so useful. Mythbusters has now inherited my baby. Here is a nice motion graphic of how it...

I had the recent privilege of documenting the first test of world famous Justin Gray’s latest creation: Boreus Hyemalis aka...

The personal airbag system was designed to save the life of someone falling from a 30+ foot fall. It consisted of 3 high-pressure carbon fiber cylinders with electronically controlled dump valves. An accelerometer would sense when someone had fallen more then 3 feet and deploy the airbags. There were significant technological challenges inflating the airbags...

The Traffic Buster drives like a normal (6,000 lb) truck, but when it’s time to park it can lower onto omnidirectional mechano wheels and maneuver wherever you want it to. No parking spot, no problem, simply hit the hydraulics and the truck lifts 6 feet in the air to park over the top of another car. AND if you get stuck in traffic, just drive right...